No one knew what Jing Yuan and Jingliu discussed.
He was now focused on other matters.
As the leader of the Xianzhou, he had seen the emergence of a powerful, self-destructive rebel like Dan Shu. And now, even Master Diviner Fu Xuan was showing some of these strange tendencies.
This would not do. Putting Noldrei's other abilities aside, his talent for creatively constructing social ideologies was that of a born supervillain.
It was a good thing the Xianzhou was a place of rules. If this were somewhere else, Noldrei would have been detained and dealt with on the spot.
Jing Yuan's current priority was to send this guy away as soon as possible.
What if one day Noldrei had another whim, took the relationships between a few Aeons, and reconstructed another belief system? Wouldn't that send the Luofu straight to the heavens?
The Xianzhou was already home to believers of all sorts of Aeons.
Noldrei's unreasonable method of cobbling together belief systems from various Aeons was like creating a new pantheon.
Noldrei wasn't really explaining the power of the Aeons, but the relationships between them. Interpretations of the relationships between Aeons were not unheard of in history, but this was the first time Jing Yuan had seen someone so boldly adapt them for others to use.
The reason he was so concerned was that the Pure Land theory was spreading too quickly on the Xianzhou. It had struck a nerve with the people, pointing to a 'great path' of resolving human suffering: asking the Aeons for help.
When it came to interpreting the scriptures of Yaoshi and others, Noldrei's skill was far superior to that of a malicious being like Shuhu.
Shuhu's favorite pastime was to watch others suffer. Noldrei, on the other hand, did the opposite. He spread an anti-suffering ideology, but in the process of acting against suffering, people would actually bear even greater suffering.
This was the essence of the movement of 'Karma' that Noldrei had told Dan Shu about.
Jing Yuan was naturally intelligent and understood Noldrei's new doctrines faster than most.
If it weren't for the loss of crucial information this time, leading to his failure with the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus, he would never have been suppressed by Dan Shu's self-destruction.
The first person he contacted was Fu Xuan, the new Master of the Luofu's Alchemy Commission.
"Master Fu, you have to think of a way to send that person away. Should we just give him a ship? This is not the time to be stingy. You should also use the Matrix of Prescience more, see if there's any good way to get him to leave the Xianzhou as soon as possible."
"We're lacking in everything on the Xianzhou, except for this kind of wild-thinking intellectual."
Fu Xuan had actually already divined information about Noldrei, even investigating his origins.
Noldrei was not only a hero who had saved a civilization, but also a pioneer who had explored the universe for that civilization. And in the future, Noldrei would be a figure who would shape new cosmic relationships.
Fu Xuan found it hard to describe her feelings at this moment. This was the first time her discussions on fate had been so severely challenged. It was also the first time she had felt the power of fate in the unseen without using her divination ability.
Master Diviner Fu, oh, now it's Master Fu.
Even if she didn't want to admit it, she did feel that 'illusion' of her legs going weak when she met Noldrei.
"General, I... this one doesn't know what to do either. In any case, he will leave on his own. There is nothing on the Xianzhou for him to linger for."
Fu Xuan sighed after she spoke. It was unclear whether she wanted Noldrei to leave quickly or to stay a little longer.
'You're still sighing? What are you thinking?'
Jing Yuan was scratching his head. He even suspected that his Master Diviner had developed some special hobby.
Fu Xuan hesitated for a moment before saying, "Actually, I personally think he's very... talented, especially when it comes to dealing with the troubles of faith. He thinks more prominently and thoroughly than ordinary people. He has a kind of ability that's hard to explain. I feel he has an extraordinary perspective on faith."
Jing Yuan nodded as a matter of course. "That's right. For example, he sees the Xianzhou as a vassal of the Aeon civilizations. In his eyes, our Xianzhou is a vassal civilization that hasn't mastered its own internal class design, and doesn't even have the ability to construct its own power system."
At first, Jing Yuan just found this idea novel, but on second thought, he realized that Noldrei wasn't wrong.
Whether it was the power of the Paths, the power of the Abundance, or even the power of Nous's Dharma Eye in Fu Xuan, it was all the same.
All of these were tied to the Aeons. Even the power of everyone in the universe was on the chariot of the Aeons, and the members of the Genius Society were no exception.
Aeons might fall, but their path of rule was already locked into this universe, completely integrated into it.
Fu Xuan was also helpless about this. She could no longer look at beings like the Aeons in the same way. What Noldrei had said would always echo in her mind.
The Paths laid out by the Aeons did indeed have a ruling quality. And humanity could not do without the power of the Aeons. Once a civilization lost the power of an Aeon, it couldn't even leave its home planet.
No wonder the Stellaron Hunters were so chaotic. If they had known early on that the Aeons already dominated the fate of the galaxy, many more people would probably have joined them.
Fu Xuan was thinking of asking Noldrei to create a belief system on the Xianzhou that was more suitable for the Xianzhou people, and to balance the powers of the various Aeons within it.
She herself didn't have much confidence in the development of the Pure Land theory.
Fu Xuan explained, "My control over the Pure Land Sect is only through my divination ability as the Master Diviner. I'm worried that I won't be able to achieve the fundamental goal of the Pure Land Sect, which is to solve the suffering of the Xianzhou people themselves."
"At that time... wouldn't I become a religious charlatan?"
"Then what about the believers who trust me? I can't even see my own destiny. In this long river of time, I'm like a lone sail tossed about in the waves."
"There aren't many people who can help me on the waves of fate."
Jing Yuan was a bit bewildered. He asked, "You mean, you think he can help you on this... this wave of fate?"
Fu Xuan blushed slightly and said, "This one does have similar thoughts, but I know he is unwilling to stay on the Xianzhou, so I haven't asked for his opinion. If I ask and don't get an answer, then wouldn't that be..."
'Wouldn't that seem like I'm being presumptuous?'
Fu Xuan didn't say the rest.
Jing Yuan felt that Fu Xuan should probably find a place to reflect on herself. If this continued, he was really worried that she would walk down the same path as Dan Shu.
"Go on. If you don't go, he'll really leave. Besides, even if you ask about some things, whether you choose to listen in the future is still your own choice."