Both the Star Glory Federation and the Imperium of True Human Beings had studied and analyzed the differences between the 'medieval Cultivators' and the 'modern Cultivators', as well as the reasons that led to the differences, after learning the general picture of the ancient Cultivators from the abundant ancient books. [(? [?] [
Li Yao's experience was even more unusual. With the memories of Ou Yezi, an expert of the ancient Cultivators, he had a deeper understanding about the congenital defects of the ancient Cultivators.
The difference between the medieval Cultivators and the modern Cultivators was essentially the difference between the feudal, self-sufficient, and small-scale economic system and the modern industrial system and even the postmodern information society.
The former was just a simple accumulation of experience. He knew what it was, but he didn't know why it was. He knew that a certain incantation could summon a certain divine ability, and this divine ability could have a certain effect. That was all.
As for why such a spell could summon a specific technique, how such a technique was constructed, and why it presented unique destructive power, attack power, and all kinds of other strange powers, there was no telling. Therefore, he simply blamed everything on the "gods and devils".
The latter, on the other hand, focused on getting to the bottom of the matter, deducing the principles, and calculating the data. They could be reenacted on a large scale and mass-produced under the same conditions.
Even the simplest flying swords and the 'Fire Summoning Technique' had to be figured out the principles behind them!
Take, for example.
The same 'Lotus Hand Seal' might have been passed down by the grandfathers of the grandfathers on the surface. That was how the hand seal should be made and what effect it could achieve.
As for the 'grandfathers of the grandfathers', it was very likely that they had grasped the hand seal because they had been enlightened by an eccentric person.
The principles of the hand seal, the circulation of spiritual energy … They knew nothing at all. It was a complete black box. They only knew the input conditions and the output results. Nobody knew what happened in between.
When such a 'black box' was passed down through carriers such as jade chips or classics, there would be two outcomes.
If the legacy was intact, it would be regarded as an 'unparalleled technique' by the descendants. Everybody would practice it step by step, and they would not be able to change their posture at all.
What they didn't know was that people's fingers varied in length, and their palms varied in size. Even the direction of their fingerprints and palm prints would affect the effect of the handprint.
What's more, this handprint that was "imparted by an immortal" was very likely originally practiced by a race in the Pangu civilization who was born with six fingers. If it was copied from the original, it would be wrong from the root. How much power would it have left?
This was still a relatively good situation.
If the carrier that stored this handprint was damaged, it would be a common occurrence for a civilization to change over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. It was normal for civilizations to be born and extinguished several times. Nine out of ten inheritances would be damaged, and the cultivators of later generations would have to find a way to repair it.
However, they didn't know the basic principles behind the so-called "handprint", and the completion of the kung fu had become a metaphysics. No matter how much it was exaggerated, in the end, it was just four words, "Sincerity is the key to success"!
The power of such a complete cultivation method was not even worth mentioning.
But the modern Cultivation civilization was different.
If the modern Cultivation civilization had acquired a brand-new handprint, they would've realized that the so-called "handprint" was nothing more than channeling the bioelectricity inside the body to the ten fingers with the hands, the most flexible organs on the human body. Through the shaking of the fingers, they would construct unique magnetic fields and stimulate the spiritual energy stored inside the human body, the Cosmos Rings, or nature with the magnetic fields. Then, they would break the tipping point and cause a chain reaction, thereby constructing a larger "spiritual magnetic field".
Therefore, the handprint was equivalent to "commands" that summoned "functions". Different handprints represented different commands.
However, the commands were not unchangeable. Everybody could "write" the most concise, straightforward, elegant, and error-free commands according to their own situation.
After understanding the principle, the modern Cultivators would adjust the handprint by combining the information such as the size of their palms, the length of their fingers, the bone density, the average hand, the limit hand, and so on with the enormous computational ability of the crystal processor.
The curvature of the fingers, the angle between the fingers, the vibration frequency of the arms, and so on would all be inputted into the crystal processor to construct a model. After repeated tests and digital tests millions of times, the process of performing the most perfect handprint would be output.
The modern Cultivators would train themselves according to such a "standardized process of performing the perfect handprint". They could also get the assistance of training facilities such as "handprint fixators". Naturally, they would make great progress with twice the effort.
But it was just the beginning.
After a brand-new handprint was discovered, the government would input it into the relevant "handprint database" and compare its compatibility with the existing handprints to see if there was a series of handprints.
Then, the handprints would be mixed with the spells in the "spell database" and calculated in the virtual world to see if there were any spells that could be used together to increase the power of the new handprints.
There were too many follow-up research projects of the same kind.
However, all the research, including the enormous database of Cultivation arts and techniques, could only be supported by a powerful central government or a state-level commercial organization.
In the rural economy, it was impossible for the court, which had little control, and the classical sects, who always took advantage of their neighbors, to have such power.
It was the same with the moves that Li Yao performed.
The seemingly simple straight punches, kicks, and knee strikes, in fact, the routes of attack, the breathing frequency, and the model of the entanglement of spiritual energy had been carefully calculated by countless specialists and scholars for hundreds of years. They had also been repeatedly calculated and optimized by the state-level crystal processors that could calculate more than ten trillion times per second. All the fancy and unnecessary movements had been abandoned and returned to the most fundamental meaning of the concept of 'attack'.
Hit the most vulnerable part of the target with the greatest strength and the shortest distance.
It was as simple as that.
It was as ugly as that.
It was as violent as that.
BOOM!
Li Yao's plain-looking fists broke through the dazzling sabers and swords of the local Yuanying again and completely flattened his hooked nose.
The local Yuanying screamed miserably. His entire head was embedded into the hard rock, like a nail that had been knocked askew.
That was only natural.
The local Yuanying's Cultivation arts had been developed by him after decades of seclusion in the wilderness.
Li Yao's' extraterrestrial Yuanying 'Cultivation arts, on the other hand, were the essence of the wisdom of tens of billions of people in the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector. After hundreds of Yuanying, tens of thousands of Core Formation Stage Cultivators, millions of Building Foundation Stage Cultivators, and countless other Refinement Stage Cultivators communicated, improved, tested, and adjusted. It included the theories of spiritual energy, biochemistry, kinematic trajectories, aerodynamics, human anatomy, and hundreds of other disciplines.
The thousands of disciplines could only be displayed in a highly-industrialized, information-based society!
This was not a battle between two Yuanying.
Instead, it was the first clash of civilizations without any suspense between the Ming Dynasty, which had been living in a rural economy for more than a hundred thousand years, and the modern Cultivation civilization that had dominated the universe and the three thousand Sectors without a doubt!
The Yuanying here is too weak.
Li Yao thought to himself casually.
In terms of the density of spiritual energy, the local Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator was not too bad.
However, his hand seals, spells, incantations, and even melee moves were filled with all kinds of fancy, cumbersome, and inexplicable movements.
His movements were mysterious, and his posture was elegant. The sound and visual effects were rather exaggerated.
It was a pity that this was not a beauty contest but a fight.
Li Yao estimated that the unnecessary winking and baring movements were either a certain physiological necessity of the Pangu who created the Cultivation arts in the beginning.
Either that, or the information had been distorted during the hundreds of thousands of years of war and dynastic changes. It was unknown how it had been left behind.
Or maybe it was a ritual to summon deities and devils to express their devotion.
Whatever it was, they were all useless!
BAM!
Li Yao kicked the local Yuanying again. Passing through a few flames, he kicked off three of the local Yuanying's molars.
The local Yuanying, who had been domineering and intimidating in the cave earlier, couldn't have been more embarrassed at this moment, like a monkey whose hair had been plucked off.
His eyes were filled with fury, and his face was filled with grief and indignation. His hands were still waving as if they were cramping, while he mumbled to himself, calling for the deities and deities that did not exist in desperation.
Although every unnecessary movement took less than 0.1 seconds, three to five of them added up to almost half a second.
In the fierce battle of the Yuanying, half a second was enough for a lot of things to be done.
Superstition is the death of a man!
Li Yao couldn't help but sigh and think to himself.
In order to stride into the modern Cultivation civilization, all the superstitions had to be abandoned and an atheistic worldview and universe outlook had to be established. Only then could one view the techniques, magical equipment, and classics passed down from the primeval times with a more objective attitude and study them, improve them, and even completely overthrow them.
But it was certainly not an easy task to achieve that.
In Li Yao's memory, the Earth of his previous life was a place where there were no traces of prehistoric civilizations at all. The pyramids, the Stonehenge, and the Great Wall were all man-made.
Even so, billions of people still believed in the existence of deities and Buddhas without any doubt.
In the many worlds of this life, there were indeed prehistoric civilizations that human beings could not understand.
Once the enormous corpses of the Pangu civilization were excavated, it was very easy for the ordinary people to regard them as the slough of deities. What were the space warships and the orbital space stations that they left behind if not the palaces in the sky?
It was too difficult to ask an ancient Cultivator who had seen the corpses of the Pangu in person and who could control objects remotely to deny the existence of deities and devils and become an atheist!
Then, how did the modern Cultivation civilization break the belief in deities and devils?
It was exactly the principle that 'fortune and misfortune go hand in hand'.
In the thirty thousand years of the Great Dark Age, human beings were brutally ruled by demons, who, in turn, advocated the theory of deities and devils and ruled the sea of stars with the 'Four Pillars System'.
In the Four Pillars system, the Yao race were the "descendants of the Gods and Devils", the "race chosen by the Gods", while the Human race was the relic of the traitors who had betrayed the Gods. Being oppressed and enslaved was the fate of the Human race, a fate that would last for tens of thousands of years, never to be reborn.
If human beings wanted to resist the demons, they naturally had to shatter the theory of 'deities and devils'.
There has never been a savior. We don't count on deities or emperors. We have to count on ourselves to create the future of human beings!
Human beings, who had sunk in the darkness for thirty thousand years, prayed for thirty thousand years, and struggled for thirty thousand years, but none of the deities came to save them, finally realized the truth.
Since then, the explosive development of the modern Cultivation civilization after the victory over the demons was achieved!
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