Chapter 48: The True Essence of Wisdom is Using Reason to Imprison Savagery

Swish, swish!
When Xu Changsheng opened his eyes, another slice of the era had slipped away.
He happened to witness the fifth enemy invasion.
That eternal deity was once again slaughtering the mythological tribes below.
Nowadays.
Those invading fellows no longer seemed interested in researching new species.
They valued quality over quantity.
Continuing to refine the five foundational species—Titans, Elves, Dragons, Angels, and Pearl-Oysters—they pushed forward version updates, giving rise to various branches.
It was likely that for a long time to come, all races would be derivatives of these five foundations.
"Just as those people said, what a super model worker of a deity! A doomsday expert of the species explosion, the Prophet's absolute favorite."
"At this rate, with update after update, they really might become creatures of myth and legend."
"No, they are the very foundation of historical mythology itself!"
Having said this, Xu Changsheng suddenly felt somewhat dazed.
He did not know why such a thought had popped into his mind.
Clearly, he was just a tiny bug, so why was he uttering such inexplicable things?
What mythology or non-mythology?
That inexplicable God's-eye view made him feel as though he came from a later era.
Pushed past further contemplation, he went to see Butterfly-Thread-Elephant to learn what method the other had devised to solve the catastrophe of wisdom.
Butterfly-Thread-Elephant did not conceal it either, telling him the answer:
"Their highly intelligent brains are absolutely rational, while our moderately intelligent brains are relatively emotional..."
"Perhaps we were wrong from the very beginning. Why must we fight? Why must the powers of these two gods of wisdom be kept separate?"
"Perhaps the unification of the two divine powers is what makes a truly complete life!"
Butterfly-Thread-Elephant proposed a completely new approach:
"I plan to weave a new species—a control-type species to control their consciousness and make them work for us!"
"Within a single head, there shall be two brains."
"We will use our emotional, moderate-intelligence brains to control their rational, high-intelligence brains and put them to work."
Amidst Xu Changsheng's shock, Butterfly-Thread-Elephant put forward a terrifying new concept: the "Left-Right Brain Theory".
The left brain is the brain of those madmen, representing rationality and extremism.
The right brain is their own brain, representing sensibility and restraint.
"Left brain? Right brain? Wisdom was originally one! We must carve out a new path and shatter traditional thinking. This is the correct solution to the divine trial!"
"If we fail to comprehend the true meaning of this trial sent by the gods, and attempt to resolve it solely through brute force without grasping rationality and sensibility, then we heinous living beings of the mortal realm deserve to be exterminated."

Hearing this, Xu Changsheng felt an incomparable shock, as if he had vaguely grasped the origin of life itself.
Left brain, right brain?
History mirrored into reality; his heart was filled with awe, mingled with a peculiar emotion.
Butterfly-Thread-Elephant said, "Unfortunately, although we have the theory after all these years, it is still very difficult to weave this brain-controlling, enslaved species. Are you willing to help me?"
"I am willing."
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten years passed.
The entire Butterfly Clan braced themselves and began frantically researching new technologies.
This newly woven species required data and information from all aspects.
Fortunately, Xu Changsheng's knowledge was vast and comprehensive.
Perhaps no sage who came here could have progressed as quickly as he did.
With the assistance of Xu Changsheng, this heaven-sent prodigy, and by freely borrowing the research of those external pseudo-sages, they actually managed to piece the work together.
On this day, within the laboratory.
Xu Changsheng said, "My lord, are you truly prepared? This is a nine-to-one chance of death, and we must even borrow the magic carpet to undergo mutation catalysis to achieve ultimate success!"
Butterfly-Thread-Elephant sighed, "If I die, I die. I must still go and try it myself."
Throughout the entire Butterfly Clan, his weaving standards were the highest, making him the most likely to complete this arduous mission.
As for letting Xu Changsheng go?
He could never allow this precious treasure of the clan to take such a risk.
...
Butterfly Era Year 278.
The Butterfly Emperor entered seclusion, and the demon army attacked the ancestral land of the Butterfly Clan.
On this very day, a gigantic butterfly descended from the sky, its pair of butterfly wings bearing the head of an elephant.
The butterfly wings served as its elephant ears, and its entire hollow cocoon had transformed into a vacant skull.
Boom!
The entire elephant head fiercely engulfed a titanic leader standing between heaven and earth.
Ah!
He squeezed into the other's brain, treating the opponent as the left brain while acting as the right brain himself to take command of the entire mind.
This was an alternative method of control!
From then on, he could harness this merciless, pseudo-sage left brain to do his bidding.
Rumble!
In an instant, the heavens and earth churned with wind and clouds.
This giant deity with an elephant head laughed heartily, strode forward, and gazed at the vast armies before him, "Gods, let this battle be mine."

Liu Jun smiled slightly and halted his steps, merely serving as a deity overlooking the scene from high above.
"Imperial Historian, I speak, you record."
The voice of Butterfly-Thread-Elephant rolled outward like mighty celestial music.
"Legend has it that at the dawn of heaven and earth, the Butterfly Clan created humanity. In pursuit of higher wisdom, they created an incomplete intelligent species—possessing high intelligence yet remaining paranoid, crazed, ungrateful, and devoid of emotion."
"Driven to a desperate path by this ungrateful race, the Butterfly Clan lived in constant terror. Finally, upon the brink of extinction, they comprehended the true meaning of wisdom and created another brain to complete this flawed life."
"At this moment, the true meaning of wisdom became self-evident: wisdom is using courage to suppress evil, and using the shackles of rationality to confine the wild beast of the heart."
"With both the left and right brains, the living beings of future generations finally possessed propriety, righteousness, integrity, and filial piety, combining both rationality and sensibility."
——《The Butterfly Clan, The Elephant-Toma Mythology, Chapter of Brain Creation》
Butterfly-Thread-Elephant loved elephants all his life; his butterfly wings turned into a pair of elephant ears, and his entire butterfly body transformed into an elephant head, fitted atop the Titan's head.
"What is this?"
The invading enemy forces were utterly shocked.
They saw this vast and towering entity, colossal like a mountain.
Elephant-headed and human-bodied, with a round, protruding belly and earlobes hanging down to his shoulders, his original Titan mount—a hefty Tyrannosaurus Rex—had been squashed by him into a fat mouse.
"Rest assured, Prophet."
"Starting today, the catastrophe of wisdom is broken."
With that, riding his Tyrannosaurus mount flattened into a chubby rat, he charged into the midst of those living beings, wielding divine weapons—wind, light, and evolution—like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.
In his left hand, he gripped the Hammer of Evolution; in his right hand, he held the Spear of Light. He flapped his elephant ears of wind, radiating dazzling brilliance, while exquisite gems on his tusks gleamed brilliantly, shining like stars.
At this instant, across the entire Wutong Tree, all the butterflies were utterly shocked.
The Butterfly Emperor... had he stood up?
On the Wutong Tree, Liu Jun overlooked the battlefield below, his thoughts complex.
"These talented mushrooms are truly wondrous... Perhaps they genuinely conform to some underlying rule of heaven and earth: high intelligence acting as the rational left brain, and moderate intelligence acting as the emotional right brain?"
"Wisdom is a unity; only from this moment forth did the mortal realm give birth to complete living beings?"
Liu Jun smiled faintly, "Butterfly-Thread-Elephant actually thought of this brilliant countermeasure to pull the firewood from under the cauldron."
In the distance.
Xu Changsheng opened his eyes, a trace of shock crossing his face.
Left brain, right brain... Could it be that he had witnessed with his own eyes the true origin of life?
Did this species explosion detonate into complete, intelligent life forms possessing both left and right brains?