Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 68 Mortal
Dongfanghong frowned.

Ever since the five children left Zijin Mountain, Yi Dong's attitude towards himself has plummeted.

Although Zijin Mountain still provided her with various spiritual objects as usual.

To be honest, at the beginning, Dongfanghong was satisfied with Yidong as his Taoist partner.

Not only can Yi Dong provide what he needs for cultivation and research, he also never interferes in his affairs and never disturbs him for no reason.

Dongfanghong himself is a relatively indifferent person, so naturally he doesn't like his Taoist partner to be too enthusiastic.

However, after her children left, Dongfanghong felt a little lonely. She did not expect Yidong to care about her, but she should at least fulfill the responsibilities of a Taoist partner.

Taoist companions should support each other.

But when he had problems, Yi Dong often had a very perfunctory attitude.

Originally, Dongfanghong didn't really want to see Yidong.

However, she could not understand much of the knowledge her children passed on from the higher-level Taoist temple.

The information sent back by her children also broadened her horizons and she was determined to become a Qi Refining King.

Therefore, even if she didn't want to, she would come to find Yi Dong.

Because she could tell from the continuous upgrading of Zi Jin's formation that Yi Dong had mastered a lot of knowledge from the higher-level Taoist academy.

A lot of precious knowledge from the higher Taoist temples cannot be copied on the spot.

Many of the Taoist theories passed back by my children were recorded by memorizing some key points.

The processes of many experiments are extremely simple.

Yidong was able to understand all kinds of knowledge through key points, but Dongfanghong was not able to do so.

Yi Dong frowned at Dongfanghong and said:

"Okay, you came to me about the Heavenly Thunder Treasure Array, right?
I’ve sorted it out.”

As he spoke, Yi Dong motioned Dongfang Hong to look at several jade slips placed on another table nearby.

Dongfanghong immediately went over and picked it up.

Seeing Dongfanghong's impatient look, Yi Dong couldn't help but say:
“You should know that the Immortal Nation’s research on the Five Elements Spiritual Roots has far surpassed the three spiritual roots of ice, wind, and thunder.

And now, before reaching the Great Dao Golden Elixir, most modern cultivators follow a single attribute path.”

Dongfanghong doesn't care.

"More than 30,000 years ago, wasn't there a Genshan Immortal Emperor who practiced the Five Elements from the very beginning?
More than 50,000 years ago, there was an Immortal Emperor Zhenlei, who also practiced both the earth and thunder attributes when he was refining Qi.

In addition to the two Nascent Soul Immortal Emperors, there are many more Dao Jindan who also started practicing from the Qi training stage.

Now they are all powerful figures in the Immortal Kingdom, which shows that this path of multi-disciplinary cultivation is feasible."

Yi Dong no longer wanted to attack Dongfanghong.

Those are all successful cases, so they can be recorded by the Taoist temple.

Moreover, the Immortal Emperor, what kind of existence is that?
Do you dare to compare yourself with such a person?

How can their talents and understanding be compared with you, who only have golden spiritual roots and don't even have a spiritual body?
Yi Dong naturally didn't care about the future of Dongfanghong.

He didn't care whether Dongfanghong practiced both gold and thunder or the eight types of energy.

But he still valued the purity of her spiritual roots.

Dongfanghong's heart raced when she saw Yi Dong suddenly become concerned about her cultivation, contrary to his usual behavior.

I immediately thought of some information about the energy of the heavens that my children had recently sent me.

His face suddenly darkened.
"Yi Dong, I've already said it before, it's impossible for me to give birth to a child for you again.

I am not your Yi family's reproductive tool.

If you really want to have children in the year of Kanshui, you can find someone else. "

After saying that, Dongfanghong left angrily with the jade slip.

Ok?
Yi Dong wondered to himself whether he really had plans in this regard.

Maybe it is.

The fairyland draws in the energy from all the heavens.

There are countless geniuses born from "qi", but not one of them was born in the Yi family, which is a great waste.

It’s still early now and Yi Dong hasn’t made up his mind yet.

Moreover, the ability to draw in the energy of the heavens is most likely related to the Taichu Purple Apricot.

"Forget it, this matter is too far away, let's focus on the present."

Thinking about it, Yi Dong took out the communication panel and sent a few messages to Yi De.

This information is all about Jinshan City.

Ever since my children went to a higher level Taoist temple.

Yi Dong learned more about the fairyland.

The policy of the Immortal Kingdom is to suppress the aristocratic families, treat independent cultivators well and give preferential treatment to mortals.

How to suppress the aristocratic families?

That is, many state-owned industries in the fairyland do not allow people from aristocratic families to enter, a large amount of knowledge is blocked from aristocratic families, and the fairyland's heavenly soldiers do not recruit from aristocratic families, etc.

In the city, taxes on shops owned by aristocratic families are generally higher than those on independent cultivators.

The Immortal Kingdom even introduced a policy to levy land tax on aristocratic families, but due to too much resistance, it was only implemented in some areas for a period of time before being abandoned.

How to judge whether he is from a noble family?
First of all, a family of immortal cultivators with a family spiritual vein is a noble family.

Even if you are born into a noble family, you can break away from the family ties. You only need to sign a document with the authorities to become an independent cultivator.

As for the rights and obligations after becoming a casual cultivator, Yi Dong did not go into detail.

But the mortal community.

This was the first time Yi Dong knew the attitude of the Immortal Kingdom towards this group.

In Yidong's previous life, most people believed that an elliptical social structure was a symbol of stability. However, the Immortal Kingdom was clearly different.

The Immortal Kingdom values mortals and strictly controls immortal cultivators.

The fairyland is vast and rich in resources. It is not difficult to meet the needs of mortals, but it is completely impossible to satisfy the greed of immortals for longevity.

Therefore, many immortal officials, even though they are extremely corrupt while in office.

But they exploited either the aristocratic families or some wealthy individuals among the independent cultivators.

To many mortals, these immortal officials are like saints.

Even though the three immortal officials of Xia County, Quan Sanbao, could be said to have exploited the seven great families of Xia County, but to the mortals living in the town and villages, they were like gods.

As soon as they arrived in Xia County, not only did they introduce various tax-free policies, they even extended the tax exemption to three generations. They also used grain transferred from other places or seized from the seven major families to compensate the ordinary people in Xia County.

Some villages and towns have provided a lot of funding to help ordinary people rebuild their homes.

Not only that, they also executed many corrupt officials according to the law.

Quan Sanbao and his two companions treat cultivators and mortals in completely different ways.

The immortal official manages a place.

But in the official position of the Immortal Kingdom, immortals and mortals are separated.

This separation does not mean that immortal officials cannot manage the affairs of mortals.

Instead, try to divide the affairs of cultivators and mortals into two natures.

In dealing with the conflict between cultivators and mortals.

Even if a mortal attacks an immortal cultivator with a spiritual spear, the judgment should be more biased towards the mortal.

It is a serious crime for immortal cultivators to oppress mortals, even for immortal officials.

Just like Quan Sanbao and his two companions, even if they destroyed the seven great families and turned their assets into their own private property, they would not be at fault if they were investigated.

However, if they were in power, not to mention that the mortals had deep resentment, if the mortals rang the heavenly bell a few more times, the immortal officials from the Supervisory Office might come forward. If it was found that the mortals were being bullied, they might even be sentenced to a trip to the Immortal Execution Platform.

In the fairyland, the harmonious coexistence of immortal cultivators and mortals is forged by the endless blood of immortal cultivators on the Immortal Execution Platform.

The fairyland treats mortals kindly.

But in fact, in every city, the ones who call the shots are the immortal cultivators.

The towns and villages, and the mortal families in power, may also be related to the immortal cultivators.

This kind of kindness does not mean to hold mortals high, but to ensure that mortals in the territory meet their needs for food and clothing. Apart from that, mortals are not given too many rights.

Over the past 100,000 years, the civilization of immortal cultivation has developed rapidly, but the technology of mortals has not made much progress. In backward places like the Qingzhou Plains, transportation within the city actually relies on the power of a large number of cattle and horses.

Many people think this phenomenon is normal.

But Yi Dong doesn't think so.

The life of a mortal is short, but the wisdom condensed from this short life is not necessarily inferior to that of an immortal cultivator who can live for thousands of years.

In Yi Dong's previous life, it took only about two hundred years for humans to advance human civilization to a new level.

Yi Dong wanted to see what results would be achieved without the influence of immortal cultivators and the wisdom of mortals.

He cannot change the situation of mortals in the entire fairyland.

However, in the newly established Jinshan City, he was still able to prohibit immortal cultivators from influencing mortals.

Starting from this day.

Many important transportation routes leading to Jinshan City have checkpoints.

These checkpoints do not refuse passage to mortals, but for immortal cultivators, they will be politely advised at first. If they still insist on passing, the immortal cultivators of the Yi family guarding the checkpoints will capture them and throw them into the immortal prison of Xia County.

After all, the area around Zijin Mountain is the private territory of the Yi family, so it is not difficult to cause trouble.

Jinshan City.

The most magnificent building is not the city lord’s palace.

In fact, because Jinshan City is not a fairyland city, it is not very large.

In the eyes of some officials in Xia County, it was just a town or a village, and they didn't even send anyone to manage it.

The most magnificent buildings in Jinshan City are the teaching buildings of Purple Mountain College.

Now, Purple Mountain College is recruiting mortal children from the entire Xia County.

However, apart from the mortal families around Purple Mountain, not many mortals would send their children to such a distant place to go to school.

At this moment, a meeting is taking place in a teaching building.

The old man in the lead was Shi Aqiu.

Nowadays, few people know Shi Aqiu's name, and most people call him Principal Shi.

Shi Aqiu is nearly seventy years old.

But the body is still very strong.

Because while he was selling electrical machinery in Zijin Mountain, he also bought a lot of elixirs from cultivators.

“Principal, is it really necessary to build a laboratory?
In fact, a lot of research on electricity has already been done by cultivators. We just need to find an opportunity to obtain the information.

There is really not much point in us doing this.”

A bald middle-aged man holding a stack of documents frowned and said:
“First we built the city, then we built the power station, and we didn’t have sufficient funds.

Electric machines can’t be sold in other places because there are no charging stations in those places.”

As the bald middle-aged man spoke, the college administrators began to talk about their respective difficulties.

After Shi Aqiu heard this, he said:

"The research that the academy has done before needs to continue. We don't need to think about the meaning of it. We just need to complete our tasks."

At the meeting, problems were solved one by one.

Finally, Shi Aqiu said,
"Everyone, I firmly believe that electricity will change the fate of us mortals."

(End of this chapter)