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Chapter 236 - 144: What Kind of Matryoshka Life Strategy is This?

Chapter 236: Chapter 144: What Kind of Matryoshka Life Strategy is This?

"Martial Arts True Immortals actually built a city in the sky?"

Gu Shanhai casually killed this middle-aged man named Bai Fen. He obtained quite a bit of information about Heavenly City from the man’s memories.

In Heavenly City, ruled by the Martial Pavilion assembled by the Martial Arts True Immortals, the population was numerous, at least several hundred thousand.

Moreover, Gu Shanhai realized he had misjudged—this Bai Fen was not just any martial progeny; he was from a lineage of many generations of martial practitioners and even claimed to be a Heavenly Person, meaning they were no longer mortals.

Because in Heavenly City, some sparse Spiritual Energy dispersed, allowing for the practice of powerful ancient Martial Arts, which bestowed them with the capital to look down on the Mortal World.

In an environment with Spiritual Energy, the offspring produced possessed even better natural talent, hence their increased arrogance.

In fact, the successful construction of Heavenly City could be traced back thousands of years ago, when the first group recruited into the city were all prodigies of their era. As for how they successfully ascended to the sky, Bai Fen had no idea.

Naturally, the interruption of legacies in the Mortal World was also the doing of Heavenly City. Using their possession of Spiritual Energy, which allowed for the cultivation of stronger Martial Arts, they continuously plundered and destroyed the Mortal World’s legacies—this was the origin of the legacy disruptions.

Thereafter, they supported the rise of the Heavenly Sect Demon Gate and the court, continuously and indirectly destroying and suppressing the development of Martial Arts. Take, for example, the "Ten Thousand Transformation Divine Skill" from earlier, which itself originated from a powerfully nefarious book of an ancient era, one of the Martial Arts that hadn’t been reined in at the time.

Now it had fallen into the hands of the Heavenly Sect, waiting for the Heavenly People of the Heavenly City to come down and collect it from the Mortal World, effectively ending its legacy.

"This must be the Sky Dragon People, definitely the Sky Dragon People..." Gu Shanhai muttered to himself. From Bai Fen’s memories, he sensed that arrogance, perhaps as if breathing the same air as mortals was a grace to them, and they would feel disgusted by it.

Inside Heavenly City, there was rampant disdain for mortals and attitudes of treating them as slaves. If not for the Martial Pavilion forbidding them from leaving, they would have already come down to rule over the mortals.

"Never mind where this mentality came from, there’s already a physiological difference between the people of Heavenly City and the mortals on the ground."

"Artificially influenced evolution, developing in different directions. More importantly, their peculiar mental constructs, their sycophantic behavior towards superiors, and their attitude towards mortals form a stark contrast, even forming something akin to a theocratic society, which is preposterous."

"Moreover, they seem to be gradually getting eliminated by evolution."

Gu Shanhai dissected Bai Fen’s body and quickly discovered a very serious issue with the Heavenly People; their physiological structures were highly adapted to low Spiritual Energy environments. In a no-Spiritual Energy environment, they exhibited symptoms of severe energy loss, akin to constantly using up mana. It wasn’t a problem now since the Mortal World itself was structured around low Spiritual Energy.

However, the problem was that the concentration of Spiritual Energy was going to increase further. It was the era of Spiritual Energy revival, and once Spiritual Energy exceeded a certain threshold, the Heavenly People would experience energy overflow. This was an intolerant condition, and if Spiritual Energy continued to rise, they would face a scenario akin to drowning.

And such energy drowning was unstoppable. The entire world was filled with ’water’; how could they hide?

The Martial Arts True Immortals would not forcibly create a low Spiritual Energy environment for them. If it came to that, the Martial Arts True Immortals would simply replace them.

On the other hand, the people in the Mortal World had a stronger tolerance for Spiritual Energy, whether it was present or not, it did not affect them.

"The main cause is Martial Arts?" Gu Shanhai quickly noticed something amiss about the traces on Bai Fen and spread out the "Nine Extremes Heavenly Star Technique" from his memories for comparison.

This Cultivation Technique had many issues—not a castrated version, but meticulously selected and modified to adapt to a low Spiritual Energy environment.

Clearly, this was the handiwork of the Martial Arts True Immortals. They didn’t need peers, but a group of subordinates to do their bidding. Thus, this Technique could only operate in a low Spiritual Energy environment and was highly effective, but the limitations were clear. With the continued interference across many generations of Heavenly People, this issue had culminated in the current situation.

"Forcefully modifying the limit is one thing, but due to the adaptational evolution over many generations, the Heavenly People ended up trapping themselves. Death is now inevitable, and it seems the Heavenly People hadn’t noticed this at all."

"Well, it would be surprising if they chose to notice. All Heavenly People proceeded with their cultivation methodically. In Mortal World, due to the legacy disruptions, many low to mid-level Martial Arts were developed and researched, while in Heavenly City, it was all strictly controlled by the Martial Arts True Immortals."

As for why no high-level Martial Arts emerged, it was because the developmental process had been interrupted. The birth of the Heavenly Sect Demon Gate gave rise to numerous techniques. Fortunately, these were monopolized, and due to the environment of the Mortal World, they weren’t recklessly disseminated.

Of course, even now, if one wanted to develop high-level Martial Arts, there wasn’t a way to do it. The environment simply did not permit it.

"This world is more helpless than one could imagine."

By this time, Gu Shanhai had also grown to understand Huang Yanshan’s perspective from his past life. The situation of the Martial Arts True Immortals was too unique, and he honestly had no way to specifically resolve it.

"Speaking of which, there’s a door in the sky—how come I never noticed it?" Gu Shanhai looked up at the sky. Bai Fen had come down from the Heavenly Gate.