Li Yao took a deep, deep breath.
He then remembered the Nepenthe believers in the Great Iron Plants that were almost ten thousand meters below the ground.
Perhaps, Long Yangjun was right. The first batch of people from the Holy League was not created by the Pangu. On the contrary, it was human beings who created them.
"How could you have excavated the man-manufacturing factory or the Channeling Temple on your own?"
Li Yao heard himself ask coldly, "Did the local warlords not discover your scheme?"
"Wrong. They discovered it immediately. Or rather, I took the initiative to tell them part of my plan."
With a mysterious and creepy smile on his face, Wuying Qi 3.0 said casually, "Don't you understand? The scourge of thousands of years of war has completely twisted the minds of the experts at the edge of the cosmos. Although those experts call themselves' Cultivators', they are not Cultivators like you at all. They are just insects in the skin of Cultivators.
"Those insects have been fighting each other so hard that they have turned into crazy beasts. They crave new weapons and new resources more than anything else. They will pay any price as long as they can kill their nemesis.
"When I told them that there was a way to produce 'super slaves' and 'super warriors' incessantly, do you think they wouldn't go crazy for it?
"Hiding my strength from the Blood God, I pretended to be a weak archaeologist and 'accidentally' discovered the relics of the Channeling Temple and the man-manufacturing factory. Then, a local warlord 'accidentally' learned of it. The idiot was indeed fooled and held me hostage, demanding that I work for him to create an invincible army and help him unite the dozens of Sectors nearby.
"Of course, he also provided tremendous resources for me to further my studies and to repair the Channeling Temple and the man-manufacturing factory.
"There's no need to talk about the twists and turns in the process. All in all, it took me a few years to truly repair a 'man-manufacturing factory' and a 'Channeling Temple'. As a matter of fact, the 'man-manufacturing factory' is not really necessary, because human beings have a high reproductive ability in the first place. Raising new human beings from embryos in a man-manufacturing factory consumes too many resources and takes too long. It's better to capture a lot of ordinary people and send them to the 'Channeling Temple' so that their feelings and desires can be washed away. Although the quality of the slaves and soldiers produced in such a way is not very stable, there are enough of them, and the cost is low. To this day, it's still the Covenant Alliance's regular way of producing fresh blood.
"The warlord got a batch of emotionless, hardworking slaves who would die in their posts even if they vomited blood. He also got an iron army that was fearless of death and would complete the mission even if they had to die together with the enemy. His influence soared abruptly, and he indeed swallowed quite a few Sectors.
"But the good times didn't last long. While he was making great strides and winning every battle, his old enemies also got the technology and excavated their own 'Channeling Temples'. They modified countless people under their rule into emotionless, absolutely loyal slaves and soldiers. As smart as you are, you naturally realized that it was my doing in secret. I was the one who secretly leaked the news and even pretended to be someone else to guide the warlords to establish their own 'Channeling Temples'."
"Got it. The slaves and soldiers brainwashed by the Channeling Temples were loyal to the local warlords on the surface, but in fact, deep inside their genes, brains, and even souls, certain bottom-level instructions were hidden, which could be 'activated' instantly and made them loyal to you!"
Li Yao said coldly, "It's a pity that your plan went wrong in the end. You thought that you could manipulate all the warlords, but you still triggered the most primitive function of the Channeling Temples in the end, turning those brainwashed people into the Pangu!"
"Yes, you're absolutely right, but the problem was not with the warlords. I could've dealt with those idiots easily with only 10% of my computational ability."
Wuying Qi 3.0 said, "The problem was with the Blood God. It was my conflict with the Blood God that caused the whole thing to go out of control."
"Your conflict with the Blood God?"
Li Yao found it odd. "What was the conflict between you and the Blood God that made you kill him in the end?"
"Everything was my fault. It was the fault of the despicable, weak, evil, childish, and hilarious Wuying Qi 2.0."
Wuying Qi 3.0 mumbled, "You must know that no matter how many fortuitous encounters I had back then and how strong I was, I was essentially a weakling and a pitiful man who couldn't free himself from lust and sensual desires.
"The Supreme Emperor and the Blood God, whether they are good or evil, are engaged in a competition of beliefs. They are considering the ultimate mysteries of the civilization of mankind and even the universe beyond the civilization of mankind. It is a matter that can easily span a hundred thousand years and a question that billions of people might not be able to find the answer in their entire lives.
"Wuying Qi 2.0 couldn't understand those questions and the seemingly unrealistic pursuits at all.
"In Wuying Qi 2.0's eyes, the Blood God's pursuit is hilarious. Even if the multiverse does exist, it's highly dangerous to cross the black wall. Besides, even if we jump out, who knows what the universe outside is like? There are too many uncertainties, and it's too unreal!
"Even if the Blood God was right that mankind would've been obliterated in this tiny universe like the Pangu, the Nuwa Clan, and countless other primordial civilizations if they didn't jump out, it would've been at least tens of thousands of years later. Then, why should a weakling like Wuying Qi 2.0 worry about the people hundreds of thousands of years later?
"If Wuying Qi 2.0 did control an invincible army in the Blood God's way, he would've had a lot of things to do. He could've avenged himself, he could've stomped on the Cultivators and the ordinary people, he could've dominated this tiny universe, he could've established his own sect, he could've created his own ideology, and he could've reigned this world for at least ten thousand years!
"He has so many things to do. How can he be so silly as to cross the black wall and search for the multiverse with the lunatic Blood God? It is very likely that he will be crushed in the cosmic storms, with not even a single cell of his body left.
"The future of mankind was not important. What mattered most was the present. That was Wuying Qi 2.0's belief. So, when he realized how powerful he could be, he betrayed the Blood God without any hesitation.
"Supposedly, he should've tampered with the Channeling Temples and made the people brainwashed by the Channeling Temples obey the Blood God's order and carry on the Blood God's will, so that they could explore the grand universe.
"However, he altered the Blood God's order and changed their loyalty to himself. He intended to completely erase the loyalty, reverence, and obedience of the brainwashed people to the Blood God.
"It did not occur to him that his command and the Blood God's command would have serious conflicts on the genetic and soul level of the brainwashed victims, resulting in a situation where most of the brainwashed victims were recovered. As a refiner, you should know that a lot of magical equipment has the concept of 'factory settings'. When there is a serious data failure on the magical equipment level, as long as you press it softly, you will be able to restore the factory settings, right?
"It was the same for the brainwashed people. Because of the serious conflicts between Wuying Qi 2.0's order and the Blood God's order, their genes and soul were in chaos. As a result, a hibernation order was activated at the bottom level of their genes and soul, and they were all restored to the most ancient 'factory settings', which were absolute loyalty to the Pangu.
"In the end, the situation was completely out of control. Those guys who were restored to their 'factory settings' did not obey the local warlords, Wuying Qi 2.0, or the Blood God at all. Instead, they controlled the 'man-manufacturing factories' and the 'Channeling Temples' according to a certain mysterious pattern that was set hundreds of thousands of years ago. They expanded their population like a virus and tried to find and resurrect the Pangu.
"The local warlords were unable to resist the expansion of the human-shaped puppets at all. I didn't know how to control the absurd situation at all.
"Thankfully, I had collected enough experiment data and gained a deeper understanding of how to improve the brainwashing technology and the modification of the Gold Crystal Pyramid. So, I simply …"
"You just patted your butt and left this mess behind?"
Li Yao found it hard to believe. "You're truly an irresponsible jerk!"
"Yes, Wuying Qi 2.0 is indeed an out-and-out jerk, but I have to defend him with my conscience."
Wuying Qi 3.0 said, "At that time, we did not have a deep understanding of the power of the Channeling Temple. Nobody knew how big the mess would be. After all, this was a remote place at the edge of the cosmos. Optimistically speaking, it wouldn't take long before those human-shaped puppets who did not have many resources to make use of died on their own.
"With that in mind, Wuying Qi 2.0 finally came to the Star Ocean Republic with the experiment data and the wealth that he looted from the warlords. He developed his forces step by step in the following decades.
"However, after the lesson last time, he dared not touch the 'Channeling Temples' again. After all, they were too dangerous and could backfire if he was careless.
"Just like that, he spent many years in the Star Ocean Republic peacefully. It was not until the news that the Alliance of the Holy Covenant launched a large-scale attack that he was truly shocked and sweated hard.
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