Fine. Li Yao rubbed his nose and had to admit that Long Yangjun did have a point. She was neither a man nor a woman, neither an ancient person nor a modern person. She was neither a human being nor a pure Pangu or the Nuwa Clan. She was indeed the most contradictory existence in the three thousand Sectors.
Faced with such a contradictory guy, Li Yao was quite conflicted, too.
If he were to say that she was a friend, Li Yao could not agree with her opinion that "human nature is inherently evil". It seemed to be more appropriate to say that "people of different beliefs should not work together".
However, if he were to say that she was an enemy, she had just rescued Li Yao from Blackstar the Great not long ago. She had also told Li Yao all her "evil plans" and even her most confidential nest openly and frankly. Li Yao was rather amused, and he felt that he could not vent his fury even if he wanted to.
Pondering for a long time, Li Yao thought that he had found a loophole. He said, "Wait. Since your predecessor 'experienced' the universal war in the primeval era in person, you should know that even if the Pangu civilization did cut off their feelings, they could not stop the ultimate destruction from coming. The Pangu went extinct in the end! It is obvious that, regardless of whether human nature is good or evil, it is useless to suppress, seal, or even obliterate human nature all the time.
"In that case, why did you establish 'Nepenthe' and repeat the utterly useless approach on human beings?"
"Well, it's very simple," Long Yangjun said with a smile.
Long Yangjun said with a smile, "Because Nepenthe was not founded by me at all!"
"What?"
Li Yao realized that he was talking to a stranger after such a long time. "What do you mean? Are you not the 'Serenity Seraph'?"
"Yes. The 'Serenity Seraph' is the 'Serenity Seraph'. As a foreigner moving below the ground of the capital, I have to disguise my identity. Can I simply tell them that I am a eunuch from the Ancient Sages Sector?"
"I merely taught some of the underground people how to forget their pain and suppress their feelings as the 'Serenity Seraph'. Little did I expect that they would spread the knowledge and even establish a so-called 'Nepenthe' spontaneously. What could I have done? I'm also very distressed! "
"Is that … really so?" Li Yao looked at Long Yangjun, not entirely convinced.
"Of course. You know me best. You should know that I'm a selfish person. The most important thing for me is to find my origin. If it's not necessary, I don't want to find trouble for myself!"
With a bitter expression, Long Yangjun pursed her lips and said, "As the saying goes, a tall tree catches the wind. Let me ask you, what benefits can I get by establishing an uncanny 'Nepenthe'? Such mobsters are not good at fighting, and they are not very professional in collecting intelligence. They are too vulnerable to my attack and will only be a burden or even expose my existence. I would've been crazy to bring such a bunch of shrimps with me. If I really want to establish an evil organization, I should've at least recruited a batch of professionals! "
"That does make sense."
Li Yao thought to himself that Long Yangjun was someone who had established a professional intelligence and assassination organization like 'Ghost Character' in the Great Qian Dynasty after all. She would not have been as pathetic as' Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu, who recruited a bunch of pretentious mobsters, right?
Before Li Yao raised new questions, Long Yangjun told him her experience below the ground.
According to Long Yangjun, even though she had seen so many miserable scenes, she did not think much of it at first. After all, she was new to the place, and it was best to keep a low profile.
But later, she experienced the arrival of extraterrestrial devils that was about to break out in person in a large mine fifteen thousand meters below the ground!
The descent of the Heavenly Devil. According to the legends, the Heavenly Devil of the Outer Realm would tear through space and arrive. It would sweep away countless people and stir their emotions to the limit. It would cause them to completely lose control and suffer from qi deviation. They would transform into ferocious and savage devils that would destroy everything they saw. It was the most terrifying disaster!
That was the definition of "arrival of extraterrestrial devils" in the textbooks of the Xing Yao Federation.
However, Long Yangjun told Li Yao that most of the "arrival of extraterrestrial devils" were not as unbelievable as that. They were not necessarily extraterrestrial devils from billions of lightyears away.
Infinite, innumerable devils lived deep inside everybody's brain. When the brain world made of all the devils maintained the "ecological balance", human beings would have normal thinking and stable feelings. However, once the ecological balance in the brain was completely broken by an external force, certain devils would expand and overflow infinitely. That would be mental derangement.
When a person was mentally deranged, their brainwaves would become extremely strong and contagious, and it would be easy for them to spread out. The process was both like the infection of viruses and the resonance of soundwaves. In the jargon of Meditation Cultivators, it was also known as "mass hysteria".
Of course, under normal circumstances, no matter how painful the torture was and how intense the mental stress was, the devils in one's brain would not completely go out of control easily. In order to upgrade "mass hysteria" into "arrival of extraterrestrial devils", certain inducements, or fuses, were still needed.
The real devils such as "Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan" and "Extraterrestrial Devil Lu Qingchen" were certainly excellent inducements, but they were too sophisticated.
Most of the inducements for the arrival of extraterrestrial devils did not need to be so horrifying. Some random resentment from decades ago or some "devilish equipment" that contained feeble tenebrum energy excavated from the underground relics were enough to stimulate the desperate, painful, and resentful ordinary people into "devilized people".
As it happened, the stellar radiation and the cosmic storms could barely penetrate through such a thick rock stratum. The last brainwaves of the victims hundreds of years ago might've been perfectly preserved in the form of a magnetic field, turning into the lingering resentment that lingered for a hundred years.
In the primeval wars, the "devilish equipment" that contained tenebrum energy used by the Nuwa Clan was not rare, either.
Therefore, small-scale "arrival of extraterrestrial devils" was not unusual, either.
In fact, not just the capital, small-scale, low-intensity incidents of extraterrestrial devils were breaking out every now and then in the various Sectors of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
Even though most of the "extraterrestrial devils" were suppressed as quickly as they rose, the national power of the Imperium was still greatly consumed. It was also one of the important reasons why the Imperium had been suppressed by the Holy League in the past thousand years.
"By logic, I shouldn't have bothered with such things. After all, extraterrestrial devils are arriving all the time in the Imperium, and they are suppressed by the Tribunal of Extraterrestrial Devils and the local Immortal Cultivators. What does it have to do with me? Besides, I also carry the heritage of the Nuwa Clan on my back. The Nuwa Clan practices tenebrum energy and worships absolute freedom and chaos. They are sort of a branch of the civilization of extraterrestrial devils. Therefore, I am sort of a 'half demonic Cultivator'! "
Long Yangjun blinked and said, "I should've ignored it and watched the ordinary people who went on a rampage being enshrouded by the uncontrollable tenebrum energy and turned into hideous, terrifying devilized people. The mines where they lived and worked were destroyed before they were suppressed by the Immortal Cultivators who arrived later.
"However, right when I was about to turn around and sneak into the darkness again, the images of countless heroes suddenly popped up in my head. The one who took the brunt of them was naturally you, Vulture Li Yao, dominator of three Sectors.
"I think that, if it were you, you would certainly not turn a blind eye to the upcoming tragedy but try your best to stop and change it.
"I'm not kidding. Perhaps I've truly been deeply influenced by you after fighting side by side with you in the past few years. I suddenly feel that you're right. If you only care about yourself when you have unparalleled strength instead of trying to change other people's fate or even the entire world, what's the significance of such strength at all? It's like you have a fortune but you don't want to spend a single cent. Are you going to bring all the gold, silver, and jewelry to your coffin? "
"Don't —"
Li Yao said, "You can do whatever you want as long as you don't use my name anymore!"
Long Yangjun smiled and went on. "At that time, I had two options. One was the Nuwa Clan's approach, and the other was naturally the Pangu Clan's approach."
The so-called approach of the Nuwa Clan was to show up in the form of the members of the Nuwa Clan who were enshrouded in tenebrum energy and burning devilish flames. The army of human beings and devils that was about to be born would be more elite and hideous so that they could last longer and cause greater damage.
Long Yangjun said that she did not care about the consequences and was not biased against the path of devils that was free and chaotic. However, she had just witnessed the tricks of "Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan" and "Extraterrestrial Devil Lu Qingchen" in the Xing Yao Federation.
The arrival of the extraterrestrial devils before her eyes could not possibly be as intense as Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan and Extraterrestrial Devil Lu Qingchen however hard they tried. So, what was there to see?
The legacy of the Pangu Clan, on the other hand, had just been awakened inside her body and had not been put into practice yet. She was more or less tempted.
Therefore, she snuck into the army of miners who were about to go on a rampage and absorbed all the devils that were flowing out of their brains. It was equivalent to absorbing all the devilish energy and the grudges that had been accumulated for hundreds of years. Before the Immortal Cultivators noticed anything, she had resolved a great catastrophe without alarming anyone.
Absorbing the devilish energy and the grudges was only the first step. The situation of the miners was not changed at all. They were still in excruciating pain and fury. If they were left alone, new arrivals of the extraterrestrial devils would happen sooner or later.
Therefore, Long Yangjun "kindly" taught them how to forget their pain, suppress their fury, and pacify their souls.
The miners were all uneducated people. Long Yangjun was unwilling to expose her whereabouts and identity. Therefore, she made up the name of "Serenity Seraph" and named the shallow technique that she taught them "Serenity Arts".
"I swear that I did not mean any harm at first, nor did I have a long-term plan. I simply saw that the miners were too miserable and infuriated. If I left them alone, they might be mentally deranged again at any moment. Then, they would really be hopeless! Also … I was very curious about whether or not the Pangu Clan's secret techniques to suppress feelings were really effective. That was why I gave it a try. It was just an accident. "
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