If the sect doesn't accept geniuses, they will become giants once they leave?

Chapter 154 The Secret of Dayu
Li Yanmo only breathed a sigh of relief after Zhong Sanyuan and others entered the ancient battlefield.

Acting was much more tiring than he had expected, but he managed to fool these geniuses.

Zhuge Moer held his chin, staring at Li Yanmo with his ethereal eyes.

"Sir, I can no longer tell whether you are a good person or a bad person? Or a person who has both good and bad sides?"

Li Yanmo straightened his clothes and posed with his hands behind his back. "Miss Zhuge, do you know why you have such doubts?"

"Oh? Why?"

"It's caused by being too idle."

Zhuge Moer was choked and almost fell into the ancient battlefield.

"Mr. Li! Don't forget, you are inviting me out of retirement!"

"Ah... Does Miss Zhuge have that idea?" Li Yanmo scratched his head. Although he was still asking, he was obviously not as eager as at the beginning.

There was no way. Now he had a new Tianxu Tower in his hands, which was a small world built by Ji Lie by embezzling funds from the Dayu Dynasty and defrauding the Taoist super sect.

According to Du Shen, they would only calculate the portion of the money that Ji Lienong used from the Dayu Dynasty's funds, but it was definitely not a small amount, and it would take them some time to calculate it.

The purpose of this debt has been achieved.

As for Zhuge's magical weapon technique...

According to Ji Lie's description, he had been working on the secrets of Zhuge's mechanical magic weapons before and after his death. Zhuge Moer's technology in learning Zhuge's mechanical magic weapons all came from Ji Lie, so if he really needed to mass-produce agricultural mechanical magic weapons, he could just ask Ji Lie to do it for him.

Zhuge Moer wrinkled her nose slightly, sensing the perfunctory tone in Li Yanmo's words. "Mr. Li, you're not playing hard to get, are you?"

"Then Miss Zhuge, are you willing to fall for it?"

Zhuge Moer scratched his head, hesitated for a while, then his eyes turned, and he jumped around Li Yanmo with his hands behind his back, leaning back and deliberately lengthening his voice.

"Father said that although I'm smart, I don't know the dangers of the world and am easily deceived. But there's a saying that goes, seeing is believing, hearing is deceiving. I want to see if I've been deceived."

"Okay—but before that, I still need to talk to your father and Emperor Lie."

Li Yanmo shook his head and followed Zhuge Moer to find Ji Lie who was rubbing the skeleton model.

After hearing Li Yanmo's intentions, Ji Lie seemed to be lost in thought. Without the slightest air of a powerful emperor, he bowed his head to Li Yanmo and said, "If what you say is true, then I would like to thank you for your kindness on behalf of the people of Qianzhou."

Li Yanmo shook his head. "This is what I should do, but... it may be a bit presumptuous to ask this. I wonder if Emperor Lie could help me clear up this confusion?"

"Just ask."

Li Yanmo pondered for a moment and then asked slowly, "I don't think Dayu is setting up defenses against millions of sects simply to maintain his rule."

Ji Lie paused fiddling with the skeleton model.

Li Yanmo hung his hands at his sides, waiting for the answer from the fierce emperor.

Song Yun once said that although the people of Dayu's Dynasty had differences in wealth, there was absolutely no distinction between noble and humble.

Every cultivator in the Yu Dynasty had a pseudonym, and for so long, the Daoist sect was completely unaware of it. This wasn't just a matter of unity. "Boy, what do you think of those powerful cultivators who have lived for thousands, or even tens of thousands, of years?"

Li Yanmo thought about it and said what he thought honestly, "You old antique who can't adapt."

"Your description is correct, but it lacks some details." Ji Lie put down the model in his hand. "To be precise, he is an old bastard who is inflexible, but also so powerful that the whole world cannot adapt."

Li Yanmo was stunned, as if he had touched something.

"Logically speaking, it's difficult for a dynasty to last more than a thousand years."

"The alternation of kings and ministers brings a lot of uncertainty to a dynasty, which can lead to its collapse. But it is not entirely a bad thing. After the collapse comes the reconstruction, and in this process the world will progress."

"A wise and virtuous ruler who lives for a thousand years and a group of virtuous ministers and generals who also live for a thousand years can ensure peace and prosperity for the country for a thousand years. However, after a thousand years, the dynasty will remain unchanged, and the people will die in comfort because of the peace and prosperity."

Li Yanmo frowned slightly, "Senior, forgive my bluntness, but dying in comfort is not the fault of the common people, nor is it the fault of wise ministers and generals. Being born in adversity is always a forced choice."

Ji Lie raised his eyebrows, half smiling, "You are quite right, but also quite wrong. When the people stop striving for progress, stop seeking betterment, then everyone in the court, including the emperor, who caused this, is a mediocre person who is unworthy of their position. If the development of the entire dynasty stagnates, then they are the sinners."

"The purpose of the ruler and his subjects is to make the people better, not to keep them in captivity and keep them fat and well fed."

"Once a cultivator reaches the Golden Core stage, he can live for over a thousand years. However, a person's personality, habits, and intelligence are fixed after about a hundred years. No matter how much experience one acquires, they only become more sophisticated. It's difficult for them to regain the youthful vigor and imagination."

"So, no matter how long the Emperor Yu lived, he could only stay in office for three hundred years. Only by constantly changing the throne could the vitality of the entire dynasty be maintained and everything flourish."

Ji Lie narrowed his eyes slightly.

"But boy, don't you find it strange? The Dayu Dynasty would have a younger emperor every three hundred years, but Dayu has existed for over a hundred thousand years, and yet the people of this world are still stuck in a backward life."

Li Yanmo was stunned.

This indeed woke Li Yanmo up.

This is more than 100,000 years, which is enough for humans to evolve into a new species, let alone develop technology, but the people here still live an agricultural life.

"Because the monks still exist. Not only do they exist, they also often show up in front of the people," Ji Lie's eyes flashed with gloom.

"Birth, aging, sickness, and death have inspired people to seek change, but instead of changing their lives, they seek immortality. Becoming an immortal has become the only correct answer."

"Emperors Yu have replaced one another, but those immortal, thousand-year-old cultivators still hold the supreme power among the sects. Their powerful, ancient, and barbaric ideologies have trapped the people of this world for a hundred thousand years."

"Dayu opened schools everywhere, offering free instruction, but no one was interested. Upon hearing that a sect was recruiting disciples, scores of people abandoned their families, preferring to die on the road rather than set foot on the ground."

Having said that, Li Yanmo finally understood the biggest contradiction between the Dayu Dynasty and Taoism.

"It will be difficult to overcome this problem."

"It's okay. The Dayu Dynasty has been working towards this for a hundred thousand years. Another hundred thousand years won't be a big deal."

Ji Lie's tone was extremely calm, as if he was talking about something extremely ordinary. Li Yanmo immediately stood in awe.

(End of this chapter)