Chapter 42: The Difference Between Ancient and Modern Civilizations (Part 1)

  All of this came from what Yang Tong saw in "Spirit Vessel Compendium" and those few history and geography books, which introduced that the world where Yang Tong was located was called the Mortal Realm, with a Spiritual Realm above it. The scope of the Mortal Realm was extremely vast, with numerous ethnic groups. Feng Xuan Continent wasn't the only continent for human civilization; in fact, Feng Xuan Continent was a new continent conquered by humans over a million years ago. The books didn't go into detail about how many continents humans possessed, merely describing it as "one of many continents". Nor did they explain how great humanity's influence was in the Spiritual Realm. But all this was enough to keep Yang Tong, a twelve-year-old boy, occupied for a while.

  After reading these books, Yang Tong felt that his horizon had broadened a lot. At the same time, he couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart. The stronger human civilization is, the more comfortable it is to be a member of humanity. At least being reborn here doesn't have to worry about being enslaved by other tribes. If you were to travel through time and space and be reborn, but humans are being enslaved by other tribes, how suffocating would that be as a human?

  Went out for a good meal and returned home to the new house.

  In the following days, Yang Tong was busy running around outside, buying a large number of cultivation guidance books. It turned out that Luoxing City had specialized bookstores, and famous strongmen from various kingdoms would write about their own cultivation paths and publish them as guides. Of course, specific cultivation methods were impossible to obtain, but there were still general directions for progress. Yang Tong even saw a cultivation guide written by a Demigod.

  This made Yang Tong sigh more than once, this big city is indeed different from the county town below. It's not just that the scope of cultivation and learning are different, but even the degree of civilization is different. In the county town, although he also felt the existence of modern civilization, overall, Yang Tong still had a feeling of living in ancient China, but after arriving in Luoxing City, he clearly felt as if he had returned to the 21st century, or even the 22nd and 23rd centuries.

  In the city, all services have virtual imaging technology. With just one ID card, you can handle shopping, transfers, investments, online ordering and more. The entire urban transportation system, financial system, commodity circulation, food and medicine classification, entertainment settings, tertiary industry distribution, and waste treatment systems are all perfect.

  For example, there are professional pharmacies for buying medicine, specialized furniture stores for buying furniture, and specialized bookstores for buying books. However, in Rakuya County, most of these functions are handled by the Mercenary Guild. The lack of a commodity circulation system is what gives Yang Tong the feeling of living in ancient China while living in Rakuya County.

  In the bookstore, Yang Tong didn't see many secret recipes, cultivation methods, or secret techniques. Instead, there were quite a few introductory books, guidebooks, and summary books of various kinds, including cultivation guides, financial investment guides, and business introduction guides, among others.

  Yang Tong officially began to cultivate "Yu Qing Secret Record". After these days of contemplation, Yang Tong had already grasped the cultivation method of the stage of transcending the mundane.

  However, before practicing, Luo Bao jumped out and reminded him: "You must consider carefully, are you going to take the immortal path or the current divine path?"

  "What's the difference? Isn't this god and the one in the Pantheon of Gods the same?" Yang Tong asked cautiously, as he had also been thinking about how to make a choice during this period.

  "Hmm, how to put it. First of all, the gods cultivated through the current cultivation path are definitely different from those on the Seal of Gods. The gods cultivated now can also be said to be part of the Immortal Path in a sense. This is because the cultivation path originated from the civilization of immortals. To put it simply, modern gods and ancient immortals are essentially the same. Everyone needs to start with basic principles and then master all principles. The difference lies in that when modern gods cultivate, they focus on one principle. After the cultivator masters this principle, he can become a god, and after becoming a god, he can master other principles."

  The ancient immortals, on the other hand, follow the route of embracing all rivers and seas, being the root of creation, the foundation of spiritual clarity, the origin of heaven and earth, and the source of all things. The five elements are formed through it. To cultivate immortality, one must directly enter into the principles of the five elements. The way of cultivating immortality does not require dissecting a fundamental principle from details like those who cultivate their spirit do, as if learning a computer program in your brain, understanding its language composition, reading it, mastering it, and integrating it. Then, using this principle as the main body, build a divine kingdom, which is actually building a small universe. The next step in cultivation is to fill other principles into this external divine kingdom, and finally integrate all principles to form a universe on one's own.

  "The cultivator's cultivation begins by taking oneself as a universe, from leaving the mundane, building the foundation, forming the elixir, forming the primordial infant, transforming the spirit, merging with the body, and becoming an immortal. It is a process of nurturing one's own small universe, containing all the laws of the vast world. From the start, it requires the Five Elements principle to work together, followed by other principles extended from the Five Elements, until reaching the peak!"

  Luo Bao spent some time analyzing this world's cultivation system before giving Yang Tong a clear and concise explanation. This explanation had a very clear guiding effect for Yang Tong, who had not yet embarked on his cultivation journey.

  Yang Tong himself was a clever person, and he understood the reasoning as soon as he heard it. Nowadays, human civilization, even the entire mortal and immortal realms' races, have inherited part of the ancient Xian civilization's legacy. The cultivation methods naturally cannot be comprehensive, so they created this path by taking a different route, but ultimately it is still a case of different paths leading to the same destination.

  The difference lies in the fact that cultivating the divine is easy at first but difficult later, and choosing a single method to start with, then analyzing the secret patterns of the method. Moreover, the application of these secret patterns has led to the emergence of a unique spiritual civilization for humanity. The drawback is that in the later stages of cultivation, because the entire person has merged with the method, they will reject other methods, making it much more difficult to comprehend other methods, and integrating methods is even more extremely difficult. This path is one of specializing before becoming an all-around expert. However, there are also advantages: on this path of cultivating the divine, out of 100 million geniuses, over 10,000 will definitely become gods!

  The Xian's civilization has always adhered to the path of all-around development, its cultivation thought is very clear, it itself is a universe, and at the beginning of cultivation, it integrates the five elements basic law into cultivation, and then other laws. It starts with difficulty and ends with ease, this kind of cultivation leads to the consequence that among hundreds of millions of talented Xian cultivators, perhaps only one can become immortal.

  Why is there such a result? This needs to be understood from the understanding of the two civilizations on the cosmic law.

  The ancient Xian civilization's understanding of the universe's principles is that the infinite gives birth to the ultimate, the ultimate gives birth to the two forms, and the two forms divide into the five elements. The five elements evolve into heaven and earth and all things. Simply put, one gives birth to two, two give birth to three, and three give birth to all things. The entire universe revolves around the operation of yin-yang and the five elements, and within this operation, various rules are extended, such as daybreak and nightfall, the waxing and waning of the moon, seasonal changes, wind, thunder, rain, lightning, etc.

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