Calamity of Tomorrow-Chapter 1021 - 1019: Development

Li Zhengdao followed a group of immortals and deities preparing to head to the Heavenly Court within the Supreme Heaven, flying at high speed in the sky along the way, looking at the vast swathes of city clusters below, and the various moving mountains, rerouted rivers, and rolling rock layers, as if the entire world was operating under the power of this society.

Watching this scene, Li Zhengdao sighed in his heart: 'A society organized and disciplined based on immortal technology, I originally had this idea too...'

But having once had this idea, Li Zhengdao realized the difficulty in it, with the external war between humans and demons, the Heavenly Demon war, and the mutual vigilance between immortals and deities, as well as the road for mortals to ascend being cut off, there were simply no conditions for such social reform.

'But even in this Supreme Heaven, the desire to reform must face enormous resistance...'

Li Zhengdao once contemplated why the system of the Spiritual People civilization remained unchanged for thousands upon thousands of years.

He always believed it was because the immortals and deities standing at the pinnacle could simply not be overthrown. The power they wielded allowed them to stand invincible, always ruling the entire world, wantonly exploiting all creatures between heaven and earth, and any force of change would be directly repressed by them.

And to want the immortals and deities to give up their gained benefits, give up their absolute power to arbitrarily enslave all life between heaven and earth, to treat them as collaborators instead of oppressed slaves, and even have immortals and deities serve mortals...

"Too difficult." As Li Zhengdao looked at the bustling cities below, he became increasingly curious about how the Supreme Heaven turned out this way.

"But is the entire Supreme Heaven undergoing a massive infrastructure overhaul?"

Suddenly, a city area below caught Li Zhengdao's attention, with a slight change in his spiritual aura and a flash of brilliance in his eyes, he clearly saw the situation on the ground.

The dirty and messy living environment, lifeless residents, deserted streets, and the Array enclosing the entire city, imprisoning everyone inside...

Li Zhengdao found the situation in this city incredibly strange and curiously asked about it.

Beside him, Chang Yangzi replied: "All the mortals in this area are mixed-blood, not recognized by the Heavenly Dao, yet the Heavenly Court is merciful, still giving them a meal to survive..."

The existence of this city did not seem to be a secret, so when Li Zhengdao inquired about it, Chang Yangzi also did not hide anything, straightforwardly telling him everything.

The so-called mixed-bloods are mortals with impure spiritual bloodlines, which Li Zhengdao guessed might be due to being tainted with the blood of demons or intelligent beings.

"Bloodline..." Li Zhengdao sighed gently in his heart, feeling that he himself had suffered much from this, deeply understanding the importance of the Spiritual People's bloodline to cultivation. Not to mention other things, just the fact that non-Spiritual People bloodlines are insufficient to become immortals or deities is enough to prove the special nature of this race and the favor of the Heavenly Dao.

'Even with the might of the Demon Saint, attempting to twist the Heavenly Dao to allow all beings to become immortals and deities only resulted in the distortion of the Heavenly Dao, creating such abominations.'

And through this inquiry, Li Zhengdao further understood the situation of these mixed-bloods.

Chang Yangzi: "...If these mixed-bloods merely couldn't become immortals or deities, it would be tolerable, but they can pollute our bloodline, sever the chance of ascension, and are a great calamity between heaven and earth.

The Golden Mother Primordial Lord personally ordered the capture and detention of all mixed-bloods within the Supreme Heaven, thereby extinguishing the crisis of our bloodline being polluted..."

Listening to Chang Yangzi's explanation, Li Zhengdao could sense the disdain and contempt towards the mixed-bloods in the other's tone, as well as the bloody turmoil involved in the massive operation to capture mixed-bloods across the Supreme Heaven.

In that great sweep, countless mixed-bloods were captured and killed, many related personnel punished, and all those who harbored mixed-bloods were suppressed one by one by the Heavenly Court.

Listening to Chang Yangzi's narrative, Li Zhengdao sighed slightly in his heart, feeling it was as if he was hearing: 'Genocide? The city imprisoning mixed-bloods is more like a zoo rather than a city, and they survive merely because the immortals and deities want to study the demon bloodline.'

In Chang Yangzi's tone, Li Zhengdao could feel the attitude of the immortals and deities towards mixed-bloods, as if they were harmful species like cockroaches or mosquitoes.

Li Zhengdao could imagine that if the Spiritual People from the three-tiered Supreme Heaven were to return to the Material World, return to Earth, the demons and mortals on the entire planet would likely face an apocalypse.

Soon after, the group arrived at the central area of the continent and saw a golden light pillar connecting heaven and earth, shooting straight into the sky.

With introductions from other immortals and deities, they learned that only by following this golden light into the sky could they possibly reach the location of the Heavenly Court, that is, the Upper Purity Heaven, and nowhere else would lead them there.

Thus, the group arrived at the starting point of the golden light and saw soldiers in golden armor guarding it under a grand Array, Li Zhengdao could even sense that there were 2 immortals standing watch here like soldiers.

'To actually use immortals as guards, the Golden Mother Primordial Lord indeed has remarkable means.'

As they flew along the pillar of light, the group soon felt as if their Divine Bodies had passed through a thin membrane, breaking through the layers of clouds before them, and a magnificent heavenly palace appeared before Li Zhengdao's eyes, standing on the sea of clouds.

Li Zhengdao could see strict vigilance within the heavenly palace, with generals and soldiers clad in golden armor everywhere, as well as various massive giants...

"These soldiers and giants..." Li Zhengdao had felt something odd earlier, and now, seeing the vast numbers of soldiers patrolling the sky, he immediately noticed the peculiarity.

"They are not real people, but military evil puppets."

Li Zhengdao suddenly drew a breath of cold air: 'Have they made significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence? No, in terms of immortal technology, perhaps it should be described as highly intelligent Artifact Spirits?'

Seeing the dense sea of cloud rolling, countless military evils and puppets, Li Zhengdao finally understood what the dedicated military force in the Supreme Heaven was.

'But not using these military evil puppets for production?'

Recalling the major infrastructure by mortals below and the constant overturning of rock layers by immortals and deities in search of natural materials, combined with the scene before him, a hypothesis suddenly formed in Li Zhengdao's mind.

'Overproduction... Overpopulation... Imminent resource depletion... If these military evil puppets were also used to increase productivity, it would instead lead to massive social conflict and crisis.'

'Through one generation after another of Spiritual People, the three-tiered Supreme Heaven has become too small for the current Spiritual People.'

'Perhaps the entire Heavenly Court is already sitting on a volcano, and they are probably eager to leave.'