Enter the Immortal Cultivation

Wang Qi and Chen Youjia walked side by side on the streets of Shenjing. It was already dark, and there were not as many pedestrians on the street as usual. There were no street lights here, and street vendors hung lanterns one after another, but they were not bright. Under the dim light, Wang Qi looked around curiously.

He didn't go out very often, and when he walked, he was mostly thinking about problems. This time, he came out with Chen Youjia, and he barely managed to restrain his imagination. Thanks to this, he really saw what Shenjing looked like at night.

"I don't feel anything on weekdays because there are lighting talismans. I feel it's not harmonious when I see it today." Wang Qi sighed, "It's really dark."

Although the enhanced photosensitivity of the optic nerve allows cultivators to see at night, the sense of light and darkness is still there.

Chen Youjia glanced at him: "Where do you think this is? Is it a fairy city like Xinyue or Leiyang?"

The economy of the immortal way and the mortal world is broken. Most of the items produced in the secular world are not used by the Xiu family; and the high-tech products produced by the Xiandao Great State [Big Industry] are basically not used by mortals.

"The legal concepts embodied in the Xianmeng Law are close to the modern laws on Earth, and the technology is also approaching the information age, and there are even more places where dictation is required. However, as the Great Lian of the human dynasty, it is just a feudal society... Oh, because the Xianmeng has taken over some government affairs, it has a bit of a constitutional monarchy flavor." Wang Qi thought to himself.

Chen Youjia glanced sideways: "What are you thinking about?"

"Something interesting."

Chen Youjia blinked: "What?"

"Sorry. I forgot as soon as you interrupted me."

"I always feel like you are turning over some inexplicable ideas again." Chen Youjia said dissatisfiedly: "Last time when you studied the law of large numbers with me, you didn't try your best at all, right?"

"Ahem." Wang Qi looked away: "Really not."

"It only took you and Junior Sister Bo a long time to finish it."

Wang Qi was a little embarrassed: "Haaah... Speaking of which, Junior Sister Bo seems to be a little older than you in terms of age."

"Entrance time."

The two of them chatted casually about random things as usual, while walking towards the west of the city.

Xiyaomen is a place where shops gather in Shenjing, and there are many delicious foods. After the two of them arrived at the place. Wang Qi asked: "What do you want to eat today?"

Chen Youjia closed her eyes and sniffed gently. Then, she frowned, as if she was making a life-and-death decision. When Wang Qi was tempted by the food in the air, Chen Youjia pointed in the direction: "This one."

This time, Chen Youjia chose a noodle stall, which mainly sells mutton steamed buns. The steamed buns have thin skin and rich fillings, and the fillings are fat and sweet but not fishy. The boss of this place is honest. He is also a hardworking expert. The fillings are not mixed too finely. There are even some juicy meat chunks in between.

After a bowl of mutton offal soup, Wang Qi admitted from the bottom of his heart that Chen Youjia chose a good place.

In the dim light of the oil lamp, Chen Youjia's delicate porcelain skin looks even more hazy. It's a pity that the girl didn't think it was beautiful. Instead, when she was halfway through eating, she felt that the oil lamp was too dim and smoky, which affected her appetite, so she waved her hand to extinguish the oil lamp with palm wind. Then she released a lighting spell.

While Wang Qi secretly said it was a pity, he remembered a certain thought that just flashed through his mind. His spiritual consciousness swept around. Many people around him, like Chen Youjia, extinguished the oil lamp and used the talisman for lighting. There are many monks in Shenjing where immortals and mortals live together. There are only a few mortals here, and they have never even "borrowed the light". Instead, they shrank back and looked embarrassed.

Wang Qi picked up a steamed bun with chopsticks and rolled it in the vinegar. But in his mind, he quietly separated a thread to think about something he had just noticed.

"When I was a child, I always thought that this broken place was ancient, so I didn't think it was inconvenient to use an oil lamp. After leaving the village, I went to Xinyue Immortal City, and all I saw was the style of immortals. In the past one or two years, I came to Shenjing and have been busy with research. I really haven't paid attention to this kind of thing." Wang Qi's thoughts in the storage room muttered to himself: "This world. What is the understanding of technology?"

"Search, keywords, technology."

The entire storage room began to rearrange and reorganize, and then several books were automatically delivered to him.

Wang Qi nodded as he flipped through the book: "So that's how it is. Even if they are both scientific civilizations, the gap between the two world civilizations can be so big."

The key lies in "technology".

The physical rules of this world are too supportive of the existence of technological black boxes, so many technologies can be invented very easily. However, most of these technologies have not been transformed into productivity.

In the past, medicinal materials were collected in the wild. A cultivator only needed to collect enough materials to refine a furnace of pills and refine enough for his own use, without considering the cost. After the cultivation breakthrough, it is natural to look for new pill recipes to collect or rob new medicinal materials and then refine new pills. If there is no suitable pill, develop a new medicine suitable for yourself.

As for shortening the necessary labor time-I'm sorry, instead of wasting time and materials thinking about how to simplify the refining of a pill, it is better to redevelop a more amazing pill.

That is, in the last days, the spiritual energy is thin, and it is impossible to practice without relying on pills, so the cultivators invented the practice of mass production of Peiyuan Pills and Bigu Pills.

More techniques are reflected in magical powers and spells, that is, combat effectiveness.

In addition, the dual economy of immortals and mortals is also a feature. Spiritual energy causes energy fluctuations, and complex machinery is easily damaged. The mechanisms of the Thousand Machine Pavilion are all driven by spiritual energy, which is difficult for mortals to control. Even if the Immortal Alliance lowers the prices of various products of immortal civilization, it is difficult for mortals to benefit from them.

"Although scientists are the most famous people on Earth, it is technology that drives the development of science."

"Businessmen pursue profits, which is the nature of capitalists. It is precisely because they realize that science and technology are the primary productive forces and can generate huge profits that huge resources are invested in research and development."

"Although science is the basis of technology, it can also be said that technology has made science what it is today."

"From the perspective of the history of science, the development of science is the pursuit of truth by several wise men. But from the perspective of the evolution of civilization, the history of human science is also the history of technological development in pursuit of technology."

Wang Qi gently brushed over a popular science book called "The Essence of Technology" in the library, and thought of Thomas Edison, the inventor and businessman who had two thousand invention patents in his previous life.

In theory, this shrewd businessman has not made much. But when it comes to promoting the development of science, he is probably better than most scientists.

Wang Qi finally realized that he had caught a blind spot.

"Here, in this world, immortality is the greatest benefit and the ultimate goal. In order to achieve immortality, we need the 'cultivation technique', and in order to protect ourselves, we need the 'fighting technique'."

"The significance of mortals is only to produce more practitioners. Their productivity is meaningless to the immortal way. Even the Immortal Alliance has only promoted improved varieties and fertilizers, agricultural techniques, and medical techniques."

"But..."

Wang Qi's heartbeat quickened slightly. The development of the immortal way of the human race is very tortuous. First, they fought with monsters, and then attacked each other. Over tens of thousands of years, the status of the fighting method has always been higher than planting and forging. However, from the perspective of humanity... humanity...

"Is this really a way?" Wang Qi suddenly said without thinking.

Chen Youjia asked: "What?"

Wang Qi looked at a dark slum and whispered: "Nothing, I just suddenly felt that there should be a guy named Edison in this world."

There should be Edison in the world. (To be continued ~^~)