By this point, Li Chen's beliefs had been laid bare.
He was sincere in his advocacy of everyone like dragons and great unity throughout the world.
Yet the reality was that, with only inefficient publicity and education, feeble social and moral restraints, and backward material self-interest as an intrinsic motivation... cultivators would remain trapped for all eternity in the mire of desire and the barriers of their own knowledge, sinking ever deeper.
Only by transcending all this, thinking as a perfected being and acting as the Immortals and Gods did, could anything change!
Specifically, he would use universal ownership to forcibly consolidate all rights, intelligence, and moral standards, become the sovereign of the Human Dao, and use Puppet Dao technology to transform both the bodies and minds of the people under his rule.
Li Chen was now a Great Power who had risen above the multitude, a transcendent sage who stood beyond society as a whole. He already fulfilled this prerequisite, and he had enough cultivation provisions and people under his command to carry out his plans. This was also why he had to keep authority aboard the Bone Kun Warship clearly defined and free of outsiders' interference.
In the outside world, where other Primordial Spirit Great Powers still existed, he could never accomplish so much. Ultimately, he still had to proceed from small to large, from easy to difficult.
After explaining his ideals, Li Chen immediately instructed Heavenly Pivot to make arrangements for them. Soon, he would begin employing their labor and intelligence in the construction of his entire ideal society.
"Did you use brainwashing on them?"
After watching everyone leave, Mei Xuan was transported along with Li Chen to another location. Suddenly, she spoke.
"No," Li Chen said. "Why do you ask?"
"So many slave workers and artisans