Exploring Immortality Cultivation

"This has been a long battle. In this battle, we couldn't trust most people. Due to immature technology, we couldn't detect every Banished Immortal, so we could only abide by the principle of better to kill wrongly than to let go. Even so, we couldn't be sure how many Banished Immortals still existed within the Immortal Alliance. And even if they weren't Banished Immortals, they couldn't necessarily be trusted. The power possessed by Immortals was simply too great; anyone could be tempted. Despite this, we were fighting for the mortals," Feng Luoyi said, looking straight at Wang Qi. "Only those Cultivators above the Primordial Spirit could be certain that their interests were fundamentally aligned with the Immortal Alliance. Only those who became Carefree Cultivators could be deemed trustworthy. However, even the Carefree could potentially lose their heart and abandon the Modern System."

Therefore, the means obtained from Zhao Qingfeng seemed crucial.

Wang Qi suddenly laughed, "I suddenly feel a bit scared. Chen Jingyun didn't kill me back then, he was indeed being courteous."

On Earth, the ancient social system of China was known as the "Little Asia Minor Model." Unlike the Western feudal model, the Little Asia Minor Model was incredibly stable. Analysts believed the reason for this stability was the Imperial Examination System, which provided a thin rope for the fixed classes to climb.

In this universe, classes were also not entirely rigid; mortals could become Cultivators, and Cultivators could become Immortals. Under such circumstances, the lower class would only see the glamour of the upper class and position their standpoint on the upper class, neglecting the proportion of Immortals to mortals.

And the physical laws of Spiritual Energy determined that power would always be controlled by the upper classes.

This universe was a place where revolutionaries would not emerge.

No, there were revolutionaries! Wang Qi suddenly realized, staring intensely at Feng Luoyi.

This universe had already achieved this point!

"Wisdom will surely triumph over ignorance," Wang Qi said joyfully. "We will eventually prevail."

He felt that being able to participate in such a grand war as a Scientist was truly a life well-lived.

Unfortunately, Feng Luoyi did not share Wang Qi's enthusiasm. Instead, he responded in a strange tone, "Wisdom will surely triumph over ignorance? And what makes you so sure that we are the wise ones? Why aren't we the ignorant?"

"We are... the ignorant?" Wang Qi found this bizarre joke not very amusing.

Feng Luoyi laughed softly, "Wang Qi, present your argument. You are a Modern Cultivator; you should reason your position."

"We used two thousand years to defeat Ancient Method Practitioners who had eighty thousand years..."

Feng Luoyi pointed towards the sky. It was an image of a starry sky. Under Feng Luoyi's control, the image zoomed in wildly. At first, Wang Qi just felt the starry sky growing larger, as if he was about to dive headfirst into this diamond-encrusted black velvet. But soon, the sky cleared, and then he saw the planet system, saw the Heavenly Palace [Constant Star System], saw the Star Wall [Galaxy Cluster], and saw the Sky Ruins [Supercluster].

Then, the entire image turned into a gorgeous red-tinted pattern. Wang Qi recognized it. Although he had rarely dealt with it in this lifetime, in his previous life, every Theoretical Physicist inevitably dealt with it. This was the cosmic microwave background radiation map.

"Look at this universe, Wang Qi," Feng Luoyi rebuked. "This universe has existed for over twenty billion years. From the very initial stage of 'Dao gives birth to one,' Life Beings could have existed. Some speculate that the earliest Life Beings even predated the first Great Suns. Back then, this universe was still small and hot, but the ground state field had already been stimulated, and mass and energy had already appeared, forming the original nebulae dispersed in this red-glowing universe. Life Beings that could be formed just from spirit field and hydrogen elements. Or maybe, among the first batch of Great Suns, there were one or two that experienced Spirit Awakening Demon..."

Wang Qi took a deep breath, yet remained firm in his perspective, "We can always surpass them."

"Are you sure?" Feng Luoyi shook his head. "You once wrote some reviews discussing the essence of technology. Have you forgotten? Why did you go to great lengths to seize the Immortal Dao Burning Book List? And why did you just plunder the data of the Divine Capital Nobles?"

Wang Qi felt as if struck by lightning.

Technology and theory are not necessarily connected. Even Earth, a world without any Spiritual Energy, had many civilizations which, under faulty theoretical systems, developed sophisticated technologies. How much more so here?

An Immortal who emerged from a primitive tribe, observing the Great Sun for thousands of years, could also potentially understand nuclear fusion. [They call it "Sun Dao," while a few civilizations refer to it as "Sun Law"]

Although the efficiency of such accumulated experience is lower than that of the Modern System, and the chances of understanding the principles are low, those Immortals had two hundred billion years.

"And besides, we might not necessarily be on the most rightful path," Feng Luoyi gently shook his head. "In our eyes, Spiritual Energy veils the Great Dao with a layer. The Yuanli Master gave us a pole, allowing us to lift that veil. Thus, we encountered the Dao. That supreme harmony was unveiled before us in its entirety. We were mesmerized, wanting to see more, which is why we persisted on this path."

"From another perspective, we, the Carefree, and those Immortals are not very different. They seek Longevity Sight and then chase across the universe to satisfy their corporeal forms. While we have thrown Shenzhou into a faintly hopeful resistance, simply because we still want to satisfy our desire for Seeking Dao, or rather, the desire to seek out the Dao. It's just that our most advantageous strategy happens to be more beneficial to others—it's just a coincidence."