Above the High Heavens
Chapter 716

Souls: So That's How It Works (13)

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"I'm not a hero, nor can I save you. To be honest, even heroes can only solve your troubles for a time. To truly resolve your problems at the root, society itself must first be reshaped."

Ian sighed. He frankly told the surrounding souls, "Right now... I temporarily have no way to solve the problems you've encountered, to create a society where everyone can be happy."

"According to my analysis, the core reason you suffered such pain lies in the increasingly intensified conflicts between nations. And at their root, those national conflicts are social contradictions created between the evolved."

"Terra is lacking quite a few things right now. First is a path for ordinary people to become evolved, but that only applies between low energy levels. High-level powerhouses and low-level powerhouses are essentially two different species, and that's not easy to solve. The planet's resources are utterly insufficient to raise the entire population to high energy levels, and establishing something like an imperial examination or college entrance examination system would also be difficult."

"Not to mention that, at its root, your plight came from harassment before the war between two nations... The laboratory was a later scheme. This had little to do with the evolved. Even if everyone were ordinary people, wars would still happen—and they might be even more terrifying. Don't assume ordinary people are inherently kind. They can commit evil too, commit sins, even drag all humanity into extinction."

"Of course, perhaps they wouldn't. But I think that if Terra continues like this, everyone will certainly perish in the end."

"So whether it is saving you or solving this problem, the first step is to utterly eliminate conflicts between ethnic groups, nations, and even cultures... In this regard, Terra is actually in a relatively good position, because everyone

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