Not long ago, when I was just a young girl, I dreamt about the day I could find the truth of everything. But after that, I realized that there's no truth, only suitability. I'm in pursuit of knowledge on the basis that understanding of the universe's operation can help me gain sensibility. Welcome to my journey to reach illumination.

II. Demolish the old self:

My own path is knowledge. So what is the path? With me, path is the way you live, behave and believe so that you can find peace in yourself. Some people believe in love, and they may conduct themselves as a moral, kind and magnanimous person. Others believe in justice, they will follow what they assume is rightness, and detest the opposite. Once you oppose your path, you could fall into remorse, also lose your direction to live.

The result of a knowledgeable path is too critical. In the course of time, I didn't believe in love and light, I found them nonsense. Therefore, I didn't cherish any survivor, every time I saw one, I believed that I just put an animal out of its misery, I was not a killer. Admittedly, that opinion is definitely wrong. I have no authority to take anyone's life. They have their volition, entitlement to live the life they want.

III. The beginning after the end:

Thanks to the end of the academic year, I could spare time for introspection. By reading the "Magic Emperor" novel, I finally took the point.

“See, even when dealing with an ant, you must give your all or starve. You must find your own reason to kill, or you’ll never give your all in killing anything. Heaven is cruel to all living things, yet also fair. Thus demonic and righteous paths coexist. The righteous love life and the demonic pursue slaughter. But killing must be done for life to give it meaning.

 

Or slaughtering all in your path would end up consumed by it, erring from the right path. To pursue the path one must become demonic, that is the only way. Tell me, when you killed any disciple you came upon, was that your true strength? You do not even know what that even is. You’ve seen Zhuo Fan, his simple yet precise strikes, they all were meant to kill.”

- Yuan Xing-Gang -

I was stuck in a massacre. Ergo, I lost my purpose of life, I became a nihilist. Luckily, I recognized that death for life, the reverse.

Due to survival, we kill. Isn't it saving your life? I understand that, as a consequence, I treasure creatures' lives. I'm grateful for what I have. I know that whenever I have to kill them, I should respect them and say "thank you".

Because of death, life becomes meaningful. We know that we only live once as well as we possibly die tomorrow. Consequently, we're trying to live a life without regret, beautify the world.

IV. The subsequent expedition:

Based on that new belief, I appreciate that everything has their own beauty. Everyone is amazing, regardless of how they live. I envision my following journey is about unconditional love. I'll post about it in the future~

Humans are physically weak in comparison with most other species. Long time ago, we were at the bottom of the food chain. But soon, with a powerful brain and effective organization, killing an elephant was no matter for human beings.

II. Organization:

Its value still remains in modern day. Through "cooperation", humans can survive and, now, conquer the world. In my view, organization appears everywhere. From schools and companies, to societies and countries. Therefore, I would like to dig deeper and deeper about it.

1. The benefit:

There is always stratification in organization. I would divide it into the upper class and the lower class. The upper class is who take control of that organization and have influence on any policies (or rules). The lower class is under the control of the upper class.

Shifting my view to the top. The most priceless treasure that it can give me is power. There are always people who work for me. It is tempting!

From my point of view, there are two main advantages. First, organizations ensure safety for the lower class. Second, it has control of resources and we need that.

2. Regulation:

No one can escape the rule, no one. This is the power of rule, especially for the upper class. The more powerful you are, the more restricted you become ^(*). You must have particular attributes and strictly follow the rules, or else you will be dethroned and severely punished.

Also, the reason why I don't mention the middle class is that, to me, it is the same as the lower class, still under the control of the upper class. In the course of climbing to the top, you have to crawl, which strengthens the power of the upper class.

Without the obedience of the lower class, there would be no power. Thus, certain methods were developed. According to the novel "Magic Emperor", there are yang strategies and yin strategies. Yang strategy refers to regulation and social rules, while yin strategy refers to mind control.

a. Yang strategy:

The best way to help you understand is an example~

The world situation

Phuong Nguyen, who was a Chinese student, reincarnated in the world of cultivating immortality. That is a tough world, following the principle "Big fish always eats small fish". Phuong Nguyen has low innate ability, hence, he was nothing but a pawn and milked for his clan's sake. He made a hard decision to become a demonic cultivator and ended up being pursued to death in his first life. Resurrection with 500-year living experience, this is the journey of an extraordinary demonic cultivator.

Analysis characters’ motivation (brief)

CO NGUYET PHUONG NGUYEN

Phuong Nguyen doesn't want to be trapped in his clan, which he considers as a ball and chain.

 THE PRINCIPAL

He is in charge of teaching and 'influencing' the young. He must train a courageous, 'righteous' and devoted generation.

Co Nguyet Phuong Nguyen is out of tune with the principal.

As a result, he and the old man had several battles of wits.

Playing chess

(Marginal details: At first, the principal allowed him to rob spirit stones from other classmates by fighting. The old man believes that pupils must experience this so as to be combative and effortful in strengthening. Unfortunately, his conspiracy went south, Phuong Nguyen was out of his control. The pupils didn’t just deter but cower to Phuong Nguyen’s power as well. Consequently, he must eliminate that dangerous factor)

(Marginal details: There are two benefits of punishing Phuong Nguyen:

- Knocking down his imposing image in order that the bravery which was buried can be on fire again

- Hold the students in awe and respect)

Due to achieving a breakthrough, Phuong Nguyen was absent from the principal's class. The principal happily grasped a chance to intimidate and belittle him. The old man delegated two guards to forcibly escort Phuong Nguyen.

Against all expectations, Phuong Nguyen walked slowly with bloody disabled guards. The guards represent the principal’s face. He inadequately explained that during the breakthrough, the two broke in. They denied their fault (irritating while Phuong Nguyen in a sensitive time, which could have killed him), moreover, offended the clan. Advisedly, they are school guards so he just cut one’s hand and the other’s lap.

Checkmate

He not only got himself off the hook but also put the principal on the horns of a dilemma. Intentionally, Phuong Nguyen should have skipped the class and killed the guards, which is considered extravagant. According to the clan’s rules, he should have been imprisoned.

In terms of sentiment, he cut the class for immortal cultivation. In terms of reason, he was the first to take his cultivating stage to the next level. His report is indisputable, the principal now had to solve this problem, he couldn’t examine the problem owing to being exposed (the fact that he tried to intimidate Phuong Nguyen, which can be implied that he is jealous with genius). He had two options:

- Prosecute Phuong Nguyen for beating two guards nearly to death (which leads to dissatisfaction with his management)

--> Because this means putting pressure on genius, however, he is in charge of training pupils into excellent ones. Which can be implied that he is jealous of genius, indeed. It is not worth doing so for the two slaves.

-  Conceal the guards from the prosecution for disrespecting Co Nguyet Phuong Nguyen and compliment him (which satisfies the clan)

 --> Conceal the guards from the prosecution so that they continue to respect the principal.

The principal couldn’t do anything but harbor his resentment and choose the second option.

Phuong Nguyen skillfully regulated the principal. ^(*)

b. Yin strategy:

To my mind, this strategy cannot work without fear and dualism.

If you want to predispose somebody, then you should implant their mind. The perfect object for implantation is the young, thanks to its impressionable mind. We can apply crowd psychology by using these means like media, education,... Humans have a tendency to find something that matches their morality, which is based on installed sets of values and defense mechanisms to protect their beliefs. Those may lead to ignorance, dogmatism and war. Once you successfully build a set of values, you can move to the next step, manipulation.  

In my opinion, there are three main ways to manipulate the masses: emotional manipulation, false affection and crowd propagation. 

Emotions are reactions to a set of values. Whenever somebody wants to make a choice, they would have an emotional choice, then rationalize it. That is why emotional manipulation is working. For example, the image of success (trappings of wealth) with greedy, joyful and happy emotion; sows the seed of fear through alarming information and a relief solution. 

In this world, people enhance integrity and kindness. For this reason, there is a silent rule that you should be ‘kind’ towards who give you ‘love’ in any form. Or else, you will be 

Love is blind, thinking that we have to devote to the giving love or being annoyed by remorse, morality or being strongly criticized 

Cannot listen to inner voice, always skeptical about ourselves, scare to be different (being judged and canceled, fail) [you must remember you already know what best (suitable) for you]

The result is a world where no one could understand who they are and what they are doing. Being driven by volatile feelings. A chaotic world. 

“There are three ways to manipulate: threatening, enticing and winning hearts and minds” (from a manhua that I forget its name). 

III. What if

SPECIAL APPROACH – LOVE