Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1008 - 92: New Generation of the New Era

No matter what she thought in her heart, the next morning, Li Xiaomeng still set off on her way to school.

As usual, she walked to the station, checking the Heart Network while waiting for the fully enclosed multi-passenger beast-powered vehicle.

The adjustment demon beast sent to the Divine Capital a year ago had grown even fatter, which must mean that life in the Divine Capital is quite nourishing. It, too, has been infected by the omnipresent Heart Demon Curse Power in this world, developing a special "spirituality" different from the Spirit Wisdom of the Demon Clan, and can be regarded as a terminal of the Heart Network.

Now, the Heart Network even added a "beast-powered vehicle arrival notification" service.

Many people crowded onto the beast-powered vehicle. After a year of basic construction, the Divine Capital was quite different. Now, the roads of the Divine Capital intersect like a grid, like a checkerboard, like the warp and weft of a brocade. These roads are paved everywhere with "Cemented Stone Soil" similar to "cement," smooth and clean. However, unless one is a Cultivator who can fly, it's difficult to see the full view of the roads. The towering skyscrapers have long limited the sight of ordinary people. Aside from this, there are beast-powered vehicles of different lines everywhere, making transportation convenient, so despite the Divine Capital's million-level crowd, it can operate smoothly.

The old workshops have been completely abolished, and here, shops connect with shops, the top-grade goods are dazzling, fully displaying the abundance of material resources. Additionally, some water pipes are also being laid out. Condensing water from the air out of thin air requires the Mana of the Foundation Establishment Stage, so for mortals, the tap water system is more practical.

In the Fusang Demon Clan ruins, there were also similar water supply systems like water channels. Even in the prosperous Renewal Demon Clan Civilization, not everyone relied on spells to live. For some low-level beings, public settings are generally more useful than their own spells.

This is the current Divine Capital, which emphasizes correlation everywhere, emphasizes speed, and the pace of life has been accelerated to an extreme.

Everyone seems like a cell in this city. And this city itself is like a young heart, pumping blood with incredible efficiency, generating vitality and providing life to the entire Shenzhou Continent.

Perhaps, the only thing that hasn't changed is the diamond-shaped pit in the center of the Divine Capital. That was the evidence of the Heavenly Sword destroying the Old Divine Capital a year ago.

For some unknown reason, while the little girl was on the vehicle, she gave up connecting to the Heart Network and focused her attention on the bustling scene outside the window.

——Compared to most places in Shenzhou, the Divine Capital is like a paradise…

No need to go hungry, with the most convenient tools, and with Immortals here to protect them. Any other place compared to the Divine Capital is like just "the countryside."

——But… people there becoming cultivators, they should be very free, right?

After arriving at school, the little girl again heard the teacher's repetitive emphasis: "Children! You are already eleven years old, some are even twelve! Only one more year! You only have this one year left to study in peace!"

"After another year, you won't be in compulsory education, just aided study! However, the aid from school is not as good as those various Empirical Departments! At that time, someone will surely recruit you to the Empirical Department, and your studies will certainly be further affected."

"This year is your crucial moment for Breakthrough to the Heavenly Communication!"

These words inevitably reminded Li Xiaomeng of what the little chubby Zhang Dazhong said last night.

After the morning meeting, class began.

Text, history, mathematics, life beings, physical properties, heavenly objects, astronomy, geography… these were all basic courses.

Most of the lectures from the Immortal Alliance forums across regions are of this type. However, sometimes those forums also delve into more in-depth topics. And the Divine Capital, like the ten Immortal Institutes, uniformly teaches standard courses.

However, the things taught in the Divine Capital's schools aren't as difficult as those of the Immortal Institute courses.

This is also one of the policies that the Immortal Alliance is piloting in the Divine Capital.

Since the Human Dao System needs to be promoted, to prevent the high welfare from bringing decadence, universal Immortal Dao education must take precedence.

For those children who have never attended school, textbooks are actually fascinating enough. The things in textbooks, along with what's on the Heart Network, gradually showcase to Li Xiaomeng another world.

Martial Arts, Modern and Ancient Methods, Primordial Spirit Freedom, Shenzhou Land, Endless Star Sea…

As early as when she was three or four years old, a young Immortal Master who came to the Divine Capital alone told Li Xiaomeng these kinds of stories. However, it wasn't until recently that she understood the deeper meanings behind the stories.

The Modern Immortal Path pioneers the Human Clan future, just as the Ancient Holy Emperors once carved out a heaven and earth for the Human Clan step by step from the Group of Ten Thousand Demons.

This world is truly large, the future of the Human Clan is truly vast. If one can only be confined to this small city of the Divine Capital, it would be truly pitiful.

——The world is so big, I want to go and see it…

But in an instant, the little girl had thoughts of giving up: "Can I really do it…"

An ordinary Immortal Master, even at the peak, it's just the Golden Core… Is the Golden Core Stage enough?

As this thought just lingered in her mind, she suddenly realized: "No, no! It's wrong to think like this!"

If you don't try, how will you know?

The little girl suddenly got up with determination, sweeping away the haze in her heart. She clenched her tiny fists, cheering herself on: "Ah, ah, ah! I can't give up like this! It's something I've decided on!"

With her heart cleared of haze, Li Xiaomeng was especially attentive in class this time. After school, she declined her friends' invitations and went home alone. This day, instead of flipping through the "Simplified Wanxiang Diagram—from Beginner to Mastery," she directly opened her textbook.

——That's for wielding spell power. But I want to become a cultivator!

[Of course, the little girl didn't know that the Wanxiang Diagram was not just for wielding spell power. Its significance was far greater than merely controlling spell power. Currently, she neither knew this point nor had the mathematical level to deduce the mathematical essence contained in the Wanxiang Diagram.]

She didn't know that, as she reviewed, a marvelous transformation was occurring within her.

Perhaps because she had been just one step shy of a breakthrough. She had long sensed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth; as long as her thoughts aligned with the operating laws of the spiritual energy, she could break through to heavenly communication. So, today as she reviewed, a transformation she had long anticipated descended without any warning.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was like warp and weft, weaving the earth veins connecting to the universe.

Zhang Platform in Divine Capital, where the spiritual body of the Great Capital Governor manifested.

This Great Capital Governor was the first artificial god created by the Immortal Alliance, without spirit wisdom, only implanted acquired will. This humanoid was not its body but more like an interface. The Great Capital Governor itself was deeply embedded in the Heart Network, connecting every mortal and some cultivators in Divine Capital, monitoring the whole city. It also functioned like an advanced calculator, nearing high-level calculator capabilities, possessing incredible powers.

Just as Li Xiaomeng broke through to heavenly communication, a colorful light descended from its official seal, forming an arrow in the air pointing directly at Li Xiaomeng's home.

At the same time, a virtual light screen appeared in front of the Immortal Alliance stewards beside the Great Capital Governor. The light screens displayed all of Li Xiaomeng's household information before them.

"Good! Good! Good!" The leading person was very excited. He was an elderly man dressed in a somewhat retro way. However, his behavior at this moment was not quite elegant. The old man waved his fists, saying to the others: "The twenty-sixth one! In just one year, among the children in Divine Capital with no foundation, twenty-six have become cultivators! A year to break through to heavenly communication! This achievement is worthy even of entering the Immortal Institute!"

"Indeed! With the appearance of the Heart Network, Divine Capital's cultivation journey has never been interrupted, this is good news!"

"The success rate may not be very high," someone reminded, "The education they received is different from the traditional Immortal Alliance forum-Immortal Institute-style education. So, to really see how it is, we'll need more data before judging."

"But, this is undoubtedly a good start," the old man concluded. "Tomorrow, we'll visit this little girl's home to extend our congratulations."

"Additionally, she has shown talent sufficient to enter the Immortal Institute for advanced studies, but according to the rules, she cannot leave Divine Capital. Therefore, we must arrange remote education through the Ten Thousand Immortals Illusion Realm to achieve that level of the Immortal Institute. Also, the sect education a year later must be completed in Divine Capital!"

The people of Zhang Platform were celebrating. No one noticed a withered leaf silently falling.

This was Divine Capital's first fallen leaf of autumn this year.

............

Divine Capital was like a giant experimental field. The data produced in this rapidly operating field would also be sent in full to Wang Qi.

Wang Qi would then, based on that data, conduct Heart Demon Mysterious Net activities at Spirit Phoenix Island at night, while strengthening his cultivation.

The empirical evidence from Divine Capital would provide Wang Qi with inspiration.

And his activities on this side would also guide the research in Divine Capital.

The Ancient Method Practitioners around Wang Qi were all outside the protection scope of the Immortal Alliance Law. Some "pioneering" ideas could be used without concern.

And the large population and more specialized researchers in Divine Capital, after Wang Qi confirmed safety, would conduct deeper excavations.

Both sides fit together like gears.

With the continuous updates of the Heart Demon Mysterious Net, Wang Qi finally weaved threads of Heart Demon Curse Power into the base layers of Spirit Phoenix Island, beginning a silent intrusion.

Thanks to the experience with the Virtual Divine Country, Wang Qi deftly infiltrated the Holy Emperor Venerable's Human Dao, without triggering a single sign of detection.

The formless, featureless Supreme Heart Demon Curse was quietly expanding.

Every moment, Wang Qi was growing stronger.

Such peaceful days did not last long.

In the winter days, the Holy Emperor Venerable finally issued a decree.

"In the coming April, with the advent of spring, talents of the world, gather at the Phoenix Tomb, for the Qionghua Meeting!"