As Ye Ting truly brought Alaya under his control, his authority as the king of humanity took another great step forward.
What could Alaya accomplish?
Simply put, controlling Alaya was equivalent to controlling all of humanity.
As humanity's collective unconscious, Alaya, despite possessing an independent consciousness, did not have the power to directly manipulate human thought. However, through limitless psychological suggestion, she could achieve the result of controlling people's minds.
After all, though humans possessed rational thought, no one was absolutely rational.
Some people inspired affection at first sight, while others grew more irritating the more one looked at them. Some things made people want to do them more and more, while others caused nausea the moment they were done—this was all the subconscious at work.
At its core, the subconscious arose from human instincts and the brain's vague calculations based on past experience.
Someone raised from childhood to be kind would instinctively loathe evil deeds even without rational consideration. That was the subconscious formed by past experience.
This sort of subconscious was relatively easy to understand, but far more subconscious impulses were utterly incomprehensible—yet they were facts of human consciousness, the result of the human brain's fuzzy algorithms.
Intuition and instinct were also forms of the subconscious.
When someone said, "My intuition tells me I can't do this," it was precisely the result of the brain's vague calculations based on past experience. A battle-hardened warrior's perception of danger also came from this.
However, Alaya's emergence gave the formation of the subconscious a new source.
It was like hypnosis aimed at the entire human race, forcefully instilling a certain emotion into humanity's hearts without any regard for reason.
With Alaya's help, the Qin Empire's operational efficiency rose dramatically.
Every Qin citizen seemed to have become a born "saint," a "moral