I Can Reap Qi Fortune from Players-Chapter 418 - 211: The Firewood of Civilization

Jiucai Rong, also known as Erya and Gao, started performing some DJ songs adapted from Earth’s native language, focusing on a rustic vibe.

Meanwhile, the seven-colored disco ball atop the shop began spinning.

"It’s quite interesting, isn’t it?" Xinyi secretly transmitted his voice, saying.

Xin Xichen’s handsome face displayed a hint of peculiarity.

If it were a normal dance, it would be fine, but he knew who this Gao was before him.

She was once the dignified and graceful female Sect Leader of the Holy Land, and now, seeing her joyfully performing the Shaking Flower Hand...

the contrast was quite striking.

And then there’s this project in the shop: big boobs, no brains.

From his perspective, he could choose from countless ways for cosmetic surgery, but she chose such a peculiar method.

Previously, he couldn’t have imagined anyone would undergo surgery to empty their brain.

This idea was simply wild and fantastical.

Xinyi transmitted his voice:

"Recently, they’ve been trying to develop a second surgery plan to solve the aftereffects of being brainless, so that one’s brain isn’t left empty, by directly transplanting the left half of the brain, the right half of the brain, entirely to..."

"Stop."

Xin Xichen said calmly: "So, what do you want to express?"

"Just encountered some interesting things to share, see how broad-minded their thoughts are."

Xinyi said with a bright smile: "Confined thinking is a flaw in our Royal Family’s cultivation technique, isn’t it?"

The Nine Grains royal emblem consists of nine wheat spikes.

The Xin Dynasty royal emblem is a flame.

Yet most people are unaware of the origin of this flame totem.

The Spirit Root Divine Techniques of the Xin Family is the Shadow Spirit Root, a powerful great force known as the [Fire of Civilization]!

It can acquire a soul book by burning the souls of enemies.

And according to the varying talents, gifts, and races of burned lives, the knowledge within the soul books obtained also varies.

They call this [Embers of the Firewood], using a Poison Doctor as an example.

The Last Saints of the Xin Dynasty have burned her many times.

Each time they burnt her, they obtained an abundance of soul books about poison doctors, which they integrated into their minds for study.

Thus.

Throughout generations, the saints of the Xin Dynasty Royal Family have been the most learned and the strongest scholars.

Again taking the Poison Doctor for example, why does the poison technique originate from her but is executed more powerfully than she can?

Because knowledge does not exist independently, it is interconnected like a grid.

Having learned medical skills from various domains, poison techniques from different fields, they naturally became powerhouses in the field.

Additionally, all her trump cards were exposed.

Whatever she can do, the Saint can also do.

This is why the poison doctor was easily killed.

Once you’ve been killed once, what awaits you is countless eliminations by the Xin Dynasty Royal Family!

So.

Except for some difficult to kill beings who have survived without dying once, the rest are not to be feared.

This is the strength of the Xin Dynasty!

And this strength is furthered by their ability to innovate!

It is known that 90% of humankind’s research efforts are wasted on repeatedly learning existing knowledge.

Take Earth as an example.

A top-tier physics genius might need to study until the age of thirty to fully master existing physical theories and qualify for innovation.

But starting to explore new physics at that age... would he still have the energy to push through when he is about to pass his peak?

This is why most award-winning scientists on Earth are elderly.

And this issue is becoming more severe as the floors of the physics building continue to rise!

In the future, it may take forty or fifty years to finish existing physics knowledge before one qualifies to innovate...

This has already created a [knowledge barrier].

Scholars on Earth are like this, let alone the scholars in this world?

But the Xin Dynasty Royal Family broke this confinement!

They can, in their teenage years, inherit knowledge "passed down" by ancestors through "burning paper money.".

Standing on the shoulders of all giants and learning all ancestor knowledge, they only need to innovate!

This is the strongest academic family in the entire Nine-State!

"Humans are such fragile yet powerful beings."

"The power of humans lies in the strength of their intelligence, where even the weakest human possesses wisdom comparable to a top Divine Beast."

"Human weakness lies in the frailty of their wisdom, it is this rich wisdom, greed, laziness, scheming, love...that causes them to waste heart power on these meaningless affairs."

"It is due to interest that humans wander long paths, but without interest, no matter how high their talent, they can’t journey far."

"Due to limited energy, they cannot become all-rounders, only specializing in one track."

"They might even waste their aptitude due to external wars, inner laziness, and engrossment in so-called romance, squandering the prime years of their life."

"But human frailty highlights the greatness of our Xin Dynasty Royal Family, for each of us can become an all-rounder, burdened with the mission to lead frail humanity forward."

This is the ancestral teaching every member of the Xin Dynasty Royal Family hears from childhood.

Even those royal mortals without spirit roots are stronger than ordinary mortals due to the "all-rounder blood" brought by the Fire of Civilization inside them.

Princess Xin’e, a mortal, cannot cultivate, but when she studies, she can multitask and has talents in various fields.

They are the strongest scholarly family.

In the Nine-State Era of scholars, they are undeniably the kings of scholars.

Xin, not only represents the fire of civilization but also symbolizes new infinite possibilities.

"But who knew... we were extinguished, and the new path was not pushed by us."

Xinyi seemed to smile ambiguously:

"Knowledge is power."

"Our Divine Techniques, the advantage is that they can quickly acquire all existing human knowledge, but the disadvantage is that they can only develop along existing paths..."

"As a result, others directly created a new path next door."

It’s as if the heavens played a giant joke.

Just when everyone thought that the path of the Innate Spirit Root could only continually extend forward.

A path of the Postnatal Spirit Root ran parallel, delivering them a fatal blow with no warning.

Yet this Last Saint, at this moment, merely smiled:

"It doesn’t matter, we have returned anew, and now that Jiu Shui Saint has completed the breakthrough from 0 to 1, the era will continue to be taken over by us."

"We just need to kill the postnatal humans of this era, turning it into books, and I, an ancient person, will still become the pinnacle of academia in the Postnatal Era."

He smiled faintly, "I am not going to pioneer the Innate Era... let’s open the way for the following Postnatal Mythical Era." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

This is his calculation.

Attract those people to assassinate him, kill, and gain knowledge.

Update the contents of his brain with information of the present world, even innovate, leading them by several versions!

That recently popular Immortal Spirit Root, he is also confident, to develop it on humans, becoming the first scholar in Nine-State!

As long as he secretly kills all the Holy Lands and all the Great Powers of each new era in Nine-State as a foundation.

Saves a lot of time in the knowledge accumulation phase, with his wisdom, it is not impossible to develop.

You must know, all Ghosts in Nine-State, the logic will solidify, making it hard to learn new things.

But his [Fire of Civilization] can break this point.

His mind is like memory, can use [Fire of Civilization] to seize others’ knowledge, forcibly load it into the soul.

This makes him a Pseudo-Ghost King with cognitive growth even without awakening yet!

Xin Xichen asked: "These years, have you completely postnatalized our Innate Spirit Root?"

"Still a lot to go."

Xinyi honestly said: "I used the blood of my clan to water the plants, trying to cultivate Celestial Grade Yin Spirit Root—with [Fire of Civilization] Divine Techniques—Xinyi, but unfortunately, the effect is poor."

"The Lower Grade Xinyi Grass, however, has become the common entry-level Spirit Root of Xinyi Continent, possessing various relatively comprehensive learning abilities."

"Naming our family’s Spirit Root Xinyi?"

Xin Xichen smiled.

Her daughter can really give herself a boost.

Clearly, the essence of generations of the Xin Family’s civilization, she changed the Royal Family’s Innate Spirit Root to an externally planted Postnatal Spirit Root and pasted her own name on it.

It is precisely because of this shamelessness, that she rebelled against him back then.

However, he was not annoyed.

As a Saint, losing is losing, one should have the magnanimity to accept it.

Even if he were angry, it would be anger at his own weakness, not anger at being overthrown and betrayed by his own daughter.

The Royal Family, after all, is all about survival of the fittest!

He back then, slaughtered so many clansmen, ancient ancestors, and used their extracted accumulated books, it’s the same reasoning.

It’s a pity.

The world is always unpredictable.

If they did not have internal strife, they wouldn’t have chaos, nor would Jiu Shui have emerged.

But back then, if Jiu Shui Saint didn’t emerge, after he killed all other Xin Family Saints and organized the knowledge, the Royal Family’s foundation would have completely changed in his era!

He would have also opened up a new Sheng Shi beyond Jiu Shui!

And, could possibly break the barriers and shackles of the new Realm, finding the next unknown possibility!

He was ambitious back then, firmly believing:

Chaotic times are just the prelude to a flourishing era.

After integrating the knowledge of all Xin Family Saints, he would become the first unprecedented person, unifying the entire Nine-State, sweeping all tombs, fulfilling all the dreams of the Ancient Saints!

It’s a pity.

After chaos, the flourishing era did indeed arrive as expected.

But the owner of that flourishing era was not him.

Everything can only be attributed to fate, it was meant to be.

"Xin Yi... you ultimately did not receive the complete inherited cultivation technique, could not efficiently burn the enemy, extracting books."

Xin Xichen shook his head: "Otherwise, when you rebelled and killed so many people back then... then your knowledge accumulation, you would have long developed our Postnatal Spirit Root."

He instead felt some regret.

His daughter’s killing conversion rate was too low, too wasteful!

"Forget it, I will give you the complete cultivation technique."

Xin Xichen said: "I believe, with efficient conversion, Xinyi Spirit Root might experience a breakthrough for a while."

"Father, your internal strife back then that killed other clan Saints was what led to being taken advantage of, otherwise, Jiu Shui Saint, no matter how strong, and unprecedentedly terrifying, would not have been able to sweep across the Xin Family’s strong foundation alone, you could have besieged him."

Xinyi suddenly said: "So now, killing you, would gain the knowledge books of all past Saints of the Xin Dynasty, right?"

She thought to herself, anyway, after being killed, he will be resurrected in the Imperial Mausoleum.

"If you have that power."

Xin Xichen stood up and said: "This is our fate, to become firewood, lighting up the descendants of the family."

He turned and left The Shop, disappearing into the vast crowd:

"But now is not the time for internal strife, we must first pacify the lands and take back everything that belongs to us..."