40,000 Years of Cultivation

"The so-called'guarding ordinary people' by the practitioners is no different from the doting of cats and dogs by those extreme animal protectors. It is not at all because they are more just, kind, and benevolent than others, but only from their selfishness."

Li Yao exclaimed, "selfishness? What selfishness?"

"In our real human empire, there is a well-known master of sociology and psychology called'Ma Tianluo'. This master proposed the theory of human five-tiered needs. He pointed out that a person fulfills all the needs of his life. , From low to high, it is divided into five levels: physiological needs, safety needs, emotional needs, respect needs and self-realization needs."

Tang Qianhe talked eloquently, "Physiological needs and safety requirements are well understood. It is the instinct that animals all have to eat and wear warmly, not to be invaded by foreign enemies!"

"Emotional needs are also easy to understand. People are a gregarious race. A person always longs to be immersed in affection, friendship, love and other emotional packages. As the so-called seven emotions and six desires, even Da Luo Jinxian is hard to avoid."

"The need for respect, to put it plainly, is the desire to occupy a certain position in society, to be recognized, respected and even worshipped by others! This need is met, and people can be confident and feel the value of their existence. '!"

"The need for self-realization is the highest level of need. It refers to the realization of personal ideals, ambitions, and doctrines, to stimulate one's potential to the limit, and to thoroughly implement one's own'Dao Xin'!"

"Using Master Ma's'five-tiered demand theory' to analyze the actions of the practitioners, it is easy to understand."

"The matter of guarding ordinary people can first meet the emotional needs of cultivators, secondly enable them to be respected and admired by the public, and thirdly can implement their ideas and expand their Taoism! That is to say. In the "Ladder Demand Theory", the three more advanced needs are all satisfied!"

"To put it bluntly, a cultivator guards ordinary people, and then gets cheers and admiration from ordinary people; this raises a pet dog with an ordinary person, builds a kennel for it, buys dog food, and even calls it a member of the family. It's all the same to get its intimacy."

"Do they particularly like small animals? Of course not, just to satisfy their empty mind!"

"Otherwise, why are there so many people raising cats and dogs, but so few people raising cockroaches and toads? To put it bluntly, cats and dogs are cute and somewhat human, which can bring ordinary people a sense of spiritual satisfaction. , Ordinary people will keep cats and dogs; and ordinary people can also bring a sense of spiritual satisfaction to the cultivator. It is a kind of high-level pet, so the cultivator will protect ordinary people!"

"That, that—"

Li Yao really didn't know how to refute this strange argument.

What's more, he didn't dare to be too resistant, so as not to arouse suspicion among the three cultivators, so he had to follow Tang Qianhe's meaning and said, "It seems that there is nothing wrong with it, right?"

"If you just close the door and spoil your pet, of course it is personal freedom, and there is nothing wrong with it!"

Tang Qianhe snorted coldly, revealing an expression of both contempt and disgust, "It's a pity that, like extreme animal protectionism, cultivators like to treat their selfish desires as the so-called morality, and their likes and dislikes as' The truth is that all stars and seas are accurate, and even the very normal behaviors of others are arbitrarily interfered with!"

"The resources in Xinghai are limited. Raising ordinary people as pets consumes more resources than keeping cats and dogs as pets. Ordinary people are far more brutal than cats and dogs. They are a little careless. I will be ungrateful at any time and take a bite back!"

"Cultivators are short-sighted and extremely selfish guys. They just start from their own selfishness and their own instincts. They only see that the ordinary people in front of them seem to be pitiful. They must protect them at all costs to satisfy them. My own compassionate heart, I don’t know that doing so will bring long-term damage and eventually lead to the total collapse of the entire human civilization!"

Li Yao frowned: "What damage?"

Tang Qianhe said with a serious face: "Our human civilization, like nature’s ecosystem, is actually the strongest and most fragile thing! We say that it is strong because it has some natural laws that can regulate and balance itself, and Self-purification and evolution under the constraints of seemingly cruel laws; it is said that it is fragile, because once human beings, as the spirit of all things, control the ability to modify certain laws, they are driven by self-righteous compassion. After the modification, the collapse is almost inevitable!"

"Li Daoyou, have you heard of'ecological balance', right?"

Li Yao nodded.

"Nature's ecosystem is a very balanced and perfect work of art. Imagine a prairie where a few wolves, a large number of rabbits, and grass all over the mountains form a simple ecosystem."

"The rabbit eats the grass, the jackal eats the rabbit."

"The rabbit is so cute that it makes people feel compassionate at the first sight."

"The jackal is hideous and cruel in nature, and the scene of preying on rabbits is extremely bloody!"

"At first glance, it is easy to define rabbits as ‘good’ and jackals as ‘bad’!”

"Suddenly, some omnipotent people came to this grassland and saw the **** scene of wolves preying on rabbits, and saw the cute scenes of little rabbits rubbing around in their arms, and for a while, they gave birth to a'hoe strong The mentality of'helping the weak' killed all the jackals, leaving only the fluffy, fleshy, gentle and cute little rabbits."

"Excuse me, will this grassland become a fairyland on earth?"

"of course not!"

"In less than a year, rabbits with super fecundity and good at destroying the roots of grass and trees will completely destroy this grassland, and rabbits that have lost their food sources will die in large numbers and be completely extinct!"

"do you understand?"

"In this ecosystem, the ferocious jackal is the protector of the grass, the bunnies, and the whole nature; and the guys who seem to be passionate about the old ways, **** the strong and support the weak, are demons and self-inflated morals. The enslaved, out-and-out demon!"

"Perhaps they really came out of good intentions, or maybe they have fought against the jackals for 300 rounds in the process of protecting the little rabbits, and they have paid countless blood and sacrifices..."

"So what? The fact that they can't change the entire ecosystem, they have been completely destroyed by their ‘good intentions’!"

There was a "buzz" in Li Yao's mind.

This cultivator of immortality has been tempered over thousands of years, even if the words are irrational, at least they appear to be very pretentious and righteous.

Tang Qianhe took a deep breath, his face was full of sacred brilliance, and proudly said: "Human civilization, like ecological balance, has its own internal logic for its operation and development."

"Natural selection in material competition and survival of the fittest. Only by maintaining a certain degree of cruel competition can we ensure that excellent genes receive the most abundant resources and pass on from generation to generation; while inferior genes will be gradually eliminated, so as not to waste resources. ,polluted environment!"

"This is like the metabolism of human civilization. It is a normal and reasonable process. The survival of the fittest!"

"However, with the development of human civilization, a variety of new technologies and new magical powers emerge in an endless stream. It seems that we have overcome nature and can ignore the laws and logic! Many people have slowly developed arrogance, and selfish desire has replaced reason. They tried to'walk the way for the heavens' in vain, and their representatives are modern cultivators!"

"Modern cultivators conquered the Quartet, wiped out the enemies of human civilization one by one, created a stable world without internal and external troubles, and developed advanced psychic technology, which enabled the large-scale popularization of various magic weapons and magical powers, and the survival of ordinary people. The environment has been greatly improved, and the average life expectancy has doubled. As a result, the number of ordinary people is like a volcanic eruption. Inferior genes that should have been eliminated by the harsh environment have also been passed on!"

"It's like losing a natural enemy like a jackal, a rabbit that swells infinitely on the grassland!"

"This kind of world looks beautiful, but it is a very delicate and fragile glass greenhouse built by man. It will never last."

"As long as the number of ordinary people reaches a critical point, their infinite thirst for resources will eventually overwhelm the entire world, and the cultivators who are immersed in their inferior genes will also lose their enterprising spirit, and they will be in harmony with the dust, with the same flow and the same defilement, and eventually fall into a dead end In the realm, the fire of human civilization in this world is completely extinguished, just like a wasteland gnawed away by a rabbit!"

"Don’t think I’m being alarmist. In the expansion history of our true human empire, we have discovered many self-destructive worlds of cultivators. It is because of the tragedies of these worlds and the lessons learned from them that we have inspired us on the road of cultivating immortals. Go up and go farther and farther!"

"When you get back to the base, maybe you can ask Mr. Su to take you through the destruction process of those cultivators' world, and you will understand!"

"In short, no matter how harmonious and beautiful the world of a cultivator is, how prosperous and well-developed, or how harmonious and united the relationship between the cultivator and ordinary people is, it will be paid for by overdrafting the future and sacrificing the interests of future generations. It is a reflection before death. , Before the end of civilization, the last splendor is nothing more!"

"For someone like you who doesn't know the truth and has received decades of brainwashing education by practitioners, some of the behaviors of our cultivators seem cruel, cruel, and even tyrannical at first glance!"

"However, it's like jackals preying on rabbits. What seems cruel is necessary for ecological balance. It will benefit the entire grassland and even the long-term continuation of the'rabbit' race!"

Li Yao took a deep, deep breath.

He felt that he had been circumvented by Tang Qianhe.

Of course Tang Qianhe didn't have such a theoretical level. These words should be a theoretical master among the immortal cultivators, who spent hundreds of years crafting them and instilling them in all the citizens of the empire since he was a child.

Li Yao didn't want to continue fighting with the enemy on this theoretical battlefield without preparation, nodded pretending to be suddenly enlightened, and changed the subject: "I, I seem to understand! But if I... eat Not ordinary people, but immortal cultivators?"

"Ordinary people are just ‘primitives’, very special high-level animals. If it doesn’t matter, what about harming the real kind?"