"What? You are speechless when you see me. Have you not figured out how to deceive me yet?"
Looking at Long Yangjun's cold and mysterious back, Li Yao sniffed. "You are quite a good actor. You are even better at pretending than 'Mother White Lotus Wan Mingzhu'. Why didn't I notice such a side of you before?"
"Are you not aware that I have dual personalities, too?"
Long Yangjun was not angry at all. Walking toward the depths of the enormous penetrator unhurriedly, she said casually, "Most of the time, you saw the side of me that was more inclined to the 'Nuwa Clan', but right now, you are seeing the side of me that is more inclined to the 'Pangu Clan'.
"Now that I have brought you to the depths of the underground world, I will not keep anything to myself. Open your eyes and look at my side carefully!"
Li Yao stopped and raised his wariness. He said solemnly, "Don't go any further. What's your purpose exactly?"
Long Yangjun smiled and said, "Don't be scared. I am your savior after all. Now that I have rescued you from Blackstar the Great fearlessly and brought you to my nest for careful treatment, is there any reason why I would hurt you? You don't have to be so nervous at all. To be honest, even if I did want to hurt you, I would prefer to crush you ideologically and shatter your beliefs inch by inch while you gnash your teeth in fury and helplessness, instead of simply savaging you physically. The destruction of the physical body is the most violent and boring, isn't it? "
Li Yao gnashed his teeth. "Of course, I won't forget your life-saving grace. Next time, if you are savaged by Blackstar the Great into a miserable state, I will certainly come back to save you! However, the life-saving grace is the life-saving grace, and the competition of beliefs is the competition of beliefs! You should know better than anyone that I am a man of strong principles. I am a selfless, selfless, loyal, and selfless Cultivator who will never flinch in front of what is right and wrong! "
"Really?"
Long Yangjun finally stopped and looked back at Li Yao. A familiar smile gradually popped up on her cold and indifferent face. "But I don't think that I've crossed your principles. Why are you so aggressive as if you are going to condemn me?"
"Then let me ask you, what were you doing just now? Weren't you trying to brainwash the underground barbarians and wash away their emotions and desires?"
Li Yao said sternly, "Also, can you turn off the halo on your head first? Let's talk properly and not use these mysterious sound and visual effects. If you insist, I can also cover myself in crackling electric arcs and make a golden afro so that we can communicate with each other!"
"Sorry, I forgot."
Long Yangjun waved her hands. The halo floating above her head gradually dimmed and eventually turned into a bright silver metal ring, which she stored into her Cosmos Ring.
She said unhurriedly, "I don't deny that I was playing tricks. After all, neither the residents of the 10084 district nor the barbaric barbarians will trust an outsider easily. If I hadn't pretended to be an envoy of the gods, it would've been impossible for me to infiltrate them quickly and make them trust me so that their wars and conflicts would've been settled.
"Besides, the so-called 'envoy of the primeval gods' is not exactly a disguise. I am the heir of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan after all!
"As for the claim that I washed away their emotions and desires, that is too unfair and overestimating me.
"Didn't Li Jialing tell you that emotions and desires depend on the material foundation? In the places where the materials are abundant, information is communicated frequently and smoothly, the safety of the people is guaranteed, and the future of development is full of possibilities, the feelings and desires of the people are naturally blossoming. Everybody has abundant feelings and desires, and they are all passionate and good at expressing themselves without any disguise.
"However, in the remote mountains where there is no hope at all, the people who live there from birth to death are naturally dull, indifferent, and numb. They have no hope for the future at all, and they barely have any desires other than survival and reproduction. Even if they have feelings deep inside their hearts, they often hide them very well. Isn't it only natural?
"The ecological system ten thousand meters below the ground is a relatively simple and barren, half-artificial system. Look at the monotonous environment around. How abundant of feelings and desires do you think the barbarians living here have? Do they need me to 'brainwash' them? How hilarious! "
Li Yao was not moved at all. He sniffed and said, "Then, what were you doing just now? Why are the barbarians of three different tribes, who should've been sworn enemies, sitting right below your feet and living in peace?"
"Yes, I did teach them some techniques to suppress their feelings, but I mainly taught them how to suppress their anger and abandon unnecessary hatred," Long Yangjun said with a righteous look on her face.
"After ten thousand years of bloody battles, in the sunless dark area, the Black Armors, the Night Wings, and the Red Rings did not have many beautiful feelings anymore. The only thing left was unforgettable, ineffaceable hatred. Nobody knew where the hatred came from exactly. They only knew that it would not stop until one or two of the tribes were completely annihilated.
"When I first came to the underground world, the Black Armor Clan, the Night Wings Clan, and the Red Ring Clan were preparing to march out in full strength for an unprecedented, bloody war. Although they looked hideous and hideous, they were human beings after all and the creations of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan. Whichever side I was on, I did not want them to die together with the enemy and ask for their own destruction.
"Therefore, I helped them settle the war in whatever way I could and saved the precious lives of a thousand barbarians. Why, Cultivator Li Yao, is that against your chivalry, too? Did you want me to stand by and watch the barbarians kill and destroy each other?"
Li Yao was dazed for a moment. Then he sneered, "So to speak, you were doing it out of good intentions?"
"Does it really matter if I was doing it out of good intentions?"
Long Yangjun smiled casually. "As the saying goes, it's all about the actions, not the intentions! Whatever clandestine purposes I may have had, objectively speaking, I did save the precious lives of so many barbarians and eased the pain of the residents of the 10084 district and many other underground towns. I even … gathered them in a certain way and gave them a high degree of organization. Wow. After all the good things I've done, I feel that you should be applauding me. Why are you criticizing me instead? "
"A high degree of organization? Right, I remember it now. "
Li Yao said, "The scene where you controlled the barbarians was exactly the same as the scene where the commander of the Holy League commanded the common warriors in the Godly Might Prison. I'm afraid that you were not only trying to save the precious lives of the barbarians but also trying to turn them into your tools, weren't you?"
"It was not 'control'. More precisely speaking, I was merely 'communicating' with the barbarians," Long Yangjun explained.
"It was a very special way of communication that was close to direct communication with brainwaves. You may call it 'telepathy'.
"Theoretically speaking, every ordinary person can communicate with the spirit without any special training. Our brains are born with such abilities. It's like the connection between mother and son, the telepathy between twins, and so on. They're all psychic phenomena caused by the overflow of brainwaves.
"Many people suddenly have a weird feeling of familiarity when they come to a certain place for the first time, as if they had been there a long time ago. In fact, it was only because they accidentally received the brainwaves of the people next to them and 'telepathy'.
"However, in their daily life, the brains of the ordinary people are full of exuberant feelings and self-awareness. Also, they are used to transmitting information with soundwaves. Therefore, such abilities are gradually covered up.
"As long as you suppress your emotions and desires to the maximum and try to empty your brain as much as possible, with a certain amount of guidance, you will naturally be able to regain your ability to communicate with the spirit. How should I put it? It's like how a blind person's hearing is always particularly sharp, and 'certain' mentally disabled people can occasionally come up with genius ideas. It's all part of the physiological 'compensation effect'.
"Therefore, I was not brainwashing the barbarians just now but merely talking to them in the way of 'telepathy'. It's no different from you raising your arms and inspiring people with your blood-boiling slogans."
Long Yangjun accepted it calmly the whole time. Li Yao could not burst into fury even though he was full of fury. He could only ask suspiciously, "Telepathy? Isn't it too unbelievable? "
"It is," Long Yangjun said casually.
"However, it is destined that you cannot grasp such an ability because your soul, feelings, and willpower are too intense. It is impossible for you to suppress your feelings and self-awareness and empty your brain completely."
Li Yao was still suspicious. "If there is such a convenient way of communication, and everybody can communicate with each other as long as they think about it, why do the Pangu, the Nuwa Sisters, and human beings have to evolve the ability of language? Wouldn't it be redundant and a huge step backward?"
"You are wrong about that. The language of vibration is actually a more advanced way of communication than 'telepathy' through direct brainwaves."
Long Yangjun said solemnly, "The biggest problem of 'telepathy' is that it can only be used to transmit vague, general concepts, and lead to the convergence of the ideas of the entire species. When everybody's brainwaves are mixed, the speed and efficiency of communication will naturally be improved. However, it is obviously very disadvantageous for ten thousand people to have only one idea in the cruel competition of natural selection. One stupid decision can lead to the destruction of the entire species.
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