Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Girl Ziwu's words soon triggered a heated discussion among the envoys.

Because this is indeed an interesting question.

As an ancient monk, Wang Luo is really not an ancient monk!

To explain this sentence accurately, we must first understand what an ancient monk is, or what the stereotype of an ancient monk is.

There are thousands of differences in the cultivation of immortality before and after the Heavenly Tribulation, and in a nutshell, it is the difference between paying attention to the early stage and paying attention to the later stage.

For the ancient monks, the purpose of all practice is theoretically for the ascension in the later stage. As long as they can get closer to the door of ascension, it is a matter of course that they suffer more in the early stage. Many well-known and upright sects cultivate Taoism, and even tolerantly allow them to patrol for hundreds of years in the stage of entraining Qi and building the foundation. Anyway, as long as the realm after the golden elixir can go smoothly, the cultivation of this Tao seed will not be a loss.

On the other hand, no matter how fast you practice in the early stage - three years to build the foundation and five years to condense the elixir, if you get stuck at a certain bottleneck immediately and cannot make any progress, then the gain outweighs the loss.

In this environment of the old world, at least the ancient monks who followed the orthodox immortal path did not attach much importance to the progress of early practice. The speed of progress is more used to show talent and has no actual meaning.

As the master of Lingshan Mountain, Wang Luo himself is an integral part of the orthodoxy of the old world. In addition, he was trained as a closed disciple by the previous mountain master Song Yijing. His identity has been determined. There is no need to show his talent at all, and there is no need to do anything. The reason is to rush for success in the early stage.

However, Wang Luo's cultivation progress was still as fast as that of modern people. He reached the level of condensation in his early twenties, which was shocking to ancient monks.

In addition, the power he displayed in the foundation-building realm was too extraordinary - with an out-and-out foundation-building realm, he could compete with the Jindan-level General Huanglong. I'm afraid there is no other person in the world who can do it.

However, this is actually unreasonable.

Because theoretically speaking, the combat power of future generations of practitioners at the same level should be better than that of their ancestors!

Of course, it is undeniable that compared with those practitioners in the classical era who lived in an environment of the jungle and the strong, the life of modern people is too refined and comfortable. The vast majority of people cannot even breathe independently, let alone have any practical experience. In other words, even the so-called Qing Ping Si Qing Yis who have received actual combat training often only know how to wave the golden seal, but lack the ability to adapt to actual situations. Compared with those ancestors who were fought out in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, they were like exquisitely castrated domestic animals.

However, this comparison is limited to ordinary people, all living beings who account for the vast majority of the population.

And this group of people, before the Heavenly Tribulation, in that era when immortality was not really popular, were called mortals. In the eyes of cultivators who fly to the sky and escape from the earth, they are like ants. There is no qualification for comparison at all.

In fact, excluding this unfair comparison, there is no reason for practitioners in the New Immortal Era to lose to their ancestors at the same level.

After all, the long road leading to ascension was cut in half by the Great Law. Not to mention the Mahayana ascension, even Nascent Soul requires the approval of the Immortal Alliance, and most people can only polish a golden elixir in their belly in their entire life... Against this background, what human beings have to do in every existing realm The research effort and material resources spent are far beyond those of the old world. Qi entrainment, foundation building, golden elixir, almost all the tricks in these three realms have been studied by modern people.

For true professionals, absorbing the nutrients of the new era can completely sublimate themselves into a completely different species.

Among the soldiers stationed on the front lines of Dinghuang all year round, there are always many masters who challenge themselves beyond their level, such as eating and drinking soup. Using the Foundation Establishment to beat up the Golden Pill, and using the Golden Pill to beat up the Nascent Soul, this has never been uncommon in the army.

As for actual combat experience... In fact, modern people have the advantage, because even in the turbulent era of the old immortal calendar, there was never an entire half of Kyushu with endless wild demons for people to kill at will. Perhaps some old demons who have been practicing for hundreds of years can outperform today's people by accumulating evil deeds every day. But being able to accumulate it for hundreds of years is not something that mere golden elixirs and Yuanying can achieve.

Therefore, in the same realm, there is absolutely no advantage between ancient monks and these real combat experts.

This has even been confirmed in the research simulations of many military history experts. Some people have long collected information from the old world, used ingenuity and other means to create puppets with combat capabilities similar to those of practitioners from the old world, and put them into the fighting arena for actual combat simulations. The results of most actual battles are complete victories by professional and elite soldiers.

However, at this moment, a group of envoys witnessed with their own eyes that Huang Long, who symbolized the pinnacle of his profession, with a level of strength advantage, could not defeat an ancient monk who had only been practicing for twenty years!

As the thunderous collision sound continued inside the arena, the discussion outside the arena became more and more lively.

The female envoy from Zhou Guo enthusiastically promoted her hypothesis: "So, instead of treating him as an ancient monk who came back from the dead, it is better to assume that he is the secret weapon that Zhu Wang has developed for many years! There are many mirage stories. It has such a setting! Superpowers, crazy human experiments, and then a super hero suddenly emerges! What do you think of the nickname Lingshan Man? "

Ziwu's Duan Yong smiled and nodded: "As a propaganda slogan, it is very good. Compared with settings such as ancient monks resurrecting from the dead, humanoid weapons secretly created by the superpower Zhuwang may be more likely to serve hundreds of nations. The people accept it. Lingshan Xia’s idea is also very good. You Zhouguo people really have many ideas on these mirage scrolls..."

"Haha, I know you understand, Brother Duan! So how do you think the heroine should be designed? This kind of superhero must have a partner. People like this the most! Considering that he is about to become a pioneer and become the most anticipated Focus, I think more advanced cultural symbols should be placed on him to condense multiple identities. For example, we can assume that his partner is a Ziwu male with gender cognitive disorder..."

Duan Yong's smile suddenly stiffened, and then he glared angrily at the girl with wheat-colored skin next to him, blaming her for giving Zhou Guo such an unscrupulous start!

But aside from the whims of the Zhou Guo people, people have to admit that the hypothesis of the secret weapon seems to be very reasonable!

A young man who has made extremely fast progress in cultivation and has extremely high combat power in the same realm, he is really suitable to play this role!

However, without waiting for people to discuss it in depth, the short and long battle in the arena has come to an end.

After an unprecedented violent collision, Wang Luo and Huang Long separated again and retreated. I saw that Wang Luo's whole body had been covered with a faint layer of blood mist - it was the blood and sweat that seeped out of his pores and was evaporated by the high temperature.

On the other side, Huang Long's body has more than doubled in size compared to when the war first started. He is nearly four meters in length. His armor of exotic beasts is stretched so hard that it keeps making moans that are almost torn apart. Every swollen muscle, every The stretched blood vessels are as hot as fire at this moment!

Even if he used his golden elixir level power and brought it to the extreme, Huang Long still couldn't defeat his opponent in the arena!

so……

"It's worthy of admiration, boy. I'm afraid I will never forget you in my life."

With a happy and excited smile, Huang Long decided to untie the last layer of shackles.

Then, the leather armor on his body suddenly emitted an unprecedented violent electric light, which made his eyes turn white, and then he collapsed.

The scar-faced General Bu walked slowly into the arena while everyone was stunned, holding a pointer with lightning arcs in his hand. He looked down at General Huang Long who was twitching on the ground and cast a resentful look at him, and said .

"Old General Huang, under the orders of your granddaughter, if you dare to disobey the doctor's orders and use the power of the Nascent Soul at will during the visit, I am obliged to stop you by any means."