"With the stars as laboratories and billions of mortals as chess pieces and test subjects."
Li Yao said, "It is indeed very fitting for your identity as the dual heir of the Pangu civilization and the Nuwa civilization!"
"Don't make it sound so serious. Even the synthesis of a new strengthening drug, or the production of a new crystal suit, will require thousands of experiments."
Long Yangjun said, "But if a belief can affect the future of billions of people, does it not require small-scale experiments first? Without experiments, how can you tell whether the belief is' righteous' or 'evil'? Is your belief naturally correct just because you look hot-blooded? "
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao said, "Alright. Let's not dwell on the details. Let's talk about your specific experiments first. Since you are exploring the origins of the Holy League, what does it have to do with the depths of the capital? The Holy League couldn't have originated below the ground of the capital, could it?"
"Of course not, but it's not entirely impossible."
Long Yangjun suddenly leaned close and said mysteriously, "Do you not find it odd that the description of the origins of the Holy League in the history books of the Imperium of True Human Beings is vague and vague. It seems that the weird, barbaric country rose with the birth of Blackstar the Great a thousand years ago. Also, at that time, the 'Path of Ultimate Benevolence' and the 'Three Fundamental Laws' were already very complete.
"Here comes the problem. We know that there was absolutely no 'Alliance of the Holy Covenant' when the Star Ocean Imperium was founded ten thousand years ago. In the Great Dark Age thirty thousand years earlier, there was no Holy League at all. All the Sectors were ruled by demons.
"In other words, until the collapse of the Star Ocean Imperium ten thousand years ago, the Sectors that worshipped the Pangu civilization and believed in the Three Fundamental Laws were still governed by 'normal people' who boasted feelings and free will.
"The local rulers may be Cultivators or tyrants and dictators who have vague ideas about the Immortal Cultivators, but they can't be puppets without feelings and desires, much less a member of the Pangu Clan who has been resurrected from the dead, can they?"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. He had never considered the question before. He couldn't help but nod. "It seems … correct. Take the Tian Yuan Realm of the Xing Yao Federation as an example. Although the Tian Yuan Realm is at the edge of the cosmos, we still remember the glory of the Star Ocean Imperium. We all consider ourselves the descendants of the Supreme Emperor, and we have not forgotten it even after ten thousand years.
"The remote worlds under the Covenant Alliance's control are as remote as the Heaven's Origin Sector no matter how remote they are. Naturally, the rulers of the worlds in the beginning were the experts who were good and bad, as well as the normal human beings who had feelings.
"That's right."
Long Yangjun said, "Since the people who lived in those worlds at the beginning were all 'normal people', how did they abandon their feelings step by step and turn into cold, heartless puppets?
"Even if they did excavate tremendous relics of the Pangu from the primeval era, or even certain … 'temples' for brainwashing according to your theory, they could totally 'absorb the essence and discard the dross'. They could've simply used the technology and magical equipment left by the Pangu civilization. There was no need for them to become the puppets of the Pangu civilization again!
"Think about it. If you discover a relic of the Pangu civilization of an enormous scale, would the first thing that comes to your mind be not to digest and absorb the technology there and repair all the powerful magical equipment but to send your head to a certain weird device to be cleaned?"
Li Yao shook his head. "Of course I wouldn't."
"Exactly. You are not an idiot. Of course you wouldn't do that," Long Yangjun said.
"But were the people of the Holy League at the beginning idiots willing to work as the most loyal slaves, the most docile livestock, and the most precise tools of the Pangu civilization for no good reason?"
Li Yao frowned and thought for a long time. "Then … somebody forced them to do that?"
"Maybe. That is exactly the answer that I'm trying to find in my 'social experiment'."
Holding her arms, Long Yangjun sat on the body of a primeval deity that had been fossilized and swung her feet. "I'm different from you. You have been taught the beliefs of the Cultivators since childhood and fought for the beliefs of the Cultivators all your life. Also, you have received the most abundant rewards and become an inseparable part of a world of Cultivators. You are even a 'symbol' of some sort. It is safe to say that your personal values have been highly realized in the beliefs of the Cultivators. The beliefs of the Cultivators have been completely melted into your life and cannot be separated at all.
"Asking you to question or even object to the beliefs of the Cultivators is like asking you to dig out your own flesh and blood or even kill yourself. It is absolutely impossible.
"But I am different. The dual bloodlines and unique destinies that I shoulder allow me to see the complicated universe and the beliefs that each have their own advantages from four different perspectives. I am an ancient person, but I can also be a modern person. I am a Pangu, and I can also be a member of the Nuwa Clan. I can even be completely detached and be nothing but a lonely and unique 'bystander' drifting among the three thousand Sectors in the sea of stars.
"As the saying goes, 'bystanders see more clearly'. The difference between you and me is not about the computational ability or the thinking style but simply because my identity is more transcendent. Therefore, my beliefs are less hindered by my standpoint or my bottom. I can think calmly, clearly, and without the slightest emotion.
"As a Cultivator, when you hear about such a country as the 'Alliance of the Holy Covenant', your natural instinct is to loathe and even resist it, believing that the way the Holy League operates is even more against humanity than the Imperium of True Human Beings.
"But for me, there is no such thing as' humanity 'at all. Or rather, releasing one's feelings to the maximum and suppressing them to the maximum are both part of' humanity '. What interests me more is not the right and wrong of the Holy League, but how it was born, how it rose, and where will it lead to? Why did the people of the Holy League in the beginning abandon their feelings willingly? If they were forced by somebody, who was it?
"Do you not feel that if somebody did force the people of the Holy League in the beginning to abandon their feelings, that person would be the evilest of all?
"Since I carry half of the heritages of the Pangu civilization on my back, there is an unbreakable bond between me and the people of the Alliance of the Holy Covenant who worship the Pangu civilization as the supreme god. Naturally, it is my duty to consider the origin of the Holy League and its future.
"If somebody is carrying the banner of the Pangu but misinterpreting the true meaning of the Pangu civilization and doing evil things, they will be 'false gods' and 'evil gods'. As a 'true god', I have to destroy them, don't I?
"Of course. When I just left the Federation and came to the Imperium, my thoughts were not so far-sighted. At that time, I had just awakened all the heritages inside my body. It was like I had just been reborn and opened my eyes. I only wanted to learn more about this … beautiful and strange new world." As Long Yangjun spoke, she seemed to be tired.
Leaning against the enormous body of the primeval deity, she smiled at Li Yao lazily and said, "Do you want to know what I went through in the years after I left the Federation? It's a long, long story. If it were anybody else, I wouldn't tell them at all. But because of our special relationship, I am willing to tell you everything."
"Wait. Just make yourself clear first —"
Li Yao felt that his hair was standing on end. "What is the 'special relationship' between us exactly? Don't be vague about it!"
"Thanks to your hospitality, I was brought to the Xing Yao Federation from the Ancient Sages Sector. At that time, I was riding on the thigh of Vulture Li Yao, the dominator of three Sectors and the founding father of the Federation."
Long Yangjun said, "You, on the other hand, clung to my thigh without any hesitation after the battle against Blackstar the Great, too! Therefore, we are 'riding on each other's thighs'. Isn't that special enough? "
After a long daze, Li Yao gave up resistance. "Forget it. Whatever you say. After all, I am an honorable man. Let's just listen to what you have to say!"
Sitting cross-legged before the enormous body of the primeval deity, he straightened his back and said with glittering eyes, "Tell me now. What did you go through in the Imperium? For the record, although I am a staunch, righteous Cultivator, it does not mean that I am a stubborn, stubborn fundamentalist. Since you know me, you should know that my greatest advantage is that I can correct my mistakes. After all, I am used to being slapped in the face with all kinds of beliefs. If you have a point, I will simply take your point and melt it into my beliefs. I will definitely not be stubborn to the end! "
"I knew that you were a good friend that I could communicate with."
Long Yangjun smiled knowingly. "Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered to talk to you so much!"
Long Yangjun began to tell her story unhurriedly.
She told Li Yao that she did not lie to Li Yao when she was awakened in the Ancient Sages Sector at the beginning, nor did she intentionally hide the secrets of the Pangu heritage.
At that time, she did not know that she had such a complicated, uncanny past, and that she was a warrior of the Nuwa Clan who had been corrupted by a certain uncanny force of the Pangu civilization.
Later, after the fierce battles and the bizarre, unbelievable sights that she saw in the Xing Yao Federation, the power of the dual legacies was gradually awakened inside her body.
It was not until "Mo Xuan the extraterrestrial devil" activated his plan, and she and Li Yao were both trapped in the Spiriters' Realm, a virtual space, and faced with the enormous energy of the extraterrestrial devils that her legacies were completely awakened.
The Pangu civilization and the Nuwa civilization, order and freedom, law and chaos, the two entirely different and contradictory forces, immediately had a fierce battle inside her brain, making her split personality at a loss.
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