Since Fang Ming's every action in the future could not be hidden from the calculations of the Sages, what did Ming Yuan have to fear?
Sages were omniscient and omnipotent.
Thinking this, Clan Leader Ming Yuan's heart was calm.
As if unconcerned, he summoned his escape light, intending to see what Fang Ming was up to.
And below.
The clan leaders of the three thousand tribes, and many human elders, fell into silence.
"Is fatalism real?"
"Is humanity's unremitting self-improvement, diligent cultivation, and struggle all a joke? Has the high and mighty heavens already predetermined all outcomes?"
"Being slaughtered by the demon race, is that our destiny?"
The myriad races treated humans as their blood food, slaughtering them until the land was sparsely populated. Was this a destiny that humanity had to endure?
What a desperate fate this was!
"No!"
"This is not destiny!"
Someone roared in anger.
"If humanity's destiny is to be slaughtered by the myriad races, to have their luck and faith harvested by the Sages of the heavens..."
"Then I do not accept such a destiny!"
"I do not believe in fate!"
I do not believe in fate!
I do not accept destiny!
Many humans couldn't help but think.
Suiren brought fire, illuminating the path ahead for humanity.
Youchao built nests, providing humanity with shelter from wind and rain.
Were these destiny, or the will of heaven?
No!
This was not the will of heaven, but the future created by humanity's ancestors through their unremitting self-improvement and their own efforts!
"Let's go! Let's see what the Human Emperor is going to do."
"The Human Emperor will surely break the theory of fatalism for us!"
Many humans rose together, following Fang Ming's footsteps.
Only a very small number of people remained.
These were humans from the hundred or so small tribes affiliated with the Ming Yuan tribe.
These humans, who deeply believed in the Grand Pure Sage, discussed in hushed tones:
"Do you believe in fate?"
"I do. Life and death are fated, success is determined by heaven. Everything is predetermined by heaven, whether it is life, death, or future achievements, all are set by heaven."
"The Heavenly Dao has predetermined that if a person can cultivate to the realm of Taiyi Golden Immortal, their future achievements will not be lower than Taiyi, nor will they exceed Taiyi."
"There is already a fixed number in the unseen."
"Then what do you think of them?"
"Them," referring to the humans who did not believe in fate and shouted slogans of self-improvement.
"Many people shout slogans of defying heaven, but what of it? Heaven is still there, the Heavenly Dao truly exists. What can shouting 'I don't believe in fate' change?"
"Even if they don't believe in fate, the Heavenly Dao and destiny still exist."
...
"As long as I don't believe in fate, fate doesn't exist!"
"The Heaven-Shielding Method passed down by the Human Emperor does not believe in the Heavenly Dao. Therefore, if I cultivate the Heaven-Shielding Method, I will not be subject to the whims of fate..."
"As long as one doesn't believe in fate, fate doesn't exist..."
Clan Leader Ming Yuan, hearing the humans who followed behind shouting words of disbelief in fate, couldn't help but think to himself.
"How pitiful. These people have gone mad after learning the truth..."
"Like lunatics."
The ancestral land of humanity, neither large nor small, by later standards, the entire solar system was not as vast as the ancestral land of humanity.
Hundreds of millions of miles, in the ancestral land of humanity, was a very common distance.
Fang Ming, now using his escape technique, had traveled hundreds of millions of miles and was still within the ancestral land of humanity.
This place happened to be a mountain range.
Deep within the mountain range, amidst misty clouds and swirling fog, stood a Taoist temple.
This Taoist temple was the largest in the ancestral land of humanity, housing a statue of the Grand Pure Sage, the object of the strongest faith and incense offerings in the ancestral land.
Many humans knelt in this Taoist temple, offering prayers to the Grand Pure Sage.
They prayed for the Grand Pure Sage to protect them from the harm of the demon race.
In return, they were willing to offer their own faith, incense, and luck... and so on.
"This is the wonder recorded in the system..."
Fang Ming still remembered that the system recorded two great wonders of humanity.
The first great wonder: the statue of Sage Nuwa.
The second great wonder: the statue of the Grand Pure Sage.
The statue of the Grand Pure Sage that Fang Ming saw now, condensed with infinite incense, boundless luck, and countless faith.
This was precisely the second great wonder of humanity proposed by the system.
A negative-effect wonder that harvested human luck and incense!
After becoming the Human Emperor, Fang Ming had long been displeased with this wonder.
Now, it was finally time to deal with it!
"I have the Heavenly Secret Interference Device. Even if I deal with it, it will not attract any attention from the Grand Pure Sage..."
Fang Ming thought to himself.
This was his true confidence.
"Human Emperor? Why have you come?"
A human guarding the Taoist temple, a Heavenly Immortal, saw Fang Ming's face filled with anger and was greatly alarmed.
He had an ominous feeling that Fang Ming's arrival here was not a good omen.
Otherwise, why would his anger be so evident?
"Why have I come..."
Fang Ming sneered, "I have come to destroy the Dao!"
Destroy the Dao!
As soon as these words were uttered, the humans kneeling at the feet of the statue of the Grand Pure Sage were instantly filled with boundless shock.
The Human Emperor intended to destroy the Grand Pure Sage's lineage among humans?
The lineage left behind by the Grand Pure Sage, who had preached the Golden Core Dao among humans in the past, would be destroyed?
They had faith in the Grand Pure Sage for so long, and they also had loyalty to humanity.
Their minds struggled between obedience to imperial power and divine power, unsure of which way to lean.
"Ignorant people..."
Fang Ming thought to himself, feeling that it was no longer acceptable to not eradicate humanity's faith in the Grand Pure Sage.
In the past, the Grand Pure Sage, in order to achieve the status of a Sage, had propagated the Golden Core Dao among humans and established the Human Sect, thus achieving sainthood.
Strictly speaking, it was humanity that gave this Grand Pure Sage his saintly status.
Humanity had been kind to the Grand Pure Sage, had helped him.
But what had the Grand Pure Sage done?
Seeing that humanity was the protagonist of the future world, he deliberately imposed restrictions, teaching a flawed Golden Core Dao that limited humanity's potential!
He sent his disciple Xuandu to have humans build countless Taoist temples, using luck, incense, and faith to worship the Grand Pure Sage!
What a Grand Pure Sage.
Humanity gave him the status of a Sage.
In return, he harvested humanity's luck, incense, and faith, and taught them a Golden Core Dao that limited their potential!
What was this called?
Repaying kindness with enmity! An ungrateful wretch!
And the ignorant humans, whose luck, incense, and faith were harvested.
Instead of realizing that the Grand Pure Sage had become a Sage because of them,
They instead thought that the Grand Pure Sage was too good, truly worthy of being called a Sage, and seeing that humanity had no cultivation techniques, he had preached the Golden Core Dao among them!
He was not only a Sage in strength but also a Sage in state of mind!
How selfless and supreme!
When the demon race invaded, many humans who worshipped the Grand Pure Sage narrowly escaped death.
Clearly, this was their own good fortune, and the result of their own efforts in fighting the demon race and successfully killing some of them.
However, they attributed their survival entirely to the protection of the Grand Pure Sage!
They believed that all their achievements were thanks to the Grand Pure Sage.