Free Web NovelChapter 338: Chapter 51: Higher Realms and Rankings
Although it might sound like baseless worrying, it was, in fact, an extremely grave problem.
When the ancestors return and declare sovereignty over this land, how should the humans now living on Earth respond?
Would the arrogant Immortal Gods consider modern humans the successors to their past civilization? They used force to civilize the Beast God Realm, so conversely, could they also civilize modern humans in the same way, forcing them to accept their ’rites’?
"From the perspective of Law, bloodline, inheritance, culture, and in every other aspect, we are their descendants."
At the time, the Literary Saint had answered Su Zhou this way: "We are their descendants, their children, their disciples, their successors—so when those ancestors return, what are we to do?"
"Don’t say something stupid like the Immortal Gods left, so that means they gave up on Earth... A thousand years is a long time for mortals who don’t practice Cultivation, but for the oldest of the Immortal Gods, that amount of time is no more than a short trip away from home. They certainly don’t think a thousand years means they’ve abandoned it."
Lying back in his office chair, Su Zhou spun around playfully like a top. He stared at the pristine ceiling above, the memories of that meeting spinning in his mind as well.
Perhaps some cynics, or those living less fortunate lives, might say, so what if the Immortal Gods return? It’s just swapping one set of rulers for another. It can’t possibly get any worse, so who cares who’s in charge.
But that wasn’t the case. It had nothing to do with who the rulers were.
The Immortal Gods who left before Spiritual Qi vanished were, in essence, from a different civilization than the modern one that developed during the recent era of severed Spiritual Qi. Living in the High Spirit Era, their Extraordinary Power gave them a set of values, a worldview, and a philosophy on life completely different from modern people.
Their views on civilization, the populace, and all the various minutiae of life might not have been cruel, but they were different from the modern world.
After all, the ancient world didn’t have a global population in the tens of billions like today—even counting the thirty-three heavens of All Realms, Earth certainly didn’t. Both their administrative experience and other affairs would be vastly different.
If they were to take power again in modern society, it would undoubtedly cause tremendous turmoil unless they governed entirely according to modern methods. But, putting all else aside, would those arrogant Immortal Gods really do that?
Since they could seal the Beast God Realm until the Divine Beasts and wild beasts within all became human, then when faced with modern people who were different from the ’humans’ in their minds, would they view modern people as just another kind of Spirit Beast?
Their so-called tolerance might just be a different kind of narrow-mindedness. Immortal Gods focused on ’enlightenment’ and ’ideology’ could cause immense conflict in this regard.
Su Zhou’s thoughts were actually quite simple, focusing only on the big picture. He knew he wasn’t a professional analyst, unlike the Literary Saint and his team who had been contemplating this issue for a long time. This was as far as his own thinking could take him.
"So, you see, our feelings on this are also very complex. The reason we’re tracing the departure trajectory of the Immortal Gods isn’t to find them and bring them back—we just want to know which direction they went, if there are any signs of their return, and if so, roughly when that might be. When can we be ready to deal with them?"
Those were the Literary Saint’s words. As the custodian of Zhengguo’s ancient Classics, his understanding of the Ancient Immortal Gods far surpassed others’. Following his statement, a professor said with a smile, "If the worst-case scenario happens, and the Immortal Gods really do return and insist on taking sovereignty over Earth, even trying to kick us out... then we’ll just emigrate to the Moon."
"Isn’t that the truth," another person chimed in with a chuckle. "If all humans reach the Awakening Tier and most of them reach the Extraordinary Level, then with that kind of physical constitution, living on the Moon and Mars would actually be possible."
’You guys are really thinking far ahead. If it were me, all I could think of is what would happen if a new Immortal God—like me—appeared on Earth before the old ones returned. What would they think then?’
A train of thought that already led to colonizing the Moon and Mars was something Su Zhou would have never come up with on his own. And amid the heated discussion, Su Zhou was stunned to learn that the Zhengguo Government even had a plan to explore habitable exoplanets!
The task of various aircraft similar to the Profound Bird Level, as well as the R&D department of Qinxing Academy, was to create and experiment with a large number of modern high-tech creations fused with Magic Techniques. Once the technology matured, hybrid creations like Magical Spaceships, Magic Spacecraft, Magic Cosmic Exploration Ships, and Transport Ships would emerge, unleashing an absurd level of power.
Even in the Divine Wood World, which lacked advanced technology, they managed to create things like True Qi Floating Battleships relying only on Extraordinary Power and some crude Magic Techniques. So now, with its Immortal God Inheritance and a complete industrial system, Zhengguo might actually be able to skip several stages and brute-force its way to interstellar development technology!
’Maybe someday I’ll get a chance to take a trip to the Moon and Mars!’
Although the happy thought filled his mind, Su Zhou’s expression was still a slight frown. Sometimes, after becoming part of the top brass and learning so many things ordinary people didn’t know, it was truly impossible to go back to being a carefree, shitposting netizen like before.
