Chapter 4

No Future in Cultivation, Believe in Science

Sep 13, 25Heavenly Screen: A Later Era's Gossip History

[The Grace of an Immortal].

In the image, an boundless sea of stars unfolded, with billions of starlights twinkling.

The vast and mighty wind and waves surged and drifted, with thousands of high waves roaring.

The long night was slow, and the sea of stars was vast, under the bright moon and blue clouds, amidst the boundless mist and waves.

A figure stood aloft in the air, standing atop ten thousand layers of high waves.

Beneath his feet, the mountains and seas surged ceaselessly, rising and falling.

Covering the sky and blocking the earth, the wind and waves rose and fell continuously, stretching into sheets, a magnificent scene of ten thousand miles of overlapping heights, endlessly grand.

There was also a boundless majesty, grandly emerging, vast as the universe, deep as an abyss, infinite and endless, stirring the dome of heaven.

The aura dominated all directions, with immense and boundless dignity.

As magnificent as the ancient stars, as heavy as the mountains and moons of the eternal heaven and earth.

The white robe fluttered, the plain clothes drifted, amidst the cold and clear eyebrows, divine light was contained within, a naturally formed immortal grace.

The temperament was transcendent, noble as an immortal.

People of all dynasties: Wow, so beautiful, really want to eat...

The hands are so white, the fingers are so long and smooth, they must be very good at...!

Some young men and women, not knowing what they were thinking, immediately had a thin layer of blush crawl onto their faces, staring foolishly at the immortal on the screen.

Of course, this is not to say that everyone had this foolish look; there were still relatively normal people.

However, those people were not attracted by the immortal's appearance first, but were also shocked on the spot by the shocking scene in the image, speechless.

Comments.

<Heavens, all the budget was used on the promotional special effects. No wonder the actual movie turned out so bad. If you guys could put some heart into it, using half of the promotional special effects to shoot the main film, it wouldn't have...>

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Everyone: Wolfish words, truly terrifying.

Cough cough, actually, there were also many of them who wanted to have babies for the immortal on the screen, please give them a chance.

Many ancestors covered their faces, unable to look, truly unable to look.

Not because they couldn't look at the immortal.

Although they weren't lustful, who wouldn't like a beautiful person?

They mainly couldn't look at those extremely open, even loose, comments.

Modern times.

Lin Si Yue had just finished watching the video, and immediately opened the comment section, starting to search through each content, attempting to find the name of this movie.

Unfortunately, after almost scrolling through all the comments, she still couldn't find the name of that movie.

Lin Si Yue:!!!

[Has contemporary cultivation really declined? Why does no one become an immortal].

Everyone:???

Emperors:???

Many people obsessed with cultivation and alchemy:!!!

The ancestors' eyes all lit up instantly. They were interested in this, extremely interested! Speak quickly, don't delay.

They pulled out small benches, sat down, and prepared to eat melons at any time.

Many commoners and even some emperors, even now, firmly believed there were immortals in the world.

As for why the appearance of the Heavenly Screen represented that there were no immortals?

Don't talk nonsense; to them, the Heavenly Screen itself was a kind of divine miracle!

[The neighbor's second uncle practiced the Qi-nourishing art diligently, but unfortunately, his aptitude was dull and his talent ordinary. Throughout his life, he barely stepped into the Qi Refining stage.

But the second uncle spent his whole life finally breaking through and stepping into the great Dao of cultivation, only to be diagnosed with bronchitis by the village quack, who forcefully prescribed medicine for treatment, leading to the complete dissipation of the second uncle's lifelong cultivation, falling back to being a mortal once more.]

Everyone: Heavens, can you even play like this? They were shocked.

Although they didn't understand what the Qi Refining stage was, they could see that this old man should have stepped into the ranks of cultivation, becoming a transcendent expert.

Stepping into cultivation meant transcending the mortal world, perhaps even controlling many mysterious methods.

Yet, even such a brilliant figure was forcefully beaten back to a mortal by a doctor's prescription.

This, this, this, what kind of doctor had such capability? They also wanted to know him.

No other meaning, just wanted to ask that doctor if he had medicine for longevity, daylight ascension pills, and the like.

[Uncle Liu had excellent aptitude. After 38 years of hard cultivation, he finally formed his Golden Core, stepping into the Great Dao of the Golden Core, roaming freely in heaven and earth.

As a result, just after his breakthrough, before his realm could be consolidated, he was diagnosed with kidney stones by the hospital, and has now been forcefully sent to the hospital by his family for treatment.]

Many people who knew what the Golden Core was were shocked.

Although each dynasty's definition of the Golden Core was somewhat different, they generally had a common understanding: the Golden Core was extremely powerful.

Such a figure was actually treated like this by a quack, and even actively pushed into the hospital by his family to forcefully extract his core.

Truly, heart-wrenching and extremely regrettable.

Many alchemists had mixed feelings, their faces filled with endless regret.

And some people with relatively flexible minds now had a shift in thoughts.

What the Heavenly Screen said today didn't seem to be about cultivation, but rather some kind of illness, not quite sure, let's keep watching.

[My older cousin had good luck. When he was young, he accidentally obtained a Foundation Establishment pill. After taking it, he could hope to build the foundation of the Great Dao, but he was taken to the hospital by his family to have his stomach pumped, what a tragedy.]

Many medical experts slowly had a question mark appear over their heads.

Hey, hey, hey, wasn't this because he took the wrong medicine? Otherwise, how could there be this reaction requiring him to be sent to the hospital!

Taking the wrong medicine and being sent to the clinic for treatment was indeed not wrong.

[My uncle had a child late in life. This person was born with double pupils, and red light filled the sky when he was born. Anyone who met him praised my cousin for having the posture of a Great Emperor, but the hospital diagnosed him with cataracts, and he has now been forcefully hospitalized for treatment.]

Everyone: What on earth is this hospital? It's everywhere, wiping out all cultivation geniuses?... Not sure, let's keep watching.

[The little sister next door was exceptionally gifted. At the young age of 16, she cultivated into a Nascent Soul grand cultivator. But heaven envies geniuses; her parents decided to abort it.]

Everyone: Hey, hey, hey, make it clear, abort what? What abortion?!

Very quickly, someone reacted.

This was probably an unmarried pregnancy, no wonder it had to be aborted. If it were them, wouldn't they do the same?

During the Ming and Qing dynasties when moral codes were strict, under the influence of this thought for hundreds of years, the concept of a woman's chastity being greater than the heavens was deeply engraved in their souls.

Regardless of men or women, when they saw this, they thought this kind of unchaste woman should be drowned in a pig cage to wash away the filth.

Deeply ingrained thoughts could not be changed in a single breath; marks left over hundreds and thousands of years also needed a long time to be rooted out bit by bit.

As for ancient women awakening upon seeing the Heavenly Screen, such a thing was not impossible.

After all, in every era, there would always be a few outstanding figures.

But such people were only a minority, and even after awakening, they might turn around and oppress their own gender.

After all, such people spoke more of interests and rarely of feelings.

Just like, in order to earn more, they completely ignored which side they were on, entirely focused on deepening the subconscious perception of the group that "domestic goods are not worthy of high prices, and the quality of foreign goods is higher than domestic ones."

[And my distant cousin once removed had heaven-defying aptitude, considered a natural Dao body. Before the age of 40, he had already cultivated to the Split Spirit stage. The hospital, however, diagnosed him with mental illness, and he is currently suppressed at the lowest level of the mental hospital.

But my cousin did not submit to this fate. Even though imprisoned, he still cultivated tirelessly, practicing daily, and later even reached the Soul Emergence stage, with his primordial spirit emerging to wander the heavens.]

Everyone: Ah, it's an inspirational story, looks very powerful.

However, the subsequent content made everyone silently retract these words.

[But when my cousin returned from his wandering, he suddenly discovered that his physical body had actually been taken to be cremated. Now he can only reside in the ring on my hand, truly helpless.]

Everyone: What does this cremation mean? It can't mean burning the body to ashes, right!

What grudge? What hatred? The person is already dead, and you still want them to have no corpse left? Truly vicious.

On their side, unless there was a large-scale plague and they had to burn the bodies of the deceased, but this didn't look like a plague situation, was there a need to burn them directly?

Some medical experts nodded, expressing that mental illness was a problem with the brain, unrelated to plagues, and probably not contagious, so there was no need to burn the body.

Some other people, thinking of the scene of crowded carriages and horses on the Heavenly Screen, seemed to have an idea.

Could it be that the future over-cleared land, leading to a shortage of land resources?

Burning bodies, wasn't it simply to make graves take up less space?

[My oldest uncle was a Body Integration stage expert. Just as he was in a nightclub, practicing the art of union of all things, in order to break through the mystery and breach the realm in an instant.

A team of police broke through the door, shouting to crack down on prostitution and drugs.

Now my uncle is locked up in prison for gathering to use drugs, and it's estimated to be very hard for him to get out.

Regrettable, regrettable, truly sad. My modern cultivation has actually declined to this point. It's not that there are no cultivation experts, but they have all been reduced to people of unsound mind.]

Everyone: This is fine. From their long experience of watching the Heavenly Screen, this thing of yours is called excessive mental activity, commonly known as a brain problem.

And—well, they had finally figured out something.

Those so-called cultivators who appeared from beginning to end on the Heavenly Screen, and the man telling the story, were all fucking related!

They couldn't help but suspect, was this family's feng shui not very good? If it wasn't this person who was sick, then it was that one who had a problem.

Thinking of this possibility, everyone was extremely speechless, but also found it a bit comical—no, extremely worthy of pity.