Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 175

Chapter 175: Hidden History

“Even those who have just become postnatal warriors can live to eighty!” Abu assured him. “This is because most warriors have hidden injuries. If they practice martial arts with a balance of work and rest, and fight without damaging their foundation, they can even live to over one hundred and twenty!” “

If they are masters, the most elite in the world, they can live even longer!”

Unlike in Jiuzhou, warriors in Huanyu often engage in life-and-death struggles. Furthermore, the spread of martial arts is limited, and most warriors have flawed training methods, resulting in frequent suffering from hidden injuries and other illnesses in their old age.

Even so, it is far better than the current age of forty-five.

A peaceful life and a life span of one hundred and twenty proves that the martial arts of this world have their merits. They can cleanse one’s acquired impurities and approach the body of an innate infant.

“There’s a restaurant here. Let’s eat and talk. My treat.” Bai Hongtu was a man who would not treat himself badly. Exploring other worlds begins with culinary culture.

“You have money?”

“Are you kidding? I can’t create money without money?” Bai Hongtu picked up a stone from the roadside and, with a gentle tap, it transformed into a lump of gold.

This wasn’t an illusion, but rather a technique involving the transformation of matter, the Midas Touch.

Of course, turning gold into stone also worked.

However, this technique couldn’t be spread widely, as it would easily cause economic imbalance.

Bai Hongtu discovered that the people here also used gold and silver as currency.

Not everyone in Jiuzhou used spirit stones as currency. Ordinary people generally used copper coins, gold, and silver to buy and sell daily necessities and even the most basic cultivation supplies, such as the low-priced elixirs offered by the Spirit Medicine Sect, which could be purchased with silver.

Cultivators at the fourth to sixth levels of Qi training mixed gold and silver with spirit stones to purchase finer cultivation supplies. Only at the seventh level did spirit stones become a legitimate currency, used among cultivators.

Upon entering the restaurant, the diners noticed the group,

especially Yu Yin.

Wherever they went, people were drawn to Yu Yin’s stunning beauty and noble demeanor.

“Let’s see what we’re having.”

The restaurant menu was a wooden sign hanging on the wall. Abu glanced at it, bewildered. He didn’t recognize the characters.

“You just have to poke at my sore spot,” Jiang Li said to Bai Hongtu in a blaming voice.

Bai Hongtu then remembered what Ji Zhi had told him in the Human Emperor Palace: this world had undergone a major transformation, and the language was different from what Abu spoke.

“My bad, my bad,” Bai Hongtu said, calling the waiter over and handing him the gold. “I want one of all the dishes here,” he said in this new language.

The waiter’s eyes lit up at the sight of the large piece of gold.

“Hello, sir.”

Jiang Li and the other two had spiritual awareness, their vast spiritual cores making it easy for them to learn the new language, while Abu had to learn it bit by bit.

“I apologize.” Bai Hongtu tapped Abu’s forehead, and Abu felt his body lighten, his six senses sharp, his movements aware of everything around him. He could even discern the grain of a wooden pillar ten meters away.

More than just being able to see and hear in all directions, Abu can now, blindfolded, tell the difference between people by smell.

Abu’s consciousness is also very active, able to quickly gather information from his surroundings, process it, and organize the logic of a new language based on the conversations of others.

Abu quickly learned the language of this world.

“This is the six senses that are fully developed, which only the most advanced people in the world can achieve!” Abu was surprised.

Originally, the spiritual platform could only be developed at the Nascent Soul stage, but Bai Hongtu, as an apology, developed Abu’s spiritual platform in advance. The six senses are clear, but they are just an accessory to the expansion of the spiritual platform.

“Now that everyone is practicing martial arts, tell me how you practice martial arts,” Jiang Li said, very curious about the difference between the present and the era Abu lived in.

“Back then, learning martial arts was a serious matter. First and foremost, one must focus on one’s character. They emphasized training the mind before practicing martial arts, otherwise one could easily become possessed and bring disaster upon the world. Even though my father was a supreme being, he made sure to teach me the hard way before he taught me, so that I would understand that there are no shortcuts to martial arts and that one shouldn’t rush.”

“Furthermore, martial arts training is extremely exhausting. Strengthening the body requires not only diligent training from dawn to dusk, but also medicinal baths to enhance the effects of training. Martial artists also have very high dietary requirements. Beginning martial artists eat as much as five ordinary people, and in later stages, they even need to consume large amounts of meat. The average person simply couldn’t afford this, hence the saying that the poor are good at literature , but the rich at martial arts.”

“It’s not that we don’t want to spread martial arts, but simply that few have the money.”

This world’s productivity is underdeveloped, and famine is common. After paying taxes and grain, people barely survive a year, making martial arts impossible under such circumstances.

The techniques bestowed by the Twelve Heavenly Kings don’t present this problem. They don’t require medicinal baths or food; they simply exchange lifespan for martial arts training.

“So, do you warriors ever feel the urge to kill?”

“Of course not,” Abu flatly denied. “What does martial arts have to do with killing?”

“So, warriors won’t volunteer to participate in war?”

“No, knights violate the law through martial arts. The Wulin Alliance has a rule that warriors cannot participate in war. My father is the leader of the Wulin Alliance, so I know this best.”

“There are only two reasons for participating in war: either a war of aggression, which is unjust and will lead to the suffering of the people, or the emperor is incompetent and the Wulin Alliance is purging him.”

Abu’s account differed significantly from Instructor Meng’s.

“It seems the Twelve Heavenly Kings have drastically altered history. First, they issued secret martial arts manuals that shortened lifespans and increased the rate of generational change. Then, they altered the language, eliminating the possibility of discovering the true history. Finally, they compiled a new history, establishing their own image of righteousness and forcing people to forget the past.”

People in the past could only live to their twenties or thirties, but through martial arts training, they could live to forty-five. In Kyushu, no one would believe such a claim; it’s ridiculous.

But Instructor Meng, a teacher, believed it, indicating that the people of this world believed it wholeheartedly.

They don’t know the original history, don’t know the lifespan of mortals, and they just believe whatever the Twelve Heavenly Kings say.

Now everyone is a warrior, there are no ordinary people, and no one will live beyond the age of forty-five.

The Outer Demon had used this tactic in Jiuzhou, claiming the Demons were righteous and demanding no resistance. Few believed such foolish talk, but it wouldn’t pan out. After the Jiuzhou Council, all major factions took action to eliminate the hidden dangers left by the Demons.

Nothing could happen.

Jiang Li suspected the Twelve Heavenly Kings weren’t the Outer Demons, but they were likely related to them.

He still remembered the system quest description:

“An uninvited guest has arrived in the Universal World, and he has sent the Twelve Heavenly Kings.”

The Twelve Heavenly Kings had appeared, but where was the uninvited guest? Could it be the Outer Demon?

Jiang Li suspected it was.

After traveling through other worlds, Jiang Li gradually grasped the Outer Demon’s intentions: it wanted to destroy the world, but not directly, as if it was wary of something.

In the Jiuzhou world, one Outer Demon after another consumed Jiuzhou’s resources, reducing the number of those in the Tribulation Crossing Stage from over twenty nine thousand years ago to just five now. If it weren’t for him, it’s hard to say how much longer Jiuzhou could have held out.

In the Bell World, it transformed demonic beasts into ferocious beasts, encroaching on human territory.

In the zombie world, it spreads the zombie virus and is almost successful. Except for Luo Ying’s planet, the entire universe has become a zombie nest.

And in this world, if the Twelve Heavenly Kings are truly sent by the extraterritorial demons, after they have changed history, they will definitely have a plan for the next step.

A plan to destroy the world.

(End of this chapter)