Chapter 1706: Chapter 325: Huai Guang Swarm Watches Over You
——To beco a human.
At first, Ian was sowhat confused, but he quickly keenly grasped the aning behind the words of the Twin Pontiffs.
To beco human and to beco Humans are different terms on Terra.
In this world, there are many alien and otherworldly life forms, and ‘human’ is the self-referred term for all intelligent life, Humans is their classification of their own species—in a sense, all intelligent life forms are humans, the ‘primates’ of their ecosystems.
But on Terra, the term for Humans specifically refers to ‘Terra Humans’.
In the past, Embrace Light has already exhibited many non-human characteristics and peculiar colors; if they were to say in the next mont that the Twin Pontiffs told Ian that they were actually not Humans but so high-intelligence AI, relic machines protected by the Star God, powerful Voidrealm Machine Gods, lost maintenance systems of ancient civilization… Ian would not be surprised no matter how far-fetched it might be.
Why would such beings want to beco Humans? This is clearly not normal, although Ian himself developed the Arcane Pathway for cultivation of immortality, Terra is not a world of cultivation fantasy, and aliens have no need to transform into humans.
Thus, the ‘human’ ntioned by the Twin Pontiffs must have a deeper aning.
“The ‘human’ you are talking about, is it so kind of ‘spirit’ or ‘concept’?”
After a mont of silence, Ian thought of a possibility and softly said, “Humans are humans, and not beasts in essence?”
Humans, are the majority of the people on Terra now, a kind of higher animal, even after undergoing various transformations, still pure beast-like creatures if they fully followed their instinctive desires.
But ‘human’ is different.
Pure humans transcend animal nature, a subli idea erging from beastly instincts.
It is the essence of all order, ethics, and morals created by Humans to constrain their beastly nature, the will and determination of self-restraint, a kind of ethereal yet real spirit and will created by Humans to transcend primal instincts.
A pure spirit, a transcendent will.
That is the true essence why human civilization can continue to this day, the foundational reason why upright primates on Terra Star can be called humans.
Humans rely on this self-transcendence of beastly nature, to step out of animalistic existence, and stride toward becoming true humans, the spirit of all things.
In this world, with so many aliens, everyone is human.
However, because of the Calamity of Heavenly Fall, because of The End, more people have regressed into beasts for various reasons, and even Terra Humans have regressed, with Terra’s social moralities and ethical standards all devolving to quite primitive levels.
Just a bit short—whether it’s without the help of extraterrestrial friends or without the help of True Dragons, Terra Humans might lose civilization and wisdom like other alien life forms, start again from ape-like beginnings, and lose the title of ‘human’.
Ian thinks that what Embrace Light ans by becoming ‘human’ essentially refers to this.
The reason they created a Land of Bliss around the Holy Mountain Plains, a safe haven for all seekers of peace, is to try to gradually transform these humans whose civilizations have regressed, into ‘humans’.
However, in Ian’s view, this attempt by Embrace Light might indeed cultivate a group of highly moral clerics, but they are just clerics—their nobility and selflessness stem from the small community around the Holy Mountain, not because of the improvent of the entire world’s atmosphere.
And because of the uniqueness of Embrace Light, everyone considers the nobility of the Holder of the Huai Guang Office as normal, few are influenced by them.
Therefore, he wants to create other tools beyond morality, nation, ethics, laws… Domain of Void AI, Heart of Terra.
Using this approach, exploiting human desires to popularize Arcane Pathway, subtly changing the entire great world from the fundantal Sublimation Path.
[You understood our aning]
At this mont, the voice of the Twin Pontiffs sounded more gratified, their tone carrying an exceptional sense of upliftnt and joy: [We are delighted, Ian. We are very delighted with you]
[Originally, because of everything witnessed in Silverpeak Domain by Yingguang and Glorious Sword, we were already very delighted, but now it’s even more so]
[If you can beco one of us, you can certainly lead the sublimation of Embrace Light]
“I must state in advance.”
Hearing this, Ian beca wary and said: “I am a Noble, and my goal is to unify Terra and rule the world—I don’t aspire to, nor do I recognize anarchism.”
“In fact, I haven’t planned to build a democratic society, at least not for the next hundred years, I want to hold absolute power and won’t tolerate any others giving ‘opinions’.”
Even with Embrace Light, it is the sa.
In Ian’s view, Terra’s social structure and order are very poor, but there is one aspect that is even better than Earth.
The true rulers and upper echelons, at least they are ‘strong’, not only possessing absolute violence but also exceptional knowledge and determination.
Doesn’t this sound a bit strange? Such a dictatorship system does not seem good at all.
But actually, this social system solves a problem, that is the questioning by Ordinary people towards the rulers.
In Ian’s previous life, before Earth unified into the Earth Federation, many small country leaders ascended only because of good luck, and so because of family lineage. Even not only small countries, so large countries, their leaders might not be the smartest, most rational, or most suitable ones among everyone.
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