The Courage to Stand Against the World
"Cannot."
Xiao Wu answered decisively.
As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, Xiao Wu has witnessed countless instances of the survival of the fittest among Soul Beast.
Except in very rare cases, such as when she saved the young Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, they both listened to her very much.
But she also knew that this was because the Titan Giant Ape and the Sky Azure Bull Python possessed bloodlines far superior to other Soul Beast races, so much so that their intelligence far surpassed that of other Soul Beast at the hundred-year level.
Other types of Soul Beast, especially carnivorous Soul Beast, cannot coexist peacefully with herbivorous Soul Beast unless they reach the level of Hundred-Thousand-Year and truly possess human intelligence. Only then, when faced with a situation of equal strength, will they choose to keep to themselves and avoid conflict.
At the same time, only the more powerful super Soul Beast, namely Ferocious Beast, can overpower other Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast with their strength, so that Soul Beast of different races at the Hundred-Thousand-Year level or above can sit down face to face and discuss a certain matter together.
The survival-of-the-fittest mentality among Soul Beast also triggered a memory in Xiao Wu's past—
Before she and her mother went to live in the Core Area Star Dou Great Forest with the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape, they actually lived in the middle layer of the Star Dou Great Forest.
Her father, Xiao Wu, had already reached the level of Hundred-Thousand-Year before she was born, but he did not take human form. Instead, he chose to go to the core area of Star Dou Great Forest after she was born.
Xiao Wu remembers that her mother said that her father had come into contact with many human Soul Master over the past ten thousand years and had learned about some human vocabulary and lifestyles. So he fantasized that Soul Beast of the Hundred-Thousand-Year was similar. He said he wanted to go to the Core Area of Star Dou Great Forest to live the life of a "superior Soul Beast" and planned to bring her and her mother there to live in the future.
Then--
Her father never came back.
In the past, Xiao Wu thought that her father had found a new love and abandoned her and her mother. She just didn't understand why she and her mother hadn't seen their father after going to the core central area with Da Ming and Er Ming ... But now that she's entered human society and thought more deeply, she seems to understand the key point—
So her father was killed, or even eaten, by other, more powerful Ferocious Beast!
[Damn it! Looks like I really have to team up with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm!]
Previously, Xiao Wu's feelings for Sky Dream Ice Silkworm were limited to sympathy for its plight. But now, she has come to realize that one or more of the "landlords" who suddenly appeared in the core area might be her father's killer!
[Damn it! A human being at the Titled Douluo level killed my mother; a Ferocious Beast with over 200,000 years of Soul Beast killed my father!]
Why is Sister Xiao Wu fate so tragic?
However, Xiao Wu was an optimist by nature, and she quickly recovered her spirits, saying to Zhou Qing, "Hmm, I understand. The relationship between nobles and commoners is like the food chain among Soul Beast, but it's not absolute."
Humans and Soul Beast don't seem to be that different, just more complex...
"So, that's where the problem lies." Zhou Qing gazed at the bright Starry Sky, a strange light flickering in his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Xiao Wu understood Zhou Qing's explanation, but she couldn't understand why Zhou Qing suddenly acted strangely again and even denied his previous statement.
"It shouldn't be like this! Status can be differentiated based on ability, with distinctions of rank, but in terms of social standing, there shouldn't be such a hierarchy! We're all human beings!"
Zhou Qing has realized that he is completely out of place in this world!
He wanted to change—
However, Innate Full Soul Power and Innate Internal Scripture Chart can make him a strong person, can they also change the world?
He originally thought that technological changes would be enough.
Productive forces determine relations of production.
As long as we can influence Tang San and shift his research on Hidden Weapon towards Soul Tool, and then expand this influence in the future, we can change the world.
However, as time went by, and they actually entered Nuoding City, they learned that Nuoding Academy did nothing to stop the bullying of commoner students by Noble Student; they learned that the Lord of Nuoding and the Lord of Falling Star City would stop at nothing to achieve their respective goals; they learned that even Commoner Soul Master would give up their dignity for profit; and they learned that countless commoners were afraid of Soul Master, nobles, and so on.
Zhou Qing had already realized that simply researching and developing Soul Tool would not change anything, and the ultimate beneficiaries would only be the privileged class.
The improvement of productivity can only change the relations of production... nothing more.
And the form of society—
It's determined by social consciousness!
so.
Zhou Qing was confused.
As Transmigrator, he at most possesses Innate Full Soul Power. As long as he doesn't die, he has a chance to become Titled Douluo, but that's all.
It might influence how those around you think, but to change the entire social structure, you need to change the mindset of everyone on the Douluo Continent first.
Others can learn from his way of thinking about problems.
But how can we change our mindset?
Commoners, Soul Master, and nobles – different identities and environments lead to different mindsets among people of different social classes. How can these differences be changed?
How can this be changed?
Answer--
Zhou Qing also knew that he was going against the whole world and destroying everything that originally existed on the Douluo Continent!
Whether it's the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, or the Spirit Hall, overthrow them all—
Then.
Starting from scratch!
He built it the way he wanted it to be!
but.
This is incredibly difficult, even hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of times more difficult than destroying the entire Divine Realm!
Destruction is easy; all you need to do is increase your power!
But the thoughts...
During this process, no one will be his friend—
Tang San, Xiao Wu, and other potential future friends may all choose to part ways with you because of their respective families, sects, interests, hatred, or other reasons...
The Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire will not allow such treasonous thoughts to exist; they will do everything in their power to slander and erase everything about him...
Spirit Hall?
Zhou Qing saw it very clearly. This was an organization similar to a religion, and it was established by Soul Master. Soul Master had the highest status. The higher the level of the Spirit Hall Sub-hall, Main Hall, and Holy Hall, the more obvious the phenomenon of equating strength with status became, thus distinguishing between superiors and inferiors.
Although the Spirit Hall model is better than the system in the Two Great Empires where Soul Master are Soul Master and nobles are nobles, Zhou Qing still does not agree with it.
As a result, the social structure of the entire Douluo Continent truly resembles the naked state of survival of the fittest, like that of Soul Beast.
At least the Two Great Empires had a facade of "loving their people like their own children" as a cover.
It can be described as hypocritical.
But without this layer of skin, Zhou Qing had no doubt that countless Soul Master would kill people in the street because of the slightest dissatisfaction. Moreover, as long as one is strong enough, one can ignore the law, or rather, the law will favor Soul Master.
Although it's pretty much the same now, the strong still have to maintain their dignity. No matter how despicable or insidious they are in the dark, they still need to find a respectable reason to kill someone in the open.
However, if the Spirit Hall, a force that values strength above all else, were to rule the continent, then the saying "weakness is the original sin" might truly become a "truth."
He was terrified by such a world!
But he is even more afraid that he will become the kind of person he hates most in the future!
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The courage to face the world—
he.
Zhou Qing.
Does it really exist?