Chapter 528

Chapter 528: The Spread of Knowledge

The first Spirit City, the Spirit City of Ten Thousand Flowers, is located at the outermost node and serves as a gathering place for practitioners; there is not a single ordinary being within the city.

This place truly lives up to its name.

Everywhere in the city, spiritual flowers bloom, competing for beauty, and the aroma in each area differs. As Yun Ye strolled around, he felt quite pleased.

These scents did not just elevate one’s mood; they were the essence of specific spiritual flowers converging, akin to a potion brewed by skilled hands.

Ordinary beings entering here could live their full lifespan without issue, remaining healthy and mentally sharp in their old age.

The value of cultivation here was even greater, enhancing understanding, accelerating spirit energy flow, and improving physical condition, with various effects.

In comparison, Tomorrow Nation lagged behind in this aspect; most of their methods yielded quick results, requiring large investments.

However, the technique of utilizing the excess essences from spiritual flowers, like that in the Spirit City of Ten Thousand Flowers, demonstrated too slow of a response for Tomorrow Nation.

With Secret Realms and the Time Tower, Tomorrow Nation could already produce spiritual herbs in bulk without needing to conserve these resources.

“These pollen have hallucinogenic effects, and this tower…”

At the center of the Spirit City stood a striking thousand-meter-high tower, more prominent than even the core Spirit Palace.

As a practitioner extremely sensitive to fluctuations of power, Yun Ye could sense that this tower was continuously activating spirit law control.

Its likely purpose was brainwashing, imprinting mental markers, and it employed very advanced technology; it would be extremely difficult to detect unless one were a true-position practitioner.

A force of the caliber of the Nine Star Heavenly Sect, although most areas were managed by external factions, need not fear rebellion.

Was the deliberate establishment of the spirit law tower for the purpose of Dao Artifact Resonance?

“Doesn’t seem like it. The resonance of the ruling Dao must come from the rulers themselves, which is why regions are intentionally separated, letting them become the actual rulers.”

“Once they become rulers, they naturally support their own position; it’s impossible for them not to acknowledge the ruling Dao. Using spirit law for brainwashing isn’t particularly meaningful and may instead diminish the possibility of awakening the Dao Artifact.”

Ming Ri sensed Yun Ye’s thoughts and refuted him.

“Is that so? Is it to prevent the emergence of calamity energy?”

“Only when ordinary beings who harbor extreme resentment towards the ruling Dao and possess a certain will die, will calamity energy arise, lingering for countless years.”

“Compared to the enormous amounts of resentment and calamity energy in Dongwang City, there isn’t much here; truly a brilliant method of cutting off problems at the root.”

Yun Ye remarked.

“Having power makes everything manageable; even the rules of the world are full of loopholes to exploit.”

Ming Ri sighed and nodded.

“Moreover, all the people here are practitioners; even newborns can awaken their spiritual roots and are naturally at the Mortal Realm.”

“Throughout my wanderings, I didn’t see any gathering places outside the Spirit City; it seems the territory of the Nine Star Heavenly Sect no longer has any ordinary beings.”

Yun Ye took a round, having visited all accessible areas.

“This place has an excessively high spirit energy density; only those who can adapt can survive here.”

Ming Ri said.

When the spirit energy density is too high, breathing can result in the inhalation of spirit energy, gradually shortening one’s lifespan—under such circumstances, infants without talent simply cannot survive.

There might be some possibilities outside the city, though.

Outside the city, the spirit energy is gathered in the Spirit City of Ten Thousand Flowers through formations, making most places similar to the core area of the Great Wilderness Spirit Marsh, without reaching levels that would be deadly for ordinary beings.

“No wonder it feels less crowded; the higher the essence of life, the more challenging reproduction becomes, and it increasingly loses its meaning.”

Yun Ye said.

“Speaking of fewer people, that’s also due to the upcoming Heavenly Vault Grand Meeting; everyone is gathered at the trial ground.”

Ming Ri glanced up towards the area where multiple streaks of light darted by.

The whole Spirit City of Ten Thousand Flowers was quite lively, with many practitioners discussing the Heavenly Vault Grand Meeting that occurs every sixty years.

“Word has it that, like last time, not only will many talents from external sects participate in the Grand Meeting, but even the Super Geniuses from the Heavenly Sect, who have been in secluded practice for the past ten years, will descend! It’s said that they all possess peerless talents; this year could be another grand battle!”

“Last year’s exceptional dragon and phoenix from the Grand Meeting, once they entered the Heavenly Sect, reportedly could not sweep away all challengers. The Heavenly Sect taking the field themselves carries significant weight!”

“After all, we are now in a special era; the geniuses in the Heavenly Sect have not hunted disaster beasts, missing out on a substantial boost in their abilities. In such circumstances, the Heavenly Sect still engaging in battles will be a fierce competition, not simply a walkover. It’ll be all the more exciting for us spectators!”

“Ha ha, indeed! I can’t wait to see what amazing talents rise this year!”

Within the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, practitioners engaged in lively discussions.

This tavern felt like a fairyland, with beautiful dancers performing, enchanting music echoing, creating a mesmerizing atmosphere that was completely beyond ordinary lives.

A young man in blue yawned as he walked down the street with a woman in a red dress, as if mere fleeting visitors in this bustling world, gradually vanishing at the end of the city gate road.

…

The dragon slayers eventually became the evil dragons.

Thus, they no longer hunted dragons.

This world likely feels like that—there is no hope for those at the bottom, a life of an entirely different level; perhaps it would be better for them to become extinct sooner.

However, for the sake of the Dao Artifact of the ruling Dao, a basic number of practitioners is still necessary; otherwise, gathering resonance would be too slow, and even the practitioners’ lifespans would not allow for delays.

Outside the Spirit City of Ten Thousand Flowers, in a certain Secret Realm, towering buildings shot up, with numerous puppets coming and going. Inside these buildings, rows of cultivation chambers were filled with humans and demons.

In one laboratory, the director in a white coat flipped through a spirit book in his hand.

On the Bookshelf behind him, numerous spirit books brimming with vast amounts of information were displayed.

“Gene Cracking Technology”

“Extreme Spiritual Law”

“Cloning”

“Brain Structure”

Years ago, Tomorrow Nation aimed for rapid development and chose to make various bloodlines public, but there were always some who wrote various techniques into these bloodlines, causing such knowledge to spread together. The terrifying sect like the Nine Star Heavenly Sect shadowed everything in Star State; no anomaly escaped its surveillance.

Individuals born with powerful bloodlines were naturally under complete control, allowing various techniques to be deciphered from the bloodlines.

With a foundation of various technologies, the higher level of the Nine Star Heavenly Sect quickly sensed the potential for rise, carving out numerous Secret Realms for research, ensuring that people within these realms could not escape or leak information, making it extremely secure.

This accumulation of technology allowed them to improve the Nine Star Heavenly Vault Barrier.

Even when a virus outbreak occurred, attracting the World God’s tendrils, they realized this was a chance to bring down the Monarch, swiftly assisting the virus to spread throughout the entire Star State and surrounding areas.

Thus, more of the World God’s tendrils descended, transforming into part of a body, and after wreaking havoc for a while, they suddenly merged with other bodies.

The top forces everywhere understood the significance of the great ritual; a rare opportunity had arrived!

If they assisted now and initiated the great ritual, they would have a chance to become True Immortals, leading them to unanimously summon the World God.

Completing the summons took just a few years; on the day of the World God body’s reformation, the Monarch immediately fell.

Major powers could conceal Dao Artifacts via special methods, but how powerful was the Monarch? The Fourth Heaven overshadowed the world; he was not easy to hide.

Thus, the Monarch directly fell, and the true era of becoming True Immortals arrived as anticipated.

With a foundation of various technologies, even though the World God’s true body descended, with the Monarch falling, the Nine Star Heavenly Sect remained at ease; instead, they took the opportunity presented by the World God’s rules to further breed humans and demons, their strength dramatically increasing as they eagerly prepared to participate in a new round of the competition for becoming True Immortals.