According to Long Yangjun, at first, she only selected the few most bitter miners and taught them the Serenity Arts so that they could get rid of the incessant and unforgettable pain.
In order to teach the miners, who were not well-educated and whose spiritual roots had not yet awakened, she had to teach them the art of psychic communication. She could imprint the spell into their brains by directly instilling it with her brainwaves.
It was an unintentional move at the beginning, but as it turned out, she underestimated the potentials of the underground hominoids. The Serenity Arts and the arts of telepathy soon spread out among the miners on a large scale like a wildfire. They spread from one tunnel to another, from one mine to ten mines, from the mines to the geothermal energy factories, and from the geothermal energy factories to the magical equipment assembly lines and even the financial district on the upper level.
"It was not until then that I realized that the underground hominoids have so much anxiety and pain regardless of their social class. Their demand for the Serenity Arts is so intense."
Long Yangjun chuckled, not thinking that it was a big deal. "Killing and arson are my favorite things in my life. I have never done anything good. The Serenity Arts has helped so many people relieve their pain. It is actually a great deed that I have done by accident!"
"But while you 'relieved' them of their pain and anxiety, you erased their joy and happiness at the same time!" Li Yao said coldly.
"Li Yao, why don't you understand it yet? Look around you!"
Long Yangjun slightly raised her voice, and her eyes turned aggressive. "For the people living here, the world is hell, their own kind are devils, and life is torture! They do not have much joy and happiness at all. The black venom that is boiling inside their heads is nothing but incessant pain and unrelieved anxiety. How much joy and happiness can be erased?
"I never forced anybody to do anything. Even when I offered to help the mentally deranged miners out of kindness, I explained the side effects of the Serenity Arts and the arts of telepathy to them in detail. I said that the arts were like a frontal lobe surgery where part of the brain tissues were removed. Although it could relieve your pain, it was very likely that you would never experience the feeling of happiness again.
"How do you think they answered me?
"The miners said that they had never experienced any happiness in the first place. They had been living like walking corpses, so it did not matter at all!
"At first, I did not understand all the features of the Serenity Arts. I only vaguely inherited some of the knowledge from the memories of my ancestors. How could I have known that practicing the Serenity Arts was like being addicted to drugs? They wanted to be more tranquil after they were tranquil, wanted to be more comfortable after they were comfortable, and wanted to erase the pain even further after the pain was slightly alleviated?
"But whether it is drugs or the Serenity Arts, it is their own choice after all!
"I was told that many patients who were dying of terminal diseases could be allowed to be injected with certain highly anesthetic drugs to ease their pain when they were in excruciating pain. It was in the spirit of humanitarianism. Then, for the lamentable hominoids living below the ground, who were about to be destroyed by the arrival of extraterrestrial devils and mass hysteria, were they not 'terminal patients' mentally, too? Was it not in the spirit of humanitarianism to provide Nepenthe to them?
"Let's be honest, flies do not bite flawless eggs. If the world was really peaceful and peaceful, and everybody was enjoying their life in peace and joy, nobody would've been fooled no matter how I tempted them and begged them to practice the Serenity Arts! But right now, they were crying and begging me to relieve their pain. It didn't matter what price they had to pay. After all, they had nothing left and had nothing to lose! "
"You're right. It was the whole world that was wrong!"
Li Yao did not give in at all. He stood straight and said, "That's all the more reason why we should change the world instead of the people who are exploited and enslaved by the world!"
"Don't say 'we'. That's just your opinion," Long Yangjun said casually.
"You might be a great hero who swears to save the world, but I … Even if I'm not a bad person, I'm just a selfish scoundrel. I'm only willing to do what I can without harming my own interests.
"If I can help somebody by lifting my finger, I don't mind lending a hand. But if you want me to fight the world at the cost of my life, hehe, aren't you asking for too much?
"Besides, the situation was perilous at that time, and the arrival of extraterrestrial devils was imminent. I didn't have a choice at all. If I didn't teach them the Serenity Arts, they would've been mentally deranged, enshrouded by violent feelings and desires, and degenerated into irrational, frenzied devils! There was only one kind of antidote in my pocket. Even if you were me, what could you have done?
"Li Yao, let go of your prejudice and think about it calmly. If I'm not lying at all to this moment, can you find anything wrong with what I've done? Can you say that it's not in line with the path of chivalry? If your soul crawls into my shell and you're faced with thousands of 'demi-devils' who are about to go on a rampage, do you have a better choice? "
Li Yao stared at Long Yangjun with bloodshot eyes. Thinking hard for a long time, he managed to say, "Although you do have a point, I've always suspected that you are not as kind and innocent as you claim to be. You taught the Serenity Arts to the miners probably because you wanted to test the power of the Serenity Arts or figure out its specific usage. After all, the heritage from the 'ancestral memories' is too vague and messy. You have to figure it out completely! Don't deny it. Although I don't have any proof, based on my understanding of you, it's probably the truth! "
"Look, you're accusing me again, aren't you?"
Long Yangjun said with a smile, "Yes, I do have such an idea deep down in my heart, but so what? Has Father Li, the dominator of three Sectors, been so depraved that he has to punish thoughts? Is it against the law to even think about it?
Li Yao coughed and said, "We're digressing. Let's get back to Nepenthe. What's going on exactly?"
"It's very simple. More and more people learned the arts of telepathy and practiced the Serenity Arts. Naturally, they established a secret society!"
Long Yangjun opened her hands as if she were surrendering to show her innocence. She said sincerely, "It was really not part of my plan. The gathering of those mobs did me no good at all! However, on second thought, the birth of the organization was also inevitable. The key was that human beings had to look for the meaning of life, or rather, they had to receive certain orders in order to drive the organization effectively. "
Li Yao was confused. "What do you mean?"
"Literally. Human beings have to live for something. It's not like they can only live for food and sleep, right?"
Long Yangjun said, "At the beginning, human beings were created as tools for the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan. Since they were tools, the users would naturally inject certain orders into their heads in order for human beings to carry them out dutifully, right?
"After the primeval civilizations all perished, human beings were the only ones who survived. Human beings were driven by their own feelings and desires, and the meaning of life was to satisfy their feelings and desires. It was exactly because their feelings and desires could never be satisfied that human beings could keep moving forward and developing.
"Do you understand it now? It was either the Pangu and the Nuwa Clan who gave the orders, or the 'extraterrestrial desire devil' or the feelings in their heads. Both of the orders were the 'meaning of life'.
"But right now, the underground hominoids who have practiced the Serenity Arts have suppressed the feelings and desires in their heads to a very low level. They lack the drive from the inside to the outside, but there is no supreme being such as the Pangu or the Nuwa Clan to give them orders from the outside. Here comes the question. Why are they still alive under such circumstances?"
"That's right!"
Li Yao was greatly enlightened. "That is indeed a rather serious problem. Human beings cannot lack ideas. Even the evilest or the most vulgar ideas are still the motivation to move forward … People who have completely lost their ideas are like spiritual puppets that have no orders. They have no reason to act at all!"
"Therefore, now that they have lost their ideas in the past, it is only natural that they have to find or create a brand-new idea as the new meaning of life."
Long Yangjun said, "That was my oversight, but it couldn't have occurred to me at that time, could it? Thankfully, without my help, they came up with it on their own. It was the prototype of the doctrine of Nepenthe.
"According to the doctrine of Nepenthe, all the sufferings in the world are born because of the intense desires. All the sentient beings in the world are tortured by the 'extraterrestrial desire devils'. Even the high and mighty Immortal Cultivators are merely the slaves and puppets of the devils in their heads.
"It is exactly because they are haunted by the extraterrestrial devils that they are mentally deranged and irrational that the Immortal Cultivators exploit the ordinary people cruelly. The ordinary people, on the other hand, are exploited layer by layer, which leads to an infinite hell of darkness and horror.
"Therefore, there are no 'Immortal Cultivators' in the world at all. There are only 'Demonic Cultivators who pretend to be Immortal Cultivators'. It is the Demonic Cultivators who rule the Imperium of True Human Beings. They are all extraterrestrial devils!
"Even if all the planets in the three thousand Sectors are drained, the cravings of the Demonic Cultivators that are like black holes cannot be filled. They are the parasites of the three thousand Sectors that are destined to be destroyed together with them!
"In order to protect the entire universe and return to true peace and tranquility, one must eliminate the feelings and desires in one's head first and return to the most fundamental, pure state. Then, one must help the ordinary people who are haunted and tormented by feelings, freeing them from the incessant pain and anxiety. In the end, everybody must be united and 'purge' the demonic Cultivators who are pretending to be Immortal Cultivators on the ground fearlessly.
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