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"There's no other way. It's difficult even for us to design a problem that puts them in a blind spot in their thinking, given their level of knowledge. If we further increase the difficulty of the questions and make it harder to solve them, the strength of the structure will decrease further. At that point, they won't even need to answer the questions; they can just break through the barrier head-on. That's how the Law Dao ultimate move works. These are the longest we can hold these people in place. There's no turning back in the battle that's about to begin."

The staff was also quite helpless about this. They had done their best. Even the questions they set were designed to best reflect the thinking of each legion, so as to maximize their effectiveness. The blue-eyed question seemed to have nothing to do with the beliefs of the major legions, but in fact it was closely related to the reason why the entire underground base was able to unite.

This is precisely why it is possible for the major legions to unleash this deadly move when they coordinate together. Although the two things seem to have no necessary connection, the core of this issue actually involves the reason why human thinking transcends that of other creatures.

In other words, it means we can understand the behavior and thoughts of others. This ability to understand other people's thoughts is actually very rare. On Earth, it's almost exclusively possessed by humans.

Many animals often achieve quite good scores in intelligence tests and can even find ways to solve problems they've never encountered before.

However, they find it difficult to understand the thoughts of their own kind. Simply put, they cannot easily empathize with others like humans, nor can they use their own perspective to arrive at answers to questions.

To give a simple example, we see someone put something on a table, then that person walks away, and then another person comes along. The second person takes the comb and puts it in a box next to it.

Sometimes, when the first person returns, they want to look for the comb, and we understand perfectly well. They will definitely look for it on the table first, not in the box. This is because we empathize with them. Through this simulation, we realize that they don't know the comb has been moved, so they will still go to its original location to look for it.

The blue-eyed problem is a similar case. The information provided by outsiders isn't information that objectively exists in this material world. Instead, it transforms something everyone already knows into something everyone knows. This logic is unique to humans. And it is precisely because of this logic that humans have transcended tribal systems, enabling them to engage in division of labor and cooperation on a scale of millions or tens of millions.

We are all capable of putting ourselves in others' shoes, which allows us to understand the significance of our actions in relation to their existence. When this understanding is made public and recognized by everyone, it becomes public knowledge—information that everyone shares and believes is known to all.

This information may seem unable to change any reality, or even exist in this material world. It's merely something fabricated. However, the case of the blue-eyed individuals illustrates a significant problem: the amount of information released by outsiders is negligible to them, or even nonexistent in their own lives. Yet, it ultimately led to everyone jumping into the sea. This non-existent public knowledge undeniably impacted countless people.

The most common example of how public knowledge influences money is something we encounter every day. Money has evolved from its original form of barter to precious metals, then to paper money, and now to a string of numbers in an account. What originally existed in the material world has become increasingly illusory and abstract. But at the same time, it is also getting closer and closer to its essence.

Money is valuable not because anyone dictates its value, but because people believe it is valuable, and others believe it too. It is this belief that has made money the currency it is today.

Morality and law are like that. People abide by them, not because they actually exist, but because there is a consensus among people. They believe in things that don't actually exist.

And all of this truly exists, even in a world where willpower cannot distort reality. Concepts capable of influencing the real world have been created out of thin air.

Now, this projection has reached a world where will itself can interfere with reality. It has been projected into a world filled with extraordinary power, a power capable of easily altering reality. The power derived from the shared understanding of countless people is far more terrifying than what is manifested on Earth.

A group of people who share common experiences and a shared process of understanding the world. The more public knowledge they share, the more valuable it becomes. Language is one of the most essential parts of this public knowledge; it connects countless people. With just a pronunciation or a symbol, one can access this incredibly vast database of precise information, thereby making communication between people more accurate and efficient.

Beyond language, there are countless shared perceptions that humans can shape. For example, compulsory education leads to a homogenization of the process of understanding the world; everyone has a similar process, and many words come naturally to their lips. This allows others to understand implicitly, and it too contributes to shaping a civilized public knowledge.

Compared to education in peacetime, a war, which has been tempered by blood and fire, is the most efficient and reliable place to shape this kind of understanding.

A single idea. From the initial disbelief to the countless sacrifices made for it, this process itself is shaping the most solid foundation of a civilization.

When everyone believes that those around them are willing to do anything for your feelings, it doesn't matter whether each person can actually do that.

Both sides were now exhausted, and the soldiers in the underground base were finally forced into direct hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. But at this moment, the forged will of civilization, tempered through countless trials, had fully descended. Something far greater than the legion's military spirit enveloped every soldier as the decisive battle was about to unfold, becoming one with their bio-mechanical warplanes, outwardly indistinguishable from their former selves. It seemed to offer no increase to their stats. While the difference in strength between the two sides remained overwhelming, the casualty reports, once submitted, surprised even the rear command. The casualties were far lower than they had anticipated—not just a fraction lower, but less than a tenth of what they had expected.

This is clearly visible in the statistics from the rear. But it's difficult for soldiers on the front lines to perceive.

Because their battle had become incredibly difficult. Everyone was practically teetering on the brink of death. With a large number of enemies breaking through the seal, they no longer had much of a numerical advantage. The Black City had too many split individuals, and their individual strength far exceeded that of the Black City. If it weren't for the fact that the split individuals rarely used immortal energy, they wouldn't even have had a chance to struggle in their death throes.

They themselves couldn't sense the changes. But Black City's perceptions were far more pronounced. Although he couldn't imbue his countless selves with a collective consciousness, he could still make a general assessment of the battlefield situation by sensing the information transmitted back after the deaths of his different selves.

In his perception, the ordinary humans he was facing were all ridiculously tenacious.

With a mere fourth-level cultivation, he dared to block one of his clones with a dozen or so people. Even if his clone was reluctant to use his immortal energy, in theory, beings of this level should have been able to crush him directly.

But this guy, who had used himself as bait, blasted his head off his neck like a cannonball just before he was almost smashed to pieces. His body was instantly blown apart. But his head flew out of the attack range and quickly began to repair itself, while fusing with the bio-armor and becoming one with the body.

This extreme self-destruction, even with the slightest deviation, would have meant certain death. Yet this guy succeeded, and without the slightest hesitation, he charged forward again. His clone, now slightly more serious, prepared to expend a little true energy to unleash a simple killing move to completely crush these ants. However, before he could even unleash his killing move, the opponent seemed to have a premonition, and, wearing bio-armor, frantically burrowed into the ground. As a result, he survived the violent explosion with a mangled body. Even his teammates, those much weaker than him, many of them also survived the explosion in an extremely extreme way.

However, these people ultimately perished on the battlefield. The difference in strength between the two sides was simply too great. Even with their utmost efforts, they couldn't inflict any effective damage on Black City's clone. But their harassment did indeed delay Black City for 10 minutes. He was a seventh-level immortal, and a strengthened seventh-level one at that. He was actually held back for 10 minutes by a fourth-level Gu Master, leading a group of weaklings he could barely sense. This alone was unacceptable to him, and the facts told him that this was no coincidence. According to countless statistics he had compiled, almost every warrior in the underground base possessed an incredibly tenacious fighting spirit. Even more exaggerated was their insane will to survive. Even a mortal engineer with no cultivation whatsoever could possibly survive an attack from his clone. Although the probability was extremely slim, the very existence of this possibility was already incredibly incredible. It seemed that as long as there was a theoretical possibility of survival, they could achieve the theoretical limit.

This tenacious resistance made Black City realize that continuing to raid the underground secret energy core would waste days or even months. The more critical the situation, the more tenacious these people became, as if they were having a final burst of energy before death.

Having experienced a great deal in life, he had some understanding of this. A significant number of people, when near death, experience inexplicable outbursts of power. No one knows exactly why, and these outbursts are often strongest in times of crisis. In the past, when encountering such enemies, he would either turn tail and run, or launch a fierce attack from the outset, completely overwhelming them.

Now it seems their fiercest attack was blocked by the people in the underground base. To be precise, it wasn't just blocked, but rather they were held back with lives. So far, the number of casualties inflicted on the eldest son's clones is only 16. Compared to the thousands, this damage is negligible. Even if they wiped out the entire enemy force, it's impossible for the eldest son's clones to suffer more than 30% casualties. But this tenacity is enough to make the enemy retreat.

Because at this moment, the eldest son sensed a truly dangerous presence approaching. It was something many orders of magnitude greater than the previous seventh or eighth-stage cultivators.

Above the Northern Plains, something truly terrifying has been alerted and is approaching the battlefield. The eldest son, unaware that the Giant Sun Immortal Zombie cannot simply leave, senses an aura he currently has no chance of resisting rapidly approaching. His plan to breach the underground base's defenses, break through the icy barrier, reclaim most of his body, and escape is now impossible.

Therefore, they decisively withdrew while they were ahead. Since the enemy was too tenacious, retreat was the best option. Although the ice barrier could trap the massive eldest son's main body, it couldn't restrain these super-lifeforms at all. These powerful individuals could easily break a hole in the barrier and force their way out before it repaired.

Meanwhile, in the Royal Court Blessed Land, this year's Royal Court War did not result in a true victory. However, unexpectedly, all members of the Golden Family had the opportunity to enter the Royal Court Blessed Land to escape the blizzard. Actually, there weren't any particularly strong winds this year; almost all the feng shui energy was concentrated inside the barrier, creating a terrifying space approaching absolute zero.

Just as he had planned, Fang Yuan silently infiltrated the Royal Court Blessed Land and entered the Eighty-Eight Corners True Yang Tower. He was preparing to create an environment that seemed like a dead end, following his historical trajectory, to force the Wisdom Gu to compromise and reach an agreement, allowing him to utilize the Wisdom Gu's power. While he appeared to be using every means to entangle with the will left behind by the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, he was actually handling it with ease. However, just as he was testing his patience with the Wisdom Gu, the Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's will suddenly trembled, and then, having been releasing water, he abruptly stopped.

[To be continued]

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