746 I Repeat... (1/2)

”Alas, as people grow older, they get more muddled.”

Wang Lu shook his head and scolded himself for losing his keenness.

Actually he should've thought of it. A kind of strange poison that was highly infectious and could make people lose their rationality and be controlled by others… Was this not an evil cult?

In addition, in those years, when the Earth Immortals gathered together, and their power reached the peak, they were powerless to such strange poison. One possibility was that the technical means of the Fallen Immortals had exceeded the Nine Regions so much that it was hard for the Earth Immortals to catch up even if they did their best. However, if there was such a technical gap, how did Sun Buping and the others fight for so many years without suffering annihilation?

The second possibility was that the Earth Immortals had misunderstood the nature of the poison and truly treated it as a poison. Naturally, they ended up using twice the effort for half the result.

Based on the current clues, the second possibility was probably the right answer. The so-called strange poison of the Fallen Immortals was actually a kind of mind-drug, i.e. evil cult… The poisoned people were just being fooled by a religion, so what was the use of feeding them with elixirs?

Of course, the assertion that the strange poison was equal to an evil cult was just Wang Lu's guess. However, with the evidence from Faceless, he was confident that there would be no mistake in this guess.

”But there's a hole in the logic here.” Wang Wu's voice appeared in Wang Lu's mind at the right time and asked, ”The strange poison of the Fallen Immortals has more than ten thousand years of history—the Earth Immortals suffered from it more than sixteen thousand years ago. But, the rise of your Holy Light Religion is only a few thousand years, right?”

Faceless smiled and said, ”It seems that you misunderstood my meaning. I am not saying that this so-called strange poison was transmitted from the Western Continent. But, there is something in common between the two.”

Wang Lu explained, ”Any religion or belief that goes to the extremes is in fact no different from poison. Western Continent has the Holy Light Religion, while in the Nine Regions, don't we also have a variety of religions, cults, and sects?”

Wang Wu smiled and said, ”Like Wisdom Sect you mean?”

Wang Lu seriously said, ”Wisdom Sect is not a common religion. From the start, it stands for the productivity advancement of Nine Regions…”

”Come on, stop that nonsense.” Wang Wu interrupted her disciple's Wisdom Sect's slogan and then turned and asked Faceless, ”In short, do you have a way to neutralize it?”

Faceless said, ”It's not a poison, so there's no neutralization. Those who are infected are just like those who are brainwashed by an evil cult and couldn't help become loyal believers. This process is irreversible, so it's impossible for them to completely recover. However, there's indeed room for maneuver.”

”Oh? Since the process is irreversible, how can we have room for maneuver?” Wang Wu was a bit curious.

”Wang Wu, you're not perceptive enough. When it comes to this kind of thing, don't you get it?” Wang Lu smiled and said, ”Since this is something to do with an evil cult, how could you forget what I did in those days?”

Wang Wu stared blankly for a moment and then immediately shocked.

Talking about dealing with a cult, Wang Lu was indeed an expert! At that time, Spirit Sword Sect kicked down the mountain disciples that it accepted during the Immortal Gathering for experiential learning. During that time, Wang Lu's Wisdom Sect stirred up the entire Blue River Region, and Wang Wu was very impressed by that!—because of Wisdom Sect, she was charged with misconduct of not giving discipline for more than ten times by Fang He, and her stipend as an Elder was also deducted for three years. Fortunately, at that time, her stipend was already deducted for ten years, so the punishment was irrelevant to her.

In less than a year after Wang Lu went down the mountain, he founded a huge sect with hundreds of millions of believers from scratch. The core development mode was precisely to accept the existing believers from other sects. Simply put, it was a conversion of faith.

It was very difficult for those who had a strong natural will and independent thinking to join the sect and give their faith. However, for the common people in the world, many were ignorant and easily incited, and moreover stubborn. Even with Wang Lu's ability, they could not be convinced to be wiser… Eventually, Wang Lu made up his mind to develop the Wisdom Sect.

First, he used another religion as a basis and then refined more inflammatory doctrines. From there, he built a more reasonable and meticulous management system and then cooperated with the elite talents and appropriated opportunities. With these steps, it would be natural for Wisdom Sect to soar to the sky.

”... Do you want those poisoned people to end up believing in your cult?” When she finally understood, Wang Wu wanted to laugh. Wang Lu was really bad. Being controlled by the Fallen Immortal was indeed terrible, but she believed that believing in Wang Lu's Wisdom Sect… Didn't seem that good either. It was truly a coming out of the dragon pool but ended up entering the tiger cave situation.”

Wang Lu said, ”I repeat, Wisdom Sect always represents the productivity advancement of Nine Regions…”

”Are you confident that you can complete the faith conversion?”

Wang Lu smiled and said, ”Let's not talk about my past achievements. Don't forget that at present, the Wisdom Sect has gradually merged with the Holy Light Religion…”

Faceless also said with a smile, ”It's still the same sentence: What we used is a bit more advanced than this.”

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”... Isn't Black our goal? What is this for then?”

In the City of Immortals, Shu Si followed Luo Xiao in a daze while he glanced nervously at the streets around him.