579. White King
The white king's eyes were dull and a little disappointed, and nodded, "At that time, I had a low status in the clan, and I had just grown up, and I only mastered a few dragon clan abilities. I had the opportunity to go to the outside world to see it, and I was naturally very excited...
Alas, I was young at that time and was eager to establish a career, so I chose to secretly help Jidu people develop their faith."
Joyna asked, “Help the people of Jidu develop their faith? Why do you do that?”
White King Dao, "Although their race is in a prosperous period and their technological strength cannot keep up with the Atlantis, their abilities are also very powerful. However, under the unknown glamorous surface, they are morally degraded, blindly arrogant, and even more indifferent to the belief in the gods.
When I first strolled in their city, I saw the magnificent buildings and the thick smoke coming out of the city; I saw the aliens who were publicly executed and burned to death on the stake; I saw the black and craze of fanatic people in the square and the large pit full of corpses, I felt in my heart in addition to being puzzled and shocked, and there was another indescribable feeling.
Our dragon clan came from that ancient era and had witnessed the rise and fall of ancient races and knew that their society was changing. But these people originally believed in Genshin Impact, why did this become like this?
According to my observation, in a group, individual emotions are easily manipulated and their chances of receiving external information are narrowed.
When all the things you come into contact with are relatively consistent, people's thinking ability will be limited.
Due to the limitations of the general environment, other religious beliefs will emerge one after another, and all kinds of statements and remarks will have a place. Those blind followers will choose theories supported by the vast majority of people.
Theism of the gods is recognized in people's concepts, but now their beliefs are not created by Genshin I know and his believers.
When the majority of people express their opinions, that few people will weaken their independence and choose to succumb to the opinions of the vast majority of people, or simply choose to "silence" and become obedient lambs.
We have had many battles with creatures in other worlds, and wars often broke out between them, and the results were almost the same. Some were forced into the deep sea to live in seclusion, retreated from the human world, and some disappeared from now on.
Because the fertility rate of our dragon clan is extremely low, its strength is constantly weakening.
So after several wars, after such a long time, the dragon clan decided not to participate in the battles in the mortal world, but he was always thinking about how to restore the faith of Genshin Impact.
After all, this world was created by Genshin Impact.
Unlike the Atlantis who are dedicated to developing technology, these planners pay more attention to the development of spiritual abilities, and practicing spiritual power has become a tradition for most people.
The reason for the decline of these race beliefs is perhaps because they rely too much on their own practice and do not take everything seriously. In the end, it led to the rise of atheistic thoughts among them, and the belief of Genshin Impact is gradually declining.
This is another reason why I chose them.”
Joyna fell silent after hearing this.
She knew what the White King wanted to express—the logical problem behind unconscious collectivism and dictatorial psychology, and in the end it became a distorted religion and belief.
The disappearance of faith has also experienced the same experience of human beings living like walking dead in the hundreds of years after the catastrophe.
This is the domination of a blind will, or it is simply unconscious.
The thousands of years of human development history cannot be separated from faith. From the primitive era of eating raw meat and drinking blood, even if technology is developed, those religions that have risen in various eras still occupy the lives of most people.
Thousands of years have passed and are still relied on by people.
People who live blindly and have no faith also exist. Atheism or polytheism are both concepts and manifestations of faith. These people who share common preferences and common understandings can always find their own group.
In a word, the ruling class needs faith to control people's thoughts, just as dictatorship is the embodiment of everyone's control of self-awareness.
But she didn't know too professional psychology knowledge. As an ordinary person's reflection, conflicts caused by faith are common, which really made her chill.
People who are out of the group often overestimate their ideological independence and self-control. Most people think that they can control their thoughts well and will not be brainwashed.
But the opposite is true. At the beginning, most people also thought they would not be brainwashed, so they just had a little bit of a match and cooperated with the rulers' statements and practices.
In fact, people are often more susceptible to the influence of their surroundings than they think.
In an environment controlled by collectivism and religious beliefs, the individual's will will be infinitely compressed.
However, the positive effects brought by this collective to people, especially those who lack a sense of belonging, such as encouragement and support, and friendly response, can make people ignore the negative effects of this collective brainwashing idea.
Human nature has weaknesses, and few people can resist the feeling of being the only one.
As long as sufficient rights are granted, the ruler will choose to use spiritual power, religion and other means to control others. Even if there is a saint who can resist the supreme surrender and use of history and the surrounding people, it will still push him into an involuntary vortex and cannot extricate himself.
The rulers of the Holy City were obviously well aware of this, which made everyone in the Holy City fall into that kind of fanatical worship.
Without God, they would create themselves. If they could not create it, they would use the ready-made ones, no matter what God.
"Well, these things are really unbelievable... Then, how did you fight side by side?" Joyna asked again.
"Don't worry, listen to me first."
The White King sighed and said, "On that continent, there is a dark water-soaked place that sank under the sea, called the City of Mist. That city is very ancient and has existed for countless centuries before our dragon clan was born."
Long Chentian frowned and said lightly, "City of Mist? I also have an impression of this. I was going to send me there to perform a mission."
"Hmph--Lucky you didn't go, otherwise you would have died long ago."
"I don't know where it came from, and it said that the sunken city of fog was originally a treasure house with many secrets." The White King shook his head and continued, "So, after several contacts, the high priests and elders of the Holy City proposed conditions to me and asked me to tell them the exact location of the city of fog...
Needless to ask, they knew that they wanted to take away the treasures inside.
But unfortunately, because the City of Mist will drift and has no fixed location, even I cannot know its exact location, but I can only occasionally sense its existence.
According to the ancient heritage of the Dragon Clan, the City of Mist has wonderful energy fluctuations, which are emitted by the ancient city left by the fallen angels."
Joyna asked, "You don't know where?"
The White King nodded and said, "I don't know at all. In fact, even if I know, I will not tell them the secrets of that place. Maybe the dark things will linger in it.
In short, taboos are taboos, and I won’t let them have any wicked ideas. It is listed as a forbidden area of the Dragon Clan, but other older people in the Dragon Clan may know the origin of that place.”
"Oh, do you dragon clan inherit knowledge through memory?" Joyna asked.
"That's right, every generation of our dragon clan will turn knowledge into a spiritual carrier and pass it on to the next generation with the secret techniques of the dragon clan."
"Okay, since it's a secret technique, I won't ask. There's another question... Those priests of the Jidu people, do you know you're a dragon clan?"
The White King shook his head and sighed, "I don't know, but they probably couldn't see it at that time!
Although I was just adult at that time, the spiritual sources accumulated in my body were enough to use the unique transformation ability of the dragon clan. Just like now, if you don’t tell you, can you recognize me from the crowd as a dragon clan?”
Joyna hesitated for a moment and nodded, "That's right."
She continued, "What happened later? Just because you can't tell the location of the Mist City, your private transaction failed?"
"No, am I that stupid? I will think about other solutions. And soon I discovered something else."
“What is it?”
"At that time, I was almost possessed and wanted to establish achievements, complete my mission, and restore those people's faith and past worship of the ancient gods."
"Why do you have to do this?"
The White King's expression was very sincere, and he looked at Joyna and said, "Why? Maybe you don't understand the feelings of our guardians. For countless years, strong desires exist in our bodies. Whenever I sleep, there are constant sounds in my mind.
I know that it is the ancient blood flowing from the dragon clan, calling on the spirit of the Genshin Impact.
So, of course, I did this to restore the original order and faith in God!
You don’t understand, but the dragon clan knows that respect for the gods is the greatest whip to God’s enemies!
Faith comes from spiritual power. The flames of Genshin Impact can warm people's hearts, cook for people, and dispel horrors in the darkness.
My philosophy is very simple. God needs spiritual sacrifice. As for believers, of course, the more the better. So, for the ultimate purpose, I put forward a condition that they cannot refuse."
"A condition that cannot be rejected?"
"Ha, I can't refuse!" Long Zhutian didn't speak for a long time, but he couldn't help but mock him, "You just saw the power struggle within the Holy City, played a trick of political power struggle, and used the open and secret struggle between several gangsters to magnify your own interests!"
Bai Wang's eyes froze and said disdainfully, "So what? Even if these politicians eat human blood steamed buns, I only consider it for my own interests. Is this wrong?
They were lawless and frantically seized power from each other. They were already hooligans before putting on the robe of sacrifice. What did the sinister thoughts have to do with me?
Even prostitutes and beggars know how to protect their territory. How could those noble and powerful people not know how to protect their wings?
I did not create the faction of the people in power in your plot. The high priests of the Holy City are all ambitious, not taught by me. I did not participate in your power struggle. Instead, they helped you deal with the wars of foreign races. Didn’t you obey them at that time?”
"Hmph—What qualifications do you have to preach to me?"
Listening to these words, Long Zhutian just sneered and did not refute.
Chapter completed!