Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“I once heard a little tale of an ancient time where a prince of a planetary empire rebelled in an attempt to kill his father on the grounds that 'there is only a sixty year prince in the world’? ”

Li Linghai did not move his voice, “Oh, in today's real human empire, resources deformity is concentrated, all kinds of longevity divine path, don't say ‘Prince of 60 years’, even ‘Prince of 360 years’, could appear.

“Think about it, you are a talented, powerful, ambitious young fairy practitioner who would love to do something about it, but you live in a thousand worlds, including boundaries, lords, presidents of major groups, local garrison commanders, fleet commanders… Almost all the top management have not changed people in a hundred or two hundred years, and the immortality of these fairy wind bones and crane hair on top of your head, looks comfortable for another two hundred years, no problem, how do you feel? Do you feel that your eyes are dark, your future is bleak, and you are hopeless?

“Moreover, the longevity of man, the inevitable stereotyping of ideas, the definitive rigidity of ideas, resistance to the acceptance of new things and new concepts of cultivation, the inaction of the past, the ultimate simplicity of corpse sustenance, and even the consolidation of one's own power and interests greatly hinder the progress of society as a whole.

“There are 10,000 ways to ensure their absolute domination by killing young immortals who are likely to threaten them and who are unwilling to be pulled together and corroded by them.

“And once the young fairies have been eroded by them, they must not be caught in a cycle of hierarchical, painful death, arbitrarily enslaved and squeezed by them, with the same dust and edges, and eventually become a small component of these interest groups. ”

Li Yao was silent.

Think carefully, if a society always adheres to the concept of "weak meat, winner and eater” without forming relatively stable alternating rules between old and new, then the situation that Li Linghai says will surely arise.

“But these old ones have a fatal weakness. ”

Li Linghai squeezed his eyes and pulled a brutal smile at the corner of his mouth, "They can waste countless precious resources and barely keep their lives, but they can never keep their fighting power at its peak forever.

“Fearing less strength, it is the most rational saying, the battle power of fairy cultivators will increase as the realm increases, but it will also decline as the life of the realm increases. The real world is not a novel story, there is no such thing as' the older you can fight ’. When life and realm climb to the top, forming a gold crossing, it is the peak stage of a fairy cultivator, but once this stage has passed, how can it not be traced back?

“So now many of the empire's sounding very scary '400-year-old babies, 500-year-old gods’ and so on, are actually empty shelves with false surfaces. Perhaps the eyes, experience and realm are still there, but it's not even me or even your opponent who really started it.

“One day, these long-overdue rotten eccentrics will taste the vibrant, unstoppable power of a younger generation - I firmly believe that! ”

Li Yao grinned: “I wouldn't object if it gave me a chance to beat dozens of imperial high-ranking fairy fixers into pigs. ”

Li Linghai smiled faintly: “Rest assured, we had such a good conversation, working together must be very tacit, definitely have a chance.

“As mentioned above, the contradiction between high-order and low-order fairy cultivators is the fundamental contradiction facing the empire today.

“Beyond fundamental contradictions, there are naturally contradictions, large and small.

“For example, dozens of the most developed industrial worlds in the center of the star sea, squeezing and sucking the blood of hundreds of resource worlds on the periphery of the empire - need a detailed explanation? ”

Li Yao shook his head.

The pressing and blood-sucking of backward resource worlds in the developed industrial world is an almost intractable problem, and even the Federation of Starlight faces the same dilemma: the struggle between the so-called "old three” and “new four" worlds.

The three core millennial worlds of Tian Yuan, Blood Demon and Planet, with relatively advanced technology and perfect large industrial treasure refining systems, can dump the world of crystal, dust, tree sea and other resources in minutes without tariffs and trade barriers to each other, completely destroy the lackluster, primitive and rough backward industrial systems of crystal, gloom, tree sea and other borders, eventually turning crystal, haunted and tree seas into dumping places for industrial finished products forever, and the supply of primary resources.

Because of this core contradiction, before Li Yao and the ancient Saints and the strong did not return to the Federation, the old three and the new four worlds were extremely divided, and even formed two major camps, headed by Ding Bell and Golden Heart Moon, against each other.

Of course, the Federation of Stars and Glows is a very young nation, moving as vibrant, keen and steaming as the Empire of the Real Humanity did a thousand years ago.

On the one hand, the Federation has less than ten grand thousand worlds in total, just over a hundred years old, and it will not be able to form too strong a fortress of interests. “The boat turns around", and any contradictions can be easily settled through negotiation.

On the other hand, at that time the Federation faced a great threat from the Black Wind Fleet, at a critical juncture in life and death, an industrial world that dumped blood on the resource world and earned scissors for a long contradiction that could only be considered second.

Third, under the leadership of Li Yao, the Federation has continuously discovered rich worlds and advanced flood technologies such as the ancient sacred world, the ruins of Kunlun, skeletal dragon star and so on, which is equivalent to obtaining a large amount of start-up funding, which plays a very lubricative and mitigating role in the increasingly sharp contradictions.

Together with the leaders of the respective interest groups, such as Timbell and Golden Heart Moon, with great patience and wisdom, put aside the controversy and resolve the contradictions for the time being, including the Golden Slaughter Divergent to take the whole picture behind the scenes, eventually the old three and the new four worlds can unite some and successfully defeat the Black Wind Fleet.

Forgive me, Li Yao can hardly imagine how the expanding Xingyao Federation after hundreds of years can solve the imbalance in regional economic development, the growing "siphoning effect” of the industrial world and the growing disparity in scissors.

So many experts in the Federation of Stars and Glows even assert - for the Federation, there is no better state of affairs than is currently the case, with no more than ten great thousand worlds.

This is the limit of scale effect and combined national power, and blindly expanding, really indigestion, even surviving itself.

A real human empire with hundreds of great thousands of worlds, if not dead, has at least broken itself.

Nearly all of the advantages of the Confederation were met by the Empire.

Li Yao did not feel that the developed industrial world under the reign of the family of four elected emperors would be merciful to the world of frontier resources that the Empire later opened up.

It is certain that they can suck as much blood as they want and dump as they want. It is best to use the massive cheap pharmacopoeia produced by the pipeline to completely submerge these remote worlds, to ensure that they will never develop any pharmacopoeia refinery industry system, and will always only serve as primary resource providers for the family of four electorate emperors, falling into the trap of “500 tons of raw ore for one crystalline armor”.

So, are the rulers of these remote and grand worlds, equally ambitious boundaries, warlords and fleet commanders, willing to let their worlds, forever reduced to the remote countryside of a mine forest without a half-fabel factory, forever squeezed, dumped and bloodsucked by the families of the four electorate emperors?

This is the battle between the old three worlds and the new four worlds, which has been intensified and expanded tenfold!

In the Federation, the struggle between the industrial world and the resource world was temporarily fooled by Li Yao, Ding Bell and Golden Heart Moon, using a thin mud method.

Today's empire is not as simple as that, and even when a civil war breaks out, it doesn't seem surprising.

Li Linghai looked at Li Yao's expression without moving his voice. If he really thought about it, his evaluation was raised to a higher level. He nodded: "Very well, it is a person who has been a special envoy to the Speaker of Parliament, not a mere martial artist. ”

“You can all understand the contradiction between the industrial and resource worlds caused by the imbalance in regional economic development, and even more so when you are a combat-type god strong, between the 'military’ and ‘families, sects, interest groups'? ”

Li Yao slightly stunned: “What is that? ”

“Simply put, all armies in the Real Human Empire are now nominally called 'Imperial Armies', but there is no unified command and operation system, not even financial power and control of military industrial groups, in the hands of the military.

“In fact, it has been eroded for centuries by nobles and warlords, and apart from the imperial realm, the heavenly stars, and the royal forest armies embroidered with fists and legs, there is no real meaning that can be called the 'Imperial Army'.

“The vast majority of the elite Starfleet and Crystal Armor Corps, whose command, financial power and control of the Military Industry and Industry Group are in the hands of nobles, warlords and boundaries.

“In other words, the Imperial Army is merely an aristocratic militia, just those old dog legs.

“The simplest example, the armies brought about by the powerful winds that we destroyed earlier, could those people be called the 'Imperial Army’? No, they're just 'Li Jia Jun’, even just Li Lingfeng's militia, the term is‘ Jiading ’. ”

Li Yao nodded slowly.

In the fall of imperial power and the rise of warlords at the end of the dynasty, this is a matter of course.

It should belong nominally to the State, at least to the emperor's army, in fact to nobility and warlords' private militias, to nobility and warlords who pay for them, give them money, give them crystal armor and support them from starships, who naturally defend them and can only defend the interests of nobility and warlords.

“But not every Imperial soldier is willing to spend his entire life serving as an aristocrat's private soldier, home and dog leg, dying worthlessly for the sake of usurpation and land grabbing among the aristocrats, especially for those young officers who are vibrant, ambitious, ambitious and ambitious, and even… bearing in mind the glorious history of the Imperial Army in the days of the Black Star Emperor in the past! ”

Li Linghai's eyes became red, and the murderous gasp said, “Gather the private soldiers dispersed in the hands of all the worlds, aristocrats and valves, and gather them into a powerful, true imperial army, so that the 'military’ can make its own voice, thunderous roar!

“From now on, we will fight only for the benefit of the Empire, only for human civilization and only for His Majesty the Emperor!

“This is the ideal of countless young officers who are willing to die for it, crushing their bones! ”