Chapter 486 The Man Who Changes the World (7600)

Extraordinary power is a strange thing.

Many people say that crime will disappear with the progress of science and society, and the emergence of extraordinary power will accelerate this process. But this statement has never been fulfilled.

In fact, after the spiritual energy recovery, various types of crimes not only did not disappear, but became even more rampant.

Now, four years after the spiritual energy recovery, the power of criminals has even become one of the main reasons for the disruption of social order.

As one of the branch captains of the Spiritual Energy Incident Countermeasures Team, Su Beiluo is very clear about the inside story.

Just the day before yesterday, with the help of his colleagues, he captured a criminal who had caused a vicious serial murder case in a remote village.

A patient with 'extraordinary disease'.

The criminal was a young man in his early twenties, with excellent talent, the best among the local young people. He spent four years breaking through the awakening barrier and reaching the initial stage of the extraordinary, which is also a top-ranking achievement in the extraordinary department of the state-level academy, with unlimited prospects.

He was the pride of the locals, bringing glory to his family. His parents and relatives praised him endlessly, and the villagers all hoped to get on his good side. He himself was about to soar and become the representative of the local cultivators. His life was going smoothly.

But this young man brutally killed twenty-four people in two months, all of them were dismembered and dissected, even their souls were fragmented. Most of the victims were his relatives and acquaintances, and a small number were innocent people who happened to pass by.

This was very abnormal, even incredible. If the evidence wasn't so conclusive, even the relatives of the victims would not have believed that the murderer was that promising young man.

In the end, according to Su Beiluo's on-site investigation, the serial murder case was particularly heinous, the methods were particularly cruel, and the consequences were particularly serious. The official issued important instructions, and the Spiritual Energy Incident Countermeasures Team captured the fugitive criminal deep in a cave in the mountains. The criminal still did not intend to surrender, but violently resisted arrest.

The young man was indeed a genius. His self-taught spiritual incantation technique could control qi to startle the gods and destroy people's souls.

If Su Beiluo hadn't been wearing the bracelet made by his own son, now the number one person in mankind, a hazy, holy white light would have appeared directly, protecting his whole body and easily blocking that attack. Even if he had cultivated to the high stage of awakening, he wouldn't have died immediately, but he would probably have been seriously ill from the pure soul impact.

Even so, this matter was still very regrettable.

Logically speaking, the conscience produced by the progress of social morality would prevent him from harming familiar villagers. The monitoring cameras produced by technological advancements would make him nowhere to hide after committing a crime. And the various tracking techniques after the emergence of extraordinary power would make it impossible for criminals to escape the net, even if they ran to the ends of the earth.

With these three constraints, any slightly normal person would never want to commit a crime. Even if they were short of money, coerced, or desperate, they would never go down this path of certain death.

Killing people, killing humans is not the same as killing chickens, killing cows, or stepping on bugs. Most of the time, killing would not become one of the options for ordinary people to solve problems.

But patients with extraordinary disease are different.

They are among the crowd, like foxes among chickens, wolves among sheep.

They harm humans without any sense of guilt or remorse, but rather feel pleasure.

They have no ethics or morals, and their strength, which surpasses that of ordinary people, makes technological supervision difficult to take effect. Without higher-level cultivators coming to investigate, the tracking of ordinary cultivators would be interfered with, or even hunted down in reverse.

Why?

Because of extraordinary power.

Extraordinary power is a strange thing.

"Most ordinary people cannot truly control extraordinary power. They can only regard this power as a kind of enhancement, such as a strengthened arm, a strengthened appetite, a strengthened thinking speed, and then continue to live according to past habits, simply repeating the past. Most of the folk cultivators now are in this state."

"If not, but instead regard this power as a third hand, wings for flying, a second brain, some kind of proof that one has surpassed ordinary people, then the cultivator's mentality will quickly become unbalanced, and if it is not stabilized through cultivation, it will quickly become distorted and lose 'humanity'."

Introduced by his wife, Su Beiluo came to the special hospital for cultivators and consulted with Dr. Liu, a capable middle-aged woman in her fifties who is extremely well-known among the authorities in related fields.

"Human common sense is very fragile. If a person knows that they can fly at will, they will not be afraid of cliffs, nor will they be afraid of heights. Many desperate situations in this world have become easy paths for them—it is impossible to make such an individual maintain the same way of thinking as ordinary people. They will therefore lose a part of their humanity."

Dr. Liu's explanation answered some of Su Beiluo's doubts, but also made him more confused.

"Then what is the relationship between extraordinary disease and humanity?"

Su Beiluo asked in confusion at that time. Dr. Liu could see that if she didn't explain clearly, she would probably have a hard time leaving the office today, so she sighed and explained in detail.

"Normal cultivators, even if they lose their humanity, still have a 'dao heart' (cultivation heart) produced through long-term cultivation to maintain their mental health. The so-called dao heart is a set of three views (worldview, values, and outlook on life) that can both accommodate basic human morality and carry the special way of thinking of cultivators. The dao heart varies from person to person. Some people are born with a dao heart, so they cultivate quickly, without needing to adjust their state of mind, and can advance bravely without fear of abnormality."

"However, patients with extraordinary disease do not have a dao heart. It is a special disease that appears after the patient's humanity is lost to the extreme. Extraordinary disease is not a psychological disease, but a physical and spiritual disease. The peak period of onset is when breaking through from the peak of the awakening stage to the initial stage of the extraordinary. Generally, the first onset occurs when the patient cultivates a spiritual power organ for the first time, when the originally normal human organs are replaced by spiritual power organs obtained through cultivation."

"Because spiritual power organs do not have nerve reflexes in the usual sense, but instead provide information feedback through the soul, this will lead to abnormalities in the patient's brain, which still belongs to the category of normal organisms, hormone secretion imbalances, and the appearance of various hallucinations and phantom pains, or abnormal excitement or depression. The more spiritual power organs, the more serious the brain abnormality, until the brain itself is transformed into a spiritual power organ."

"This process was also called 'acquiring the innate' in ancient times. The ordinary brain's thinking structure is gradually replaced by the soul's divine will, and the fragile thinking patterns that are affected by hormones are eventually replaced by a firm dao heart. Ordinary cultivators will go through this process."

"But during this period, the patient's extraordinary power increases rapidly, but the brain is still a human brain. The conflict between common sense and power is too great, leading to a complete collapse of the state of mind and the loss of humanity. This is the cause of most extraordinary diseases."

This is the judgment made by most doctors on patients with extraordinary disease.

Su Beiluo understood very well.

Humans themselves are complex organic machines that rely on brain hormone secretion to determine their psychological state.

When a human brain possesses extraordinary power but cannot control it, it will make the person a slave to power.

Just like the young man that Su Beiluo himself arrested, because he was addicted to the pleasure of power advancement, he could kill his relatives and friends without any scruples, using their bodies and souls as experimental materials, as stepping stones for his further advancement.

Because they possess extraordinary power, they cannot regard ordinary people as their own kind, and they completely lose human empathy and a sense of guilt.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Starting from the extraordinary stage, cultivators who begin to transform spiritual power organs, in the traditional biological definition, can hardly be regarded as humans. Their spiritual power organs no longer contain gene structures, but are instead some special semi-spiritualized organisms, another special inheritance code.

The difference between a completely spiritualized extraordinary being and humans is greater than the difference between humans and ants. How can an elementalized fire person have any blood connection with a mortal body?

They don't even have blood.

Therefore, cultivators need to stabilize their souls and strengthen their state of mind.

The reason why humans are human is because they have a human heart.

Otherwise, after achieving the extraordinary, damage to one's cultivation base would be a minor matter. What is more likely is a drastic change in temperament, the invasion of external evils, and cultivation deviation, almost turning into another person—after all, even the structure of brain cells may change. If the soul is not stable enough to maintain its old three views, then it is entirely possible to become another person after advancing.

As the saying goes, 'Cultivating life but not cultivating nature is the first disease of cultivation'. This is the reason. This disease is the disease of demonic entry, the disease of the extraordinary.

In the ancient era of immortals and gods, cultivators were selected. Most cultivators were born with a stable state of mind and an unshakable 'dao heart', which could successfully survive the stage of humanity loss, return from 'acquired' to 'innate', and then derive a 'natal supernatural power' from the 'innate soul', completely making the dao heart indestructible, the three views stable, and becoming a 'human immortal' who is unafraid of hundreds of tribulations and never changes their original intention.

However, in modern times, after the recovery of spiritual energy, the cultivation of power has been popularized, but the cultivation of the dao heart has not kept up.

Therefore, the rampant extraordinary disease, which is also the rampant 'demonic entry' of ancient times, is not surprising at all.

"It's strange, why doesn't my son have this kind of problem?"

Sitting at his desk, Su Beiluo took a sip of tea from his teacup and asked himself in confusion, "No matter how I look at it, he hasn't seemed like a normal person since he was a child."

But this self-question made Su Zhou, who came to visit his old father, feel quite embarrassed.

"Dad, what are you talking about... How could I get extraordinary disease! My dao heart is incomparably firm. You could bomb me with a nuclear bomb and it wouldn't matter!"

"But I doubt it..."

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Su Beiluo smiled teasingly at Su Zhou, then patted the table, signaling his son to sit down: "I've seen that video of you eating that Guiche (nine-headed bird) alive in the Beast God Realm. It still makes me worry about your mental state."

"Moreover, it is said that you can take off your head and disassemble and assemble parts of your body at will—this is a major symptom of extraordinary disease, that is, completely disregarding human common sense!"

"Not to mention what you did when you were a child... To save trouble, you would even secretly climb out of the window and jump off the building, not using the stairs. And looking for ghosts and searching for supernatural events, now it seems that these things were extremely dangerous."

"This..."

Su Zhou was choked.

Truth be told, it's true. Everything he had done since he was a child had nothing to do with ordinary people's common sense. If he had to say, he was more like he had entered the demonic path from the beginning, but now the demonic state had stabilized.

But this does not affect his current mental health at all. He is sunny, friendly, and a good boy.

At this time, Su Beiluo looked at the time. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon.

He raised his head and looked at Su Zhou: "Okay, no more small talk. You are so elusive, why did you suddenly think of coming to see me today?"

"Just checking on you, and asking how your work has been recently."

Su Zhou shook his head. No matter what others thought, he was a person with deep feelings for his family.

In this regard, even a young man regarded as a monster by others is no different from ordinary people.

"Anyway, tell me if there are any problems. After all, I recently heard that the global crime rate has risen further, and I'm really a little worried."

"...Actually, apart from the occasional extraordinary disease, other ordinary criminal incidents have almost disappeared without a trace."

In response, Su Beiluo pondered for a moment, but could only shake his head: "Look at the American Federation. Although the number of murders caused by extraordinary disease has increased sharply, with thousands of people dying a day, traditional shootings, traffic accidents, and various accidental deaths have all decreased significantly, and even the overall mortality rate has actually decreased."

"Although it's a little better on our side, there's no essential difference... But since you asked, I do think the details of some cases are a bit strange."

After all, he was not an outsider, and Su Zhou was even Su Beiluo's direct superior in terms of position, so the middle-aged man had nothing he couldn't say.

Specifically, when arresting patients with extraordinary disease, some patients with extraordinary disease would unleash powerful spells beyond the data, and some could even use particularly strange supernatural powers, causing some casualties to the team.

These spells and supernatural powers were extremely strange and powerful, not only inconsistent with the local cultivation traditions, but even without any traces in the Zheng (Central) State inheritance library.

Su Beiluo initially suspected that it was foreign inheritance smuggling, but later he did not find any related clues, so the source of these dangerous spells became an unsolved case, and he did not know how to deal with them.

After listening, Su Zhou immediately understood what was going on.

—Isn't this a fiend (xiemo)?

Humans can also be fiends, or rather, become the眷族 (juanzu, dependents/followers) of great existences, which is a matter of course.

It's just that in densely populated areas, because there is an Order Array, the information interference from great existences is not strong, so the transformation of humans into dependents has always been rare. However, it is indeed possible for Order Arrays to have loopholes in remote villages, leading to humans being summoned.

Different from ordinary extraordinary disease, humans transformed into fiends do not have any empathy and do not regard humans as their own kind. But what is most terrifying about them is the various dependent supernatural powers they spontaneously know.

"My mother was transferred to study the corpses of these abnormal patients with extraordinary disease again after returning from Qingqiu Star some time ago. According to her, the relationship between those 'humans' and us is only similar in a layer of skin."

Su Beiluo said, holding the handle of the teacup, his tone with obvious worry: "Although this world looks very peaceful, it is actually turbulent in the dark... Not to mention the increasingly powerful criminals we front-line law enforcement officers encounter every day, just looking at the policies of various countries around the world, you can tell that something is wrong."

"...What's wrong?"

Hearing this, Su Zhou couldn't help but frown. In the past year or two, he has basically been running around everywhere, the Beast God Realm, different worlds, Qingqiu Star, the moon, various secret realms... In general, he spends less time on Earth and more time outside, so he doesn't really understand the current policy situation of various countries in the world.

"The whole world is forcibly promoting the one-man-one-woman system."

Su Beiluo picked up the teacup and drank it in one gulp—Su Zhou was just like him in this regard. After putting down the teacup, the middle-aged man revealed a rather complicated expression: "No matter where, what country, what force, it's all the same."

"In places like Ross Country, there are even mandatory policies of national forced matchmaking to completely eliminate the single population."

"Really?"

As soon as Su Beiluo finished speaking, even Su Zhou was slightly surprised: "Are their populations so low? Do they have to use this kind of forced means to increase the population?"

"How could it be so simple?"

Su Beiluo raised his head, calmly glanced at his son, and then shook his head: "You stinky brat, although your strength is ridiculously strong, you're still very young in this regard... But that's how it is when you haven't been married."

"Think about it carefully. If the one-man-one-woman system is not forcibly implemented, then powerful extraordinary beings will naturally occupy more related resources, whether they are male or female. And if there is such a group of people who have been deprived of related possibilities, whether they are male or female, they have no family or children as a connection. Then, what kind of social unrest will be caused by the destructive power unleashed by this group of people in various social strata?"

"It's not the past anymore. We can no longer rely on war to get rid of the excess population... Compulsory one-man-one-woman, even compulsory marriage, is necessary. Human productivity is developed, but the consumption population does not increase, and there will be big problems."

Su Zhou silently nodded slightly, the young man's expression serious.

He had indeed never thought about this aspect of the problem.

Su Beiluo looked at his son's thoughtful expression, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Also, you young people don't remember, but we old people still clearly remember the 'Source War' of the past. The tragic nature of that war, the huge losses to the traditional energy industry, were simply unbelievable. This is also the reason why your Uncle Shao's family became wealthy."

"Although all countries no longer need old-fashioned energy sources like oil because of the recovery of spiritual energy, the many spiritual energy nodes on the continent, that is, the so-called blessed lands and paradises, and mythical secret realms, are also huge resources. No one dares to interfere in the secret realms within the borders of the four permanent members of the Security Council, but the secret realms in other small countries and some disputed areas have now become the focus of competition between various national forces. On the surface, everyone is happy, but in reality, small-scale wars may break out at any time."

Speaking of this, Su Beiluo leaned back in his chair.

His expression was calm, and only when speaking to his son could Su Beiluo put down the worries in his heart and confide a little trouble: "At that time, our Zheng (Central) State may also be involved... And then the whole world will experience a 'Secret Realm War' that is exactly the same as the 'Energy War' of the past."

"And once such a war breaks out, how many people will have to die before peace can be restored? Just thinking about it makes me feel annoyed."

"...Indeed, the hidden contradictions in this world are deeper than I imagined."

In response, Su Zhou frowned slightly.

Because of running around in foreign lands for many years, the young man really hadn't seriously thought about the current situation on Earth.

But now it seems that everything is very obvious.

This world is now at a huge fork in the road.

—Whether it is the cultivator class that is too peaceful and has lost its motivation to compete.

—Or the gradually spreading and increasingly common 'extraordinary disease' and 'human fiends'.

—Or even the simple 'competition for spiritual energy resources' and 'population growth problems', will all lead human civilization to a fork in the road.

The recovery of spiritual energy has smoothed out many of the contradictions of the past, but it has also triggered some new contradictions.

Many things have problems that need to be decided and solved.

If the problems are not solved now, but instead allow time to pass, then Earth civilization will likely be solved by the problems...

And then, it will be too late to recover, and even if immortals and gods descend again, it will be difficult to clean up the mess.

Since he cannot sit idly by and watch this world gradually descend into chaos, then he will take action to change it.

Coincidentally, Su Zhou is the person who can change the world.

"I can solve these problems perfectly."

Under his old father's slightly shocked expression, Su Zhou stood up, revealing a smile.

"Extraordinary disease is a subtle disease in the mind and body. Ordinary detection spells cannot confirm it, but with the 'Eye of Discrimination' that I have peeled off from my supernatural power, I can clearly see whether the thoughts emanating from a person's body are good or evil. I only need to modify it slightly to make it able to identify whether humanity is missing, and I can easily find patients with extraordinary disease in the crowd."

"As for fiends, it's even simpler. My Eye of Discrimination can easily identify them."

"As for the matter of activating the cultivator class, I have already begun to make adjustments. If you open your phone, you can see the latest news... Your old man's strength is also good. Perhaps you can also try to participate in one or two competitive events?"

"As for the many contradictions between various countries around the world..."

Saying this, Su Zhou had already turned around and opened the door to Su Beiluo's office.

The young man smiled confidently: "Just wait for next week's international news."

"I will give all of them, all those who attempt to create turmoil, a reason to be peaceful!"

Bang.

The door closed.

Su Zhou had already left.

"Wait, you brat!"

Hearing Su Zhou's reply, Su Beiluo got up in shock and quickly opened the door, wanting to catch up with him and ask what he intended to do.

But at this time, Su Zhou had already turned into a stream of light, passed through the window of the countermeasures team's office building, and disappeared into the distant sky.

Walking quickly to the window, the middle-aged man raised his head and looked at the rapidly flying cyan-purple spiritual light in the distance, not knowing whether to sigh or laugh.

"Silly child... Still saying you're not sick, ordinary people use the door, no normal person uses the window!"

And at this moment.

The other side of the world.

American Federation, Alaska, the new headquarters of the Saint Serpent Spiritual Union.

The Void Ritual Chamber.

Among a group of mysterious people who were arranged in a circle in a dark secret room inlaid with many gold gems, meditating with their eyes closed, and praying to the void, a leader suddenly opened his eyes with a look of joy.

"Lord?! You are finally back!"

This effeminate young man with long blond hair stood up, causing the gems and gold jewelry hanging all over his body to knock against each other, making a crisp sound.

The ritual was interrupted—but no one expressed dissatisfaction with this.

Because everyone sensed that a vast and distant will from the far end was stirring up waves in the depths of everyone's souls.

However, only Krossel could clearly hear the sound of that wave.

【——Innovation——Innovation——Innovation——】

It seemed as if such a sound was playing at the bottom of the void.

And a steady and indifferent young man's voice directly echoed in Krossel's soul against such background noise.

【Krossel.】

"Lord, I'm listening!"

Without any hesitation, the leader of this generation's Saint Serpent Spiritual Union knelt on one knee. Even though there was nothing in front of him, he was not rude at all.

【Next week, I will go to the American Federation.】

The young man's voice was cold and ruthless, and carried a hint of terrifying chill that seemed to make even the soul tremble. It was a little bit of ferocity inadvertently released by the one who had slaughtered thousands.

He said softly: 【Later, tell me what the current situation of the American Federation is, what are the internal contradictions, and what are the current administrative tendencies of the American Federation officials, as well as the decision-making tendencies related to the NW Foundation, tell me everything.】

【I will give you the reward you want.】

"Yes, Lord!"

Although it was clear that Su Zhou could get the news from the Zheng (Central) State official, Krossel, who was himself a descendant of a high-level executive of the NW Foundation, could guarantee that the information he knew was definitely top-secret decisions that other national intelligence agencies could not collect.

As for whether leaking this kind of information would cause any losses to the American Federation...

Hey, who cares—not to mention that he himself is the leader of an illegal mysterious organization.

In any case, compared to cultivating in a regular way, or being the leader of a mysterious organization in a regular way, sure enough, it's cooler to act together with this unfathomable lord who knows if he is an incarnation of a Void God!

Thinking of this, the handsome blond young man revealed a slightly crazy smile: "According to your will!"

【Well, very good.】

Sensing the sincerity in Krossel's heart, Su Zhou's praise came from afar.

The main reason why he didn't wipe out the Saint Serpent Spiritual Union in the first place was because the remaining survivors were indeed not very evil, and also to give Yala (Earth Mother) some face and not attack organizations that worshipped her, so he didn't eliminate them and take a grand slam.

But now it seems that this mysterious organization... or rather, Krossel as its leader, can indeed be considered a promising talent.

The pursuit of CooL may sound a little strange.

However, this tendency itself is the pursuit of better, more interesting possibilities.

In a sense, as long as he doesn't go down the wrong path...

Then, this can also be considered a kind of innovation.

Retracting his divine thoughts, Su Zhou, who had reached an altitude of 400,000 meters and was rapidly flying in near-cosmic space, looked down at the thin atmosphere under his feet, as well as the Earth, which showed a clear arc.

This is a beautiful planet, and it deserves a better future.

Thinking this way, he couldn't help but smile.

Starting in 2014, it has been four years since the spiritual energy recovery.

—Four years have passed.

The young man who pursued the extraordinary in the past, the savior of the Shénmù (God Tree) World today, the overlord dragon who suppressed the Beast God Realm, the pioneer and god-slayer of the new era of the Tartadis world, the executioner who wiped out many mysterious organizations and fiends, and the savior of the Qingqiu people.

In some worlds, the young man who probably has a long list of titles will, from today onwards, begin to change his hometown.

Changing the Earth.