Building a sect from scratch.

“Fairness is not the same as equality. Fairness emphasizes the balance between rights and obligations. For example, someone like you who has made great contributions to the Hu Buyu family should naturally enjoy better treatment than those who have made less contributions. More work, more pay; less work, less pay. That is true fairness!”

Nietzsche spoke eloquently: "As for 'heavenly disability' and 'earthly deficiency,' they are like the beauty and ugliness of people. Everyone has a love for beauty, and everyone likes beautiful people, but does that mean that ugly people can't live? The same is true for spiritual roots! Those with excellent aptitude can certainly receive some benefits, but whether they are heavenly disabled or earthly deficient, they also have their own way of surviving."

"Besides, whether one is born with a disability or has an eccentricity, it's just a matter of spiritual aptitude for cultivation. A person's life is only a hundred years long, and it's not just about cultivation. There are all sorts of things in the world: actors, singers, writers, calligraphers, and even those who love to eat have their own professions. Food critics are a profession too! As for studying cultivation, it's just another option. What's so important about being born with a disability or having an eccentricity?"
“Those with excellent spiritual roots may not be good at governing a place. And those who are good at governing a place may be the so-called ‘crippled’ or ‘deficient’ people! Our Taiyin Sect’s principle is to let people do what they are good at, so that regardless of whether they are cultivators or not, and whether they are ‘crippled’ or ‘deficient’, they can all have the same social environment!”

"Are you that certain?"

Nietzsche nodded confidently: "Of course!"

Niuhelu still sneered: "If you describe it that way, wouldn't cultivators eat the same food and wear the same clothes as ordinary mortals? How could they be willing to accept that? If even they are not willing, then what hope is there for immortals and gods!"

Nietzsche smiled meaningfully and replied, "You don't understand. Everything is relative. If you compare yourself horizontally with the people around you, there may be no difference. But what if you compare yourself vertically?"

Chakota pressed on, asking, "What is 'longitudinal comparison'?"

"Putting aside other things, I wonder how ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators live in the most prosperous part of Liuzhou? What about their food and clothing?"

When Nietzsche asked the question, Niohru was fine, but Chakota looked somewhat embarrassed.

Although she had never left Liuzhou, she knew that Liuzhou was a very poor place. Not to mention anything else, just take the flying boat of the Fulu Shou Merchant Guild that came every few years. The ordinary merchants' employees who lived on the flying boat all year round had a better standard of living than the richest families in their Hubuyu Town. Not to mention the managers of some Golden Core stage on the flying boat, who wore gold and jade ornaments and ate delicacies. It was a life she could not even dream of!

"Then let me tell you about Chang'an, the largest city under the jurisdiction of our Taiyin Sect!" Nietzsche didn't press for details, but instead began to enthusiastically describe what she knew about Chang'an:
"Before our Taiyin Sect established Chang'an, or rather, before our Taiyin Sect existed in the Central Continent, many places were similar to your Liuzhou. People were poorly clothed and starving. What was worse, many people had to pay huge taxes to various sects and perform corvée labor. And yet, it only took a few months to go from being unable to eat or wear to now having Chang'an! If we had been given a few more months, or even a few years or a decade, the people of the Taiyin Sect, regardless of their cultivation level or aptitude, would probably be tired of eating all sorts of delicacies!"
"Even if you are passionate about cultivation, as more and more people delve into all aspects of cultivation in the future, the cultivation methods and secret manuals will inevitably be better, and the pills for cultivation will inevitably be more effective. Tell me, if it were you, would you rather be a 'superior person' in the past when you couldn't even find a suitable cultivation method, or would you rather be in a place where you eat and drink like ordinary people and have whatever you want?"
"And this is a longitudinal comparison compared to one's past."

Chakota looked on in disbelief: "Is this really possible in Central Continent?"

The Jade Emperor quickly shook his head and proudly interjected, "No, no, no! It's not just the Central Continent that's like this, it's only our Taiyin Sect that's like this! The Central Continent is very large, and we don't have enough time to... cough, to rescue, to rescue those people who are in dire straits!"

Niu Helu snorted heavily, squinted, and seemed to be thinking about something. After a few breaths, he asked again, "With your actions, no sect has come to cause you any trouble?"

"It's not that there's no..." Nietzsche subconsciously thought of the last limited-time battlefield event. The Taiyi Ziwei Sect was a very formally hostile cultivation sect, and also the first "villain" officially designated by the game's creators in "Ten Continents Chronicles." But for a moment, he didn't know how to put it—after all, according to the official storyline, the Taiyi Ziwei Sect was destroyed by the Taiyin Sect, which guided the players to take the initiative to attack. If anyone was causing trouble, it was the Taiyin Sect that went looking for trouble with the Ziwei Sect...

The Jade Emperor, unlike Nietzsche, had no such reservations. He said bluntly, "Of course! Dignity lies only on the edge of a sword, and truth lies only within the range of cannons! The peace of our Chang'an City, and even the Taiyin Sect, is based on a sufficiently strong ability to protect ourselves! The Taiyi Ziwei Sect was just wiped out by our Taiyin Sect recently! Those two, Si Yin and Si Yang, are both thoroughly dead!"

"Taiyi... Ziwei Sect!? Destroyed by your Taiyin Sect!?"

Niohuru was dumbfounded and found it utterly unbelievable.

Even though Liuzhou was remote, and the Hu Buyu clan was isolated from the outside world, they still knew about some sects and forces within the Ten Continents and Three Islands. Although the Ziwei Sect itself was of average strength, it was quite famous among the Ten Continents and Three Islands because it had split off from the Taiyi Sect... Yet, such a large sect, established for hundreds of years and with a history spanning thousands of years, was destroyed by the obscure Taiyin Sect!?
"How could it be false? Sigh, if only the Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity Merchants' Flying Ship could come over, it would prove what we said!"

As the Jade Emperor spoke, he sighed rather heavily. He and Nietzsche had been talking passionately for a long time, but only Niohuru seemed to understand half of what they were saying and did not seem to agree with them. This made them feel powerless, like trying to wink at a blind man.

"You two are still pretending! You've been pretending for ages, when are you going to finish?!"

In the team channel, even more powerless than Nietzsche and the Jade Emperor, Huangzhucao started to complain at the top of his lungs.

Other players also joined in with a barrage of complaints.

"Exactly! It's the same old excuse over and over again! Can't you come up with something new?"

"When can we go out and fight...?"

"Don't make a fuss, I'm checking my political science book. I'll find something I can use and memorize it first!"

"...He's ruthless!"

(End of this chapter)