Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 1020 - 1018: Society
"Golden Mother Primordial Lord?" Li Zhengdao asked, "I remember she is the daughter of the Divine Emperor, right?"
Before entering the Threefold Supreme Heaven, Li Zhengdao had done a considerable amount of preparation work, naturally consulting various classics of the Heavenly Court and learning about the origins of the Supreme Heaven, and understanding many immortals of the previous generation Heavenly Court.
According to Li Zhengdao's understanding, the so-called Threefold Supreme Heaven was a small world that the Supreme Heavenly Venerate filled with a vast amount of materials collected over countless years from the outer celestial world, adjusting it for several hundred years to form a world with mountains, rivers, and heavenly treasures.
In Li Zhengdao's conjecture, this Threefold Supreme Heaven might have directly transplanted land from certain extraterrestrial planets, forming a self-sustaining small world, allowing the spiritual people to propagate and thrive within, avoiding the dissipation of spiritual energy through ages.
'Even according to the Demon Saint's guess, the continents within the Threefold Supreme Heaven might originally have been part of the planets that the spiritual people inhabited in the past, used as their vehicular tools traversing the universe, representing the ultimate project of those spiritual people led by the Supreme Heavenly Venerate.'
'However, the present Threefold Supreme Heaven has long been severed from the Supreme Heavenly Venerate's Thirty-six Heavens by the Demon Saint, and it's not in the possession of the Supreme Heavenly Venerate. The key to controlling this Threefold Supreme Heaven... the spiritual people here are certainly oblivious. So how does this daughter of the Divine Emperor manage to lead the Heavenly Court?'
Li Zhengdao felt a rising doubt in his heart, recalling that this Golden Mother Primordial Lord was the daughter of the previous Divine Emperor, whose cultivation among many immortals was not top-notch, hence how could it be her turn to lead the Heavenly Court.
Chang Yangzi nodded and agreed: "Correct, indeed the daughter of the Divine Emperor."
Li Zhengdao curiously asked, "I wonder about the cultivation level of Golden Mother Primordial Lord?"
Chang Yangzi smiled and said, "She has attained the position of Immortality."
Li Zhengdao understood; the so-called position of Immortality refers to a past title for a Dao Transformation Degree of 170%.
In the past spiritual people's cultivation system, there was no measuring unit like the Dao Transformation Degree, but rather titles such as Primordial Spirit, Qi Refinement, Seven Apertures, Yang Spirit, etc.
A Dao Transformation Degree over 160% would be called the Manifestation Saint position, 170% as the position of Immortality, 180% as the Five Energies position, and 190% as the Creative position.
As for 200%, it's the boundary of celestial and human, and in Li Zhengdao's knowledge, only the previous Divine Emperor, the current Divine Emperor, and the Supreme Heavenly Venerate have reached and surpassed this realm.
Regarding the Demon Saint, in Li Zhengdao's understanding... this person can no longer be described by any realm or Dao Transformation Degree indicators, having surpassed the bindings of immortal dao, demons, the void, and other systems.
Moreover, the Dao Transformation Degree system was initially created by the Demon Saint and later perfected by immortals and mortal cultivators after the Heavenly Dao's distortion.
Previously, when Li Zhengdao inquired about the situation within the Supreme Heaven from Chang Yangzi, he had already converted the various realm titles here into Dao Transformation Degree descriptions, knowing that the strongest in the current Supreme Heaven had attained the Creative position, which means a Dao Transformation Degree exceeding 190%.
'Golden Mother Primordial Lord attained the position of Immortality, breaking through a Dao Transformation Degree of 170%. But in the Supreme Heaven, this does not make her a top-notch powerhouse. In such an immortal civilization world, without enough power, no matter how deep the background is, or the legacy of the previous Divine Emperor, it would be impossible to lead the Heavenly Court.'
Li Zhengdao subtly raised his doubts, but Chang Yangzi did not answer, instead inviting Li Zhengdao into the city for a temporary stay, as they needed to report the matter to the Heavenly Lord. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
Li Zhengdao happened to want a chance to mix into the Heavenly Court here, looking for an opportunity to contact the Divine Body of the previous Divine Emperor. Once he touched the remains of the previous Divine Emperor, he would have an eighty percent certainty of occupying the remains and controlling the entire Threefold Supreme Heaven.
Thus, under the invitation of both immortals, he resided in the Tai Han City below.
And since he too had broken through a Dao Transformation Degree of 160%, attaining the righteous position of a Manifestation Saint, he was highly respected in Tai Han City. But besides the prior intelligence he had obtained, regarding further inside information about the Heavenly Court here, Chang Yangzi and others did not tell him more.
Li Zhengdao simply wandered around Tai Han City, hoping to understand the development situation within the Supreme Heaven indirectly.
And this understanding left him astounded.
The entire city's system and planning were very different from the spiritual people civilization in his impression.
Firstly, every district within the city has established academies that teach various doctrines, arts of numbers, history, and body strengthening, etc. Every person must compulsory attend academies for education from the age of 7, and violators' parents would be penalized by law.
Above the academies are the Taoist institutes. As long as academy students pass the unified examinations each year, they can enter Taoist institutes to start cultivating real martial arts and Taoist techniques.
Above the Taoist institutes are the Immortal institutes, not every city possesses one, often only one in several dozen cities, enjoying the material supply from those numerous cities, responsible for training the elite among the elite selected from Taoist institutes.
The cultivation prodigies from these Immortal institutes are trained specifically to reach the Immortal God Realm.
In all the Supreme Heaven, as long as commoners pass through successive selections, they have a chance to become high-ranking immortals. Every talent under heaven is incorporated into the Heavenly Court's system, where almost everyone receives good education from a young age, and those with a bit of aptitude will learn some Taoist techniques and martial arts.
Even if they do not cultivate to the level of Immortal and God, students from the Immortal, Taoist, and academies join various segments of the societal system as different talents, using their mastered Taoist skills to cultivate land, grow spiritual herbs, construct shelters, mine ores, and craft magical artifacts...
Li Zhengdao: "Within the entire Supreme Heaven, there's a complete selection system, producing numerous cultivators... and these cultivators don't need mortals to support them.
Instead, by relying on the power of Daoist arts, they possess strong productivity, division of labor, cooperation... which in turn drives the rapid development of the entire society.
Even Immortals and Gods have joined this cycle, providing their Daoist powers to enhance the overall societal productivity.
And mortals... mortals have also been equipped with a large number of magical treasures that they can use, greatly boosting the efficiency of society."
In Li Zhengdao's memory, the civilization of the Spiritual People revered Immortals and Gods, with all mortals and cultivators needing to support them, forming a social structure of layered exploitation and oppression.
But the societal structure before him in Supreme Heaven greatly shattered his understanding of the Spiritual People's society. He watched as Ninth Realm cultivators collectively displayed Daoist arts, setting up arrays that encircled the land, altering terrains, and regulating climates.
He saw hundreds of Fourth and Fifth Realm cultivators planting Spiritual Objects on a large scale and breeding exotic beasts.
There were even Seventh Realm and above great cultivators in medical halls treating mortals.
And various magical treasures usable by mortals were widely used.
He saw large numbers of mortals working in factories, producing formerly scarce consumables like Taibai Essence Gold and Blood Talisman Immortal Steel daily.
He also saw hundreds of mortals jointly operating massive magical treasures, producing different grades of elixirs in large quantities.
He saw in the Dao Academy a large number of cultivators who didn't do much cultivating nor laboring; they just needed to research various topics, design new elixirs, new magical treasures, new Daoist arts, new martial arts, explore the void, study distortion, study aberrations...
He even saw some Immortals participating in the Dao Academy's research topics, leading teams with their superior cultivation to conduct R&D.
Some Gods with a Dao transformation level above 160% opened up a Luotian Realm, altering the spatial structure to facilitate resource transport, allowing mortals to instantly cross hundreds of miles, maximizing the society's transportation speed.
There were even special righteous gods turning rivers and seas, reshaping mountains and rocks, adjusting the continent's terrain, partly for urban construction and partly to unearth various underground minerals and heavenly materials, forming open-pit mines for easy extraction by mortals and cultivators.
"Mortals, cultivators, and Immortals have all been unified under the Heavenly Court's management. They cooperate with certain divisions, greatly accelerating the society's efficiency with the power of Daoist arts and martial arts. Each individual's power is maximized, functioning like a gear in the machinery of society."
"All mortals and cultivators focus only on their respective duties, and everything else like food, elixirs, magical treasures... all aspects of life can be directly obtained from society."
"It seems like they spend a lot of time serving society, but in fact, it saves a lot of time and liberates them from intensive labor."
"After becoming highly organized, cultivators actually have more time and resources to cultivate, advance, research, and explore..."
Li Zhengdao quickly thought: "Such a society is so much like the Homo sapiens society of the past, only here it is the immortal way that liberates productivity rather than technology."
"And this kind of society, this kind of Heavenly Court... what would it be like with a military?"
"Unthinkably, in five hundred years, the previous Heavenly Court has actually been reformed into this."
But without a doubt, Li Zhengdao understood that the current Spiritual People society was several to dozens of times more organized, combat-capable, and technologically advanced compared to five hundred years ago.
Watching everything in Tai Han City, Li Zhengdao was filled with doubt and curiosity: "But how was it achieved? To make Immortals and great cultivators give up their former freedom and follow commands?
Making all sects and strong cultivators contribute their Daoist arts and martial arts to the Dao Academy and Immortal Academy?
The most critical point is... Reforming the entire Spiritual People society surely touched the interests of those old sects and Immortals, forcing those who only needed to exploit to now rely on labor to obtain resources.
Especially the Immortals, who once had all mortals and cultivators as their slaves, now becoming their collaborators... How much resistance would such a social inertia face?"
"Golden Mother Primordial Lord, was this all her doing?"
At this moment, Li Zhengdao became immensely curious about the affairs of this daughter of the former Divine Emperor.
On his third day in Supreme Heaven, several Immortals came to escort him to Upper Clear Heaven, the seat of the Heavenly Court, to meet the ruler of this world — Golden Mother Primordial Lord.
