Li Yao's question silenced everybody.
Having advanced into the Yuanying Stage and the Divinity Transformation Stage, none of them were mediocre people who had no ambitions. They all had ambitions to change the world more or less. However, faced with the torrents of time and society, they could not help but be involved in them. Gradually, they were paralyzed and corrupted, forgetting their original sincerity a long time ago.
Even the most selfish Immortal Cultivators lowered their heads in embarrassment when faced with Li Yao's question. Looking back at the past, they could not say against their conscience that their life had been truly satisfying, enlightened, and enlightened.
"I don't know about you. At the very least, for me, it's not enough, not satisfying, not exciting, and not satisfying. I feel that my life is far from the most splendid, intense, and delightful level, but nothing in the mortal world can satisfy me anymore."
Li Yao's voice was even lower and more distant, as if he had forgotten everybody else and was talking to his own mind instead. He mumbled to himself, "I've seen neutron pulsars release radiation in thousands of colors, which constituted a glamorous picture that was a hundred times more splendid than the aurora. The picture enshrouded me tightly like a soft jellyfish. I've also seen the high-energy particles of a cosmic storm darting toward me like a glittering rain of sand. I've seen the ancient bacterial creatures survive stubbornly on the dying planets, changing their genes and looking for a one-billionth way to break their destiny. I've also seen the throne of the Pangu clan disappearing in the wind hundreds of thousands of years ago in the relic of Kunlun.
"Hundreds of thousands of years. Only hundreds of thousands of years. In the scale of the universe, it is nothing more than a moment. The magnificent, splendid, and indestructible throne, as well as the experts, dominators, generals, and tyrants who sat cross-legged on the throne, have all been obliterated. Their achievements and crimes have all been obliterated. Not the slightest bit of information is left.
"I've seen the most unbelievable scenes in the universe. I've been through the most soul-stirring adventures. My soul has even experienced a hundred reincarnations. Then, I returned to the crowd, only to discover, in disappointment, that everything in the mortal world … was not enough, not exciting, and not enough to satisfy my appetite.
"No matter how many livers and marrows I eat, they taste as tasteless as wax. I drink the best wine, but the burning taste is not even as good as the fatal cosmic radiation. I hear the cheers of the crowd and the screams of the enemy, but what I remember is the dripping sound of water and the murmurs of myself when I stayed in the deepest part of the cave on the desolate planet by myself. After the competitions of beliefs against planets, stars, supernovae, nebulae, stone belts, and cosmic storms, even the most charming, most beautiful woman will become boring and nothing more than a pile of pink skeletons.
"I couldn't go back. It was not until then that I realized that I had gone too far and could not go back at all. Money was really dung for me, and the competitions for power and profit between the dominators and the kings were just the games of kindergarten kids. I was not without desires. I had my own ambitions, too, and they were a hundred times more arrogant than all of you combined. However, the tiny Pangu Universe was not enough to realize my ambitions. My ambitions were at the end of the multiverse!
"Therefore, I don't understand. I really don't understand you. How can you be so interested in such a boring game for so long? You are Yuanying and Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators. You are the luckiest products of the most excellent genes of billions of human beings after countless mutations. Your unremitting efforts and crazy training did not disappoint your luck at all. You have walked so far on your own path. Why are you stopping or even retreating? Why are you wasting your precious talents and your even more precious lives on the boring things such as power, profit, and status?
"The things that you are pursuing — money, status, other people's awe, and the prosperity of your family … Even a local magnate from a remote village can achieve them with a few tricks. The local magnate does not need any spiritual energy, but he can still be a tyrant in his independent kingdom and make his servants and maids regard him as a god!
"But you are not local magnate. You are Yuanying and Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators! You have slain storms, struck thunderbolts, seen stars burning furiously at a close distance, wandered in the glittering dust of the universe, and waved your fists in the face of the boundless sea of stars! How exactly did you anesthetize and repress yourself in such a way so that you completely abandoned all your pursuits and ambitions and stomped your noble heads into the mud?
"Really. We are all hundreds of years old. How many hardships and painstaking efforts have we gone through to reach the Yuanying and Divinity Transformation Stage? Can't we pursue something of a higher level? Can't we find some unprecedented thrills and go to the deepest and most remote places to cause trouble? Do we have to compete for the things that have been competed for thousands of times before, like the members of the Pangu Clan, or do we simply perish in the wind like a piece of tasteless bullsh * t? "
Li Yao's voice was louder and louder, and his face was more and more hideous. He was almost gnashing his teeth in fury.
Everybody, be they Cultivators or Immortal Cultivators, was dazed as if they had been struck by lightning.
Their faces were all in a trance, and their eyes were unpredictable. There was no telling where their messy thoughts had gone.
That was right. In front of such a huge giant planet, especially after the soul-stirring "battle of the superstars", everyone's heart had been baptized to some extent. Everything in the mortal world had indeed become … dull and tasteless.
"I'm not targeting anyone, and I don't want to label you as' Cultivators' or 'Immortal Cultivators'."
Li Yao smiled and went on. "In the past, I cared a lot about my identity as a 'Cultivator', but now, I've thought it through. Human beings are human beings, and human nature is the same. There is no need to distinguish between Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators. The warriors of the Federation boasted stronger willpower because we knew from the very beginning that there was a vaster world beyond the Federation. Our destiny was to march to the grand universe. Our world was open, and our path was clear. Therefore, we were more united than before. All our ambitions and strength turned into sabers for the conquest of the outside world.
"However, for the warriors of the 'Old Imperium', they thought that they had occupied the entire universe and that there was no possibility for them to explore and conquer the outside world. Therefore, as the universe was closed, their minds were gradually closed, too. How could they cover their frustration and desperation other than savaging their compatriots blatantly?
"The same person, in the environment of the Federation, may become an aggressive, determined Cultivator, but in the environment of the Old Imperium, where isolation and internal strife prevailed, they had to become selfish, cowardly Immortal Cultivators. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to grow up at all!
"Everything that we are going to do today, including what we have done just now, is to dig a hole in the dark, boundless' shell 'of the Pangu universe and find a bright path for the civilization of mankind to march forward unstoppably in the next million years! Only in such a way will we be able to dig a golden path in our minds that are gradually being closed, too, so that every one of us will be able to figure out why we are alive, what we are pursuing, what we are trying to achieve, what we are leaving behind, and what we should do in order to live to our heart's content!
"I'm speaking from the bottom of my heart. Really, I don't want to fight with all of you for some … power, strength, inheritance, and ancient treasures. It's so boring. It's so boring. It's so boring. It's so boring! I don't care how many primordial treasures we can find in the exploration of the mausoleum. In my opinion, if my words can touch the mind of any fellow Cultivator, remind you of your purest heart, and inspire you to pursue and dream on a higher level, that will be the real 'ultimate treasures'. If most of the fellow Cultivators here can be touched and bring back hundreds of such 'ultimate treasures', our civilization will truly have hope! "
After saying that, Li Yao stared at all the Yuanying and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators on the picture.
His eyes were so scorching and full of expectation that most people, including Li Linghai, did not dare to look at him directly. They all lowered their heads, but their chests were expanding beyond their control, filled with boiling blood.
It was their original heart when they first broke through the atmosphere and stood among the brilliant stars to look at the universe!
…
Li Yao's words made everybody think for a long time.
The entire exploration fleet seemed to be polishing itself in a cosmic furnace.
Li Yao fell asleep, too. It took him an hour to completely repair his damaged cells and muscles.
When he woke up, every pore on his body felt as comfortable as if they were singing.
A familiar and warm feeling came from his temples. It was Ding Ling Dong who was massaging him softly behind him.
Li Yao smiled.
"Honey."
Holding Ding Ling Dong's wrist, he hummed comfortably and enjoyed the massage with his eyes closed, not wanting to get up at all.
"Honey, what you said just now was so good."
Ding Ling Dong's voice was unprecedentedly gentle. "I can see that many fellow Cultivators are deep in thought. They seem to have been greatly touched."
"Is that so? That's a given. I've been working on the script in my head for a long time, hoping to say it 'accidentally', but I never did. It would seem too deliberate."
Li Yao grinned. "I finally caught you today!"
"That's why I said that my husband is awesome."
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