To be fair, Taoist priests are indeed quite terrifying.
[Those who follow the Dao are different from normal living beings.]
Normal living beings have flesh and blood. Even some soul life forms, or other life forms with magnetic fields, have real physical bodies, and they can exhibit many Dao principles.
[In contrast, the Dao-based living beings are merely specific forms manifested by the Dao; they cannot actually be considered living beings and lack the ability to reproduce and survive.]
Just like some virtual code or AI avatars, once they leave the matching program (the original universe) and enter the real world (the boundless void) or software incompatible with this AI data (other universes with different parameters), they will vanish.
Your essential rewards and punishments have no effect on beings governed by the laws of nature, because essential authority is the authority of the life realm and only applies to living beings!
[Beings governed by the Dao are pure embodiments of the Dao itself, possessing no substantial form, and therefore cannot be considered true living beings!]
"I see... I thought it was some Dao beast that hooked up with someone you blessed, resulting in a hybrid Dao human."
Yun Shou did not suspect that some anthropomorphic Dao beasts had hooked up with 14, after all, 14 was a classic example of infertility.
If Yun Jiu and Yun Shi, whose cultivation level was originally very low and who only knew how to kill whales, were taken by the Water Spirit and turned into elves.
But the current version 14 has absolutely demonstrated "infertility" in the most profound way, and even elves can no longer be raised!
The birth of the Taoist has nothing to do with you; it is simply a natural evolution within this universe.
[However, the principles that constitute them sometimes mimic the brain structure of intelligent beings, adding memory modules and the ability to change thought processes, allowing the other party to iterate on their code (principles), and so on.]
[Because they are not living beings, Daoists can devour other Dao principles, and even permanently reside in the Dao realm, replicating existing Dao principles... This is not difficult for them!]
[It's like an ordinary person who wants to become stronger needs to build muscle and cultivate a supernatural system, but a snowball that wants to become stronger simply needs to roll around in the snow.]
Their biggest flaw is that they can never leave their original universe, and they never have a true living soul; everything is just a response of a "program," even though this program may be far more intelligent than most living people...
[You and the City Lord of Beishen City silently watched the people in the conference room arguing. They were formulating a plan. Some wanted to directly and inhumanely destroy the Daoists, while others wanted to raise them in batches, and then slaughter them to obtain the Dao principles that were rarely seen under normal circumstances.]
Many more people looked on in despair, because those Taoists were growing too fast, and they were themselves naturally born from the earth, an inexhaustible species!
If even one were to slip through and quietly grow for 20 billion years, it would be a catastrophe for all living beings on Earth!
[In other universes, even if Dao-based beings proliferate, that's only a concern for mortals. True immortals can simply leave this universe and go to the boundless void, to universes with other parameters.]
[But the Star Universe is different. The higher they travel into the sky, the stronger the gravitational pull they experience. Unless they become rulers of the universe, they will be forever trapped in the gravitational field at the surface of the cosmos!]
In the understanding of these true immortals, there is only one universe, the one in which they live. Beyond this universe lies a completely unknown space, because no one has ever broken through it!
They are like creatures trapped in a planet's atmosphere, unaware of whether there are other universes beyond their own...
Of course, after the Star Universe was transformed by Apo, it existed in the Boundless Sea of Void for billions of years or even longer, during which time other wandering True Immortals naturally entered this place.
However, upon re-entering the "atmosphere" of this universe, they were captured by an incredibly strong gravitational force and plummeted straight towards the ground!
[Forget about the possibility of falling to your death; just entering the atmosphere alone, the gravitational pull is enough to kill a 15 billion-level cosmic entity!]
Therefore, those foreign True Immortals with only a few or tens of initial Dao Fruit points were torn to pieces as soon as they entered, let alone land safely; they were still in the air.
Over time, this place naturally became isolated, and no true immortals knew of anything from the outside world, believing that this was the only universe that had ever existed.
[There are no ancient immortals still alive in the Star Universe, who know what it looked like before it was modified—because after Apo set the modifications, he directly caused the Star Universe to explode and restart, and all the beings here are new ones born afterward!]
"About ninety years ago, a True Immortal first discovered the existence of a 'Taoist' in the wilderness. At first, he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, there were quite a few Daoist beasts with a certain degree of 'intelligence'."
"Although that Taoist was replicating the principles of the Dao, on the surface it appeared to be simply sitting cross-legged... That True Immortal casually annihilated the Taoist whose strength had not yet reached the next level, and then forgot about the matter."
"But eighty years ago, seventy years ago, fifty years ago... they proliferated, they multiplied!"
"Someone locked them in an array, but discovered they were still getting stronger; they were replicating the principles of the array!"
"Based on simple calculations, in less than 100 years since the first discovery of the Taoists, their population has grown from zero to over ten million!"
[You think it's just average; it's only a few million people, not as good as you.]
You have hundreds of billions of people.
"This is easy." You snapped your fingers, deciding to give these True Immortals present a small perk, since you were sitting on their heads.
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