There were not many things that could surprise Wang Lu, but Shijō-jin's words had indeed pierced through Wang Lu's defenses.
Before he visited Shijō-jin, he had more or less guessed what would happen when they met. Being ignored, being provoked, and even fighting... he had a corresponding plan.
But Wang Lu had never expected that the other party would raise the issue of marriage.
While Wang Lu was in a daze, Shijō-jin spoke again.
"Your age and cultivation have reached the golden age. It's time to find someone to get married and have children."
Wang Lu asked, "Is this a special greeting technique of your Four Phase Sect?"
Shijō-jin said, "Greeting? What greeting? "
Wang Lu said, "... Are you serious about what you just said?"
"Of course I was serious." Shijō-jin found it strange. "Do I look like I'm joking?"
Wang Lu said, "You look like you're provoking me," but he still took a deep breath and said, "I'd like to hear the details."
Shijō-jin said, "I've been observing you for a long time. At first, I thought you were the same kind of bastard who stole the secrets of heaven, but I soon found that I was wrong. Noble blood flows in your body, and this blood should be passed down, so marriage and children are the inevitable choice... unless you have a disease, but you don't have to worry. I have some special elixirs to treat this kind of disease."
Wang Lu couldn't say a word for a long time. After a long time, he said, "I'm very good at my job. If you don't believe me, you can ask your wife to experience it."
Shijō-jin was not angry. Instead, he smiled and said, "I knew it. Since there's no problem, it couldn't be better. The sooner you get married and have children, the better. Your blood is very precious, so it's best to spread..."
Before the Supreme could finish, Wang Lu had to interrupt him, because there were too many questions in his mind.
"Supreme, don't worry. First, please explain in detail the three problems of stealing the secrets of heaven, noble blood, and inheritance."
Shijō-jin frowned. "What? You don't even know these questions? What did the Lingjian School teach you? Fine, I'll explain it to you from the basics. "
"There is a limit to the number of Spirit Roots in the world. “
Shijō-jin's first sentence began to shake Wang Lu's common sense.
There are limited Spirit Roots in the world? This argument was really new. It was well known that apart from man-made Spirit Roots, natural Spirit Roots were highly random. This was reflected on the individual level. When a couple gave birth to a child, it was very difficult to ensure that their offspring had spiritual roots. Of course, some of the cultivation families had more or less grasped some metaphysical theories after thousands of years of accumulation, which could increase the probability of the offspring of the family to be organic cultivators, but it was still difficult to be 100% sure. Even at the level of a large number of people, the randomness of spiritual roots was still difficult to conceal. In different eras, the quality of cultivators could be very different, and it was difficult to say whether there was any pattern. Sometimes, dozens of peerless geniuses could be born in a hundred years, and sometimes, there was no outstanding talent in four or five hundred years.
This was the natural Spirit Roots of the Nine Regions. They were highly random and difficult to grasp. If not, Shengjing Sect's Ancestor Liu He would not have painstakingly studied man-made Spirit Roots.
"In fact, that's a lie." Shijō-jin said resolutely, "The Spirit Roots of the world are indeed scattered, but the total number has always been constant. If the distribution is more concentrated, rare geniuses will emerge endlessly, which is the so-called golden generation. If the distribution is more evenly scattered, which is our so-called low point — because there are too many mixed Spirit Roots that can't enter the field of vision of the cultivation world. "
Hearing this, Wang Lu vaguely understood the meaning of Shijō-jin's words.
"In other words, if the total number of Spirit Roots is constant, the higher the concentration, the better?"
Shijō-jin said, "If the same Spirit Roots are distributed among ten people, or among one hundred thousand people, which side is more beneficial to the cultivation world? Between ten mixed Spirit Roots and one Heavenly Spirit Root, which side is more valuable, it goes without saying, right? "
Wang Lu was silent for a moment, and then nodded. "So, the so-called stealing of heaven's secret means that there are too many mediocre and incompetent people who scatter the distribution of Spirit Roots, making it difficult for the Nine Regions to breed rare geniuses?"
Shijō-jin said, "On this point, Daoist Wang Lu's understanding is slightly different. Mediocrity is not terrible. There are many mediocre people among my friends. Although they were born in high-ranking families, they have no hope of obtaining the King Pill. But I don't think their existence is wrong. "
"So, you mean …"
Shijō-jin was silent for a moment, and when he opened his mouth, he changed the topic.
"Supreme Wang Lu, in your opinion, what is the most important thing for the entire Nine Regions Immortal Cultivation World?"
Wang Lu smiled and said, "This is a big topic. According to the Wanxian League, it's probably peace and development."
Shijō-jin, however, shook his head. "It's reproduction. For a group, the most important thing is none other than reproduction. "
"… Supreme will probably get along well with the people of the Yin and Yang Sect."
However, Shijō-jin coldly snorted. "Those evil and crooked ways! They only deserve to be spurned by me! "
Wang Lu thought about it and agreed. The people of the Yin and Yang Sect were happy to have sex, but every time they had sex, they took enough safety measures … For a person who advocated reproduction, contraception was definitely the biggest blasphemy in the world.
Shijō-jin seemed to see through Wang Lu's thoughts, and said, "Reproduction and reproduction are two different things. Reproduction, as long as the Yin and Yang incarnate, is considered reproduction, but reproduction … refers to the birth of creatures of the same kind as oneself." After a pause, Shijō-jin used a vulgar metaphor that was contrary to his personal style and said, "Giving birth to a human is reproduction, and giving birth to a dog is just reproduction."
"Pfft!" Wang Lu couldn't help but laugh out loud. But then he realized that Shijō-jin's so-called reproduction in the cultivation world was definitely not in the ordinary sense of male and female intercourse … It referred to the inheritance of spiritual roots.
Cultivators referred to humans who had spiritual roots and could cultivate. Then, only by giving birth to humans who could cultivate could it be considered reproduction. If cultivators gave birth to mortals with other cultivators, wouldn't it be like giving birth to a dog?
Then, he also understood why Shijō-jin was so partial to the cultivation families.
It was because these families could artificially control the inheritance of spiritual roots — in a family with excellent inheritance, the union of two cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots had a high probability of giving birth to a cultivator's child. Although it took a lot of effort to make such a combination, which caused their fertility rate to not be too high, it was still much better than those individual investors who tried their luck aimlessly.
At the same time, the so-called stealing the secrets of heaven was not difficult to understand. Those individual cultivators and even mortals wantonly gave birth to unknown cultivators with spiritual roots that were drowned in the long river of history. Wasn't this stealing the secrets of heaven from the cultivators?
"I think I can probably understand the Supreme's idea."
If one assumed that the spiritual root resources in Nine Regions were fixed, then, as the overall population continued to rise, the spiritual root resources must be more and more dispersed. To make an extreme assumption, if the population increased by a hundred times, then it was hard to say whether the golden generation could be born. No matter how strong the randomness was, in the end, it still had to yield to the law of large numbers.
At this time, the reproduction of cultivators was very important. If the cultivator group could give birth to offspring stably, they would not be robbed of too many spiritual root resources by a large number of mortals, which could maintain the development of the group. Otherwise, if they were all individual cultivators, then thousands of years later, it would be difficult for the cultivator group to have a future.
"No matter how strong a cultivator is, it's hard to become immortal. Immortal cultivators seek transcendence and think that they can achieve longevity by flying to the Immortal World. However, the current crisis of the Fallen Immortal has also broken the theory of immortality. In this case, we should admit that it is difficult for an individual to be truly immortal. Only a group can be eternal … at least relatively eternal. "Shijō-jin said," Throughout history, the cultivator with the longest lifespan was only ten thousand years. In today's world, the longest-lived Old Man of the South Pole is only four thousand years old. However, the history of cultivators, from the Desolate Age, is at least hundreds of thousands of years old or even longer — Shengjing Sect once excavated the remains of a magic weapon with a history of two million years. Compared to the lifespan of an individual, the group of cultivators is the real longevity. "
When Wang Lu heard this, he sighed and said, "However, if it is difficult to ensure the reproduction of the group, the cultivators will eventually die out."
Shijō-jin said, "That's exactly the case. It's really gratifying for Daoist Wang Lu to be able to understand all this so quickly. “
Wang Lu smiled and did not answer.
Shijō-jin's idea and even all his assertions were based on the fact that the spiritual root resources in Nine Regions were constant. At present, there was no absolutely reliable evidence to prove this.
Of course, Wang Lu was not questioning the other party, and even to a certain extent, he agreed with this point of view. Similarly, he also agreed with the idea of strengthening the reproduction of cultivators and improving the vitality of the group.
However, like Four Element Supreme, he took this point of view to the extreme, believing that people with the ability to reproduce were of noble blood, while the rest were just weeds that stole the secrets of heaven. He believed that only by strengthening reproduction could the race live long … Wang Lu could not agree with these points of view.
However, Wang Lu did not come here to have a dispute of ideas. There were many weirdos among the elders of Heavenly Sage Hall, and many of them were more paranoid than Shijō-jin. Not to mention others, the one on Non-Phase Peak was a good example.
He came here to maintain the stability of the Wanxian League. Shijō-jin should not be a spoiler in this situation.
But before Wang Lu could speak, Shijō-jin said, "Let's get back to the topic.
Daoist Wang Lu, when are you going to get married and have children? "
"…"
"I have observed you. Although you are not a disciple of an aristocratic family, you have an unusually strong attribute of reproduction. If you marry an ordinary woman, you will definitely be able to give birth to good offspring. If the blood flowing in those disciples of aristocratic families is noble blood, then the blood flowing in your veins can be called the blood of a king. "
Upon hearing this, Wang Lu wrinkled his brows. Although it was good to be praised, to this point, it was simply absurd that one fan could win ten haters.
"Supreme, please stop for a moment … How did you judge what … is an unusually strong attribute of reproduction in my body?"
When Shijō-jin heard this question, he seemed to be even more surprised than Wang Lu, "Didn't you just say it yourself? You have a big tool and good skills. "
(Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!!!!!)
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