“Very good, full of spirit.”
Lu Bai nodded satisfiedly and smiled, “It’s not ideal to punish without teaching. Don’t be hasty yet.”
“Yes!”
The Grand Elder wearing a loose Daoist Robe had a resolute gaze, retreated one step, and raised his head to roar: “Loyal! Honest!”
The Integration Stage Great Powers standing behind him also mustered their strength at the sa ti and followed the Third Supre Elder in speaking.
In an instant, the sound of loyalty echoed throughout the mountain gate.
On the other side of the plaza, Yu Xu Zi and the other several Qingwang Sect Elders stood together, all with dazed expressions.
They had personally witnessed these renowned senior experts transform rapidly from arrogant and self-conceited to their current hard-to-describe state in just half a month.
Wang the Gambler opened his mouth, seemingly with so toothache, and said, “This is truly… loyalty beyond words.”
Hearing this, Yu Xu Zi’s mouth twitched, completely at a loss for words.
With them like this, the surviving disciples of Qingwang Sect found it even harder to keep composed, feeling that the filter on senior experts had shattered all over the ground.
Lu Bai didn’t mind this, and presumably these senior experts wouldn’t dare to mind either.
He withdrew his scrutinizing gaze, stood up, and looked up at the sky.
[Ink Black] activated silently.
The next second, light was blocked, and Darkness Descends.
The sky over the entire Xuanzhou was instantly dyed pitch black.
Before people everywhere could panic over this change of circumstance, the darkness receded, and the sky shone bright again.
But in the azure sky, a striking line of text was left behind.
[Fellow Immortal Sect Spokespersons, I am Lu Bai, waiting for you at Qingwang Sect.]
Below it was a slightly smaller line of black text.
[Those not arriving after sunset today will bear the consequences themselves.]
This scene was visible not only to cultivators but also to vast numbers of mortals across the broad Xuanzhou, who all witnessed the change in the sky.
Compared to the mortals’ emotions of lantation, fear, and panic, the cultivators of Xuanzhou’s major Immortal Sects instead breathed a sigh of relief.
It was like a Sword of Damocles hanging over all Immortal Sects’ heads—better for it to fall than to hang indefinitely.
Without daring to hesitate, the Sect Leaders and Holy Lords of the major Immortal Sects promptly set off.
If soone were now standing above Xuanzhou, they would see rainbow light shooting into the sky from all directions of Xuanzhou, all speeding toward the sa destination.
……
Although he had seen Lu Bai’s finger-snap sky-covering ans more than once, each ti it still brought an indescribable shock.
The Third Supre Elder’s expression grew even more respectful as he cautiously inquired, “Senior Lu, do you need us to garrison various places at the mountain gate?”
Lu Bai waved his hand, signaling these major cultivators could rest for a bit first.
It would take ti for the spokespersons of the major Immortal Sects to arrive, so taking this opportunity, Lu Bai reviewed his ideas again, preparing to check for any oversights.
He did indeed plan to treat this world as a testing ground, but he wouldn’t deliberately ss around.
Things like caste system, feudal system, or even slavery were basically outside his scope of consideration.
From a high-level perspective.
Essentially, the most important aspect of a system is who holds the decision-making power in the polity.
Ultimately, there are just three types: one person decides, a small group holds the decision, or everyone has equally divided decision-making power.
Representing dictatorship, elite, and democracy respectively.
Clearly, having a small group of elites decide the society’s direction has overly obvious drawbacks.
Complete democracy is equally unrealistic; under the influence of herd ntality, the societal mainstream almost cannot possess independent thinking ability, and most people will beco puppets manipulated by others.
In contrast, complete reliance on one person’s dictatorship, while the most extre, also has the highest upper and lower limits.
Laid out like this, it’s simple to deduce that the theoretical optimal solution is for one morally upright person proficient in all fields to decide the tribe’s developnt.
Of course, this is the ideal state.
Under the premise of Greatness Belongs to Oneself, this person must also possess the strongest power, at least one of the strongest.
Moreover, such a person must appear every generation, or this order cannot be sustained indefinitely.
With so many conditions stacked, it’s destined to be impossible to achieve this perfect state, at best approaching it as closely as possible.
Fortunately, Lu Bai himself wouldn’t pursue perfection.
Truly possessing unregulated, unrestrained power would most likely create a tyrant of the motherland rather than a great sage bringing peace and clarity.
Sothing like the dark side of human nature—even Lu Bai himself couldn’t guarantee impartiality, let alone others.
The longer Lu Bai pondered this aspect, the more he felt that no matter how a program runs, as long as it runs, it’s best not to tamper with it.
After all, once reform begins, it can’t be stopped and won’t fully follow the initiator’s ideas.
Only now is there an opportunity for him to experint; otherwise, he wouldn’t even have the thought to try.
……
The sun set in the west, the afterglow like fire.
Before this, spokespersons from hundreds of Immortal Sects had already arrived at Qingwang Sect one after another.
Not coming alone—a considerable portion of Immortal Sects had their Sect Leader bringing Elders from the sect to attend together.
Nurous high-level cultivators gathered in front of Qingwang Sect’s mountain gate, conversing with each other to ease their inner tension.
“Ti is running out.”
Seeing nightfall about to descend, Lu Bai stretched lazily and turned to the Third Supre Elder beside him.
With a smiling tone, he inquired, “Which Immortal Sects haven’t co yet?”
The Third Supre Elder had clearly been paying attention to this situation, and upon hearing Lu Bai’s inquiry, he imdiately took out a jade slip, held it aloft with both hands above his head, appearing extrely respectful.
“Reporting to Senior Lu, aside from Immortal Sects that relocated entirely, the list of those that haven’t sent anyone is all in here.”
“This is no longer an ordinary Immortal Sect; heavy punch is needed.”
Lu Bai had no intention of checking the jade slip with his divine sense, waved his large hand, and added, “It’s your Disciplinary Team’s turn. Any difficulties?”
“Guarantee mission completion.”
The Third Supre Elder retreated one step, leading the entire Disciplinary Team in a neat shout: “Loyal! Honest!”
The echo of loyalty still lingered in the mountain gate as the Disciplinary Team Great Powers’ figures reached the horizon and then disappeared from sight.
Fully twenty-three Integration Stage, four Mahayana Stage, plus two Immortal Artifacts from Golden Scale Holy Land and Tai Shi Sect.
Setting aside Lu Bai, this massive power could rampage through Xuanzhou without exaggeration; no single Immortal Sect could withstand it alone.
At most, loyalty was questionable, but with Lu Bai still around, it wasn’t a big issue.
Seeing this, Yu Xu Zi forcibly suppressed his inner unease and hesitantly inquired, “Elder Lu, what about the fellow daoists from Immortal Sects outside the mountain gate…”
Lu Bai casually said, “Then let them co up. It’s been hard on them waiting so long.”
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