130 Why Serve The People? (2/2)

It wasn’t difficult to entice the people’s infinite power with benefits, however, one must not just run through the entire guiding principle of the Immortal Cultivation World just to entice people with its benefits. Otherwise, presumably, there would be more cultivators who ran the principle of killing the chicken to get the eggs.

And the solution to this problem was this ideal.

Wang Lu had gathered his Wisdom Sect’s followers using the principle of millions of forerunners for the great ideal of world’s ascension, which proved that this idea was indeed pretty powerful, enough to turn the world upside down. Therefore, his proposed idea for the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals was similar to this.

It was still the million of forerunners for the world’s ascension! However, at this time, Wang Lu had actually carefully polished this big lie earnestly!

Wang Lu’s proposed theory lies in the thought that the mission objective of the Immortal Cultivation World in the Nine Regions was the proliferation of productivity, improving the cultivation of the entire Immortal Cultivation World. For the former, there was a large number of history book that could prove it. Although the Nine Regions had experienced the Age of Chaos, as well as the catastrophic war between Immortals and Demons, in the end, it still progressed forward. Even in the process of progress, there were twists and turns, and perhaps could not be compared to the magnificence of the time before the Age of Chaos. However, from its bleakest dark age, there has already a lot of progress, constantly approaching the splendor that was before the Age of Chaos.

Over the past thousands of years, this progress has continued. There were a few setbacks, but they couldn’t reverse the general trend. And Wang Lu thought that this was the everlasting law in the Nine Regions for the millions of cultivators and billions of common people.

That being said, what would it be like when this big societal development progressed to the extreme?

Theoretically, when everyone ascended, True Immortals would be everywhere! In particular, hadn’t Patriarch Liu He’s Six Harmonies Spirit Root provided the people with the opportunity to ascend? Even if today that seemed like a distant fantasy, what if when the productivity of the tens of millions had been upgraded? The surrounding spiritual energy was by no mean a fixed variable. When the people could transform their surrounding, the surrounding spiritual energy would surely increase, and the high-rank spirit objects would be abundant; in this kind of world, was there anything that could stop millions of people from ascension?

Therefore, serving the people didn’t lower the cultivator’s identity, and most of all, it wasn’t for the benefit of the people… but for the future million of forerunners and the Nine Region’s ascension! Those mortals, under the banner of Wisdom Sect, diligently strived for that millions of ascensions, pushing the cultivation stage of the cultivators, increasing their power. Was there any reason for someone to not contribute to this lofty ambition?

But why millions rather than tens of millions? Wang Lu’s explanation to this was that, according to his calculation, it only needed millions of ascenders for the Nine Regions to successfully transform and have the quality to ascend. At which time, the surrounding spiritual energy would be so rich that it would be indistinguishable with the True Immortal World, which meant that the whole Nine Regions was basically the true world of immortals—the entire Nine Regions ascended!

As for the calculation process, whether it was Feng Yin or Wang Wu, both didn’t understand it at all. In the last two-thirds of the report, Wang Lu used most of it to construct the model, build the formula, and transform the myriad things in the world into numbers to derive the unthinkable answer. Although they didn’t understand the specific process, they didn’t have to. Wang Lu’s derivation of the millions of forerunners answer, using the huge amount of space in his report, was basically just a nonsense work.

Even the previous luring for the benefits part was also a nonsense, even so much that the whole hundreds of thousands of words in the report was totally rubbish. However, right now what the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals needed the most was exactly this utter crap report. Wang Lu’s narration was so engaging that it could entice people that once they started to read, they could not stop themselves from reading it to the end!

For Feng Yin, this report simply came at the most opportune moment.

The right time for what exactly? The Shengjing Sect and the few top sects in the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals were currently facing this conundrum: How to properly handle the relationship between the mortal and Immortal, two worlds? Currently, the relationship between the two worlds was unstable, and anyone could see that. However, how to deal with the entrenched interference in the mortal world even though there was no mature approach? The result was that, one after the other, the aloof Immortal Cultivators were dragged down into the water, becoming the evil predator themselves. This was the reason why there was this saying in the Immortal Cultivation World, that the Immortal path was different than that of a mortal. This saying was intended to isolate the world of Immortal Cultivation from the mortal world. Previously, in those ancient sects tens of thousands of years ago, there were three hundred and fifty otherworldly cultivators who lived in seclusion deep in the mountain, painstakingly cultivating… Now, such a thing was decidedly unworkable; the likes of Spirit Sword Sects who put themselves in relative isolation was just maverick minorities. Any big sects must have their own foundation in the mortal world, forming a stable pyramid scheme. However, the words Immortal path was different than that of a mortal formed a deep moat around that stable pyramid, which forced people to wander around the lower ground to support the layer upon layer of oppression above them, but at the same time, the reaction force to free themselves was getting increasingly powerful.

The Immortal Cultivation World, particularly such a large sect like the Shengjing Sect, urgently needed a new set of theory to deal exactly with this contradiction that was the duality structure of the mortal and Immortal Cultivation World.

However, what was the use of it? This report stemmed from Spirit Sword Sect’s favorable location; it didn’t have the stamp of the Spirit Sword Sect, one of the five Unique in the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals. No matter how Wang Lu hyped his report, he still couldn’t win the trust of the cultivators, after all. Or if he didn’t come from the Spirit Sword Sect, developing the Wisdom Sect relying on his name alone would be met with many insurmountable difficulties.

Spirit Sword Sect was Wang Lu’s greatest backer.

As for the people? Needless to say, right before Wang Lu left the Wisdom Sect, there were already ten millions of followers, ten times as many hunger-for-immortality, thirst-for-favor-from-the-Wisdom-Sect ordinary people! If this wasn’t the people, then who was?

All the right conditions to use this report were here; it would be too much of a waste not to use it!

“What are you going to do about it then?”

Feng Yin already got the answer for this question from Wang Wu.

“This article couldn’t be signed with Wang Lu’s name alone, his influence is not enough, and the text needs to be modified. I will revise it carefully during these two days and then add my signature before mailing it to Academic Research Committee of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals. This kind of report will provide thousands of Academic credits and tens of thousands Academic points. Not only could it complete the Committee’s routine share, but it would also be enough to raise the Academic rank of the Spirit Sword Sect to level nine.”