Cave Refuge

Unlike the novels he often read, someone had already paved the way. At present, atop Blue Star, Dong Tianyu's personal cultivation level was likely at the sole pinnacle.

Or rather, on Blue Star, only the animals at Rabbit's Home were still cultivating, while the number of animals cultivating in other zoos was quite small. Even the East Asia Zoo, deeply influenced by East Asian culture, didn't have many animals undergoing cultivation, and the majority of the cultivators were also intricately linked to Rabbit's Home.

Furthermore, the majority of the animals practiced the Martial Path, not because they lacked the heritage of the Immortal Path, but because when the initial natural disasters struck, the Spirit Energy in the air wasn't sufficient to support cultivation of the Immortal Path, so once it was confirmed that martial arts practice was viable, most people, regardless of whether their talent was suitable for martial arts practice, unanimously began to practice it.

The main reason was that martial arts practice could continuously improve physical fitness, and the Inner Breath cultivated could also augment one's capacity to a certain extent. For the survivors who were about to face various severe natural disasters, they couldn't care less about so many things, surviving well was the most important affair.

And when most people began practicing martial arts, nobody tried those uncertain Cultivating Immortality Methods they held in their hands.

Though martial arts and Cultivation started off similarly, the enhancement to the body from martial arts was immediately apparent. Even without reaching the Body Tempering Realm, as long as one cultivated daily, the body would continuously grow stronger.

However, Cultivation was different. Unless one reached the first layer of Qi Cultivation, no matter how long one cultivated, the body wouldn't show any change, and for those practicing Cultivation, reaching the early stage of each level was the most difficult.

Once they entered the introductory stage of those realms, subsequent cultivation would become straightforward; only reaching Perfection of this realm and breaking through to the next stage would present a bottleneck.

Because of this, initially, some people with a penchant for taking risks chose Cultivation, but as they saw their comrades growing stronger day by day with obvious daily improvements,

after cultivating for three to five months, their physical fitness remained the same as before they started cultivating. If it had been the peaceful years before the natural disasters, perhaps some could have persisted in cultivating.

But during the period of the disasters, not having a strong body not only blatantly reduced their chances of survival, it also made them inferior in daily life.

For all these reasons, even though some held genuine Cultivation Methods that could potentially lead to successful cultivation, after multiple people tried and failed to cultivate successfully in the early stages of the disasters, most regarded these as false secret manuals and discarded them carelessly.

After all, they weren't like Dong Tianyu, who, even in the early days of the disasters, when the Spirit Energy in the air was thin, possessed a Cave abundant in Spirit Energy, thereby allowing him to directly practice the Cultivating Immortality Method.

And although the Spirit Energy in the air was becoming richer now, having gone through various kinds of natural disasters and now with floods running rampant, the once neglected Cultivation Techniques of survivors were discarded, lost to oblivion.

Perhaps in the future, some lucky individual might unexpectedly find these abandoned techniques and, following the Secret Manual, cultivate successfully and surprisingly rise from the ashes to become a dark horse of the times.

Though the Three Thousand Great Path ultimately converges, these paths are also categorized into different levels.

In comparison to practicing the Martial Path, Cultivation not only had a significantly higher threshold at the entry level but also in terms of the upper limits of cultivation and measures against adversaries, possessed much stronger capabilities than the Martial Path.

However, in the early stages of this period, compared to Cultivation, practicing Martial Arts allowed individuals to more quickly acquire the ability to survive during the period of natural disasters.

As this series of disasters ended, several more zoos on Blue Star closed down. Now, apart from Rabbit's Home which still maintained a complete organizational zoo management, other zoos were basically on the verge of collapse.

Truth be told, despite Eagle Sauce Family's Zoo claiming to be the best zoo before the disasters, if one said its full name instead of its abbreviation, it should be clear that Eagle Sauce Family wasn't a complete zoo.

Though Eagle Sauce Family's Zoo had a director, according to the entry rules of Eagle Sauce Family's Zoo, each pavilion had its own pavilion director, and within their jurisdiction, they had absolute autonomy, and in their pavilions, their words were even more significant than those of the zoo's director.

Truthfully, the situation at Eagle Sauce's was similar to that of the zoos in the European Union. You should know that before the disasters, some so-called independent zoos in the European Union weren't even as large as a few of Eagle Sauce's pavilions.

If back then, Dragon Ancestor Home hadn't merged with the other zoos within Rabbit's Home, then by now, the situation at Rabbit's Home wouldn't likely have been like that of the European Union, comprised of a rather loose alliance of multiple zoos, or like Eagle Sauce which, despite having established a zoo corporation, still had its subsidiaries managed by the respective zoo directors.

In other times, the situation at Rabbit's Home might not seem very distinct, but after the disasters, the current state at Rabbit's Home far surpassed other family zoos.