BXBX NOVEL Chapter 175 - 174: The Hidden History
Chapter 175 - 174: The Hidden History
“Even those who have just become post-heaven martial artists can live to be eighty!” Abud is confident, “This is mainly because most martial artists have internal injuries, if they balance their martial arts with leisure, and avoid injuries in fights, they can even live beyond a hundred and twenty!”
“If they are Grandmasters, the peak of existence at human’s realm, they can live even longer!”
Unlike the situation in Jiuzhou, the martial artists in the Ring Universe often fight life and death. Added to the fact that martial arts are not widely disseminated, most martial artists have faults in their training methods, resulting in them suffering from hidden injuries or other ailments as they age.
Even so, this is far better than currently considered a ripe old age of forty-five.
A peaceful life, living to a hundred twenty, indicates that this world’s martial arts have merits, allowing people to cleanse of the acquired impurities and approach the body state of a pre-born infant.
“There’s a restaurant here, let’s eat as we speak, I’ll pay.” Bai Hongtu is a person who would not mistreat himself, to explore other worlds, one must start from the culinary culture.
“Do you have money?”
“Kidding me, if I don’t have money how can I not conjure it?” Bai Hongtu picks up a stone from the roadside, lightly taps it, and it transforms into a piece of
gold.
This is not an illusion technique but rather involves the material transformation skill of turning stone to gold.
Of course, turning gold to stone is also possible.
However, such a technique should not be passed on, otherwise, it could easily cause an economic imbalance.
Bai Hongtu noticed that the people here also use gold and silver as currency.
Not everyone in Jiuzhou uses Spirit Stones as currency. Ordinary people usually use copper coins and gold and silver for transactions, buying daily essentials, and the most basic cultivation supplies, such as the low-cost elixirs launched by the Lingyao Clan, which can be purchased with silver.
Martial Artists between Qi Cultivation Levels Four to Six use a combination of gold, silver, and Spirit Stones to buy better cultivation supplies. Only when they reach Qi Cultivation Level Seven do they begin to use Spirit Stones as the real circulating currency for transactions among Martial Artists.
Upon entering the restaurant, the diners all turned their attention to this group.
Specifically, they were focusing on Yu Yin.
No matter where she is, people will always notice Yu Yin’s extraordinary beauty and noble temperament.
“Let’s see what we should order.”
The restaurant’s menu is simply a wooden sign hanging on the wall. Abud scanned it and looked puzzled. He did not understand the language here.
“You just have to poke at people’s sore points.” Jiang Li communicated privately with Bai Hongtu, carrying a tone of reproach.
It was then that Bai Hongtu recalled. Back at the Imperial Palace, Ji Zhi told him that this world had experienced regular changes and the language here was different from what Abud spoke.
“My mistake, my mistake.” Bai Hongtu called the waiter over, handed him the gold piece and said in the new language of this world, “I would like one of everything on the menu.”
Seeing the chunk of gold, the waiter’s eyes lit up.
“Kind sir, please wait.”
Jiang Li’s group all possessed Divine Sense and a large spiritual platform, making learning a new language easy. Abud, however, could only learn bit by bit.
“I apologize.” Bai Hongtu tapped on Abud’s forehead. Abud instantly felt lighter, and his six senses were awakened. He saw every motion around him with acute clarity, could make out the patterns on a wooden post ten meters away.
It was not just the case of being all-seeing and all-hearing. Abud could now even discern differences between individuals based on their scent, even with his eyes closed.
Abud’s consciousness was lively too, allowing him to rapidly gather his surroundings’ information, process it, and derive the logic of the new language from the people’s conversations.
Abud quickly learned the language of this world.
“This is the awareness that only someone at the peak level in the human realm possesses!” Abud was astounded.
Usually, one reaches the Nascent Soul Stage to awaken their Spiritual Platform.
To compensate for his mistake, Bai Hongtu initialized Abud’s Spiritual Platform ahead of time, awakening his six senses, though that was merely a byproduct of the spiritual platform’s expansion.
“Now that everyone is a martial artist, tell us about how you cultivate your martial arts.” Jiang Li said, curious to know how much it differed from Abud’s era.
“Back in our time, learning martial arts was a very serious matter. It emphasized mindset first and foremost; before practicing martial arts, we must first cultivate our hearts, otherwise it’s easy to succumb to demonic possession, bringing harm to humanity. Even my father, who was at the peak level in human’s realm, made me suffer hardships before teaching me anything, allowing me to understand that there are no shortcuts in martial arts and that patience is key.”
“Moreover, practicing martial arts consumes a lot. Strengthening one’s physique requires not only constant exercise but also medicinal baths to enhance the effects of the exercise. Martial artists also have lofty demands for food. Beginners eat as much as five ordinary people, and in the later stages, they need to consume a lot of meat. Most families cannot bear the cost, hence the saying ‘the wealthy practice martial arts, the poor study literature.”‘
“It’s not that we don’t want to disseminate martial arts, but there are truly not many people who could afford it.”
This world’s productivity was underdeveloped, famines were common. After paying their taxes in grain, people barely got through a year; under such circumstances, practicing martial arts was an impossible prospect.
The cultivation techniques issued by the Twelve Heavenly Kings did not have this issue. They indeed didn’t require medicinal baths or food, directly exchanging lifespan for martial arts cultivation.
“So your martial artists don’t have the impulse to kill?”
“Absolutely not.” Abud denied instantly, “What does practicing martial arts have to do with killing?”
“So, do martial artists refrain from voluntarily participating in wars?”
“They wouldn’t. ‘Heroes shall execute with chivalrous intent, martial artists shall forbid with might,’ the Martial Arts Alliance has a rule, martial artists are not to participate in wars. My father is the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch, so I am most clear about this.”
“Participation in wars only happens in two situations: either it is an aggressive war, which is not just and will lead to much suffering to the people, or the Emperor is foolish and incompetent, leading the Martial Arts Alliance to overthrow the Emperor.”
What Abud said greatly differed from what Tutor Meng had recounted.
“It appears that the Twelve Heavenly Kings have thoroughly rewritten history. They firstly issued martial arts manuals that burned lifespan, shortening people’s lifespan to increase the frequency of societal replacement. Then they changed the language, eliminating the possibility of seeking the true history. Finally, they compiled a new history, constructing their image of justice, making people forget the past.”
The people could only live up to two or three decades and could live up to forty-five years only after practicing martial arts. This statement in Jiuzhou would be seen as absurd; no one would believe it.
But Tutor Meng, a scholar, believed it, which shows that people in this world firmly believe it.
They didn’t know the original history or ordinary people’s natural lifespan. Whatever the Twelve Heavenly Kings said, they believed.
Now everyone practices martial arts and there is no ordinary person. There’s no one who could live past forty-five.
Outer Realm Heavenly Demons used a similar strategy in Jiuzhou, claiming things like ‘Heavenly Demons are Justice, don’t resist,’ which not many people believed in. It didn’t influence much. After the Jiuzhou assembly, all the major powers took action to eliminate the hidden dangers left by the Heavenly Demons.
And no more disruptive events would occur.
Jiang Li assumes that the Twelve Heavenly Kings should not be Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, but they must have a connection with the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons.
He still remember the system task’s description.
[An unwelcome guest has arrived in the Ring Universe World, who has dispatched the Twelve Heavenly Kings.]
The Twelve Heavenly Kings have appeared, so where is that unwelcome guest? Could it be an Outer Realm Heavenly Demon?
Jiang Li believes it is.
After venturing into other worlds. Jiang Li graduallv deduced the Outer Realm
Heavenly Demon’s intentions. It wanted to destroy the world, yet didn’t intend to do it directly, as if fearing something.
In the Jiuzhou world, one Heavenly Demon after another drained Jiuzhou’s foundations, changing from over twenty Transcendance Tribulation Stage beings nine thousand years ago to only five now. If it was not for Jiang Li, it would be hard to tell how much longer Jiuzhou could hold out.
In the Ming Zhong World, it turned spirit beasts into fierce beasts, encroaching on human territory.
In the Zombie World, it spread the zombie virus. It was nearing success. Apart from Luo Ying’s planet, all was devastated.
And in this Ring Universe World, if the Twelve Heavenly Kings were truly dispatched by the Outer Realm Heavenly Demon, then after the Heavenly Kings complete the alteration of history, they would certainly have a follow up plan.
A plan to destroy the world..