Thinking of this,
Gu Tiancheng was completely enlightened.
He understood everything.
There were only two paths for a world's development.
One was to become a Celestial Immortal devoid of emotion and desire, an individual capable of wielding immense power.
Yet that immense power operated entirely according to the Heavenly Dao.
Like the laws of nature, individuals could not use it as they pleased. They were deployed and controlled by the Heavenly Dao.
Those who defied it would be stripped of their Immortal Bodies.
And reduced to ordinary mortals.
The other path was for individuals to possess no real power.
Nor would the Heavenly Dao exist.
That was the so-called technological system.
Everything was controlled by the collective.
Collective reason restrained individual recklessness.
For example, if the leader of some major power was about to die and, in his frustration before death, wanted to launch a nuke to drag others down with him.
That would not work.
One person could not launch it alone.
The operators would not obey such a deranged order either.
It was not as though operators were all robots, incapable of judgment and able to carry out any command.
The operators were also captains, underground base commanders, and so on...
When carrying out the final order, they too would judge it and make their own decisions.
They would determine whether it was a misjudgment or a mistake.
That way, even if the other side made an error, it would only destroy a small area.
It would not destroy the entire world.
Or rather, in a world without the Heavenly Dao, you could do whatever you wanted.
If you destroyed yourselves, you bore the consequences yourselves.
Just like polluting the world—the collective had to suffer for it.
Do whatever the hell you wanted.
Earth did not care, the