"Clan Leader Mingyuan, your calm explanation has thrown the human race into chaos."
"Since it's fatalism..."
"Then tell me, why was I able to abolish the Golden Core Dao in the Xuanyang Tribe and spread the Heaven-Shielding Method?"
"Wouldn't the Grand Pure Sage have crushed me with a single palm?"
"Or, as soon as I was born, would the Grand Pure Sage have descended a trace of his power and annihilated me?"
Fang Ming pressed closer and closer.
He exerted immense pressure on Clan Leader Mingyuan.
"Mingyuan, tell me, why am I still alive?"
"Didn't the Grand Pure Sage know millions of years ago that I would abolish the Golden Core Dao?"
"Why didn't he kill me sooner?"
Clan Leader Mingyuan, facing immense pressure, did not change his expression.
His faith in the Grand Pure Sage was deeply ingrained in his mind.
Unshakeable.
He believed.
The Sage was omniscient, omnipotent, and capable of all things.
"Human Emperor, think for the best."
"Perhaps, the Grand Pure Sage found it incredibly amusing to watch the Human Emperor abolish the Golden Core Dao."
"Sages also enjoy watching monkey shows."
"There is no contradiction."
Clan Leader Mingyuan said calmly, "Watching a monkey show, and then crushing the monkey with a palm when it becomes strong, are not contradictory."
"The reason the Human Emperor has not yet been crushed."
"Only proves that the current Human Emperor, and the current human race, are still within the Sage's controllable range, not powerful enough."
"When the human race is qualified to threaten the Sage, the human race will surely be destroyed."
"Do not dream of counter-killing a Sage."
"Because, all future possibilities are already held by the Sage."
"The Sage knows your success rate in counter-killing."
"Before the Sage who possesses the future, the probability of the human race's success is zero."
"The Sage sees through the future, omniscient and omnipotent."
Fang Ming laughed heartily upon hearing this.
Laughing in extreme anger!
Fatalism!
The theory he hated the most.
Finally, a human uttered it.
The rise of the human race was described as the Demon Court's demon sages and the Heavenly Dao's six sages watching a monkey show.
What a monkey show!
"Mingyuan, are you saying that the human race can never rise?"
"The human race cannot defeat the demon race through its own efforts. Then, tell me, what does the human race need to rely on to escape its current fate as blood food for the demons?"
"What do we need to rely on?"
As Fang Ming expected, Clan Leader Mingyuan answered in a pseudo-religious manner.
"Below the Sages, all is but illusion."
"Effort is meaningless, strengthening oneself is meaningless."
"The only way we can escape the fate of being blood food for the demons is to build countless temples and have countless humans believe in the Grand Pure Sage."
"To offer all of our human race's meager and insignificant fortune to the Grand Pure Sage."
"After the Grand Pure Sage is satisfied and feels our sincerity, perhaps, with a one in a hundred million chance, he might save a portion of the human race."
"Resistance and defiance will only bring death."
"Worship and faith are the only hope for salvation."
Destiny is set.
The future is set.
The Sages are omnipotent, calculating the past, present, and future.
All future possibilities are calculated by the Sages, who are omniscient.
The Sage knows every thought of every living being at every moment.
Therefore, all beings can only obey the will of the Sage and follow the Sage's arrangements.
All beings can only obey the destiny of the Heavenly Dao.
Whether a person strives or not, their end is already determined.
Because even thoughts and intentions are within the control of the Heavenly Dao.
If the Heavenly Dao decrees your destiny to be diligent effort, you will not have thoughts of "slacking," and countless people will, under the influence of destiny, reinforce your resolve to cultivate diligently.
Personality, self-awareness, "growth," and "maturity" that arise from countless experiences are all arrangements of Heaven's will.
Fatalism.
A desperate viewpoint.
Fang Ming took a deep breath and looked at Clan Leader Mingyuan as if he were looking at a dead man.
His killing intent was palpable.
Mingyuan felt the killing intent but was not afraid. Instead, he said:
"Human Emperor, feel free to kill me."
"Heaven cannot be defied, the destiny of all beings is determined by Heaven."
"This is the truth. Killing me will not change the truth."
"I do not know if I will be killed by you."
"However, if I am killed by you at this moment, it will surely be an arrangement of destiny, to highlight your foolishness."
"You will regret this moment in the future, and history will record it."
"It will record that a Human Emperor did not believe in Heaven's will, spoke of man conquering Heaven, and did not heed Mingyuan's advice."
Mingyuan calmly continued, "If I am not killed by you, that too will be an arrangement of destiny."
"It will be an arrangement of destiny that I remind you, and that I succeed."
"In the future, history will record a Human Emperor who awakens, realizes Heaven cannot be defied, and consequently leads the entire race to worship the Grand Pure Sage, with all fortune belonging to the Grand Pure Sage."
"This is great merit."
"Whether you kill me or not, it is all destiny."
"All futures have already been seen through."
"Among the Three Thousand Great Daos, Heavenly Mandate is supreme, Heaven's will is supreme."
"Destiny is supreme."
Fang Ming sneered.
He would not kill Mingyuan at this moment.
Because this was a matter of ideology, a matter of the mind. Killing Mingyuan would be useless.
The tribal leaders, elders, and three ancestors of the human race around them had already heard Mingyuan's words and would naturally be influenced by them.
This influence would not be negated by Mingyuan's death.
The human race would no longer be proactive but passive.
Instead of striving, they would believe in "Heaven's will" and "destiny," praying and worshipping the Grand Pure Sage!
What Fang Ming intended to do was not to destroy Mingyuan's soul and body, but to thoroughly eradicate the ideology of "fatalism" that Mingyuan worshipped.
This is what is known as – destroying the inner demon!
"Superstitious heresy..."
"This is superstitious heresy!"
Fang Ming murmured.
How to break through superstitious heresy?
Naturally...
"Suiren, where is the largest temple dedicated to the Grand Pure Sage in the human ancestral land?"
"Where is the largest, most valuable statue of the Grand Pure Sage?"
Suiren, who had lost all confidence due to the influence of fatalism and whose thoughts had been shaken, could not immediately grasp Fang Ming's meaning.
He pointed the way for Fang Ming.
Fang Ming immediately transformed into a beam of light and flew away.
Only then did Suiren react with belated understanding.
"Fang Ming! What are you doing?"
Suiren lost his composure for the first time!
Fang Ming's tone, his attitude, and having just been provoked by Mingyuan.
Now he was asking where the statue of the Grand Pure Sage was.
Was he going to worship the Grand Pure Sage?
Absolutely impossible!
Based on Suiren's understanding of Fang Ming, this was absolutely impossible!
Then, what Fang Ming was going to do became obvious.
"It's definitely not for anything good."
Suiren's scalp tingled, and he followed Fang Ming.
Behind him, Clan Leader Mingyuan also activated his Golden Immortal cultivation and flew away rapidly, following closely behind the two.
He too had a bad premonition.
"Has this Fang Ming lost his mind?"
Mingyuan thought to himself.
He wondered if Fang Ming, stimulated by the situation, was going to do something foolish.
However, Mingyuan was not worried.
After all, the Sage was omniscient and omnipotent, calculating everything. Presumably, the Grand Pure Sage already knew what Fang Ming was going to do today and where he was flying to the statue.
All of Fang Ming's actions were within the Sage's calculations.