Douluo: Law of Heaven and Earth

Chapter 1115 Ethics Amidst Confusion
Spiritual practice is essentially about transforming the false into the true.

But we must also be realistic.

Zhou Qing pointed out that Yu Xiaogang was not genuine, which was a series of policies he implemented within the Star Luo Empire. Although they imitated the Red Society, they had ulterior motives.

Just as they set up bulletin boards in various places, Xingluo's top management only announced good things, concealed bad things, and even described bad things as good things.

This is what is meant by untruth.

Under this premise of "unreality," Yu Xiaogang has planned and purposefully created a collective consciousness, which could very likely cause unimaginable consequences.

However, if the Red Army were to intervene, it would have no reason to do so, and forcibly intervening would appear too domineering.

The Red Flower Kingdom is not an unreasonable country.

Therefore.

This matter can only be put on hold for now, and Romantina will have to watch—

Currently, within the Crimson Flower Kingdom, only Romantina can detect the white light.

reason?

Zhou Qing guessed that the white light cluster was most likely a collection of human consciousness similar to Alaya, which could only be perceived by those who shared the same ideology within the Star Luo Empire.

Romantina would certainly disagree.

but!

She's a pervert, forced... cough, that's not the main reason. The fundamental reason is her inner vision: the Three Realms and Nine Earths, based on the spine and supplemented by meridians, has thirty-three heavens. Combined with the powerful computing power of her martial soul, she can perceive everything that exists in the world.

Even though the Alaya consciousness is formless and intangible, and is a collection of human consciousness, she can still perceive it.

Although the others had opened up the inner realm, even Zhou Qing was slightly inferior to Romantina in this aspect—everyone has their own expertise.

It is precisely because of this slight deficiency that we need to rely on Romantina to observe the collective consciousness.

In theory, Zhou Qing's transformation into Romantina's appearance should also be perceptible, but—

Why would he want to change something that's already readily available?

"The Star Luo Empire is indeed a problem." Tang San frowned as well.

"But it can also be considered a comparison, right?"

Xiao Wu's meaning is simple, similar to Zhou Qing's.

That is, through a series of policies, Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai controlled the minds of the people of Xingluo, not only gathering a massive amount of faith but also crudely creating the prototype of a collective consciousness. Therefore, it's possible that a collective consciousness will also emerge in the Chihua Kingdom in the future, but it will be different from that of the Xingluo Empire—

true!
But that is also something unknown, something that exists...

Since the Star Luo Empire has already achieved this through mind control, let them explore the path first, providing them with some insignificant ideas for dealing with the potential collective consciousness that may emerge in the Crimson Flower Kingdom in the future.

"It's time to make life difficult for the common people of the Star Luo Empire," Dugu Bo said.

"Isn't it the people of Chihua Kingdom who are suffering? Let's wait until those people in the Star Luo Empire who have been controlled by the mind break free, gain independence, and become citizens of Chihua Kingdom before we talk about it."

In response, Tang San could only say, "Who made the people of the Star Luo Empire suffer from those two 'plague stars,' Dai Mubai and Yu Xiaogang?"

“That’s not how it works. No matter which country you’re in, the thoughts of ordinary people are the same,” Zhou Qing said with a smile. “What we hope for is that people all over the world unite. But to walk this path, it doesn’t necessarily require us to lead everyone. Adapting to local conditions is the right way.”

"That's true."

Tang San had just realized he had gone astray again when Zhou Qing changed the subject, saying, "However, at this stage, it is indeed necessary to make things difficult for the people outside of Chihua Kingdom."

Romantina: "So?"

"So, who will bear this infamy?" Zhou Qing asked.

"Of course it's you, Brother Qing." Xiao Wu replied without hesitation.

"I agree!"

Ariel covered her mouth with one hand and raised the other, loudly voting.

“I am so handsome, I am not suitable to be a ‘villain’.” Dugu Bo also agreed with Xiao Wu’s suggestion.

"Brother Qing, you... cough!" Seeing Zhou Qing staring at him, Tang San immediately changed his words and said from the side, "The capable should do more work."

"Damn it! I'm cutting ties with you guys!"

Zhou Qing beat his chest and stamped his feet, his acting extremely exaggerated, which made everyone burst into laughter.

Afterwards, everyone returned to their places, and the grand plan of "Journey to the West" spread throughout the entire continent through newspapers and propaganda!
The president and vice president of the Red Society have made a major discovery!

There's more than one world!

Currently, thirty-six worlds have been discovered, including Douluo Continent! Different worlds, different cultivation systems! To encourage the adventurous spirit of Soul Masters, and to explore the cultivation systems of other worlds, as well as to communicate and establish connections with the regimes of other worlds—

[Zhou Qing, the president of the Crimson Society, along with vice presidents Tang San, Xiao Wu, Romantina, Wang Sheng, Ariel, and all the heads of the core departments of the Crimson Society, are preparing to select personnel from across the continent to explore other worlds, gather intelligence, and establish contacts, in preparation for the future exchange, resource development, and friendship between the continent and other worlds!]

【besides,】

[The plan consists of six steps!]

[Step 1: Gather the leaders of all the prominent kingdoms, empires and nations across the continent to establish the Douluo Continent Alliance, or Douluo Alliance for short!]

The objective material reason for the outbreak of war on the mainland was the issue of resources.

There are two main approaches to solving this problem:

One aspect is the continuous development of existing resources on the mainland.

According to research by the Red Cross Society, more than 99 percent of the resources on the mainland have not yet been developed or utilized.

Secondly, it involves establishing connections with the regimes of other worlds and exchanging goods and resources.

Both of these approaches require everyone on the mainland to set aside past grievances and work together to succeed!
Therefore, establishing the Douluo Continent Nations Alliance is imperative!

Step Two: Establish communication channels among members of the Douluo Alliance!
Ultimately, conflicts and wars stem from a lack of mutual understanding. Only by establishing channels of communication, facilitating exchanges, and increasing mutual understanding between nations can wars gradually be quelled.

[Step 3: Talent selection event to launch an exploration of another world!]

After completing the first two steps, the initial exploration of the other world can begin.

The selected talent not only needs to be strong in combat, but also possess diverse abilities, requiring both a spirit of adventure and experience in interpersonal relationships.

Step 4: Explore another world!

During this process, the higher-ups of the Red Society would use certain means to observe the situation of the "Journey to the West" group from time to time, ensuring their safety while also recording the difficulties they encountered and how they overcame them, and spreading the information widely so that people all over the continent could pay attention to their journey to another world.

At the same time, this is also to broaden the horizons of ordinary people and enrich their spiritual world.

The Red Cross leadership once suggested that both wealthy and impoverished families need mental relaxation and emotional connection...
In this matter, the Red Association will strive to involve everyone!

Step 5: Establish contact with the dominant regime in the other world!

The journey to the West is not over after it ends, but has just begun!
As the saying goes: After overcoming numerous hardships, we set off again!
After learning about the climate and environment of the other world, Akane will research soul tools that can be worn by people and not rejected by the other world.

That's right!

The other world itself has a strong repulsive effect on creatures from other worlds. For ordinary people, encountering even drinking water and getting stuck in their teeth is no longer accidental, but inevitable! Therefore, the first group of people heading west will face extremely severe difficulties. Those without great perseverance are best advised not to sign up…

Step Six: Just like Step One, establish the Thirty-Six Realms Alliance!
In short, this is a continuously spiraling upward process. Once the Thirty-Six Realms Alliance is established, similar plans will be able to be implemented again in even more distant spaces!

In addition to the six steps mentioned above, there is actually one more step—

Establish the Crimson Flower Government of All Heavens to regulate the order of civilizations across all realms!
The above six-step plus one-step plan, even just the first step of establishing the Douluo Continent All-Nation Alliance, is no easy task.

How many empires, kingdoms, and countries are there in the Douluo Continent today?
There is only one country: the Red China Kingdom.

kingdom--

There are six large ones: the Heavenly Soul Kingdom, the Barak Kingdom, the Silves Kingdom, the Gulei Kingdom, the Hagendas Kingdom, and the Heavenly Frost Kingdom.

On a smaller scale, during the last great war, some provinces saw their main cities become independent and establish kingdoms. For example, in the province of Peraj, which borders the province of Fasno, dozens of small kingdoms formed near the south.

The situation is not much different in other remote provinces.

There are two empires: the Martial Soul Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

The preparations required to unite so many kingdoms, empires, and nations could not be completed overnight.

When the kingdoms and empires on the continent learned of Chi Hua's plan to announce it to the world, their first reaction was not that Chi Hua had discovered another world, but rather that they wanted to take the opportunity to control the remaining kingdoms on the continent.

Before the Red Society can cultivate enough talent to manage the entire continent, it will first control the kings of kingdoms and the emperors of empires, thereby indirectly controlling their territories.

But some people still choose to believe.

The Heavenly Soul Kingdom, the Silves Kingdom, and the Martial Soul Empire were the first to proactively visit the Crimson Flower Kingdom to learn more about the situation.

Especially Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue of the Spirit Empire, who are now only one step away from breaking through to the god level, chose to join forces after accompanying Zhou Qing to the ninth level of the Abyss Ruins. But there was a condition—

"When I become a god, I will challenge you to a duel." Qian Renxue has now returned to her true form and is no longer Xue Qinghe. Her beliefs are growing stronger and her aura is becoming more powerful, but it is still quite complicated.

This is simply because she hasn't yet clarified the purpose of her cultivation.

Conquer everything?
Let the people bask in the glory of angels?
Or is it simply due to a stubborn, unyielding nature?

"Always waiting."

Zhou Qing smiled slightly, "However, after you understand who you really are, I also hope you can understand what you really want to do."

Qian Renxue naturally understood the implied meaning.

Her belief—

Impure!

"How can one purify one's own beliefs?" Although Qian Renxue was an arrogant person, she was not stupid. Knowing that others had more profound ideas and were not unwilling to share them, she would ask them.

There's nothing shameful about this.

Conversely, ignorance coupled with blindly pursuing unrealistic ideas will inevitably result in a product that falls far short of the competition, even if it achieves the desired effect.

And Zhou Qing was indeed generous—

Compared to Zhou Qing and others, even though Qian Renxue has regained her true self, her beliefs remain complex and numerous.

Of course, Zhou Qing's belief is not the only one.

Unlike her, he was able to sort out his many beliefs.

Just like a person's thoughts, which can generate countless ideas in an instant, or destroy millions.

There are two ways to achieve inner peace.

Firstly, it is to empty one's mind, meaning that the heart is completely empty except for a single thought.

Secondly, it involves sorting out the many chaotic thoughts and constructing a system that corresponds to the internal landscape of the human body, forming a whole.

The former is more difficult.

After all, when one emptys their mind and thinks of nothing, many distracting thoughts arise in the heart. Only by focusing attention on a single thought, such as one's life belief or channeling one's soul power for cultivation, can one obtain a moment of peace.

The latter is more difficult.

This requires great perseverance to sort out one's many complex and numerous concepts, ideas, thoughts, and beliefs, arrange them in order, build a system, and form a final whole.

Just like the practice of the inner vision system, it is based on building a complete system based on the human body's meridians.

Similarly, the same applies to spiritual beliefs.

But why is it more difficult?
Because human thoughts are countless, fluctuating and changing with external things, a thousand thoughts can arise in an instant and a thousand thoughts can vanish in a moment.

In such circumstances, sorting out one's numerous beliefs and ideas is not something that can be done overnight, but rather something that requires constant handling, planning, and change throughout one's life.

This embodies the philosophy of "struggling with oneself brings endless joy."

After learning about these two methods from Zhou Qing, Qian Renxue felt she couldn't afford to lose to him, but reason told her—

To organize one's numerous ideas, beliefs, and thoughts into a cohesive whole, while constantly adapting to external changes, it is essential to maintain the core framework of this overall ideology while keeping pace with the times and continuously moving forward...

This is a road with no end!
What kind of power is a road that has no end?

Therefore, Qian Renxue made up her mind: choose the second option.

Besides the fact that she was certain that only by taking this path of sorting out her beliefs could she catch up with Zhou Qing, it was also because as a proud person, how could she not rise to the challenge?

This is not like her at all!

I hope you succeed.

Seeing that she chose the second option, Zhou Qing was not surprised and offered her sincere encouragement.

If she succeeds, there will surely be one more like-minded person in this world.

Since Qian Renxue has chosen this path, Bibi Dong naturally wouldn't choose the first one either.

To be honest, compared to Qian Renxue, she is the one with truly confused beliefs.

In the first half of her life, she was lively and innocent, but her first encounter with Yu Xiaogang ruined her life, and her second encounter with Qian Xunji led her to become obsessed...

It wasn't until by a twist of fate, through Zhou Qing's influence, that she obtained three Rakshasa bodies, freeing her from resentment and hatred and restoring clarity to her soul.

But now that she has officially regained her clarity of mind, her thoughts are even more complex than Qian Renxue's. All her subsequent actions are aimed at escaping the fate she believes has been arranged by the gods of the divine realm.

But now the connection between the God Realm and Douluo Star has been severed—

Has she escaped her fate?
Establishing the Martial Soul Empire, uniting faith, and elevating the Rakshasa God's position to the God-King level... Is this truly what she desires in her heart?
Therefore, it will only be more difficult for Bibi Dong to unify her numerous thoughts.

After all, as the emperor of the Spirit Empire, her experiences in the first half of her life could only be described as things she had come to terms with, not something she had fully confronted. Meanwhile, the numerous troubles, problems, and chaos within the Spirit Empire kept her incredibly busy…

It was only after she allowed the Red Society to enter the country and open a branch to assist the Spirit Hall in its management that things became somewhat stable.

After her visit to Chihua, she planned to hand over everything to Hu Liena, while she and Qian Renxue would focus on their breakthroughs.

Upon learning of this idea, Zhou Qing did not recommend it.

"Why?"

Bibi Dong had no suspicions. After all, with Zhou Qing's abilities, why would he need to scheme? Erasing her and Qian Renxue would be an easy task, if not a simple one.

Qian Renxue said, "I already know about my mother's past... She and I have been completely open with each other. Why not recommend that you go into seclusion to truly confront your inner self and break through to level 100?"

Are you feeling lost?

Ignoring Qian Renxue, Zhou Qing looked directly at Bibi Dong and asked calmly.

"confused?"

Bibi Dong pondered for a while, then nodded slightly. "Yes. To be honest, ever since I obtained the Rakshasa Dharma Body, I've been confused. I'm not really sure what I'm doing. Maybe I just don't want all my previous efforts to go to waste... Do you have any suggestions?"

My suggestion is just one thing—

Zhou Qing smiled and said, "If you want to face your inner self and your confusion, then be confused. Go out and experience life in different social strata."

You might feel even more confused, but—

Even in confusion, ethics must exist.

Bibi Dong repeated the sentence, as if she had realized something, but hesitated, unsure of what to say.

"The way you are only proving that you lack life experience," Zhou Qing said with a smile.

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

After making peace with Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue showed a tendency to protect her mother. She glared at Zhou Qing and said, "My mother's experiences are indeed not as exciting as yours and your companions', but she has also read extensively, ventured into the City of Slaughter, served as Pope for many years, and is now the Empress of a country!"

Bibi Dong's lips involuntarily curved into a smile, but it vanished in an instant and was not seen by Qian Renxue.

"Reading widely only means reading books in the Papal Palace. In such a place, there are no comic books or storybooks written by ordinary people, right? No, it's just self-admiration, or being all talk and no action. There is a very complex distance between theory and practice."

"The Killing City, a city filled with the corrupt, where the only experiences one can have are killing and corruption."

"Having been the Pope for many years—based on the rumors about the Papal Palace in Wuhun City: normally, except for specific matters, only the Pope resides and cultivates there... Forgive my bluntness, but for someone to spend most of their time cultivating in a palace, at most the scope of which extends to the entire Wuhun Mountain, it really makes one wonder what kind of life experience the person living there has."

Zhou Qing shook his head. "Looking at people from a high place for too long, or spending too much time alone, will naturally give rise to a sense of loneliness. It's useless except for self-admiration."

Although Soul Masters are revered for their strength, I believe that His Majesty and the Princess also agree with the Red Society's philosophy: aside from strength, Soul Masters are not much different from ordinary people in terms of wisdom. At most, it is because people at the bottom do not have access to learning opportunities that they appear short-sighted and ignorant compared to nobles and Soul Master families who control knowledge.

To put it bluntly, I think most Soul Masters in the Soul Master world, because they control power, don't actually think about using their brains, making them much dumber than ordinary people.

Qian Renxue seemed to be deep in thought.

Bibi Dong, however, seemed to understand the implied meaning and asked, "Does this so-called 'most Soul Masters' include me?"

"I didn't say that."

Zhou Qing grinned, looking completely unconcerned.

Qian Renxue laughed in anger.

no doubt!

Including her mother!
Since even Bibi Dong is within the scope of "most Soul Masters", then Qian Renxue is naturally included as well!

What an arrogant kid!

(End of this chapter)