Chapter 512: Under Heaven, We Are All Ants
An hour later, the news of the unusual movement of the [Corona Disk] spread to other immortal mountains with an absolutely overwhelming majority of votes.
Not only the fairy mountains floating in the sky, but also the islands outside the mainland received this news.
Is there anyone in this world who has not received this message?
I'm afraid the only ones left are ordinary mortals who are still struggling to survive on this shattered earth.
It’s not that they don’t want to, but this kind of thing is too far away from them.
Practitioners in the celestial world generally have a lifespan of more than 500 years, and those with powerful supernatural powers can even live for a thousand years.
But for ordinary mortals living on land, it is unimaginable to live for even fifty years.
The harsh environment, disasters that could erupt at any time, and the life of being hungry all day long have greatly consumed the lifespan of mortals.
If both sides did not look the same, no one would even consider cultivators and mortals as creatures of the same race.
At the very least, most people who have become practitioners will not consider themselves to be of the same species as ordinary people, let alone those legendary "celestial beings".
"Below the heavens, we are all ants."
Looking at the mortals struggling to survive in the lower world through the [Corona Disk], Hao Guang, who had been silent for a long time, murmured softly.
Unlike the practitioners who live a comfortable life on the fairy mountain, the mortals in the lower world are still in the most primitive stage of agricultural civilization.
They work from sunrise to sunset, but cannot even guarantee the most basic life.
Two hundred years ago, some people questioned this kind of life and brought changes to the world.
But the ultimate result of this change was a war that affected the entire heavenly world, and eventually caused civilization to return to silence.
Since then, all mortals with some talent and qualifications have been taken away by practitioners from fairy mountains and islands.
Those who remain in the underworld and continue to live are basically ignorant beings.
They simply don't have enough ideas and vision to change their existing lives.
Sometimes Haoguang wonders, if that change had not been interrupted, would the world have taken a completely different path?
However, all of the above choices are the aftermath of the last "War of the End of Dharma".
Because whether it is the fairy mountains or the archipelago, those outstanding mortals will never be allowed to stay in the lower world again.
"Bai Xiao, does the world you described where everyone can survive really exist?"
Gazing deeply at the [Corona Disk], Haoguang seemed to remember himself when he had just joined the Immortal Sect hundreds of years ago.
At that time, I was so ignorant and naive. I was completely different from Bai Xiao, who was as dazzling as the sun.
Even the first meeting between the two parties seemed to be just a chance coincidence.
However, it was such a seemingly accidental coincidence that changed Haoguang's life.
Before meeting Bai Xiao, Hao Guang was just an ordinary person, a person who was trying hard to survive in this world.
He was born in the lower world and was a mortal who was accidentally brought to the fairy mountain by the previous leader of the Jinwu Sect.
On the other hand, Bai Xiao is the direct disciple of the Jinwu Sect, a genius carefully selected by the sect master from the fairy mountain.
Whether in talent, birth, or character, he is far superior to Haoguang.
But Bai Xiao never despised Hao Guang's background, and even took the initiative to study and practice with him.
At first, Haoguang didn't understand why Bai Xiao did this.
Because there is nothing about me that is worthy of the other party's attention.
Whenever Haoguang asked the other party this question, Bai Xiao would just smile.
It was not until much later that Haoguang vaguely understood some of Bai Xiao's thoughts.
——Because I am the mortal closest to the lower world in the fairy mountain.
Mingming was born in the Fairyland, had a promising future, and was hailed as the one with the greatest chance of ascending to become a celestial being.
However, Bai Xiao never thought about ascending to heaven and leaving this ruined world from the very beginning.
Bai Xiao had mentioned to Hao Guang more than once that the world should not be what it is now.
The departure of the celestial beings took away the potential of this world, but it does not mean that the lives of themselves and others are normal now.
The mortals living in the lower world are like pigs and dogs. The purpose of their existence is to provide a steady supply of talented practitioners to the fairy mountain.
Although the practitioners living in the fairy mountains have escaped hunger, they have invested a lot of resources and energy into an almost impossible goal.
Such a world is wrong and should not exist.
In Bai Xiao's imagination, practitioners and mortals are creatures of the same race, and the relationship between them should be one of mutual help and support.
The practitioners who emerge from the mortal group will help the mortals grow food and graze livestock, and jointly build a country that can withstand various risks such as natural disasters and man-made disasters.
The mortal groups will get rid of hunger and poverty, expand their population and improve their quality.
Even if you don't become a cultivator, you can still have a skill to survive in this world.
Mortals and practitioners are two sides of the same coin, and their relationship must be one of mutual support and promotion.
Only in this way can mortals and practitioners survive better in this world, rather than becoming a breeding ground for "breeding" celestial beings.
Yes, in Bai Xiao's description, the current Tianren Realm is a huge Gu breeding farm, specially designed for cultivating the Gu King named "Tianren".
Compared to exhausting the potential of the entire race or even the world, allowing an individual to ascend to become a celestial being.
Bai Xiao believes that the best way out for this world is to allow practitioners and mortals to help each other and form a positive cycle.
By that time, mortals will not have to worry about poverty and hunger, and practitioners can better devote themselves to exploring the future.
It is no longer about replicating the path of predecessors, but about creating a future that is unique to you.
Allowing all practitioners and even ordinary people to have the possibility of becoming celestial beings is the beautiful future that Bai Xiao described to Haoguang.
The premise of all this is to break down the barriers between mortals and practitioners, so that the practitioners who were originally high and mighty can lower their posture and help more mortals survive.
Looking at the history of the celestial world, Bai Xiao's idea has never appeared before.
Practitioners are superior beings. From the moment they become practitioners and pursue the path of heaven, they no longer have any relationship with mortals.
The pursuit of individual transcendence is a tradition of the celestial world since ancient times.
But Bai Xiao wants to break this tradition, gather the power of the group, and create a future that only exists in his imaginary blueprint.
I guess only Bai Xiao himself knows how much resistance he encountered during this period.
As a mortal who was brought to the fairy mountain by the Jinwu Sect, Haoguang was chosen by Bai Xiao under such circumstances and had the honor of becoming his first partner.
Now thinking about it, the reason why Bai Xiao was so close to Hao Guang was probably because he was not a cultivator from the Immortal Mountain and had not yet formed the ideological imprint that "cultivators must be superior to mortals."
The final result also proved that Hao Guang did live up to Bai Xiao's trust. He was able to face up to the gap between mortals and practitioners from beginning to end, and finally even became the leader of the Golden Crow.
Unfortunately, Bai Xiao could no longer see this scene.
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