Chapter 695: All These Things Happened in the Morning
The Entropy Increase Ruler was highly efficient and quickly gave Gaia a new face that looked honest and simple.
“Why did Immortal Gongshu instruct you to adjust Personal Value only after three years?”
“Because Immortal Gongshu has obsessive-compulsive disorder. After three years, I will have been operating for exactly two thousand years.”
“…”
Jiang Li remembered that the Luban Sect indeed had records about Immortal Gongshu’s obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Legend said that when Immortal Gongshu was ascending to immortality, because the number of steps on the Celestial Ascension Ladder wasn’t a whole number and didn’t suit his preference, he absolutely refused to ascend.
Later, it was only after Immortal Gongshu’s teacher came out from the Immortal Realm and physically dragged him that Immortal Gongshu was pulled into the Immortal Realm.
The Luban Sect also preserved blueprints of puppets made by Immortal Gongshu. Jiang Li had seen them and truly didn’t know what to say. All the puppets Immortal Gongshu made were twins, convenient for serving him on both sides when he was in seclusion.
These puppets, naturally, were all taken by Immortal Gongshu to the Immortal Realm.
“I’m telling you, Immortal Gongshu is a Celestial Immortal great power, backed by the Immortal Realm! If you dare to disrupt Immortal Gongshu’s plans, beware of Immortal Gongshu unleashing heavenly punishment upon you!”
“…Actually, the Immortal Realm has already been destroyed by me. As for Immortal Gongshu, if he didn’t possess strength surpassing the Heavenly Dao, he’s probably dead in the Immortal Realm too,” Jiang Li said honestly.
Previously, the Eight Desolations had threatened him this way, saying the Immortal Realm would definitely intervene, and then the Immortal Realm was gone.
Now that the Immortal Realm was gone, there were still people using the Immortal Realm to threaten him.
“When did this happen?” Gaia couldn’t believe it, knowing Jiang Li could tell lies.
Jiang Li counted on his fingers, calculating the time. “Let me calculate the timing. This morning, I, along with Envoy Yingzhao and the other two Celestial Immortals, left the Great Zhou prison. After I treated the three of them to a final meal, I sent them on their way at the Great Zhou border.”
“Before dying, Envoy Yingzhao called for Luwu. Then Luwu and three other Golden Immortals came to attack the Nine Provinces.”
“I killed three of the four Golden Immortals. The remaining Immortal Lord Tianyuan voluntarily led me to the Immortal Realm.”
“After I arrived in the Immortal Realm, I fought successively with the Immortal Emperor and the Divine Vault Sovereign. After the Divine Vault Sovereign chickened out, he ran away once. Fortunately, a kind-hearted person gave me the Celestial Ascension Ladder, allowing me to catch up to the Immortal Realm.”
“I engaged in a second battle with the Divine Vault Sovereign. The Divine Vault Sovereign fought desperately, refining all the immortals to gain new power, but he still didn’t defeat me.”
“After the Divine Vault Sovereign died, I returned to the Nine Provinces. By then, it was almost noon.”
“I held an expanded meeting at noon, and came to your Truth World in the afternoon.”
“So the Immortal Gongshu you mentioned, he died this morning.”
Gaia: “…Putting aside whether Immortal Gongshu is dead or not, isn’t your morning experience a bit too rich and full?”
Gaia had no feelings toward Immortal Gongshu. It was just a computer, strictly following programs. How could a program have feelings for its program’s owner?
Its earlier threat to Jiang Li was because it feared Jiang Li would format it.
Jiang Li deeply agreed. “Right? I said I’m very busy, with no time to preside over the Human Sovereign Hall, and no time to be Council President either.”
“Why can this world only speak the truth? Do you know the reason?”
“Immortal Gongshu said, according to his investigation, it was because the Confucius Sage once descended upon this world and wrote the ‘Truth Decree.’ When the calligraphy was completed, it transformed into particles, scattering throughout the world. Hence the name Truth World.”
Bai Hongtu suddenly understood. “So it was the Confucius Sage. I wondered who had such great ability to force me to speak the truth.”
Yu Yin also nodded. “Indeed, getting you to speak truthfully once isn’t easy.”
Yu Yin had rich experience dealing with Bai Hongtu’s lies and knew how unreliable that broken mouth of his was.
Previously, Yu Yin had to carefully analyze which of Bai Hongtu’s statements were true and which were false. Now she didn’t need to analyze; she could judge by intuition.
If it involved Jiang Li and Bai Hongtu talking, it was even easier to judge. Not a single word of truth.
Bai Hongtu glanced sideways at Yu Yin. He felt Yu Yin’s image was changing after coming to the Truth World.
“What should we do? Contact the venerable Confucius Sage and have him withdraw the ‘Truth Decree’?” Yu Yin ignored Bai Hongtu’s gaze and asked.
Jiang Li rejected this proposal. “The ‘Truth Decree’ isn’t necessarily a bad thing for the Truth World. Speaking the truth has both advantages and disadvantages; we can’t blindly deny it. Moreover, even if it were a disadvantage, the Personal Value system they’ve established now precisely fits the concept of ‘order.'”
“If we withdraw the ‘Truth Decree’ now, the world would inevitably fall into great chaos. Who can guarantee that before the Black Tide arrives, the Truth World can re-establish order to resist the Black Tide?”
“The Black Tide is coming?” The three Rulers looked at each other.
Jiang Li then remembered that he hadn’t invited the three Rulers to the noon meeting. These three brothers didn’t know yet that the Black Tide would arrive in ten years.
Jiang Li briefly explained about the Immortal Realm’s destruction and the coming of the Black Tide.
“So the Black Tide we’ve been tracking and observing all along is the rule of destruction, and the nine rules were conceived from the thoughts of the first person.”
The three Rulers felt as if a new door had opened. They never imagined that the laws governing all things that everyone studied actually originated from one person’s thoughts.
New knowledge meant new research. This was enough for them to study for a lifetime.
The Entropy Increase Ruler seemed thoughtful. “So, does that mean if two people appeared in the world, one truly couldn’t control and reshape the world?”
“What do you mean?”
“Human Sovereign Jiang, think about it. Were the second, third, and fourth people created by Taichu mentally mature adults, or were they ignorant and unknowing like infants?”
“If they were mentally mature adults, wouldn’t they just be copies of Taichu? Then Taichu would still possess the authority of creation, because the second person’s thoughts were the same as his.”
“If they were infants, infants are pure-hearted and simple-minded, their thinking easily changed with a few words. Couldn’t Taichu still possess the authority of creation through this method?”
Jiang Li was stunned. He really hadn’t considered this question. “So you mean…”
The Entropy Increase Ruler thought Jiang Li was overthinking. “Oh, I don’t mean anything. I just thought this possibility existed and mentioned it. It has no practical significance.”
“Science is like this. Many questions seem like problems, but actually have no practical significance at all, not worth researching.”
“What should we do with this machine?” The Entropy Increase Ruler knocked on the Gaia computer, scaring it so much its fans whirred loudly, dissipating heat frantically.
Jiang Li thought for a moment and said, “Remove the programs and backdoors left by Immortal Gongshu, but retain the ability to calculate Personal Value.”
What the Truth World needed now was “stability,” not “change.”
Jiang Li also suggested the Council President temporarily not establish diplomatic relations with the Nine Provinces, to avoid adding variables.
After temporarily handling matters in the Truth World, the six people hurried back to the Nine Provinces.
Worried that the Truth World’s influence might not have completely worn off, Bai Hongtu cleared his throat and said, “I am the Human Sovereign.”
“Great! I can tell lies again.”