Controlling the Five Thunders and the Two Worlds

Chapter 419 We can't really make an island nation sink, can we?
Three days later, the elixir was successfully refined.

A batch of 49 Red Centipede Spirit Mushroom Pills was produced, and only one-tenth of the original ingredients were used. Master Ming Chong's alchemy skills were superb, fully activating the medicinal properties of the various spiritual herbs, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Seeing everyone's high spirits, Gu Zhao decided to host a night banquet and invited friends such as Ziyun Jun of Wuyailing, Xu Jing and his wife of Qianshan Prefecture, and Lu Zhengtang of Yongding River, accompanied by the Twenty-Eight Star Officials, for a lively and festive evening.

The next morning, Gu Zhao brought Daoist Ming Chong back from another time to take over from Daoist Jing Chun.

"Uncle-Master, you've worked hard. Any new news lately?" Gu Zhao asked.

"I rested for ten days, and it wasn't tiring at all." Master Jingchun waved his hand and chuckled. "There are new messages every day, but none of them are anything major, so I didn't bother you."

On the table in the lobby of the Taoist Studies Institute, there were several stacks of documents, all of which contained recent news about the extraordinary.

Hearing that it wasn't a big deal, Gu Zhao wasn't in a hurry. He first sent Daoist Jing Chun back to the other world, and when he traveled back, he saw Daoist Ming Chong smiling at the documents.

"Why is Uncle-Master laughing?" Gu Zhao asked.

"I laugh at the unwise Citizens, the arrogant Indians, and the delusional Yinggao," Master Mingchong said with a smile. "They even dared to stir up public opinion online, trying to tie our hands and feet."

Gu Zhao took the documents from Master Ming Chong's hand. "Summer is almost over, but the heat hasn't died down yet?"

“How can the hype die down so easily?” Master Mingchong laughed. “On the contrary, we’re dragged into every hot news story, and the internet is in complete chaos.”

Gu Zhao picked up the documents and casually flipped through them.

[The Citibank president reiterated the strength of the Special Agents Agency and dispatched superhumans to tour various locations, participate in talk shows and other variety performances, inciting the MAGA community's frenzy, and his approval ratings reached a new high.]

[An Indian has made outrageous claims that the most powerful gods in the world are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Suddenly, thousands of self-proclaimed masters in India claiming to be reincarnations of these gods have appeared, vowing to lead India to conquer the world.]

[Yinggao stated that the Shintoism in her country originated from Tianxia Taoism, also known as Tiandao, which is derived from the Book of Changes. The two families share a common lineage and are geographically close. She hopes that Taoism in her country will spread its teachings to Yinggao, disseminate the Three Pure Ones, and promote friendly exchanges between the two countries.]

"Good heavens!" Gu Zhao exclaimed.

Just as Master Mingchong said, the US was unwise and the Indians were arrogant, but the hardest thing to deal with was the cherry blossom cream.

"This is a case of path dependence. Did they think Tianxia would teach them everything like the Tang Dynasty?" Gu Zhao shook his head and chuckled.

"Because they are afraid," Master Mingchong said calmly.

"What are you afraid of?" Gu Zhao asked, and already knew the answer.

He recalled that before Master Ming Chong and his group made their move, some people on the internet mocked them, saying, "Where were they when China was sinking? Aren't your country's commoners still clamoring that they haven't avenged Ying Gao? Let them try."

Gu Zhao raised an eyebrow. "They wouldn't actually be putting on a show of remorse and an apology, would they?"

Master Mingchong shook his head. “No, after decades of education, the new generation no longer understands the history of that time. How could they apologize for a history that did not exist? They would even make it a mantra to say that the grudges of the older generation should not be passed on to the next generation.”

"Then I'm relieved." Gu Zhao breathed a sigh of relief.

According to polls, 80-90% of the Japanese public are hostile to Tianxia, ​​and they do not believe that they lost the war to Tianxia, ​​but only to the United States.

They believed that without the US's involvement, they could have completely swallowed up Japan, established their envisioned Greater China region, and used the island nation to conquer the Central Plains, reaching the pinnacle of Japanese history. Therefore, when facing Japan, they actually carried a sense of superiority as victors, and it wasn't, as some Chinese people believe, a case of not apologizing after defeat; they simply refused to acknowledge defeat.

Therefore, they do not apologize, do not reflect on their actions, visit war criminals, and revise history.

In the past, Chinese people would have been angry, but now they don't care.

Because fortunes change every thirty years, the balance of power shifts from east to west, and the roles of offense and defense have shifted.

If they really apologize and reflect on their actions, then we will have no excuse to take action.

Only if they continue to cling to their sense of superiority will they fail to recognize reality and stray further from the right path. When the opportunity for revenge truly arises in the future, with Tianxia's current overwhelming national strength, they can exact their revenge thoroughly.

This is ****.

If Yinggao is truly intimidated by the actions of the old Taoists and changes its allegiance, it would actually benefit them, sparing them the punishment they deserve.

Master Mingchong laughed and said, "I thought you were disgusted by them and wanted to punish them."

Gu Zhao shrugged. "I'd like to, but we're cultivators. We can't really break through Mount Fuji, sink an entire island nation, and forge a Myriad Soul Banner to see if it can transmit golden light, can we?"

Master Mingchong was startled and hurriedly waved his hand, "No! This old Taoist is still waiting for you to lead us to ascension!"

Don't be fooled by the ruthlessness of the old Taoist priests of the Great Luo Palace in the other world, who kill people at the drop of a hat. They kill only insatiable, wicked demons, monsters, bandits, and corrupt officials. Not one of them is innocent.

They had all fought in the modern world, but in total, they had killed no more than ten people, which can be described as being very restrained.

Yinggao does indeed owe Tianxia a blood debt, and the contemporary Yinggao people are indeed full of evil intentions towards Tianxia, ​​but they themselves have not yet committed evil. As a cultivator, Gu Zhao cannot wantonly slaughter civilians.

If Gu Zhao had unintentionally killed teachers like Hebei Caihua, Aizawa Minami, and Liang Sen Lingmeng, whom the people of the country cherished, he would inevitably feel reluctant. If it affected his state of mind and cultivation, it would be even more of a waste.

"But if I don't do something, I feel uneasy." Gu Zhao looked at the documents in his hand.

Last time at the Celestial Master's Mansion, the two Yinggao people tried to use moral blackmail. Now that they've seen several old Taoist priests from Tianxia appear, they're trying to build relationships again.

But they were only putting on a show; the social atmosphere of hostility towards Tianxia remained unchanged.

Like fleas, not deadly, but disgusting.

Yinggao did learn a lot from Tianxia, ​​but perhaps due to environmental constraints and objective conditions, it lacked the vision of a great power and only had the mentality of an islander, so it only learned the surface and failed to grasp the core concepts.

To paraphrase an ancient saying, it means knowing small manners but lacking righteousness, being bound by trivialities but lacking great virtue, valuing minor details but disregarding integrity and shame, fearing power but not cherishing virtue, and the strong inevitably become thieves and bandits, while the weak inevitably become subservient.

Our ancestors were truly amazing; in just a few dozen words, they were full of valuable insights, vividly portraying a hypocrite who is two-faced and ungrateful.

"Then let's do something, not kill people, but destroy their spirits," Master Mingchong said with a smile. "There was a movie that was released recently that mentioned the Eightfold Pagoda. How about we bring that pagoda back?"

Gu Zhao's eyes lit up, and he nodded, saying, "That's a good idea!"

(End of this chapter)