Hearing Xu Yuan's words, both Tyrant HIM and Annoying Village HIM fell silent.
They had once both been fierce generals on the battlefield, having gone through countless life-and-death trials, yet now they were rendered speechless by a single question from Xu Yuan.
Just as Xu Yuan had said, Tyrant HIM and Annoying Village HIM had each experienced many wars.
They once believed that as long as they won battle after battle, they could exchange those victories for peace and stability.
However, as time went on, they gradually came to realize that war had not brought them true peace.
On the contrary, every victory was only a brief moment to catch their breath, while enemies would continue to emerge, dragging them into endless slaughter.
At the beginning, Tyrant HIM and Annoying Village HIM firmly believed that as long as they could defeat their opponents, they could end the war and bring about peace.
But as the number of wars they experienced increased, they started to realize just how naive that idea was.
War only breeds more hatred and conflict; it does not bring peace.
Even if they successfully wiped out one enemy, more enemies would still appear, continuing to challenge their authority.
Moreover, even if they could completely eliminate all enemies, there was no guarantee that new enemies would not emerge in the future.
History had already proven that war is often a vicious cycle, constantly generating new contradictions and conflicts. Even if they achieved temporary victories, they could not change this fact.
After experiencing so many wars, Tyrant HIM and Annoying Village HIM knew very well that this path had no end.
Unless they could possess power overwhelming enough to crush everything and make everyone fear them, allowing them to suppress everything and put an end to all wars.
However, when Xu Yuan put forward his viewpoint, they once again fell into confusion.
If war could not solve the problem, and even gaining power strong enough to crush everything could not solve the problem, then what method could actually solve it?
As Annoying Village HIM thought this through, a flash of inspiration suddenly crossed his mind. He stared intently at Xu Yuan and asked with a face full of confusion, "How exactly did you resolve the hatred between the villagers and the illagers, as well as between those native creatures and the players?"
Annoying Village HIM was the last of the three to step into this world. As soon as he arrived, before he had time to deeply understand this world, he was tricked by Entity 303 into the Dark Space, and then immediately entered the Land of Trials.
In the Land of Trials, he subdued the iron golems and obtained some information about this world from them.
This world bore astonishing similarities to the world Annoying Village HIM originally came from. It likewise had players, villagers, illagers, monsters, animals, and various other factions, and the hatred between these factions was nearly identical.
Because of this similarity, when Annoying Village HIM learned that Xu Yuan had successfully resolved the conflicts between these native creatures and the players, an endless sense of shock and confusion surged in his heart.
Because in Annoying Village HIM's view, those hatreds and conflicts seemed extremely difficult to resolve, or rather, he simply could not think of any way to resolve them at all.
Yet Xu Yuan had done it. And he seemed not to have expended too much effort, nor did he use war, but instead easily resolved those deeply rooted hatreds and conflicts.
Annoying Village HIM was extremely curious about how Xu Yuan had accomplished this. If he could learn Xu Yuan's method, then perhaps Annoying Village HIM could apply it to his own world and resolve the predicament of the world he came from.
Hearing Annoying Village HIM's question, Xu Yuan did not hide anything and answered frankly, "I understand them. I know very well what they hope for and what they desire in their hearts."
"I know the source of their hatred," Xu Yuan continued, a trace of firm light flashing in his eyes.
"So I cut off the source of that hatred for them."
"However, I did not take away their right to independently choose their future path, allowing them to decide their direction according to their own will."
"Next, I formulated a set of rules that everyone could accept and benefit from," Xu Yuan said calmly, his eyes focused, as if recalling the scene from back then.
"These rules were designed to ensure fairness and justice, while also taking the interests of all sides into account."
"Through them, people could find common goals and achieve harmonious coexistence."
"That's everything I did," Xu Yuan concluded with a smile.
"Throughout the entire process, I didn't pay a heavy price, and no one needed to sacrifice their life."
"Once the rules were established, I didn't even need to spend any more energy maintaining them."
"Because all factions would become beneficiaries of the rules. They would consciously uphold these rules, allowing them to operate stably and long-term."
"So then, when all factions can benefit from the rules, is it still possible for large-scale conflicts to arise between them?"
Xu Yuan did not plainly tell Annoying Village HIM the specific method he used to resolve the hatred and conflicts between the native creatures and the players.
Instead, with the mindset of teaching someone how to fish rather than giving them a fish, he explained his own "problem-solving approach" to Annoying Village HIM.
What Xu Yuan described was, in fact, the guiding principle he had upheld for a long time.
If one wants to properly solve a problem, the first priority is to step outside oneself and examine the issue from an objective, neutral perspective, avoiding placing oneself into any particular faction.
When Xu Yuan handled problems, he never placed himself into any faction. From beginning to end, he examined all issues from a god's-eye view, which was also the key reason he was often able to strike directly at the core of the problem.
Second, one must seek out the fundamental source of the problem.
Finally, starting from the root of the problem, cleverly avoid war and thereby achieve a perfect resolution.
These three simple and clear steps were Xu Yuan's consistent way of thinking.
And it was precisely because of this unique mindset that Xu Yuan was able to repeatedly resolve many thorny problems.
In fact, if Tyrant HIM and Annoying Village HIM had thinking patterns similar to Xu Yuan's, Xu Yuan firmly believed they would also be able to come up with the same solution.
However, when Tyrant HIM and Annoying Village HIM dealt with matters, they often stumbled at the very first step.
They found it difficult to break free from their own limitations and were unable to view problems with an objective attitude.
When handling issues, they would unconsciously place themselves into a particular faction.
Take Tyrant HIM, for example. His identity was that of the leader of the Undead race, so all his thinking was inevitably centered on the interests of the Undead race.
As for Annoying Village HIM, although he was also a creator god, he had formed his own army, and he would likewise subconsciously consider the interests of his own faction.
As a result, they could not view and analyze problems rationally and comprehensively, and their perspectives were inevitably biased.
And it was precisely because of this that they were tripped up by the predicament before them.