40,000 Years of Cultivation

Although he has spent more than a hundred years in the world of cultivation, Li Yao still remembers the earth in his childhood dream.

It was a world without psychic powers. The so-called cultivation and gods and demons were nothing but illusory myths. In other words, the people who lived in that world were all ordinary people.

Although they are ordinary people who have not grasped the mystery of psionic energy, the people on earth have mastered all kinds of magical powers and mysterious laws that can be used without psychic energy, and then developed a brilliant and glorious "spiritual civilization."

Like the Federation, the people on Earth also have emotions, anger, sorrow, and passion. Although there are a small group of ambitious and heinous people, most people still live tenaciously and kindly, fighting, fighting, and guarding their little side. Family, affection and happiness.

In Li Yao’s concept, there are brothers in the sea of ​​stars, and human civilization is an inseparable whole. All ordinary people belong to the object to be guarded. He cannot kill even one, let alone destroy the earth and kill. Six billion people on Earth.

not to mention……

In his previous life, he was also one of these six billion people. He was an ordinary earthling. Why did he destroy his homeland in the previous life for no reason?

However, those voices still echoed in his ears:

"Run away, you can't destroy it, it's too dark and too powerful!"

If this "it" refers to the earth, it would be too weird. In the barren world of the solar system, nuclear weapons are the most powerful "magic weapon", but the power is not too outrageous and used. The conditions are very demanding. Without the luck of chance and the determination to sacrifice millions of people, it is difficult to cause a devastating blow to a Nascent Soul or even a cultivator of God.

So, what does the so-called "darkness" of the earth mean, and where is the "powerful"?

Up to this moment, Li Yao could still feel "self" floating on the synchronous orbit of the blue earth, the feeling of sadness, despair, and anger.

He felt that the "destruction" he wanted to launch didn't have the slightest taste of evil. The "Vulture Project" was not an evil plan, but a just act. After all...

"Nonsense, when all the evil demon kings implement a certain evil plan, they will think from their heart that they are righteous, to save the entire world, at least they are compelled! Who would admit that he is heinous and despicable? Shameless, insidious demon?"

The Scarlet Heart Demon said with a weird smile, "This is the case of Northwest Yan, Xiao Xuance, Lu Zui, and the sky demon Mo Xuan. Even the Youquan ancestor of the blood demon world, when implementing the Spore Plan, did not think that he was creating the first Are the three life forms' for the evolution of the entire race?

"Now, it's finally your turn to go down this road, this is your destiny..."

"If you are so big, even Long Yangjun knows that there is a difference between the ‘mission given to me by others’ and the ‘my true mission’. Should I be stupid to obey the ‘fate’’s mercy?"

Li Yao coldly snorted, "If you don't figure out the whole thing, whether it is righteous or evil, I will never act as a puppet of existence to'destroy the earth'!"

The Scarlet Heart Demon said: "I understand, you are looking for a little psychological comfort, and you want to find out whether it is possible that in some extreme circumstances,'destroying the earth' is actually a righteous act and does not violate your personal morality? "

Li Yao hesitated: "So... it's not bad. Anyway, I don't believe that my previous life and the companions of the'Vulture Project' are all evil lunatics. Come on, let's brainstorm. , To see if there is any possibility that the'destroy the earth' is both ethical and incomparably just, and does not harm the interests of any weak people?"

"You are too greedy."

The Scarlet Heart Demon laughed and said: "Moral and justice are relative. Although the universe is big, there are not many things that have both fish and bear's paws. In many cases,'weakness' itself is a crime, and the weak are destined to be hurt by the strong. Yes, this is the law of nature, or in other words, a higher level of'ecological balance'.

"However, if it is said that the situation of'the earth must be destroyed', it must exist. For example, the most classic'kill one and save the ten thousand'-the entire universe including the earth is in great danger, and there is only sacrifice. The earth can save the entire universe?"

Li Yao shook his head and said disapprovingly, "Isn't this the theory of the Black Star Emperor? When he destroyed Karan Star back then, he used this set of rhetoric-only at the expense of Karan Star can the invading army of the Holy League be defeated and saved the whole Xinghai Republic! What is the result? The center of Xinghai is still caught in a thousand-year war, and the only one being'saved' may be his endless ambition.

"If I destroy the earth for the purpose of saving the universe as a rotten ghost, what is the difference from Black Star Emperor?"

"That's different."

The Scarlet Heart Demon said gloomily, "The Black Star Emperor destroyed Karan Star for his own selfishness. As the'stepping stone' for him to ascend to the highest power, from a general moral point of view, he naturally deserves to be affected. Attacked and critical.

"But his personal despicableness and evil do not mean that the choice of'kill one and save ten thousand' is not questionable in itself.

"In the event of the Black Star Emperor destroying Star Karan, there were two main problems.

"First, it is naturally the true purpose of the Black Star Emperor. He was actually for his own ambitions, in order to seize the supreme power of the Xinghai Republic, and in order to usurp the throne and become the ruler of the Xinghai Republic, he destroyed the Star of Karan without It is purely for the bright idea of ​​"saving the Xinghai Republic".

"Second, and more importantly, although the Covenant Alliance has a part of the Pangu civilization and has developed a technology that surpasses the Xinghai Republic, the civilization level of the two sides has not widened the qualitative gap, and the overall national strength is also Well matched.

"You see, until today, a thousand years later, the true human empire is still able to launch a strategic counteroffensive against the Covenant League, and the Holy League can’t raise its head. This shows that the two sides are opponents of the same level, even if they don’t. The cruel choice of'kill one, save the ten thousand', relying on conventional means, there is also the possibility of victory.

"Assuming that the Black Star Emperor did not detonate Karan Star at that time, perhaps the leader of the Saint League invading army would drive in and cause greater losses, but it may not be impossible to be repelled.

"Perhaps this'greater loss' will be several times more than the number of 8 million dead on Karan Star, but no matter how many times it is, it is still worth paying for the maintenance of the'Xinghai Republic's morality and justice'. cost.

"But what if none of the above two conditions hold true?

"Since it is a brainstorming, let us unscrupulously assume such a situation: First of all,'Wu Yingqi' is not an ambitious potential immortal cultivator who hates ordinary people, but a kind-hearted, upright and unrepentant. A selfish cultivator is the highest commander of the loyal border guard of Xinghai Republic.

"Secondly, the invading Saint League at that time was not a force that was evenly equal to the Xinghai Republic, not a member of human civilization, or even Pangu civilization, which has a strong relationship and inheritance relationship with mankind, but... another one hundred times stronger than mankind. , The weird civilization that we can't understand at all, it's a bit reluctant to call it "civilization".

"Under this situation, a certain command core of this strange civilization, let's call it the'mother brain', happened to land on Karan, giving mankind the only chance to destroy this civilization.

"As the top commander of the border guards, Wu Yingqi, who has extensive combat experience, quickly analyzed-if the'mother brain' cannot be destroyed at this moment, then there will be no chance to resist these Xinghai alien invaders, including Ka The Xinghai Republic, including Lan Xing, and the entire human civilization including Xinghai Republic, will all be destroyed, and even fall into the tragic end of being unable to survive or seek death. In the next 100,000 years, millions of years, human civilization will experience A hundred times darker than the "Great Dark Age".

"Excuse me, in this case, Wu Yingqi, an upright and unselfish person, took the initiative to stay on Karan star to contain the'mother brain', and eventually sacrificed himself, detonated Karan star, and killed the'mother brain', resulting in a starry alien race. The disintegration of the invading army saved the entire human civilization.

"Under this circumstance, we are full of justice and morality, Li Laomo, please tell me, do people in future generations have the right to condemn such a'Wu Yingqi'?"

Li Yao frowned his eyebrows for a long time and said: "You first presuppose a conclusion, and then give various harsh conditions based on the conclusion, which is equivalent to shooting an arrow at the target casually, and then according to the arrow's landing point. To draw a bull's-eye, where is there no reason for not "a hundred shots and a hundred hits"?

"In your example, a kind of weird life form whose comprehensive strength is a hundred times stronger than human civilization. We can't resist it. There is only a supreme command core'mother brain', and this'mother brain' is so stupid that it will be unprotected. In the case of, descended on an enemy planet containing a large number of explosives. When the planet was finally detonated, he could not escape even a strand of remnant soul or something like Del, and even half of the heirs were looking for it. No? This, this is so stupid that it can't be added!

"Let me say that even if this kind of weird life form that is a hundred times stronger than human civilization really exists, it is impossible to have only one'mother brain.' It is likely that there are tens of thousands of mother brains like nerve synapses.

"Even if there is really only one mother brain, after the mother's brain dies, there must be other ‘synapses’ and the like that can actively develop into a new mother brain.

"Otherwise, the universe is so dangerous, how could such a stupid ethnic group grow to be a hundred times stronger than human civilization?

"So, even if detonating the Karan star can destroy a mother brain, it doesn't make any sense-there are thousands of mother brains behind, we can't detonate thousands of habitable planets!"