Li Linghai said with regret: "The thirty to fifty years since the founding of the True Human Empire was spent under internal and external attacks from the remaining forces of the Covenant Alliance and the Star Sea Republic.
When the Black Star Emperor finally managed to temporarily defeat both enemies, The retreat had seriously consumed the Imperial Army's strength and his own life, so he had to recuperate and was unable to carry out thorough reforms.
“The Black Star Emperor, who is in his twilight years, has never thought about going against the will of heaven and forcing reforms.
"But on the one hand, those with vested interests who survived the disaster have become smarter, more hidden, and more loyal on the surface; on the other hand, the trauma accumulated in the early years of training and fighting finally broke out in the Black Star Emperor's body, and even It affected his ability to think and judge, causing him to show signs of going crazy from time to time.
Many strategies and measures were indeed too radical.
This innovation that completely eliminated tumors in human civilization evolved into a catastrophe sweeping the stars.
"In the end, even those true immortal cultivators who fought with him to conquer the world and were loyal to him had to bite the bullet and oppose the so-called innovation.
The Black Star Emperor died in depression in this predicament of shortness of breath, but he was The empire he created has left endless troubles.
"Today, the empire's chronic diseases have broken out, and countless evils have arisen.
Countless people of insight have turned back to re-examine the 'catastrophe' of the past, but they have missed the opportunity and regretted it too late.
"The old oligarchs in the Star Sea Republic era have transformed into vested interests of the true human empire.
They are swaggering, high-ranking nobles and dignitaries who unscrupulously devour the flesh and blood of the empire and the people.
“They hate and fear the Black Star Emperor from the bottom of their hearts, and are afraid that a second Black Star Emperor will appear and seize everything they have on behalf of the country and the people.
“Deepest in their hearts, they regard the Black Star Emperor as their most terrifying enemy, far more than the Holy Alliance or cultivators.
"But on the surface, these fake, castrated immortal cultivators have to hold high the banner of the Black Star Emperor and praise the great achievements of the Black Star Emperor, because only the invincible prestige of the Black Star Emperor can unify the entire star sea and symbolize Only with the legitimacy of the empire's rule can the lower-level immortal cultivators and the primitive people who are ten times more numerous can be appeased.
"It is under this very contradictory position that there are even many shameless propaganda materials in the empire.
Pili Yangqiudi commented on the actions of the Black Star Emperor.
There is even a lot of dirty water that has penetrated into the empire's teaching materials and history.
In his writings and publicity products, he secretly vilifies the Black Star Emperor through explicit praise and covert criticism, which is really shameless!”
When Li Yao heard this, he suddenly realized and couldn't help but say "ah".
Li Linghai was slightly startled: "What's wrong?
You seem to have thought of something?"
Li Yao blinked and said quickly: "Nothing.
So, Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi is really a great hero who is upright and serves the country and the people?"
There was a sense of enlightenment in my heart.
Li Linghai's words solved a mystery that had troubled Li Yao for hundreds of years.
That was what happened when Li Yao first met the exploration team of immortal cultivator Su Changfa in the Kunlun ruins more than a hundred years ago.
At that time, Su Changfa and other immortal cultivators wanted to seduce Li Yao to join their team, and deliberately played "brainwashing materials" for Li Yao on the destruction of three civilizations.
This brainwashing propaganda later evolved into the "Civilization" game of the Star Federation, and it led to endless stories.
Needless to say.
What Li Yao felt deeply strange at that time was that the destruction of the three civilizations of "Panlong, Yaocha, and Wuying" had actually gone far enough to illustrate the naivety, shortsightedness and ignorance of the "Dao of Cultivation" and the correctness of the "Dao of Cultivation of Immortality".
It seems that there is no need to rush to tell the story of Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi's fortune at once.
Even if we really want to promote the glorious history of the "Late Emperor", there seems to be no need to portray him in such a... cruel, scheming, and inhumane manner, right?
Those propaganda stories seemed to create an emperor who was decisive in killing and talented, but in fact they left many flaws, as if they were deliberately intended to let people see the darkness, viciousness and ugliness hidden under the majestic throne.
In practical terms, this is indeed the case.
Precisely because there were many loopholes in the history of Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi's fortune, after Li Yao discussed it with the Bloody Heart Demon, he quickly realized that his Taoist heart had not wavered at all and he still adhered to the concept of a cultivator.
However, according to common sense, this makes no sense at all!
The true human empire has ruled the center of the star sea for thousands of years and conquered countless worlds.
How could it be possible that it could not even produce a good external propaganda product and leave so many loopholes with explicit praise and covert criticism?
As the saying goes, "it's taboo for the venerable", even if the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi is really a heinous demon with heinous sins, as his descendants, shouldn't these immortal cultivators should cover up their mistakes and portray him as extremely bright, holy, and flawless?
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Why...after reading the brainwashing materials produced by the cultivators and understanding the family history of Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi, do you naturally feel that he is the villain?
When ancient court painters painted portraits of emperors, they knew how to ignore all the pockmarks on the emperor's face.
Why did it get worse when it came to the promotional materials for cultivators of immortality, as if the audience couldn't hear how cruel, crazy, and cunning Wu Yingqi was?
This is simply a piece of brainwashing material that is extremely unqualified and even written by "anti-thieves and rebels"!
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Anyway, Li Yao was thinking at that time that if he were the emperor of the empire, he would arrest and behead the guys who compiled this propaganda material one by one.
Li Yao never believed that the propaganda department of a country like the True Human Empire with a thousand-year history of conquest, colonization, and brainwashing would be so mentally retarded.
Later, I asked Su Changfa and Di Feiwen respectively.
The two senior immortal cultivators couldn't explain clearly.
They only knew that the official propaganda of the empire a long time ago was in this tone.
On the surface, it exaggerated the great achievements of the Black Star Emperor, but if you look carefully, it turns out that He could taste the madness and cruelty of Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi.
Li Yao had been thinking about this matter for more than a hundred years, but he still couldn't figure it out.
I didn't understand it all until today.
More than a hundred years ago, I first heard the story of the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi at the Kunlun Ruins.
That instinctive fear and disgust were not an illusion, but the effect that the other party deliberately wanted to cause.
These brainwashing propaganda materials are most likely written by those powerful people and powerful people.
Not only do they want to implant the first impression in the minds of the audience that "the real human empire is extremely powerful", they also want to implant "The Black Star Emperor is crazy and crazy."
The first impression of "bloodthirsty butcher, super villain".
And the latter is even more important than the former!
"It turns out that the empire's propaganda department is not mentally retarded, it's just that they are all 'anti-thieves'."
Li Yao said secretly in his heart.
"Without the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi, all humans in the center of the star sea would now be under the rule of the Covenant Alliance, deprived of their emotions and free will, and turned into flesh and blood machines without humanity."
Li Linghai said calmly, "Only for his achievements in resisting the Holy Alliance and defending the center of the star sea to the death, can the Black Star Emperor still not be worthy of the word 'hero'?
"It's a pity that history is always written by the victors.
The Black Star Emperor led countless true immortal cultivators to fight bloody battles and defended human civilization to the death.
After going through many difficulties and dangers, he finally established a true human empire.
But now the fruits of victory are...
Everything was stolen by those wealthy families and nobles.
"In the past few hundred years, especially the past one or two hundred years, the corruption of these noble families and nobles has reached an intolerable limit."
Li Yao's heart moved: "What should I say?"
"It's very simple, and it's also critical to longevity."
Li Linghai said, "The biggest problem facing the empire now is that almost all cultivators from noble families and nobles live too long."
Li Yao was stunned: "Live too long?"
"That's right, the replacement of the old with the new and metabolism are the laws of nature.
If you don't die when you are old, you are a thief!"
Li Linghai said, "In the first five hundred years, the empire continued to expand outwards and fought some tough battles.
A large number of pill-forming, Yuanying and even immortal cultivators in the transformation stage would personally go into battle, or burn their lives and continuously output a lot of mental contributions. , the probability of going crazy, being seriously injured or even dying on the spot is not low.
"When the older generation of immortal cultivators dies, the new generation of immortal cultivators will have the opportunity to ascend, see hope, and have the motivation to fight, right?
"But in the next five hundred years, the empire will have no large-scale external expansion wars to fight.
The 'cake' is almost completely divided.
Each carrot has dug itself deeply into its own pit.
The only issue it considers is how to prevent itself from being " Pull it out.
"As a result, a large number of high-level immortal cultivators have changed the purpose of cultivation from 'how to improve combat effectiveness and computing power' to 'how to extend life span and even become immortal'.
"These high-level immortal cultivators have a lot of resources and can consume astronomical amounts of crystals regardless of cost, just to slightly extend their lifespan by a few days.
They have indeed made great progress.
"In the past few hundred years, the average lifespan of immortal cultivators above the Nascent Soul in the empire has been getting longer and longer.
Looking back on the era of the Black Star Emperor, even if he was as powerful as the emperor himself, he would die in less than four hundred years.
But today If you take good care of yourself at the beginning of the Nascent Soul stage, you will have the chance to live to be three to four hundred years old.
If you enter the realm of spiritual transformation and have the blessing of a special secret method, it is not uncommon to live to be five or six hundred years old."
"So exaggerated?"
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Li Yao secretly clicked his tongue.
The famous long-lived old man of the Xingyao Federation, Gui Guishou, only lived eight or nine hundred years due to the blood of the demon clan and the turtle, coupled with irregular hibernation, so he was known as the "human auspicious person".
The Nascent Soul and Transformation God of the True Human Empire can easily live to be three to five hundred years old.
It seems that this is not the limit.
It is indeed... quite scary.