"Alright, then you must make sure they are taken care of."
Perhaps it was because of Ajieta's account of Li Xingkong's actions, or perhaps it was because of her inexplicable trust in Li Xingkong, but after much deliberation, she finally agreed.
"If it's about getting everyone out of here, I can help."
Having made up her mind, the goddess raised the scepter in her hand.
The Mist beneath their feet dissipated, revealing the entire continent before them. As the scepter in her hand emitted a brilliant light, the continent beneath their feet seemed to shatter like a jigsaw puzzle. Then, all the inhabited landmasses shifted and pieced together, forming a rather large island.
The lives of people from the entire continent were basically crammed onto this island, and for a time, it was packed with people, creating a chaotic scene.
Fortunately, Li Xingkong acted even faster, gently flicking downwards, and a white stream of air descended from the sky, like a silver river falling from heaven, landing on that island.
Those swept by the airflow turned into gaseous states and then flowed into reality one by one through the opened passage.
Although Li Xingkong had made many preparations, they were clearly insufficient in the face of all living beings in the world. Fortunately, in addition to transforming them into physical form, Li Xingkong could also temporarily place them in the Soul-Guiding Banner.
If it exists as a soul, it would require far less material.
The air currents spread across the entire island, like dry ice covering a stage, leaving only countless white wisps of air visible throughout the island.
As more and more living beings were transferred, Li Xingkong noticed that the state of the Shengxin beside him was becoming increasingly unstable.
Although it wasn't outwardly apparent, her aura was undeniable, as if something had entered her body, and this unknown entity was clearly beyond her comprehension.
" Shengxin, Shengxin!"
Li Xingkong paused his "Scooping Character Art and looked at the goddess who was struggling to persevere.
"I... I'm fine, but you need to hurry, I have a feeling something bad is about to happen."
The goddess's speech was somewhat incoherent; judging from her appearance, something seemed to be disrupting her memory.
Li Xingkong reached out and placed his hand on her head, his Divine Sense flowing into her brain like a gentle stream.
Just kidding, is there anything Li Xingkong can't handle? Since he's encountered this situation, he certainly can't just stand by and watch someone die.
Li Xingkong's Divine Sense quickly spread throughout the entire neural network of the Shengxin, and soon he figured out what the state was.
Every living being in the dream world carries a memory of the Shengxin. However, these memories were deliberately separated from her before she entered the dream world; they are memories of her identity in the real world, her past, and the civilization and homeland she inhabits.
Naturally, there are no good memories of a destroyed homeland. As more and more memories returned to the main body, the Shengxin, which originally only remembered the beginning and end of its dream world, began to be disturbed and washed away by these chaotic memories.
The person's entire personality has begun to be affected.
Although the kind goddess still occupies the core of Shengxin's personality, several dark thoughts are already impacting her mind in ways unseen by ordinary means.
Such sentiments include, "Since it's my creation, it should live and die with this world," "My civilization has been destroyed, why should someone save a civilization from a dream?" and even, "Why now of all times? If they had come earlier, they could have saved her..."
All sorts of dark thoughts that had been suppressed for many years came together and began to impact the various neural networks of the Shengxin.
Li Xingkong hadn't paid much attention to the Shengxin race in the real world before, but now that he had access to her neural network, he discovered that the existence of this race was more idealistic.
Mental energy plays a more important role within their bodies.
Similar to the Force, they can truly achieve a state where they don't feel hungry, and therefore they won't feel hungry. Perhaps it's an innate characteristic of their species, but their mental power can naturally influence reality.
Furthermore, this powerful mental strength is enough for them to construct their own dream world while fully conscious.
However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Due to their strong mental strength, the influence of emotions on them is also amplified infinitely. What may be just a matter of a thought for ordinary people is a great internal battle for them.
Li Xingkong also understood the significance of this dream world for the Shengxin.
Its very existence may have been intended to separate the evil and impure thoughts within the Shengxin, dispersing these thoughts into dreams and attaching them to the beings within those dreams, so that they would not affect itself. However, after the destruction of civilization, the intense pain of revenge and the grief of civilization's extinction made it impossible for her to bear such a tremendous change on her own.
In order to avoid being controlled by this overwhelming negative emotion, she could only choose to fall into a deep sleep, and then dissect a large number of negative personalities, forming the myriad beings in her dream world.
As for the Poison of Corruption, if she had been in a conscious state, this poison would have been transformed and released into her dream world. However, because she had already fallen into a deep sleep, the most crucial step was missed.
The unconverted poison was directly released into the world. The beings whose very foundation was the goddess's impure thoughts naturally could not withstand this level of attraction. The evil thoughts within them were drawn out one after another, forming endless demons.
Therefore, while Li Xingkong was saving these people, he was actually dismantling Shengxin's home.
If he hadn't discovered it in time, the Shengxin, affected by negative emotions, might have truly fallen into depravity.
Although it was done to save someone, given the current situation, it's clear that my actions caused her more harm than good.
Li Xingkong paused his rescue efforts and turned his attention to Shengxin.
Ajieta and the others naturally wanted to be rescued, but Shengxin couldn't be left unattended.
For a life form with such immense spiritual power, whose entire physical body is formed from spiritual energy, the only way to deal with emotions is to redirect them.
But Li Xingkong had a better way.
Emotions are also a form of will; in other words, they are a manifestation of the soul.
It's certainly strange to use Soul-Guiding Banner for such an operation, but as long as it works, that's fine, isn't it?
Li Xingkong took the Soul-Guiding Banner and made some minor modifications to it.
The modified Soul-Guiding Banner is less about guiding souls and more about absorbing evil thoughts.
It can absorb the distracting and evil thoughts in people's hearts and store them in the banner. When necessary, it can also be used as a weapon of mental pollution and actively released.
However, it only affects emotions, not memories. The original painful memories still exist, but without the interference of emotions, it allows people to deal with problems in the most rational way.