"But in reality? We have not attained the Dao! How can we recklessly claim we are close to the Dao before we attain it?" Feng Luoyi cautioned, "The moment you feel utterly correct is when, as a Modern Cultivator, you have already fallen to a lower level. Every Modern Cultivator must be prepared, prepared for the beliefs and pursuits they hold to be overturned at any moment."
Wang Qi pressed his forehead. He had finally pieced together the ultimate picture of this universe.
"Dao gives birth to one," this is Shenzhou's name for the Big Bang. In the initial few seconds of this creative event, for some reason, one of the universe's parameters turned into a variable.
"The index of energy"—Spiritual Energy spread with that explosion, with the expansion of the universe, filling every inch of space here.
The existence of Spiritual Energy made the second law of thermodynamics no longer unbreakable, making life much easier to emerge. Twenty billion years—that is how long life could potentially exist in this universe.
On the other hand, Spiritual Energy made the universe's "phenomena" bizarre and assorted. It was like the Technology Black Box being used to lock down enemies, pervasive in every corner of the universe. The complex phenomena were almost impossible to summarize. Science struggled to take root from the beginning.
At the same time, the physical properties of Spiritual Energy allowed it to attract the physical body and thought. The mind could directly interfere with the world, and it became incredibly easy to create Technology Black Boxes. Under such conditions, to abandon the "experience" that one could achieve simply by sleeping, or to put it another way, to directly confront the laws of the Great Dao, and to instead express it through an axiomatic System, was simply unimaginable.
Compared to the "method of individual transcendence," a System that could showcase its strengths with more people was just too difficult.
Wang Qi murmured with a soft laugh, "So that's how it is..."
The Modern System was nothing more than a coincidence, a highly improbable coincidence. It just happened on this planet, and that was all.
Over such a long scale, whatever could happen, would inevitably happen.
The Yuanli Master's System allowed everyone the possibility to come together, with Feng Luoyi at the forefront, the Cultivator Class Reformer Faction revolutionized Shenzhou, and he himself incorporated the strength of mortals into this System. This was already a different path.
And the old three classes fundamentally drained the vitality of all civilizations in the entire universe. It was at odds with the Modern System.
To attain the Dao, the Modern System might have to shatter the old order of the universe.
This war was like a comparison between a planet with a radius of seven thousand kilometers and a universe with a radius of seventy billion light-years, between a two-thousand-year-old civilization and twenty billion years of experience.
Feng Luoyi looked at Wang Qi, her eyes filled with a hint of concern. This information was enough to destroy the mindset of most Modern Cultivators. The Immortal Alliance had restricted the circulation of all cosmic-related data for this reason.
Wang Qi extended his hand and created a model within the Illusion. It was still a Cellular Automaton. Feng Luoyi, detecting his deeper meaning, granted him the use of the Ten Thousand Immortals True Mirror and together, they formulated the rules for computation.
It was a simulation of the cosmic picture. Among the indifferent starry sky, countless points of light twinkled according to the principles they simulated.
In the end, Wang Qi finally saw a universe that was nearly static and silent.
"Teacher Feng, we haven't encountered the most terrifying enemy foreseen yet, have we? The kind that is a Nebula Life Being."
"If we had, I probably wouldn't have had the chance to teach you anything," Feng Luoyi said with a smile, "We're lucky."
"That's right," Wang Qi nodded, "Since we're not going to die anytime soon, I might as well remain a Modern Cultivator."
"Don't think that just because we haven't encountered a truly terrifying Immortal we can be careless. This domain of Heaven and Earth has at least reached the sixth degree of civilization," Feng Luoyi stated gravely, "The Transmission of a single Immortal created the brilliance of the Ancient Method. A Banished Immortal Demon Emperor almost made the Modern falter."
"When new things are weak, they can easily perish at the hands of the strong old things," Wang Qi reflected, "But with good luck, after ten thousand years, we will be able to extend what we have done, and what we are doing, to the entire universe."
They might now be the only revolutionaries in the entire cosmos. (To be continued. If you work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com), and to vote for it monthly. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)