Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 710 Becoming an Immortal is a Wrong Path

It is generally recognized in the scientific community that humans evolved from forest apes.

About 40,000 to 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens appeared and are the ancestors of today's humans.

The forest apes came down from the trees, used slash-and-burn farming, grind stones into guns, and began to conquer nature.

In the early days of human civilization, due to the lack of understanding and awe of natural phenomena, the worship of mysticism emerged. However, some smart and talented people, through the innate Qi retained in their bodies, controlled the rhythmic frequency between the laws of heaven and earth and began to embark on the path of spiritual practice.

They originally planned that the end point of cultivation is for man to be one with heaven and earth. Heaven is a big heaven, and man is a small heaven. Whatever exists between heaven and earth, exists in human life. This is what is called "there is a Zhoutian in the body".

But I didn't expect that imitation is imitation, people are people, and they can't become the world. A knot made of paper is not as strong as a chain of iron chains, even though their structure and weight are exactly the same.

The first group of people who became immortals discovered that they had indeed become heaven and earth, but they were not heaven and earth. They were separated from mortals in terms of level, and could not even be considered as Homo sapiens, but they were extremely far away from the real heaven and earth.

This is how He Songling feels now.

Because he was a spirit from outer space, he had not encountered any restrictions, as if he had just naturally ascended. But judging from how Tian Jinzhong later refused to let Zhang Huaiyi see his master, how Wu Gensheng scraped off Zhang Boduan's words, and how Zhang Zhiwei strictly followed the Heavenly Master's rules, the natives of this world might encounter some restrictions when they become immortals.

Maybe I will just have to become the heaven myself.

A person who is not heaven and earth wants to be heaven and earth, just like saying that wooden mortise and tenon joints can replace nails and glue. It may look very solid at the time, but due to the strength of the material, it will start to loosen and shake after a few years, and finally fall apart completely.

On the other hand, after tens of thousands of years of ignorance, the other part of mortals began their first exploration of science. The three industrial revolutions pushed human productivity and creativity to the peak. In terms of theory, people found a language that can directly communicate with the universe, mathematics; in terms of application, humans began to use nuclear fusion to produce terrifying power that is the same as that of stars.

People began to feel dissatisfied with the Earth and went beyond the atmosphere into the deep space.

However, the ancient gods have long been unable to keep up with the latest versions.

Immortals? How about immortals? Can immortals communicate with alien life in the universe and the origin of the universe? Can immortals fly at the third cosmic speed? Can immortals withstand the bombardment of giant mushrooms?
There are many things that human science cannot do, but human science has not reached its end, while the path of gods has reached its end.

Just like what Wu Gensheng said to Zuo Ruotong, a road with an end is not worthy of reaching the sky. It reaches the sky, becomes an immortal, and then what? It ends?

Science was just beginning. Until the time before He Songling traveled through time, humans couldn't even get out of the solar system.

What kind of road is it if the road at the end cannot withstand the slightest bombardment of cannons and missiles from the starting road?
So since He Songling became a half-immortal, but found that his state was not much different from that of ordinary people, he began to realize that perhaps cultivating to become an immortal was a wrong path.

This is normal. How many times has science changed its path? Take physics for example, from classical mechanics to thermodynamics, statistical physics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, particle physics, nuclear physics, and so on.

What about the gods? They are still using the original version of the mystical worship, and becoming a god is just the end of the initial version. The most terrifying thing is that for some unknown reason, the gods in the past have not left behind a method to determine how to become a god. Without the "shoulders of giants", every generation has to start from scratch. From Zhang Daoling to the present, it has been nearly two thousand years. How many people have become gods? There is not a single creator.

How can primitive people’s mysterious worship compete with modern science?
The main reason is that the gods are also vain. They correct their mistakes, just like Zuo Ruotong, telling future generations that this is a wrong path, or an incomplete path, that's all. When the classical mechanics pioneered by Newton is proven to be not applicable to all scenarios, does physics collapse? When a certain scientific theory or scientific conjecture is falsified, is science over?

Science is not just one path, but countless paths. Compared with "theology", it is just another way to explore objective laws. It moves forward in a cycle of constant falsification, constant revision, constant innovation, and constant falsification.

But this group of old immortals are not like that. They choose to hide themselves, so that no one knows what is behind becoming an immortal.

From this perspective, all those who have become immortals throughout history are not as good as Zuo Ruotong. Only the immortal Daying is a true immortal.

He Songling felt that if he could meet Zhang Daoling and his ilk, he would have to bombard them with heavy artillery.

But at this point, He Songling could not be sure that cultivating spirits to become immortals was wrong, and he dared not say that following the current scientific path was definitely correct.

After all, in a worldview where aliens exist, perhaps the little science developed on Earth will really be able to be filmed with two-dimensional foil one day?

So He Songling could only say to Wang Zizhong: "Humanity knows everything. You can always rely on your identity as a human being and the achievements of the human group to fight against everything, explore everything, and control everything. Don't try to take shortcuts. Study hard and enrich your theoretical foundation. When you have formed a complete system concept, you can start using my method."

To be honest, not all “taking shortcuts” and “accelerated success” are wrong choices. He Songling letting Wang Zizhong go to the battlefield for training is itself a quick shortcut.

But there is an essential difference between the two.

What he helped Wang Zizhong avoid were experiences that were hard to find on a daily basis and required countless hours of accumulation. For a person with high talent, such things that naturally emerge through repeated accumulation can of course be poured into his brain in a short period of time, allowing him to grow rapidly.

But the construction of future systems, and even the most challenging tasks, cannot be achieved by taking shortcuts.

"I understand, sir." Wang Zizhong nodded, thoughtfully.

"Okay, go back to class and don't disturb me and my wife on our honeymoon."

"Ah? Are you really leaving?" Wang Zizhong still felt a little guilty. Although He Songling's tone this time was obviously different from before, he still couldn't be sure whether He Songling was speaking in a sarcastic way.

"Nonsense, do you think I'm that kind of fairy who threatens to break up with people all the time? If I say I want you to leave, then I really want you to leave, but I want you to figure things out. Now I see that you have figured it out, so go ahead."

(End of this chapter)