This is the survival rule of the common folk.
After entering the palace, Theresia sat on the throne in the center of the palace, while Mars stood respectfully before Theresia with his hands clasped.
"You still haven't answered my question, Mars."
"I recall that when I left the Divine Wind Dynasty, your strength was already as it is now. Why, after more than two thousand years, has there been no progress at all?"
Theresia frowned and asked Mars.
"Your Majesty Theresia..."
Mars gave a wry smile, "This guilty minister..."
"Stop!"
Theresia raised a hand, interrupting Mars.
"Mars, I was the one who told you not to resist two thousand years ago. If anyone is a sinner, it is I, the sinner of the Divine Wind Dynasty."
"Do you want me to refer to myself as 'This Guilty Emperor' from now on?"
"No, no, no..."
"Sin, I..."
Mars waved his hands repeatedly, "Lord Theresia, I didn't mean that."
"Then speak properly."
"Yes."
Mars took a deep breath before beginning to explain to Theresia, "Lord Theresia, after you communicated with Lord Baier of the Wind God Dynasty, our Divine Wind Dynasty did indeed peacefully merge into the Wind God Dynasty."
"However..."
At this point, Mars sighed and shook his head.
"Unlike Your Majesty, you encouraged us, telling us that laws are perceived differently by each person, that everyone has their own unique understanding of laws, and that you hoped we could forge different paths on the same law."
"But, for Lord Baier, we were merely tools to provide him with mental energy."
"Lord Baier demanded that we propagate his great name within the original territory of the Divine Wind Dynasty, and that we could only retain the cultivation methods created by Lord Baier, instilling in people that only Lord Baier's Wind Element Law was the true Wind Element Law."
"Ours is considered pseudo-wind element, and we are forbidden from propagating it or cultivating it..."
"As a result, over time, we, the elders of the original Divine Wind Dynasty, under the immense mental energy of the populace, not only made no progress in our strength but instead regressed significantly due to the suppression from the large amount of public opinion..."
Theresia smiled after hearing Mars's words.
Having spent so many years in the Sun God Dynasty, Theresia was already well aware of Lord Roy's intentions.
The Starry Sky Universe was Lord Roy's universe.
How great a figure was Lord Roy?
In the universe he created, all things were laws, and all things were the Dao.
Within the Sun God Dynasty, Lord Roy encouraged the populace to gain enlightenment from all things in heaven and earth to prove their Dao, hoping that the laws in the Starry Sky Universe would blossom in a hundred different ways.
Even with the Water Element Law, in the Sun God Dynasty, someone was able to directly take the "ice" aspect of the law to prove their Dao, becoming the creator of the "frozen energy" path.
In other major powers, although they extensively promoted the power of the laws they created, they did not forcibly require the people within their territories to cultivate only the laws they had created.
It was simply that their territories lacked specific cultivation methods for other laws, which made it appear that the majority of people in each power cultivated the laws created by their respective emperors.
Yet, Baier had outright forbidden the cultivation of other laws within the Wind God Dynasty, which had offended Lord Roy.
Baier was now on the path to his own demise!
If Theresia had only had a ten percent chance of bringing Baier down before coming here, she now felt she had at least a fifty percent chance.
"Mars, go contact those who are still remaining in the Divine Wind Empire and let them know of my return. Also, this is the cultivation theory I brought from the Sun Dynasty. Disseminate it and make sure the people of the Wind God Dynasty know that this universe is not limited to just wind..."
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Mars was overjoyed.
Since Your Majesty Theresia had said such a thing, it was clear that she was preparing to challenge Lord Baier with the foundation of the former Divine Wind Dynasty!
...
Previously, the Emperor-level powerhouses of the Divine Wind Dynasty, due to the policies implemented by Baier in the Wind God Dynasty, had preserved their lives but had made no progress in their strength over the past two thousand years. A few who were targeted by the populace had even had their cultivation suppressed by public opinion.
Now, with Theresia's return, it represented their hope of recovering their cultivation and improving their strength. Therefore, the Emperor-level powerhouses contacted by Mars enthusiastically responded to Theresia's summons and began to disseminate the cultivation theories brought by Theresia.
Of course, Theresia was not doing this for free. Within these distributed books and jade slips, her title as Emperor Theresia of the Divine Wind Empire was included.
Naturally, as Theresia was not yet fully prepared, these cultivation theories were being distributed through their respective territories via ruins, auctions, or hidden treasure locations that were about to be discovered, making those who found them feel they were precious and would not think the recorded information was incorrect.
This way, even if these forces outwardly showed utmost piety towards Baier, they would secretly experiment in private.
Once they succeeded in cultivating according to these theories and sensed other elemental forces or created their own elemental forces, they would then understand what Baier's mandate for the entire Wind God Empire to cultivate his methods truly represented.
Invincibility achieved through forced propaganda might deceive the uninformed populace for a time.
But once this facade was shattered, the faith of the entire Wind God Dynasty in Baier would undoubtedly waver.
And at that time, the one to receive this portion of mental energy and faith would be him, Lord Theresia, the initiator of the liberation of cultivation thought in the entire Wind God Empire.
As for the common people at the bottom, they wouldn't need such elaborate schemes. Their subordinates would simply be instructed to follow the cultivation theories as described, with a repeated emphasis that these were theories discovered by Theresia.
After all, commoners were merely treated as beasts of burden by the upper echelons, with no one paying them any mind.
While it was somewhat audacious to rename Roy's cultivation theories as her own, it was an offense to Roy.
However, Theresia believed that compared to letting Baier continue to wreak havoc on the Divine Wind Dynasty for another hundred thousand years, Roy would surely prefer her to achieve victory in her contest of the Dao against Baier, allowing cultivators in the Divine Wind Dynasty to flourish like those in the Sun Dynasty.
Therefore, in this instance, Roy would not quibble over this small alteration she made to the cultivation theories.
Theresia's actions within the Divine Wind Dynasty did not attract Baier's attention.
Rather, with Theresia's deliberately concealed aura, Baier was unaware that Theresia had already arrived in the Divine Wind Empire, preparing to engage him in another contest of the Dao.
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