130 Why Serve The People? (1/2)

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Inside the bamboo room at the Stellar Peak, the silence has been going on for quite some time before finally Sect Leader Feng Yin chuckled and asked, “Junior Sister, have you finished it?”

Junior Sister grunted and threw the report back to him. “Just consider that you’ve found a treasure.”

Feng Yin wryly smiled as he shook his head, but didn’t deny it because he indeed picked up a treasure. When this report appeared in his hand a few days ago, with his Deity Stage cultivation, unexpectedly, it froze him for a moment, and he only slowly recovered a while later.

It was indeed a fantastic piece of literature.

The report, through hundreds of thousands of words, elaborated in details a huge and complex theoretical system to answer the long-unsolved quandary of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals.

How to handle the relationship between Immortal and Mortal, two worlds?

Simply speaking, it was to serve the people.

Why serve the people? Very easy. First of all, the people’s power was incredibly powerful.

This was not the power to do damage. On the destructive power point of view, it was very easy for a Deity Stage cultivator to destroy a country with a population of millions. Millions of people could not overcome a single cultivator—the disparity was too large. However, from another point of view, from millions of people, several hundreds of cultivator could be born from it. And within these several hundreds of cultivators, there would be at least seven to eight who could reach Jindan Stage, among which, one of them could be lucky enough to break through the barrier and became a Yuanying Stage. One Yuanying, seven to eight Jindan, several Xudan, and many Foundation Establishment; if compared again to a Deity Stage cultivator, wasn’t the gap in power decreased by a lot? Not to mention that nowadays, the use of manmade spirit root was very popular; this millions of people were simply millions of potential cultivators.

What’s more, millions of people could continue to multiply, becoming hundreds of millions of people. While a Deity Stage cultivator, even if that person could mate like a stallion, how many descendants could that person possibly sire? Moreover, the ratio of the number of that person’s descendants that possessed the natural spirit root wasn’t that much higher than mere mortals, thus, it was useless to procreate.

Not to mention that the millions of lives, in their lifetime, could produce grain, clothes, steel… Could move mountains and fill the sea, could shake the Feng Shui lines and burn their blood using the Heaven Burning Blood Technique, transforming from mortals into Immortals!

On this point, Wang Lu didn’t mince words on his accomplishment; the miraculous achievements of his Wisdom Sect in one year was written clearly in the report by him. A sect which was founded in the mountains, in just one year, had expanded into the whole Great Ming Country and its surrounding countries. It attracted nearly ten millions of followers. Even more commendable was that, in its early development, it has a good underlying foundation because it already separated itself from using the Heaven Burning Blood Technique phase and had entered the phase of using manpower in exchange of spirit stones. Using that spirit stones, they could procure manmade spirit root in bulk, and they could even get the higher rank manmade spirit root.

And with high-rank manmade spirit roots and robust foundation supporting this profits-pouring-in-from-all-sides sect, what was the difference between this sect, that Wang Lu created on a whim, and a regular member of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals?

At the same time, in order to avoid the Heaven Burning Blood Technique as a loophole to be attacked, Wang Lu produced a comparative data—the average life expectancy per person in the Wisdom Sect curve. Although the Heaven Burning Blood was the main reason for the death, because of the improved social order and increased utilization of the surrounding spiritual energy as well as elixirs, in one year, people’s life expectancy had actually increased instead of decreasing!

In one year, starting from scratch to becoming a member of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals decidedly showed the power of the people. Even if the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals didn’t use it, there would always be someone who would use it!

Secondly was how to make good use of the power of the people?

Union of Ten Thousand Immortals had vividly made an example of their own that exploitation was not workable.

The only thing that could circumvent that was to serve the people.

The most important factor in the rapid development of the Wisdom Sect was to have a selfless leader! The sect ability to gather wealth was truly crazy, but from the over a million of people that gathered spirit stones from mountains and plains, Wang Lu had never taken even one! All of the collected spirit stones were for the Wisdom Sect’s operation; this was exactly the so-called selfless, serve the people. The Wisdom Sect was able to rapidly develop in its early stage because it didn’t have any loss of resources!

And from the beginning to the end, the one with the largest harvest was Wang Lu. Even if he didn’t have any direct income in that one year, in the coming decades, when the Wisdom Sect had been continuously on the right track, with the strong foundation as the key to success, the income would be endless. With how he developed the Wisdom Sect, Wang Lu has given a classic answer on how to make good use of the people’s power.

Finally, on another different point of view, currently, the world of mortals and the Immortal World could not be separated anymore. Eventually, cultivators wanted to penetrate deeply into the mortal world, but if one didn’t want to serve the people, could it be that they wanted to prey on people? In the early years, the usual saying was that people were stupid and thus needed guidance from the cultivators. Unfortunately, later on, it turned out that the cultivators’ ability to prey on the people was not as good as mortal world’s emperors—the latter's ability to prey on the people was actually superior and more formidable.

The above information was provided with well documented and extensive evidence by Wang Lu. His writing was excellent, yet it only accounted for a third of his report. Meanwhile, the remaining part was the key.