The various tribal chiefs, led by the Yanwu tribe, who worship the strength of the physical body, secretly discuss that the Heaven-Shielding Method is not as good as its name and do not believe it can surpass the Golden Core Dao.
Mission Objective: Resolve the two major hidden threats and make the entire human race truly convinced, both outwardly and inwardly.
Mission Reward: Draw one Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon, two hundred thousand Origin Points.
"Convinced outwardly and inwardly..."
Fang Ming mused, "It seems some people have outwardly submitted, but inwardly they are not convinced."
Fang Ming was not surprised. Even if the human race was united in this era, Fang Ming, the young chief of a small human tribe, was directly appointed as the Human Emperor.
He had not given others any time to adapt.
This was bound to happen.
Fortunately, Fang Ming was prepared and directly brought one hundred million tribesmen into the Human Ancestral Land.
The Heaven-Shielding Method was invincible among peers, its combat power unmatched, and this was no idle boast.
The human elders like those in the Yanwu tribe who doubted the strength of the Heaven-Shielding Method could be slapped in the face on the spot.
Compared to those who doubted the strength of the Heaven-Shielding Method, Fang Ming felt that the group who believed in the Grand Pure Sage was a greater threat.
The Grand Pure Sage had been spreading the Golden Core Dao among the human race for so many years, and there were still many loyal followers, and inevitably, there would be blind followers.
Otherwise, there would not be statues of the Grand Pure Sage and Taoist temples, such "wonders" in the Human Ancestral Land.
Even if the advantages of the Heaven-Shielding Method were explained, the blind followers would concoct various reasons to support the Golden Core Dao, and even if they saw it with their own eyes, they would stubbornly refuse to admit it.
It is said that it is easier to break a mountain thief than to break a thief in the heart.
Fang Ming's approach to the various tribal chiefs, led by the Mingyuan tribe, was to break their ingrained worship of the Sage.
This increased the difficulty.
"Suiren, who established the Mingyuan tribe?"
Fang Ming suddenly asked Suiren Shi.
Suiren Shi was slightly stunned, then answered directly.
"Reporting to the Human Emperor, the Mingyuan tribe was established by Xuandu back then."
"However, Xuandu did not stay in that tribe for long before returning to Shouyang Mountain with the Grand Pure Sage, and the tribal chief was replaced by someone else."
Fang Ming instantly understood. So that was the connection, no wonder the various tribes led by the Mingyuan tribe were so devoted to the Grand Pure Sage.
"Human Emperor, are you worried that the chief of the Mingyuan tribe will object to abolishing the Golden Core Dao and cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method?"
Suiren Shi was not foolish. He had governed the human race for many years and naturally understood Fang Ming's underlying meaning at once.
He frowned and said to Fang Ming, "The Human Emperor's concerns are indeed valid, but there is no need to worry too much."
"With us three ancestors here, no one will openly question this matter within the human race. At most, it will be silent resistance."
"But the Heaven-Shielding Method is clearly far superior to the Golden Core Dao. This is the actual situation, a public strategy."
"A public strategy can crush a hidden scheme. Even if they resort to various tactics, they cannot prevent their tribesmen from coming into contact with the Heaven-Shielding Method."
"Once they experience the rapid progress of the Heaven-Shielding Method, this practical benefit will completely outweigh their faith in the Grand Pure Sage, and they will naturally switch to cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method."
"Faith, after all, cannot be eaten. Humans ultimately have to live in reality."
Suiren Shi's last sentence hit the nail on the head.
Fang Ming, upon hearing this, highly agreed with Suiren Shi's reasonable assessment.
In the Xuanyang tribe, initially, there were also those who did not want to switch to the Heaven-Shielding Method, but in the end, seeing the rapid progress of others' cultivation, no one could resist switching.
But Fang Ming added:
"It is possible for them to change on their own, but it will take a lot of time, conservatively speaking, millions of years."
"I cannot wait that long."
"Moreover, many of these die-hard fans will probably never change in their lifetime. They will not want to accept reality."
Fang Ming knew that this group of people was very different from those in the Xuanyang tribe who did not want to switch to the Heaven-Shielding Method.
This was because even the system had informed Fang Ming that others were "extremely devout" and "extremely worshipful" of the Grand Pure Sage.
What did this "extreme" symbolize? It symbolized that changing their mindset would be difficult.
It would take a long time.
"Millions of years... Human Emperor, millions of years is not long."
Suiren Shi, however, felt indifferent about this timeframe.
The human race was considered one of the latest born races.
But from the time Nuwa created humans until now, it had been several million years.
Suiren Shi felt that this was not a long time.
"Millions of years is only ten Yuan Hui."
"And a Kalpa is fifty thousand Yuan Hui long."
"With ten Yuan Hui for them to self-transform, I think it should be possible?"
Suiren Shi said.
Fang Ming smiled.
He knew that cultivators of the Primordial Era like Suiren Shi liked to treat time as insignificant. Spending hundreds of thousands, even millions of years in seclusion once was considered normal.
This was a unique flaw of Primordial Era cultivators. There was a saying, "The Primordial Era disregards years."
This led to them not cherishing time.
Fang Ming replied, "Ten Yuan Hui is too long."
"We seize every moment."
Upon hearing this, Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi were inexplicably shaken.
This sentence was too philosophical.
It seemed to reveal the mysteries of life.
Suiren Shi admired Fang Ming even more.
He mused, "The Human Emperor's viewpoint in this sentence far surpasses my previous conservative and stagnant views."
"The Human Emperor is truly my guiding light, and the guiding light of the human race!"
...
Youchao Shi and Ziyi Shi had previously ordered the summoning of three thousand tribal chiefs to the Human Ancestral Land.
These tribal chiefs, naturally, did not carry hundreds of millions of people with them like Fang Ming. They would at most bring a hundred tribesmen to witness the event.
But without transportation tools like the "Nine Heavens Ten Earths Devil-Slaying Divine Shuttle," even if they had set off from their tribes much earlier than Fang Ming, they arrived at the Human Ancestral Land much later than Fang Ming.
At the Human Elder Council.
The three thousand tribal chiefs and some elders from the Human Ancestral Land were all summoned by the three ancestors to discuss the great plan for the human race.
Fang Ming sat at the head of the table. He observed the cultivation levels of these chiefs with his divine sense and found that the vast majority were at the Profound Immortal realm, with few Golden Immortals.
Moreover, among the Profound Immortals, most were in the early or middle stages, the same cultivation level as the Xuanyang tribal chief who had not switched to the Heaven-Shielding Method.
Many chiefs looked at Fang Ming with strange expressions: surprise, shock, admiration.
Fang Ming, with his cultivation, also felt a small portion of resistance and hostility.
These hostile feelings were well hidden. Even the three ancestors, who were Taiyi Golden Immortals, found it difficult to detect them. Only Fang Ming, with his quasi-emperor cultivation, could sense them.
Fang Ming estimated that although it had not been officially announced yet, most of the chiefs should have known the news of his impending ascension to Human Emperor.
The news had already leaked.
Otherwise, why would these chiefs exhibit such varied emotions.