Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“You seem to be ina lot of pain. Is it really okay?”

Li Yao probed carefully, “What did you mean when you mentioned ‘do you know that you are being controlled’ in the meeting just now?

“Also, when I was searching for the files of ‘Black Wind King Li Yao’ and the damage he caused on Black Castle, I found some unusual intelligence. Holy Light Academy, Chu Zhiling, Chu Zhiyun… They seem to be related to the major. Do you know anything about them?”

Chu Zhixiao was silent. He almost smoked a cigarette before he put it out.

She jumped off the window and kneeled in front of Li Yao, observing him carefully.

Li Yao suddenly became nervous, thinking that he had exposed something.

“The memory module is seriously damaged.”

Chu Zhixiao asked, “Have you forgotten everything that I explained to you?”

Li Yao was somewhat relieved. He said, “I don’t know what the major meant. But I do feel that everybody in the yaksha squad, including the major, is in great pain, as if somebody bullied you, and that somebody is not the puppet king.

“You must’ve stayed in the Holy Light Academy before, didn’t you, Major? It seems that the place is not as simple as raising ‘Purifiers’. Has anybody ever bullied you there? Hehe. I will protect you. You will not be bullied by bad guys!”

Chu Zhixiao was dazed for a long time, with a bitter smile on his face.

“Thank you, Red Pig.”

She stuck her forehead to the cold shell of the spider tank and said softly, “You are still the same as before. Every time your memory chip is seriously damaged in a fierce battle, you ask the same question, and you cannot wait to protect me.

“It’s true that a lot of things happened to me in the Holy Light Institute, and I may have experienced some pain, but… I’ve forgotten most of them. No bad guys bullied me on purpose.

“Tdon’t understand.”

Li Yao asked, “If no bad guys bullied you, why are you in so much pain?”

“There are some things that are hard to explain to you.

Looking at his twisted self reflected in the shell of the spider tank that was as smooth as a mirror, Chu Zhixiao said in a daze, “We live in a world of smoke and evilness. In this world, order is the most important thing, Only absolute order can allow everyone to live in peace and harmony.

“And in order to defend the precious peace and harmony, in order to prevent the sacred order from being destroyed by the evil doctrines, some people had to stand up, endure the greatest pain, pay the greatest sacrifices, receive the blessings of the gods, and become the first and last line of defense in the

darkness, fighting against the unimaginable devils. This is my duty and my destiny. Do you understand?”

“I don’t know.”

Li Yao asked, “But why does it have to be a major?”

“If it was not me, then who was it?

Chu Zhixiao smiled and said, “In fact, there’s no ‘should’ who it is. If I didn’t have to bear the pain, there would be a second person, maybe my brothers and sisters. If nobody could bear the pain and nobody was willing to fight for order, the sacred order would collapse. The orderly ‘soldiers’ and ‘workers’

would turn into ‘disillusioners’, ‘fanatics’, and ‘ghouls’. Such a world would be a hundred times worse than it is right now!

“Therefore, since it was my destiny, however painful and difficult it was, I could only grit my teeth and carry on. I could not shift the responsibility to the next ‘Slaughter Goddess’. That was all.

“AR”

Li Yao’s heart was beating fast, and he did not know what to say. “It turns out that the major knows everything about your past. I thought that you had forgotten a lot of things and even yourself!”

“No. I remember clearly that I went through a lot of ‘purification’ and erased a lot of my memories.

Chu Zhixiao pointed at his temples and said, “Did you know that the human brain has the function of erasing memories regularly? Most people will forget 99% of their life. It is a certain… self-protection mechanism of the soul. Nobody can move forward with every second of the past on their back. Those

who suffer from ‘hyperthymesia’ and remember everything clearly are living in excruciating pain like the deepest hell.

“For special professionals such as myself, it’s not a bad thing to erase my memories regularly. I know who I am and what my destiny is. I know that countless people are living in peace because of my sacrifice. That’s enough for me.

“Major…”

Li Yao had no idea how he was going to convince such a man.

It did make sense now that he thought about it. The two negative examples in front of Chu Zhixiao were neither the methods of the puppet king nor those of the Imperium of True Human Beings. Compared to the dark and evil forces, the ‘peace, harmony, and order’ of the Sanctuary was not that bad!

He had to ignite the fire of hope in his heart with a brighter, more brilliant, and more beautiful dream nation—the nation of Cultivators!

“If only there was a country where everyone was free and happy without demons and evil spirits.

Li Yao said on purpose, “If you could live in such a country without so many terrible responsibilities, you would be happier than right now!”

Chu Zhixiao smiled and made a gesture. She activated her crystal processor and drew a complicated rune in the air before she retrieved a new document and inputted it into the mainframe crystal processor of the spider tank.

“Such an ideal nation does exist. It is the nation of Cultivators.”

Chu Zhixiao said in a low voice, “However, such a beautiful country can only exist in one’s dreams. If it is implemented, disasters will only occur on a larger scale.

‘Country of Cultivators’ chilled Li Yao’s soul.

He had thought that his identity had been exposed, or that the Star Glory Federation had been discovered.

However, after reading the files sent by Chu Zhixiao carefully, he discovered that the ‘country of Cultivators’ that Chu Zhixiao mentioned had nothing to do with the Star Glory Federation at all.

The document recorded a project named ‘Eternal Brightness’.

It was… something that Li Yao could not describe. He could only call it ‘human experiment.

The Holy Alliance was more inclined to the ‘civilization of starships’ than the imperium or the federation. Many ignorant ‘soldiers’ and ‘worker bees’ lived on one starship for the rest of their lives. The sealed starship was their entire world. As long as their memories were erased from the first generation

and false information was sent in from the outside, they could be fooled into whatever environment and history they wanted.

Therefore, other than warships, carriers, and mining starships, there were almost a hundred such unique ‘experimental ships’ in the fleet of the Sanctuary Alliance. They had been sailing in the sea of stars for hundreds of years and set various ‘initial conditions’ to observe how the human beings on board

evolved their tiny ‘starship civilization’.

For example, some of the experiment starships would guide them to the edge of the Pangu Universe where there were no human beings or resources. They would observe what the people on the starships would do when they had no other options.

There were also some experimental starships that maintained 50% of the minimum resources and conducted research on the living conditions of human beings when resources were scarce.

For some other starships, the resources were supplied normally, but the ratio of crew members was 100 to 1, or 1 to 100. They were testing the evolution of human society in cases of extreme gender imbalance.

Another very interesting experiment was ‘Single Armageddon Warship’. All the crew members who boarded the starship were captives of the Star Ocean Imperium. After they were brainwashed, they believed that the Imperium of True Human Beings had been completely crushed by the Covenant Alliance

and that the Sanctuary Alliance had occupied the entire Pangu Universe. They were the ‘last hope of the civilization of mankind’.

The ‘Last Hope’ was drifting in the sea of stars. Occasionally, it would arrange some starships of the Sanctuary Alliance for them to ‘crush’ so that they would have enough resources to survive.

The ‘Lone Armageddon Warship’ project had been carried out for more than 370 years. The first batch of brainwashed captives of the Star Ocean Imperium had been killed a long time ago. Right now, most of the crew members were fourth-generation or fifth-generation successors. They had no doubt that

they were the ‘last members of the Star Ocean Imperium’ and that they were resisting tenaciously for the dignity of the civilization of mankind. As a result, countless soul-stirring and bizarre stories were told, which were then translated into a lot of complicated experimental data and transmitted to the

brains of the five great sages through the Fuxi System. As for their purpose, Li Yao had no idea.

The ‘Eternal Brightness’ project was similar to the ‘Single Armageddon Warship’ project.

‘When the first batch of brainwashed experiment subjects boarded the super-large starship ‘Eternal Brightness’, they were told that they came from a bright and beautiful nation of Cultivators. All the habitable planets outside were annihilated in a devastating war. Even the boundless sea of stars was filled

with all kinds of fatal radiation and storms. Only the interior of ‘Eternal Brightness’ was safe. Besides, their ancestors had brought a lot of resources and recycling facilities when they boarded the starship, which gave them endless resources.

Under the nourishment of inexhaustible and inexhaustible resources, ‘Eternal Brightness’ tumed into a perfect paradise. Everyone on board did not need to worry about survival. Everyone was fostered with a positive and righteous personality. Naturally, many cultivators were born with pure hearts and no

flaws. The great path of cultivation was the mainstream of society. There was barely any division of status and class. There were also very few contradictions and struggles. Everyone lived happily together, as if they were living in… an illusory dream.

The purpose of the experiment was probably to find out how many resources it would consume to maintain a nation of Cultivators that was perfect in theory, and whether or not such a beautiful nation of Cultivators had the ability to perfect itself and dig out the potential of human beings..