Long Yangjun's voice grew sharper and sharper. In the end, she simply straightened her back and approached Li Yao. Holding her chest, she looked at him in mockery and provocation.
Li Yao was caught in silence for a long time.
"Ha!"
Long Yangjun grinned. "You don't have anything to say for yourself, do you?"
"You're wrong."
Li Yao shook his head slowly. Taking a deep breath, he stared into Long Yangjun's eyes and said, one word after another, "Although it is true that I am a rarely-seen genius in the sea of stars, who is skilled in battle, infiltration, maintenance, analysis, planning, and acting, who is blessed with countless trump cards, I have never fought alone in any of the battles in the past hundred years. I have never solved the problem and saved the world on my own.
"Every time, countless good brothers and friends fought side by side with me. Every time, countless' unimportant people 'whose names I didn't know and who seemed insignificant fought with me to the end for their fate and for everyone's fate! I have never felt that I have saved many people. We have only joined hands and united as one to save ourselves!
"When we resisted Xiao Xuance in the Flying Star Sector, countless Cultivators fought side by side with me. Countless people sacrificed their precious lives so that we could reach Xiao Xuance in the end!
"When we resisted Lu Zui in the Tian Yuan Realm, it was also countless people of the Federation who covered me all the way to parliament by raising their hands and waving the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars flag. That was how we unveiled Lu Zui's real face!
"When we returned to the Tian Yuan Realm for the second time, when we fought Mo Xuan in the Spiriters' Realm, countless people sang the national anthem of the New Federation at the same time, which granted us infinite strength. Eventually, we destroyed the Spiriters' Realm, disturbed the extraterrestrial devils, and awakened Professor Mo Xuan's real soul. You were there at that time, too. Like me, you were saved by countless ordinary people who activated their souls and burned their lives. Have you forgotten that?
"In the fierce battle against the Black Wind Fleet, who made the biggest contribution when our dozen Colossi arrived in time to destroy the space gate? Not me, but an ordinary Union Army officer named Helian Lie. He was the one who sacrificed his life to delay the birth of the Star Gate! I will remember him forever. The Xing Yao Federation will remember him forever!
"Therefore, don't think that you can intimidate me by exaggerating the coldness of the universe and the darkness of humanity. It's true that an individual is destined to be insignificant in front of the boundless sea of stars, but insignificance does not equate to humbleness. Human beings never admit that they are humbleness, and I am definitely not fighting alone!
"It will be the same this time. I have the Xing Yao Federation behind me. I believe that every Cultivator and citizen of the Xing Yao Federation will fight side by side with me. We will unleash the bright side of humanity to the maximum. Even if we burn ourselves into ashes, we will illuminate the dark universe!
"I also believe that, even in the Imperium of True Human Beings, in the cruel world of Immortal Cultivators where the strong prey on the weak, there are countless people who are unwilling to sink into the giant dung pit! They will wake up and change to a different path. Since they are willing to abandon their feelings and embark on the so-called 'Path of Ultimate Benevolence', is it so difficult for them to try the path of the Cultivators?
"I also believe that, even for the bottom-level people living thirty thousand meters below the ground, even if their life is full of exploitation and pain, it is impossible that they do not have the slightest brightness. Did you know? When I left the 10084 district, the children there were singing. They were singing!
"If even the children can sing, why can't the adults sing? Nobody can deprive them of the right to sing, not the Immortal Cultivators, not the people of the Holy League! I will certainly … defend the song! "
This time, it was Long Yangjun's turn to bite her lips hard and fall into silence.
"Including you. Why do you have to be so mean and sarcastic, as if you have seen through the mortal world and are extremely disappointed in humanity and the universe?"
Li Yao extended his hand to Long Yangjun and said sincerely, "Just try to change the whole world with me. It will be very interesting!"
Long Yangjun shuddered, not knowing whether or not she should be dumbfounded. She looked at Li Yao as if he were an idiot and said, "Are you serious? I just praised you for your cleverness a moment ago, and you have turned back into an idiot so quickly? You know that I am a sordid scoundrel who is full of schemes and may deceive you at any moment, and you are still trying to persuade me? Why? Do you really consider me your 'best friend'? "
"It has nothing to do with that."
Li Yao said, "In fact, I want to persuade every one of you. Xiao Xuance, Bai Xinghe, Jin Tuyi, Lu Zui, Zhou Hengdao, Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan … Every one of you is a hundred times more capable and resourceful than me! If you are all willing to embark on the path of the Cultivators and help your own kind in the right way, the whole sea of stars will certainly be brighter! Of those people, it is true that several of them have been convinced by me and have become my friends. Therefore, it is only natural that I do not want to fight you! "
"Stop being so shameless. Do you call Bai Xinghe and Jin Tuyi being convinced by you?"
Long Yangjun spat on the ground. "It is obvious that they are taking advantage of you to achieve their purpose, alright? Who would be as stupid as you? You have such a high Cultivation, but your way of thinking is still as naïve and simple as that of a high school student? You want to 'illuminate the universe'? Brother, we are not shooting a movie right now. Do you know that it is something that even the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan failed to achieve? It is something that countless prehistoric civilizations before the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan were born failed to achieve in the billions of years. Does the civilization of mankind want to achieve it? The odds are close to zero! "
"Close to zero? So, it is not zero, right?"
Li Yao said. "The odds of winning the grand prize of the lottery are close to zero, too. But isn't there a lucky winner every week? Why can't the civilization of mankind be the lucky winner who wins the grand prize?
"Do you know what the key to winning the grand prize of the lottery is? The key is that you have to buy a lottery ticket first! If you don't even buy a lottery ticket, won't you completely give up?
"Think about it from a different perspective. It's true that the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan failed to do it. Even the thousands of advanced prehistoric civilizations before them failed to do it. What does it mean? It means that nobody has ever won the lottery, and the 'prize pool' has been accumulated to an astronomical number. If the civilization of mankind can win the lottery, wow, it will be a great fortune! "
Long Yangjun was lost for words. After a long daze, she held her forehead and said, "Idiot, I suddenly feel that I'm playing the lute to a cow. I'm so tired."
"The ignorant are fearless."
Li Yao said, "Of course, I'm not as smart as you, Xiao Xuance, Lu Zui, Mo Xuan, Blackstar the Great, and the rest of them. So, I can never figure out what you are scared of. Even if the universe is so cold and human nature is so dark, why can't you have a great fight against it? You are going to die anyway. What's the big deal?"
"Forget it …"
Long Yangjun waved her hands and said helplessly, "I don't want to play the useless' competition of beliefs' with you anymore, because I've discovered that I'm almost on the same level as you and defeated by your abundant experience.
"It's useless no matter how passionate you talk. Let's see how you can solve the problem of Nepenthe. Three days. In three days, Nepenthe will attack the Great Iron Plants. Will you stop them?"
"The Great Iron Plants?"
Li Yao blinked. "What's that?"
Long Yangjun told Li Yao that the "Great Iron Plants" was a mixed factory area located in a rock stratum about several thousand meters above the 10084 district. Quite a few geothermal energy factories, heavy component factories, and rare metal mines had been established there.
The rare metals collected from the mines were directly smelted with infinite geothermal energy before they were sent to the assembly line for precision processing and delivered to the surface of the planet. In such a way, all the heavily polluted links would be left tens of thousands of meters below the ground, and the fresh air and clean drinking water on the surface of the planet would not be affected.
"Great Iron Plants" was the name of the underground residents in the tens of thousands of meters nearby. It was also the core of the hundreds of towns in the area. Almost all the underground residents worked for the Great Iron Plants or were tied to the upstream and downstream chains of the Great Iron Plants, indirectly serving the Great Iron Plants.
The official name of the "Great Iron Plants" was "Black Iron Group", and the CEO of the group was "Li Minghui". How should he put it? He was a typical slave of three surnames.
In the beginning, the man's surname was not Li but "Black". He was a poor, bottom-level Immortal Cultivator who was not welcomed on the surface of the planet. He seemed to have scammed the resources of certain major sects and had no choice but to escape to the underground world.
However, the man was best at flattery and opportunism. For some reason, he fawned over a big shot of the Dongfang family. He even acknowledged the guy as his foster father and changed his surname from "Black" to "Dongfang". All of a sudden, he became "Dongfang Minghui".
With the Dongfang family, one of the four Kurfürst families, as his backer, Dongfang Minghui naturally thrived in the underground world. Very soon, he seized a rare mine by force. In the decades that followed, he swallowed and expanded the mine through all kinds of sordid and shameless approaches, building the Black Iron Group that was somewhat famous in the underground world today.
The guy's greatest ability was probably not his sordidness and shamelessness but his keen sense of smell. Smelling the scent that the Dongfang family was about to fall apart, he joined the Li family one step ahead of time. Following the same pattern, he became the foster father of a big shot of the Li family, changed his surname from 'Dongfang' to 'Li', and presented a lot of the Dongfang family's black records, which were all the evidence that he had collected painstakingly in the past decades to help the Li family strike the Dongfang family. Then, he offered a huge fortune to cover the mouth of his new 'foster father'.
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