To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to establish a destiny for the people.
After setting rules for the Myriad Worlds, he would let the countless people of the Human Race control their own destinies, free from the encroachment of other races, the bullying of Demon Barbarians, and the oppression of powerful forces!
Hearing "to establish a heart for Heaven and Earth," everyone had merely been awestruck. But hearing "to establish a destiny for the people," most felt admiration, while a few were utterly dumbstruck.
"Birth of the People" was originally a poem in the Greater Odes of the Book of Songs. In its most basic sense, it referred to the founding ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, and the "people" in the Book of Songs received the protection of Heaven and the gods. Later, the term came to refer broadly to everyone under heaven.
To establish a destiny for the people originally meant enlightening the myriad people, restraining them through morality and leading them through spiritual guidance, so they could control their own destinies.
But Fang Yun knew that neither morality nor spiritual guidance could truly let the myriad people control their destinies.
The people could not simply sit and await death. They had to contend, had to struggle. Only then would they have security in prosperous times and strength in chaotic times.
Fang Yun would give the people security and strength!
Otherwise, "to establish a destiny for the people" was nothing more than a slogan.
Those who shouted "to establish a destiny for the people" might not understand the brutality of that process as clearly as Fang Yun did.
Only those Grand Academicians and even Great Scholars could hear the sound of slaughter in those words, because if Fang Yun had not intended to give the people strength,