"Talk about your system."

Ning Zheng sat on his throne in the Imperial City, frowning more as he looked, "Every cycle on your body has a kind of rough, haphazard beauty."

"Indeed, we are haphazardly put together!"

"We are all like growing seedlings by pulling, so we are many in number, and cultivate quickly, but our foundation is unstable, just the kind of wastrels who have realms but no substance."

The Gale Emperor truly lived up to being an emperor of a generation, able to bend and stretch.

It could also be said that they lacked the Essence, Qi, and Spirit that a powerhouse should have, like a swarm of lively but insignificant fish.

After all, the realm and abilities copied were a fast path to cultivation.

But merely a shortcut.

As the Gale Emperor recounted, Ning Zheng gradually understood this distant period of history.

The chaos began with the falling of a treasure from the heavens.

A square glazed window fell from the sky, and anyone who approached it would be "Self-Transformed," their innate spirit roots twisted into a single spirit root.

[Mask]: Can replicate the spirit root divine techniques, cultivation realm of the other person, but only at fifty percent of the original power.

Simply put.

Mask is a kind of replicative divine technique, ever-changing.

People with this spirit root were called Replicators in that era.

The most astonishing thing was being able to copy your meridian paths, all cultivation.

The prerequisite is that the cultivation difference isn't large, not exceeding a Great Realm.

For example.

If one is merely at the first viscera of the Four Viscera Realm, replicating a cultivator at the Four Viscera Realm Great Perfection would rapidly Self-Transform into them.

Quickly replicating the "viscera" of the opponent, cloning the cultivation on each viscera, the first viscera, second viscera, third viscera... advancing to Four Viscera Realm Great Perfection!

"This replication is really formidable."

Ning Zheng showed a hint of heaviness,

"Every Self-Transformation Realm has the trait of making 'others Self-Transform into me'... and this divine technique should be a different enhanced version of Self-Transformation."

"Yes."

The Gale Emperor revealed a hint of heaviness, his eyes glazed with nostalgia:

"What happened later is predictable, some cultivators called that treasure... the Divine Window!"

"Those who approached the Divine Window were assimilated into a uniform Mask, possessing cloning divine power, becoming others."

This batch of Replicators rapidly grew, their speed of advancement astonishing.

For instance.

A novice cultivator at the first Five-Body Realm, replicating a Five-Body Realm Great Perfection, replicating his divine techniques, replicating his body structure first body, second body...

Becoming a Fifth Body Great Perfection.

Then, masking another adept in breaking realms, breaking through to the Fourth Viscera Realm, then switching to another cultivator to replicate, replicating a Four Viscera Realm Great Perfection.

In such a cycle, as long as resources were sufficient, rapid advancement was possible!

Thus, around this Divine Window, a huge force formed.

Growing even larger!

Although as Replicators, they had less than half the combat power of the original.

The sheer number of breakthroughs, under siege, gradually overthrew the old dynasty era.

This was bad money driving out good money.

That era ushered in an unprecedented upheaval, causing panic among the people, reverence from sects, and even the dynasty issuing seventeen decrees to quell banditry.

Yet the group of Replicators continued to expand rapidly.

Even forcing people to join the replication camp later on.

If you don't turn into bad money and rapidly advance in realm, you will be eliminated by other powerhouses!

Eventually, the dynasty of that era also fell apart, choosing to become replicating spirit roots, becoming Replicators, if you can't beat them, join them.

As a result.

The whole world was in chaos, numerous Replicators began wars and vied for the [Divine Window], thus inaugurating the turmoil of the Thirteen Dynasties.

Ning Zheng heard these arcane historical secrets and showed a trace of peculiarity: "The whole world is Replicators? Who then serves as the original?"

"We use the Divine Statue to replicate." The Gale Emperor explained quietly.

"Divine Statue? What's this?" Ning Zheng showed a hint of confusion.

"You later generations like to call us the Warring Dukes Era, but how could we call ourselves that?"

The Gale Emperor showed a bit of flattery, "We called our era... the Supreme Divine Statue Era!"

Under the leadership of the Gale Emperor, Ning Zheng arrived at a square in the Imperial City.

[Divine Statue Square]

The Gale Emperor pointed to the tall, mighty statues in the square and said, "We are all Replicators... naturally afraid of not having an original to replicate."

"So, we took every powerhouse from all realms and sects in the old dynasty, the most outstanding geniuses, made them into human-shaped specimen statues, and placed them in the square."

"Since we were set on replicating, of course, we would replicate the strongest prodigies of the same realm!"

He showed a trace of pride, pointing at the statues in the square:

"These statues are my collection from back then, each one an amazing prodigy, each one sweeping through the same tier! I personally have a collection habit, encompassing not only the Five Elements and Four Viscera... but also a variety of spirit roots: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth."

"This is the heritage of my lineage!"

"Every novice cultivator, looking at the statues on the square, dreaming of becoming such a person, could easily become that person!"

Ning Zheng: "....."

Quite a saying; if you dream of becoming such a person, you can become such a person.

This era...

Or is it the Dream Master?

Ning Zheng already envisioned the scene:

"Mom, I want to become a formidable fire series cultivator when I grow up!"

"Sure, no problem, transfer profession in the square, replicate one of the statues!"

The dreams of this era, wanting to become any kind of person, walking any type of [path], could be easily realized.

Fortunately, Xin Xichen and those fierce individuals were not born in this era.

Whoever is the strongest in the same realm would become a statue, left here as a street lamp, for a crowd to replicate, point, and gossip around.

Too miserable.

The stronger the aptitude, the more miserable it is.

"Look, this is our portrait." The Gale Emperor, someone who knew how to please people, took out a projection for Ning Zheng to see.

In it, Ning Zheng saw ancient images of this Divine Statue Era.

This was an awakening square, a group of students queued: 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Finally, the moment of [Ancestral Awakening] has arrived?"

"Yes, after studying for so long, we're finally opening Three Flowers, with the bloom, we see ourselves."

"I hope my compatibility with a certain ancient strong god is high."

...

Ancestral Awakening was their term for the ceremony.

Externally, they explained that these statues were their ancestors, and they were to awaken their ancestral blood.

Otherwise...

We can hardly say that we turned some prodigies into statues, inviting everyone to replicate them madly, right?

Surely we must stand on the moral high ground and put on some disguise.

The so-called compatibility is about how well you match with the prodigy you replicated!

Ning Zheng saw in the ancient projected images of the Divine Statue Era, a group of young students just beginning cultivation, choosing their profession and which ancestral awakening (replication) of a divine statue under the guidance of a teacher.

[Thunder God], [Fire God], [Water God]... these statues stood in the square.

This is to walk on the path that predecessors had already fixed!

Imitate the model.

No need for innovation, just replicate.

When they break through to the Four Viscera Realm, they would go to the Second Transformation Square to replicate new statues.

And so on.

They moved from square to square, frantically transferring professions and replicating all the way up.

"And what about when they encounter a bottleneck?" Ning Zheng asked curiously, "You can only replicate cultivators of the same realm; bottlenecks must be broken through on their own, right?"

"Bottlenecks, we have Realm-Breaking Gods!"

He pointed to the central statue and smiled, "Every time we reach Perfection in a realm, we must transfer profession to become a Realm-Breaking God!"

"This divine technique inherently breaks realms, breaking through is as easy as eating and drinking water, after replicating him, we can relatively easily break through to the next realm."

Ning Zheng was completely silent.

The Divine Statue Era... was a mythological era of praying to gods and heavens.

During this period, there was no concept of cultivation.

Because predecessors had already cultivated for you, you just needed to replicate along their "path."

With each transfer and replication and sufficient resources, one could quickly ascend realm by realm.

Ning Zheng could already imagine that era required no cultivation; a group of people just needed to vie for resources.

With cultivation resources, realms could be madly elevated.

No wonder that era was like madness.

This was inevitably an era of crazy low-cost troop building.

No need to spend heart power cultivating, madly low-cost troop-building, cultivators were no longer scarce, of course, all heart power would be spent on plundering.