pappabearbooks #273 - The war that swept the world! The laws of heaven must punish without teaching!
#273 - The war that swept the world! The laws of heaven must punish without teaching!
The representatives of the Five Great Benevolent Ones, of course, were well aware that the so-called public opinion, although indeed manipulable, had long shown signs of human shortsightedness.
Like after the Second World War, the once-powerful John Bull fell from its hegemonic position under the sway of public opinion.
Of course, it's undeniable that John Bull's plummet, from the throne of world hegemony to its current status as a mere lackey of the United States, was aided and abetted by the United States and the Soviet Bear.
But the internal subversion of John Bull by public opinion, abandoning centuries of overseas territories, was undoubtedly the real culprit behind John Bull's downfall.
Nowadays, everyone knows that the essence of public opinion is manipulable.
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And the masses are even more foolish and blind.
But this doesn't mean that the Five Great Benevolent Ones can really ignore public opinion.
Unlike the current Luo Fu, who actually uses a country to kill the chicken to warn the monkey.
If Luo Fu really used the Japanese chicken to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, wouldn't the other countries be in an uproar?
Unless…
Unless the Five Great Benevolent Ones openly admit defeat, but if that happens, even their own position will be challenged.
Just as the representatives of the Five Great Benevolent Ones were hesitating.
Luo Fu seemed to have guessed their predicament. He glanced at the representatives and said, "Let's go! This time, I will personally show you what will happen to those who stubbornly resist when the direction of human civilization changes."
As soon as he finished speaking, Luo Fu directly swept up the representatives of the Five Great Benevolent Ones and the representatives of various alien sects and families in the Divine Might Grotto, and brought them all to the sky above Honshu Island, Japan, which was already in complete chaos.
Looking down from above, overlooking Tokyo below.
At this moment, the surroundings of Tokyo have clearly turned into a turbulent ocean.
Around the three four-pillar arches that Luo Fu built to enter and exit the Divine Might Grotto, there are even more so-called rioters gathered.
These Japanese people are now clearly divided into several camps.
Some are bewitched by cultists; some still firmly believe that there is no transcendent power and that this is a scam; some are fanatically trying to cross the arch and enter the Divine Might Grotto; and some are attacking the arch in a frenzy, throwing stones, Molotov cocktails, etc.…
In short, Tokyo at this moment is a scene of demons dancing wildly, and even the dark side of human nature has begun to stage the female ninja plot of Matou Society in the corners of this city.
In an instant, the stars shifted.
At this moment, the sky above the arch is clearly gathered with representatives from major alien organizations and the Five Great Benevolent Ones.
Looking down, when they saw the chaos in Tokyo.
Even though all of this was inevitably fueled by the Five Great Benevolent Ones, planning behind the scenes is one thing, and seeing it with your own eyes is another.
"This… this is Japan? How could it be like this?" Zhang Chulan, as the Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, should not have appeared here in the first place.
After all, the Old Celestial Master Zhang Zhiwei passed away at the San Yi Sect, and Zhang Chulan, as the successor, should be stationed at Mount Longhu.
However, due to the sudden appearance of Luo Fu, the situation of aliens is facing unprecedented huge changes.
Luo Fu is the core of the future of the alien world and the entire human civilization.
In addition, as the new Celestial Master of the Celestial Master's Mansion of Mount Longhu, even if many disciples do not recognize Zhang Chulan, in the situation where Zhang Chulan has inherited the Celestial Master Degree, even if it is only out of respect for Zhang Zhiwei, people like Zhang Zhiwei's disciples are also trying their best to maintain the normal operation of the Celestial Master's Mansion.
It is not necessarily necessary for Zhang Chulan to be stationed there in person.
This is why Zhang Chulan has enough time to stay in the Divine Might Grotto, and it is also why he is now brought here by Luo Fu along with the leaders of other alien sects and family forces.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Chulan quickly realized that he had asked an incredibly stupid question.
May I ask, who else besides Luo Fu could have created such a big scene under his feet?
Even the Five Great Benevolent Ones, or even the master of Japan, would not be able to plunge Japan into such chaos in such a short period of time.
Besides Luo Fu, there can be no one else.
In an instant, looking at Luo Fu with an unbelievable look, Zhang Chulan said with a trembling voice: "Tiger… Great Luo Immortal, you…"
No one can understand how shocked Zhang Chulan's heart is at this moment.
Although Zhang Chulan himself is indeed deep-minded, and even often shows a look of 'a dead friend is better than a poor Taoist'.
But as a normal person who has received education from the ancient Eastern country, even if he has historical baggage of hatred for Japan in his heart, when he sees the picture under his feet, Zhang Chulan still has a feeling of compassion.
This has nothing to do with anything else, it is just the empathy ability of human beings.
Even the old guys who participated in the war back then were a little complicated in their hearts when they saw the riots under their feet.
In addition to the joy of revenge, there is also a bit of empathy.
And the only one who can speak, dare to speak, and even has the qualification to speak, is probably only Lu Jin, whose relationship with Luo Fu is extremely complicated.
Who made Lu Jin not only Luo Fu's teaching teacher when he entered the alien world, but also Luo Fu's wife Lu Linglong's great-grandfather?
It can be said that, except for Lu Jin, now anyone who has seen the scene under their feet has an extremely strong anxiety about persuading Luo Fu.
It is also Luo Fu himself, although like Zhang Chulan, he received a complete education from the ancient Eastern country, but what Luo Fu from other worlds brought him, in addition to the improvement in qualifications, understanding, abilities, knowledge, etc., the key is in the vision.
Not to mention anything else, the chaos in the ninja world is well known, and all kinds of things that break the bottom line are completely commonplace in the ninja world. The scene similar to the scene under his feet is just that the scale is not so large.
The ghost world is also not to be outdone. Who made the ghost Luo Fu see too many tragedies in his thousands of years of memory? Compared with everything that the ghost Luo Fu has seen, the scene under his feet is just a little insignificant movement.
Marvel, Qin Shi, Death, and even the Super God Universe have all made Luo Fu truly understand some truths. Order is not absolute, and once order is lost, the lower limit that the human species can show is simply lower than normal people can imagine.
Luo Fu glanced at Lu Jin, and his eyes swept over the aliens and the representatives of the Five Great Benevolent Ones with complex expressions.
He said lightly, "I just gave them a hope of pursuing individual evolution, but do you think that everything in front of you is led by me?"
Although the representatives of the Five Great Benevolent Ones looked serious and innocent, they knew in their hearts that Japan would become like the hell on earth in front of them.
Although it is indeed inseparable from the reason that Luo Fu opened a door to the Divine Might Grotto in Tokyo.
But more of it is actually from the temptation of the Five Great Benevolent Ones.
Not to mention anything else, among the many forces under his feet that have become a pot of porridge, whether it is the cult leader, or those who insist on the scientific development of mankind, or those who simply reject and embrace the future of individual evolution, more than 80% of them are inseparable from the promotion of the Five Great Benevolent Ones behind the scenes.
To put it bluntly, among these diverse organizations, I don't know how many are simply led by the Five Great Benevolent Ones behind the scenes.
Not to mention the United States, John Bull, Gaul Rooster, and Soviet Bear, even the ancient Eastern country is not as innocent as it seems on the surface. At most, the organizations directly or indirectly manipulated by the ancient Eastern country are currently performing relatively higher bottom lines.
"Your Majesty." The US representative said in a deep voice: "We cannot allow the situation to continue to deteriorate. As civilized countries, we must ensure the safety of life and property of ordinary Japanese people, whether they choose to pursue the power of individual evolution according to Your Majesty's wishes, or just want to be ordinary people, we must now end this chaos and return everything to order."
"End?" Luo Fu said with a smile: "It's very simple, after all, as long as the source of the chaos is eliminated, then the rest of the people can naturally return to order again."
Just as Luo Fu's voice fell, an invisible force, under the eyes of everyone, enveloped the entire Tokyo, and with Tokyo as the core, spread towards the entire Honshu Island and even the entire Four Islands.
At this moment, those who are paying attention to the situation in Japan and Tokyo under their feet are not only Luo Fu and others standing in the air.
Don't forget, although Luo Fu killed the Allied Forces government before, he didn't destroy those spy satellites.
Even many communication satellites for commercial purposes were not destroyed by Luo Fu.
Across the skies of Japan, countless satellites worldwide were fixed, observing everything that unfolded.
Numerous news reporters and independent media outlets, driven by either a sense of justice or mere pursuit of fame and fortune, broadcasted the chaos in Japan to the world in near real-time.
Since Japan was to be made an example of, Luo Fu naturally intended to maximize the impact of his actions.
How could the monkeys be truly intimidated if they didn't witness how the chicken died?
Once the power had enveloped the entirety of Japan, Luo Fu finally initiated actions that sent shivers down countless spines. The horrifying scene, akin to special effects, was perfectly displayed before the eyes of over half the world's population in an instant.
Visibly, with the three-bay four-pillar archway created by Luo Fu as the epicenter, everyone who opposed, antagonized, or resisted the archway, except for those who wholeheartedly embraced the new era and defended it, began to turn into swirling ashes under an invisible force.
This process wasn't instantaneous but spread from the archway and Tokyo towards the entire Honshu island and then to the other four islands.
More crucially, the process of a living person turning into ashes wasn't a painless instant. Instead, it crept upwards from the feet, bit by bit. From start to finish, the entire process lasted approximately thirty seconds.
This terrified countless people even more.
After all, merely witnessing a living person gradually turn into ashes from the feet up was enough to subvert one's understanding and send chills down the spine.
Moreover, this process was accompanied by the victims' reactions, some wailing, some resentful, and even some driven to madness.
The whole world fell into an unprecedented silence at that moment.
More than half of the Earth's population seemed to have been muted.
They stared blankly at everything happening in Japan, yet were slow to react.
"Are… are you crazy?" Wang Ye widened his eyes, looking at Luo Fu in disbelief. "Do you know what you're doing? Those… those are people!"
"Old Wang," Zhang Chulan hurriedly tugged at the agitated Wang Ye.
Without a doubt, the greatest shock was felt by the younger generation of these superhumans.
Among them, the Buddhist and Taoist schools were the most prominent.
Ignoring Wang Ye's frenzy, Luo Fu's gaze swept over the leaders of the various superhuman sects and families present. He said, "The new era requires sacrifices to be realized. To achieve our goals in the shortest amount of time, necessary sacrifices are unavoidable. Everything happening now is merely a prelude to the arrival of the new era!"
"Prelude?" Wang Ye's face turned pale as he trembled, "How many more people… how many more people are you going to kill?"
It wasn't that Wang Ye had any affection for Japan, but as a human being, watching countless members of his own species being annihilated by Luo Fu's power in an instant was a visual and mental shock that was beyond words.
The superhumans, whether because of Luo Fu's power or other reasons, remained silent but couldn't truly understand Luo Fu's actions.
On the contrary, the representatives of the Five Virtuous and their superiors behind the scenes were better able to comprehend and understand the necessity of Luo Fu's actions.
Moreover, the Five Virtuous were also partly to blame for Japan's current plight. After all, eighty percent of the dissenters instantly annihilated by Luo Fu were led by the Five Virtuous.
It could be said that through this demonstration of killing the chicken to scare the monkeys in Japan, the whole world had been completely silenced.
In Luo Fu's combination of grace and power, the stage of divine might like a prison had been completed. Next was the process of vigorously promoting the Three Realms Nine Heavens system and completing the divine grace like the sea.
It was certain that as more and more people embarked on the Three Realms Nine Heavens system, they would become Luo Fu's most steadfast supporters, even for their own benefit. This support would transcend ethnicity and nation.
After all, the Three Realms Nine Heavens system created by Luo Fu was a path that allowed individual life to evolve step by step, ultimately enabling mortals to master the great power of gods and demons.
Before the eyes of countless people around the globe, countless people in Japan were instantly annihilated by Luo Fu's power.
According to post-event statistics, not counting indirect deaths, the number of people who died directly at Luo Fu's hands in the chaos that erupted in Japan reached nearly forty million.
It could be said that one-third of Japan's population was directly obliterated by Luo Fu.
This number was nearly three times the total deaths of World War I and exceeded half the deaths of World War II.
Such terrifying violence, however, silenced the entire world.
Whether it was the Five Virtuous or other countries, they seemed to subconsciously ignore Japan's existence, as if they had completely forgotten what had happened in Japan in a short period of time.
Leaving aside those technologically backward countries, from the Five Virtuous to the various nations, everyone was frantically promoting the spread of the Three Realms Nine Heavens system.
The existence of superhumans was completely revealed to the world.
Of course, there would inevitably be some resistance, or people who couldn't accept the new era, but these people were destined to be crushed into dust by the rolling wheels of the new era.
Even some disturbances, such as human rights organizations, were suppressed by various countries before they even surfaced.
Although Luo Fu was aware of this, he didn't intervene. After all, everything was to promote the arrival of the new era led by Luo Fu.
Compared to the future of human individual evolution, sacrifices in the process were unavoidable.
If Luo Fu hadn't decisively used one-third of Japan's population as a price to severely deter all of humanity, forcing the Five Virtuous and various countries to fully cooperate, the population sacrificed in the process would have been several times the number in Japan.
It was like Emperor Qin unifying the six kingdoms. Although it triggered wars that swept the world, this process was only a temporary pain. Compared to continuous warfare, temporary pain was the best choice.
At most, it was a huge deterrent, seemingly causing great casualties, but in reality, the two were not on the same level at all.
The new era was slowly but irresistibly sweeping in.
Those who benefited first were undoubtedly the ancient Eastern country and the superhumans of various countries around it who had been influenced for thousands of years.
After all, the Three Realms Nine Heavens system was culturally and conceptually in line with the culture of the ancient Eastern country.
This alignment inevitably had a significant impact on other European and American countries, but this was unavoidable.
As time passed, the entire world seemed to have been forcibly turned around in its direction of development.
Portals to the Divine Might Grotto-Heaven were constantly being established in various countries.
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However, these portals to the Divine Might Grotto-Heaven were not all the same in shape.
For example, the first Grotto-Heaven portal built in Japan was in the form of a three-bay four-pillar structure, while the Grotto-Heaven portals built in the homelands of the Five Virtuous were in the form of five-bay six-pillar structures. Those countries with sparse populations and underdeveloped economies had one-bay two-pillar structures.
These three different forms were also divided by Luo Fu according to the current situation.
Unlike the technology system, which requires national development, the individual evolution system, once a strong person appears, can instantly make a weak country a powerful country.
After the riots in Japan, in just a few months, the entire world began to develop in a cyberpunk direction.
Whether in the ancient Eastern country or other countries, parks and other places were filled with people practicing various techniques.
This was especially common in the East.
Inside a villa in Beijing.
"Wang Ye, what are you thinking?"
Inside the villa, a couple looked at Wang Ye, who looked haggard and unkempt, with worried expressions.
"Me?" Wang Ye gave a wry smile and said, "Do I still have that qualification now? What am I now? What is the tide of the times?"
"You…" Wang Weiguo frowned and said, "You were once a disciple of the Wudang sect, and you also learned some kind of Eight Wonders, didn't you? The times are different now. You should have a better future, so why… why are you so depressed?"
"You don't understand," Wang Ye shook his head. "The world shouldn't be like this."
During this period, Wang Weiguo also noticed that something was wrong with his son's condition.
But he never knew what had happened to his son.
He only knew that Wang Ye seemed to have suffered some kind of blow after experiencing the previous riots in Japan.
Before, Wang Weiguo thought that Wang Ye was mentally traumatized after seeing one-third of Japan's population, nearly forty million people, being instantly obliterated.
But afterwards, Wang Weiguo realized that what truly made Wang Ye so depressed was not the death of forty million people itself, but the impact this event had, which seemed to have caused a devastating blow to Wang Ye's own understanding and values.
This made Wang Weiguo not know how to persuade his son.
After all, despite Wang Ye's seemingly carefree attitude on weekdays, he was actually a very intelligent person.
Putting aside other things, from the time he had the idea of entering the mountains to seek the Dao in high school, Wang Ye relied on his hard work to get into Tsinghua University in order to formally join Wudang Mountain. It can be said that even if family background and other reasons were put aside, Wang Ye's talent alone would still make him an outstanding minority in ordinary society.
Such a person's cognition is not so easily influenced by the outside world.
From aspiring to study Taoism at Wudang Mountain in high school, Wang Ye never gave up his ideal for several years, until he finally persuaded Wang Weiguo to agree after studying at Tsinghua University for three years.
"Xiao Ye, what exactly are you thinking?" Wang Weiguo said distressedly, "Now this society has begun to develop in the direction of individual evolution. The former order will inevitably be completely changed. You clearly wanted to enter Wudang Mountain to study Taoism before, so why now..."
"You don't understand," Wang Ye still said this sentence that drove Wang Weiguo crazy.
Wang Weiguo was immediately furious in his heart: "I don't understand? I only know that under the torrent of the times, ordinary people can only obey the development of the times. Although it is said that times create heroes, heroes are so powerful to a certain extent that they can in turn create the times, just like that Great Luo Immortal. If you don't have that ability, you can only accept the sweeping of the torrent of the times. Look at what you look like now, giving up on yourself."
Wang Ye smiled bitterly, but he didn't mean to refute at all.
In fact, Wang Weiguo didn't know at all what kind of blow Wang Ye's heart had suffered during the previous riots of the 'Jiaopeng Chicken'.
More importantly, in order to figure out what kind of impact Luo Fu would have on the future, he had previously worked with Zhuge Qing.
The two of them spared no expense to divination Luo Fu in the inner scene.
Regardless of the results of their divination, this process alone cost Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing a heavy price.
This price is still unrecoverable even now that the Three Realms Nine Heavens system has been widely spread.
What really made Wang Ye so depressed was precisely because of this.
He and Zhuge went to divination and paid such a high price, but the result was that it had no impact on this world at all.
No.
To be precise, their actions have instead made this world even more unacceptable than the results divined by him and Zhuge Qing.
This sense of powerlessness is the real culprit that completely depressed Wang Ye.
Wang Weiguo and his wife saw Wang Ye always looking like he was giving up.
Helpless, the couple had to temporarily put aside the idea of personally persuading him.
Only after leaving Wang Ye's room.
Wang Weiguo quickly chose to contact Wudang Mountain.
Although he was very concerned about his son, Wang Weiguo was just an ordinary person even now that the new era has begun. The real beneficiaries of the Three Realms Nine Heavens system will only be the earliest aliens and the new generation.
Wudang Mountain did not disappoint Wang Weiguo either.
After learning about Wang Ye's situation, after personally persuading him to no avail, they also specially contacted Zhang Chulan, the new Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain.
Unfortunately, Wang Ye, who was disheartened, did not have any effect even with Zhang Chulan's persuasion.
Before, because of the inheritors of the Eight Wonders, Wang Ye and Zhang Chulan and others had forged a deep friendship, but with the sudden appearance of Luo Fu, the Eight Wonders, the culprit that caused the Jia Shen Rebellion in the first place, hardly caused much waves, and was suppressed by the appearance of Luo Fu, the immortal in the world.
Although the Eight Wonders are mysterious, how can they compare to the temptation to truly master the power of gods and demons?
And when the Three Realms Nine Heavens system appeared, the Eight Wonders completely fell from the altar.
In the final analysis, the Eight Wonders are just a special application of innate Qi. Before, it may have been coveted.
But now, like a formula, it can be applied to any alien inheritance system, and even innate abilities can be evolved into mysterious inheritances according to the Three Realms Nine Heavens system.
In this case, the status of the Eight Wonders has become increasingly insignificant.
This naturally caused the relationship between Wang Ye, Zhang Chulan and other inheritors of the Eight Wonders to gradually become estranged.
It's like close friends in student days. After entering society, except for a very few, most of them will slowly lose their former intimacy with the passage of time.
It's just that under the great changes of the times, the speed of this process between the inheritors of the Eight Wonders is faster.
Even Zhang Chulan still failed to enlighten Wang Ye.
In the end, Luo Fu, who was eager to move, after learning about Wang Ye's situation, understood the reason for Wang Ye's depression in just a short moment.
On the one hand, it is the powerlessness towards the individual evolution initiated by Luo Fu, and on the other hand, it is Wang Ye's inner guilt.
In Wang Ye's view, the reason why the current situation has been created is that his and Zhuge Qing's insistence on calculating Luo Fu's future in the inner scene, even if it is not the culprit, is also one of the promoters.
It just so happened that during this period of time, Luo Fu was preparing to travel around the world to see the current changes in this world. After learning about Wang Ye's affairs, he simply chose the capital of the ancient Eastern country as his first stop.
Inside the villa.
Wang Ye, who was lying motionless on the bed, was clearly a young man, but the innate Qi gave people the feeling like a dying old man who was not long for this world.
Feeling that there was suddenly one more person in the room.
Wang Ye looked blankly at the ceiling and said, "I've said, leave me alone, I'm now..."
His voice suddenly stopped, and Wang Ye subconsciously looked at the person who appeared in the room.
When he saw Luo Fu, Wang Ye's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he sat up in a flip.
"The Immortal is actually interested in coming to my place? Could it be that he wants to see how embarrassed I, a failure, am?"
Luo Fu smiled indifferently when he heard the words: "You overestimate yourself!"
With a frustrated smile, Wang Ye said: "That's true, Xiaodao is now not qualified to have the Immortal come here specially."
"Are you resisting?" Luo Fu said with interest: "You are full of resistance to the new era. Do you think that humans should not pursue individual evolution?"
Wang Ye smiled bitterly and said: "Immortal, is it interesting to dig this kind of pit for me?"
Wang Ye's answer to this question is wrong no matter how he answers.
If he answers that it is right for humans to pursue individual evolution, then his current reaction cannot be explained at all, but if he thinks that humans should not pursue individual evolution, then he himself is still the inheritor of the Eight Wonders Feng Hou Qi Men.
"It seems that your brain is still working." Luo Fu smiled and said, "Let's go! Accompany me to walk around this world. You don't have much time left now. Before leaving this world, you might as well take a good look at this brand new era."
After a moment of hesitation, Wang Dao: "Since the Immortal has personally invited me, how dare Xiaodao not follow."
At the moment when Wang Ye's voice fell, accompanied by an invisible spatial fluctuation swept past.
Luo Fu and Wang Ye's figures suddenly disappeared into the room.
A fleeting glance, Luo Fu's spatial ability allowed him and Wang Ye to travel through half of the ancient Eastern country in a short period of time.
The scenes that the two saw along the way not only had the scene of all things competing and full of vitality after the arrival of the new era, but also lacked some situations where ordinary people were bullied by those who took the lead on the road of individual evolution.
After seeing another alien who relied on his own strength to act recklessly, Luo Fu said to Wang Ye with interest: "How is it? After seeing so much, how do you feel?"
"Feel?" Wang Ye smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "Is this what the Immortal wants me to see? Your Heavenly Laws don't seem to have any binding effect?"
"No!" Luo Fu shook his head and said: "You are wrong. This is the result under the restraint of the Heavenly Laws. Otherwise, do you think the current society would be so stable?"
"You call this stable?" Wang Ye widened his eyes and pointed in astonishment at the alien not far away who was showing obvious evil deeds.
"The Heavenly Laws cannot restrain people's hearts." Luo Fu said: "More importantly, the Heavenly Laws cannot punish without teaching."
Wang Ye's heart moved and said: "I'm afraid it's more than that, right?"