Chapter 45: What Do People Really Want?
What do people really want?
For ten years, the gods of the Underworld have been discussing this question under Li Xianzhi's pressure.
The Central Heavenly Lord sat high on the divine throne.
Other gods have been arguing endlessly for ten years, even developing to the point of mutual accusation.
Li Xianzhi was leisurely drinking tea.
Actually, Li Xianzhi also really wanted to know what living beings really wanted. For countless epochs, he had been listening to the prayers of his descendants in the tablet.
In the life of Li Shentong, he was enshrined in the Royal Ancestral Temple. The emperors of several generations, the descendants of the royal family, muttered the most about how to maintain the rule of the royal family, how to balance the struggles between major forces, and how to stabilize the overall situation of the entire empire. In short, they could not be without imperial power.
In the life of the Pioneer Revolutionary, except for the descendants of the Li family, everyone worshipped him more or less, treating him as a spiritual symbol.
In that life, the prayers of everyone were probably about how to manufacture new machines, especially the Li family's Li Dongdong. For many years, every time they encountered family turmoil, or the family had new progress, they would hold a worship ceremony for Li Xianzhi.
Sometimes it was to pray for Li Xianzhi to manifest his spirit and solve some of their confusion in the process of exploring machines. And sometimes, it was showing off, naked showing off. For example, some descendant had achieved some huge achievement.
In the final analysis, it was also for the individual, or for the family to obtain better material resources, or for fame, or for profit.
All living beings in the world are driven by profit.
Li Xianzhi thought that the fundamental wish of all living beings was probably the word "profit".
To say what kind of legal system they would be completely satisfied with, there probably wasn't one. Everything is changing, which is also what the gods of the Underworld cannot tolerate.
Why should they only be tools to maintain the existence of the material world?
Why should they perish when the legal system of the material world changes?
This is unfair.
Look, gods also need fairness. They also need the Dao interests to tilt toward them.
The God of Rites believes that if everyone in the world understands etiquette, and etiquette is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the world will inevitably be stable, and living beings will not let their imaginations run wild.
The War God believes that life needs blood and fighting; only endless war can consume the extra wild imaginations of humans.
The Harvest God believes that when all things are harvested, when humans have enough material basis, and let them lie in the gentle town piled up with materials, many living beings will be honest.
The Wealth God thinks similarly to the Harvest God, but he thinks more than the Harvest God. The Wealth God believes that under the premise of enjoying enough materials, humans need to move, not to get something for nothing; everyone should try their best to earn wealth, and everyone will be lost in the circulation of interests.
The Death God is even more ruthless; the Death God intends to warn many living beings with death. They must revere heaven and earth, and revere the gods; otherwise, the Death God will descend and collect their lives. As the saying goes, fear power and cherish virtue. When people have enough awe for the Underworld, people will be honest and no longer think about some things they shouldn't.
The Life God is very open-minded. He said that there are too few living beings in the world, so the dimension of the spiritual thoughts of these living beings is wide. He wants to increase the number of living beings in the world by ten million times, so that the entire material world's understanding of the legal system will be unprecedentedly huge, and the boundary of the legal system ruled by the Underworld can be infinite, and it will be very, very difficult for individual living beings to cross the boundary of the legal system in such a huge legal system.
Although the Life God's idea sounds a bit vague, in Li Xianzhi's view, it is the most reliable one.
Li Xianzhi also believes that with a single legal system, it is easy for the thoughts of many living beings to touch the boundary of the legal system in the process of moving forward. If the types and numbers of living beings expand to a certain extent, the complex system born on this basis will be quite huge, so it is quite difficult for the thoughts of living beings in this legal system to touch the boundary of the legal system again.
In short, it is to make the cake of the legal system that concerns living beings and gods bigger, so that everyone has something to eat, and it is endless. In this case, there will be no turmoil in the Underworld and no repetition in the human world.
"Wonderful."
"It turns out that the fundamental way to solve all this is to keep having children."
When the Life God finished speaking, Li Xianzhi put down his teacup, looked at the Life God in palace attire in front of him, and gave her a thumbs up.
"Alright, you have been arguing for ten years. But what is the use of what you think? We are gods of the Underworld representing the Imperial Dynasty era. If the Imperial Dynasty collapses, do you think we still have the possibility of existence?"
The Central Heavenly Lord slowly opened his eyes. The huge golden wheel behind him turned slowly. The Central Heavenly Lord was the most anxious among all the gods because he had already felt that the information transported from the material world to the Underworld was gradually decreasing, which meant that the Imperial Dynasty legal system was gradually disintegrating.
Without this information, the gods would become weaker and weaker, and finally wither and disappear completely.
"In a hundred years, we must win. Everyone, think about how to stabilize the living beings in the material world. Go down to the world and pass down the Dao laws you have summarized on weekdays to the material world. I don't believe that those ant-like living beings can really have boundless thoughts."
Mentioning the material world, the Central Heavenly Lord was full of anger. He didn't even care about the majesty of being a supreme god.
Many gods stopped talking one after another.
There was no way; their existence all relied on the information ** of the Central Heavenly Lord. If there was no Central Heavenly Lord, they would all perish.
The gods feared the Central Heavenly Lord, but Li Xianzhi was not afraid.
Li Xianzhi listened to the discussions of many gods for ten years and found that these gods were not without any merits.
For example, the God of Rites.
Many worlds have the existence of this Dao in their legal systems.
For example, the War God, which world would lack guys who worship the Dao of War?
Looking at the hall full of gods, Li Xianzhi felt that the Central Heavenly Lord was the most useless one, and other gods had reasons to continue to survive.
Li Xianzhi's expression was strange, making the Central Heavenly Lord feel a little hairy in his heart. After learning about some of the things Li Xianzhi had done, the Central Heavenly Lord respected Li Xianzhi. He even didn't hesitate to lower his face and honor Li Xianzhi as the Dharma Lord.
The Lord of all legal systems.
The war in a hundred years, the Central Heavenly Lord placed all his hopes on Li Xianzhi.
And what did the Dharma Lord mean at this moment?
The Central Heavenly Lord couldn't help but tremble all over. Although there was no killing intent in the Dharma Lord's eyes, the Central Heavenly Lord saw his own insignificance.
It seemed that as long as the Dharma Lord was willing, he could crush him, the Central Heavenly Lord, to death at any time.
"Don't be afraid, I won't eat you."
Li Xianzhi grinned, his white teeth looking particularly terrifying in the magnificent temple. Other gods subconsciously shrank their necks and looked at the Central Heavenly Lord with sympathy. ===== CHAPTER 46 =====
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