Genesis: Starting with Growing Mushrooms

Chapter 85 New Book Launch: The Fear of Rehe's Top Officials!
Another big scandal?
Soon, the three high school students hurriedly finished cooking and returned to the living room to sit down.

They ate their hot meals while watching the news on TV.

On the TV channel.

A beautiful and charming host began the introduction:
"Mind magic is the magic that ignites one's emotions and enhances one's fighting power."

"Similar to the telekinetic techniques of our time."

"This immense power is undeniable. Back then, when this Angel King was on his deathbed, he ignited the emotions of the entire angel legion and swung his sword towards the sky."

A scene appeared on the television.

It was that scene from the book "The King of Angels".

The magnificent and awe-inspiring sword swings made him seem like the protagonist of the entire world.

The host said:

"Furthermore, after his resurrection, this Angel King also used similar methods to have a friendly exchange with the senior executives of our Rehe Heavy Industry, igniting nearly ten million AI brains and shining brightly!"

After that, the scene shifted again, showing the angel fighting in the public sea of ​​consciousness.

"Wow!"

"Amazing!"

Li Feng and Zou Anmeng couldn't help but exclaim loudly.

After all, Liu Jun, who was at the third rank, secretly went to take a look.

Li Feng and Zou Anmeng, however, couldn't see it at all. Now that they've seen this scene revealed, they are naturally very surprised and excited.

Zou Anmeng wasn't stupid either. She analyzed, "Rehe Heavy Industry is probably building hype for this so-called 'mind magic' by deciphering this battle scene!"

Li Feng asked, "I don't know how much it should cost?"

Zou Anmeng: "Can't it be free? I think this King of Angels is a pretty good emperor."

They continued their discussion.

Just then, after his sales pitch, the host finally revealed his true colors:
"Next, we will be releasing a new book on cultivating mental magic, 'The Creation of Elephant Domo'."

"This epic is a re-enactment of lost history, telling the story of the great Hercules creating the various sacred bodies! And it developed a completely new system of the extraordinary: magic!"

The three of them suddenly understood.

I knew it! These capitalists won't get up early for nothing.

It turned out they were promoting a new book.

That's normal, though; these days, all sorts of cultivation secrets are in books.

He's a scholar, after all.

Everyone here makes their fortune selling books.

Next, some trailers from the books were revealed.

Some scenes were incredibly impressive and spectacular.

A footless bird traversed various trials and tribulations, finally returning home stumbling in the sunset, carrying a pine cone in its beak.

A giant elephant god walks on the earth, and countless people follow him.

"Now, we'll be showing you the promotional trailer!" the host announced.

One morning, Liu Jun and his two companions went to watch a movie.

Book promotional videos of this era were like several hours-long, exciting movies.

Because a few hours is indeed a brief trailer compared to the time scale of their entire book.

Li Feng's face was full of anticipation: "It looks good."

Zou Anmeng cried: "Waaah!"

Just a few hours of movie trailers, showing the most exciting parts, completely immersed everyone in the awe-inspiring sense of an epic saga.

It seems that everyone feels like they have transformed into that tireless, footless bird, crossing mountains and valleys for love, passing one test after another.

Almost instantly, the people watching television were filled with fervor:

I must buy a book about my entire life and read about that long, epic journey!
Liu Jun could only remark, "They really know how to do business."

Soon, various heated discussions emerged on online forums.

"The Holy Body? So many years have passed since their ancient myths, the Holy Body must have been created back then."

"I guessed it too, but I didn't expect that the Butterfly Clan's Sacred Body was created in the era of Elephant Tuomo. I thought it would be later."

"Brothers, if ancient lost civilizations are so amazing, can we humans create our own sacred body?"

"No! Each organ has a one in a billion chance of being present in one person. Do you know how low the probability is that they can all be created artificially? Our biotechnology is clearly not up to the task!"

"Stop fooling around, don't be so self-conscious! Don't underestimate us humans, okay? As a mechanical engineer, let me give you a little hint: we've already developed our mechanical holy body."

"Hahaha, can we learn from the Butterfly Clan's sacred body? We can apply this knowledge to other situations. I definitely need to buy this book!"

It's being discussed enthusiastically online.

Everyone was very curious about the Butterfly Clan's sacred body.

After all, once major companies announced the concept of "Holy Body" online, it became one of the hottest terms of our time.

just now.

Since everyone cultivates mental energy, they naturally develop a great curiosity about the physical cultivation system.

Liu Jun frowned slightly as he looked at the online discussions:
"The King of Angels probably learned about history again through Xu Changsheng, and now he wants to pursue the path of magic."

After all, it is.

His previous practice of "Deep Affection is Short-Lived" was haphazard and unorthodox, but now that he has a systematic set of magical techniques, he naturally begins to study them.

They even planned to use AI to build statues, spread the magic network, and then lend its power to others so they could help develop it.

He established his own cult of mind magic.

After all, the term "mind master" had many names in ancient times, such as wizard, magician, and Confucian sage. Now the name has been unified.

If he became a magician and established a sect, it would probably be no different from the Confucian sects.

"In fact, the top executives of Rehe Heavy Industry were eager for him to establish it."

"After all, I can use the power of other mushrooms to practice magic, so they probably want to practice each other's magic and use the power of the mushrooms as well."

Liu Jun had a pretty good grasp of the psychological state of the entire senior management of Rehe Heavy Industry.

Be prepared for danger in times of peace.

Is this current development a good thing or a bad thing for me?

Liu Jun thought about it carefully:
"Of course it's a good thing, I'd even love for them to push this thing out."

"The magicians are just a newly born system. They are doing research here, which is also helping me to do two things at once."

"It's like they've caught up with my magical era, and I can continue to steal their magical techniques every night to support my world."

He immediately burst into laughter.

Getting something for free is so great!
Furthermore, based on what the other party revealed between the lines, this book will be a super-large "public network book".

What does it mean?
It's like comparing a regular book to a single-player game or a LAN game.

Public network books are essentially online games, clearly intended to create a massive social network game world.

It's full of knights and magic.
Then a group of players can study it inside, and even level up and fight monsters.

Turning history into games is actually quite common.

Just like those companies on Earth that like to turn the history of the Three Kingdoms into online games.

Please don't doubt the capitalists' methods of making money.

Once they've perfected this social networking game, Liu Jun can simply go for a quick visit each day as a player and steal their magic to cultivate his own mushroom soup.

"It's outrageous that they've monetized my world history in various ways, turning it into piles of cash."

"Luckily, I lost an angel emperor who is acting as my agent here and collecting my dividends. Otherwise, these capitalists would have really taken advantage of me for free."

He muttered a complaint under his breath.

"Forget it, there are already many games based on the Amber Swallowtail fairy tale book, just using people's nostalgia to make money."

"Without these games, how would the students in the Academy City of Langya Lingzi next door work as customer service representatives? How would they make money as game masters?"

Liu Jun could only try to think of things in a positive light, that he had provided new job opportunities for the students of the company next door.

They are students with a strong sense of purpose, we are raining, but we all have a bright future.

Then, after finishing lunch, it was already noon.

In the afternoon, Liu Jun returned to his room and, having nothing to do, continued browsing forums and watching short videos.

People need to relax and not let life crush them.

If they weren't studying in Rehe City, they would have plenty of entertainment and relaxation activities.

This is an age of entertainment to the death.

Short videos, all kinds of games, light novels, and all sorts of mindless entertainment are simply too many to count!
And now that his strength has greatly increased, he has begun to assess the gap between himself and this human world.

My current combat strength is at the early stage of the fourth tier, a three-elemental archmage.

With the help of the three talent systems, it is estimated that even some fourth-tier intelligent gods, and the high-ranking executives of Rehe Heavy Industry who are not particularly good at combat, should be able to put up a fight.

But that's in theory.

Liu Jun lacks practical experience.

Secondly, he could only take on one person at a time, not a group, and he was afraid of being surrounded and attacked by enemy armies.

They are true saints.

I am all alone.

Unless you cultivate a large group of subordinates and fight as a group.

But it was clear that he didn't have enough subordinates. With only two combatants, the Angel of Truth and the Phoenix Emperor, he didn't want to be so reckless and court death.

Inciting people to fight is such a stupid thing to do.

and.

His perspective was clearly set at a higher level.

He knew he was improving very quickly.

Because the next Mushroom Talent is about to be born, a fourth-tier one, and sooner or later it will be no match for me.

What we should truly fear is the mysterious and incomparable fifth order, and the nuclear weapons power of this world.

"It is said online that the biotechnology of major companies is not good enough to create flesh and blood saint bodies, but this is unrealistic."

"Given their nature, they'll probably go through a hospital checkup and search for other sacred organs among the masses."

"Secretly remove some of the bones, hearts, legs, and hands of naturally born saints."

"Put it in a laboratory solution, and then try to piece it together."

Liu Jun never doubted the wickedness of human nature.

A sage's brain is naturally powerful from birth.

But what about the bones and heart of a sage?
These people are likely to be weak and sickly from birth.

Because the body is a whole, if one organ is too strong, it can actually make you have a terminal illness.

The brain is the only exception.

The brain is the body's coordination center; if your brain is strong, nothing will happen to you.

Therefore, they estimate they will collect these guys' body parts.

“Each of their companies, through their affiliated hospitals, has been operating for so many years, and it’s very likely that they secretly possess one or two separate sets of sacred bodies, which they just can’t assemble together because they’re different models.”

His guess is plausible.

Because Liu Jun had tried to correct three defects in the body of the Elephant Monk.

The result is completely unchangeable; it's an integral whole.

It's obviously unrealistic for them to sew together a group of organs from different people to create a "Pinduoduo Saint Body"!

"However, their research in this area is too in-depth. The reason they were able to weave the Butterfly Clan Saints so quickly is probably because they themselves have various Saint components for reference." Liu Jun continued to review what had happened before.

It was precisely because I freeloaded a group of their experimental personnel and threw them into my mushroom world that I was able to quickly create those trials of the footless birds.

Otherwise, it's estimated that even after many more years, it will be difficult to make progress, and one will be stuck at that level of civilization.

Even Dielüxin, at that time, would die with resentment!

Liu Jun secretly rejoiced:

"It's so much more satisfying to fleece these big companies; they're working so hard to benefit me."

"That's why they couldn't assemble their scattered saintly bodies, so they abandoned flesh-and-blood saints and turned to researching mechs."

"I wonder if their fifth-order mechanical holy body is perfected yet?"

Liu Jun continued to analyze.

Each sacred organ can emit Taoist rhythms.

The opponent's individual mechanical sacred body organs should also be able to exude Daoist charm.

After all, flesh and blood are essentially carbon-based life forms.

Theoretically, there's no problem with the bodies of saints who are silicon-based or iron-based life forms.

and.

Their machines are more convenient, faster to manufacture, and less prone to incompatibility issues.

I wonder how far the Mechanical Saint Body is progressing?
Is it perfect enough?

Or perhaps, Liu Jun's butterfly civilization provided them with some inspiration.

Their final problem was solved, and they created a complete mechanical saint's body.
Thus, does it become a new, complete fifth order?
He had to think about the worst-case scenario.

But Liu Jun didn't regret helping them. How could he get something for free if he didn't popularize the butterfly tribe's weaving techniques?

Essentially, it is mutually beneficial.

But Liu Jun was confident that he would earn more and develop faster than them.

call!
After taking a deep breath, he said, "I should look at the development of human civilization from a more macro and far-sighted perspective."

The history of civilization follows certain patterns.

According to Liu Jun, the development sequence of a civilization should be as follows.

[First Civilization Stage]

When life appears in the world, miracles will always occur under the vast law of exhaustion, and various sacred organs will appear.

But only a sage's mind possesses the ability to cultivate independently.

The brain is the starting point for transcendence.

[Second Civilization Stage]

After their brain civilization's energy system had developed for some time, they began to ponder the sacred body.

But flesh and blood cannot do it, so civilization will begin to take the path of machinery.

Mechanical ascents have propelled them to new heights.

The Third Civilization Stage

After the emergence of a complete sage's brain and body, their civilization entered the fifth level, experiencing a great explosion and continuing to grow stronger.

They might even turn around and re-examine the flesh-and-blood saint's body.

During this period, their technology became very advanced, and they were likely able to return to the path of flesh and blood.

The above three stages of civilization are Liu Jun's conjectures.

But it makes perfect sense.

"When I simulate the model of civilization, I naturally need to divide civilizations into classes."

"In other words, the era before us is about to explode."

When their mechanical saint bodies are fully perfected, the era will enter the fifth-order psychic era.

And since they are so envious of the Butterfly Clan's sacred body, they probably also want to learn from it.

of course.

Their current rate of civilization development is quite close to the level of civilization of Liu Jun Mushroom Soup!

It's still uncertain who will be faster!

After all, it only took Liu Jun a little over a month to get to this point from scratch, and even create the super life miracle—the Holy Body, the mighty elephant Tuomo.

the other side.

The headquarters city of Rehe Heavy Industry.

In a laboratory setting, various "flesh and blood organs" float in translucent containers, including the heart, liver, spleen, and lungs, all exuding a mysterious and powerful aura.

This is exactly where Liu Jun suspected they were distributing the Saint's Body in loose form.

The organs of a true saint possess special properties of non-corruption.

If stored properly, it can last a long time.

Therefore, many tomb raiders today like to raid the tombs of ancient kings and powerful figures in search of their corpses.

In fact, besides finding some ancient sages' brains, they also found many useless ancient sages' organs, such as hearts, bones, and kidneys, in countless quantities.

"It can be said that from ancient times to the present, they have been trying to piece it together." Hot Crab murmured softly, looking calmly at the floating organs in front of him.

Hot crucian carp is a beauty; whenever she sees these floating organs, she can't help but sigh:

"Human history is really long. Not only us, but in the distant past, ancient sages were also trying to assemble a sacred body."

Hot Carp smiled and said, "Didn't that First Emperor want to make an elixir of immortality back then? Throughout history, many emperors have wanted to take this step, but unfortunately..."

"You're the one who's a pity. An old woman, she can't even offer herself up," Hot Carp retorted.

"You're the old woman."

Hot Carp sneered, "Don't think I don't know that in your life story you've written me as a bitch!"

Hot Carp said sarcastically, "I don't know who angered my brother, and he was sent to Rehe City to oversee the rear. How pitiful."

The story of hot carp and hot crucian carp vying for the same man, hot silver carp, has long been a popular topic of celebrity gossip.

Furthermore, in their own life stories, they portray each other as shameless bitches who do all sorts of lewd things.

This led to believers from both sides starting to argue with each other after reading the books of their respective saints.

The two groups of believers almost came to blows, accusing each other of stealing a man.

It looks like the two fan groups are fighting each other, but the higher-ups are also keen on this.

Gossip about "superheroes" and their mutual attacks can also boost the fan economy.

I don't know how many Confucian followers on both sides are arguing online every day, -500, -500, -500.

That's quite a lot of money.

"Stop arguing." The protagonist of the story of two women fighting over a man, Relian, had arrived, a hint of impatience and speechlessness flashing across her face.

"How is it? The Butterfly Clan's Sacred Body is not yet complete?"

Hot Carp quickly said, "No, but using these saintly organs as templates, they quickly wove a complete Butterfly Clan sacred body."

Hot Carp also said, "I just don't know if the incomplete Tree of Life can weave such a complex Butterfly Clan Holy Body after the first Saint Body template is produced."

They kept chatting.

"By the way, those fourth research teams in Rehe City, report if anything comes up."

Those people?

Hot Carp looked thoughtful. "Didn't they say a few days ago that they had a technological breakthrough, that they had an epiphany in a dream, and that the progress of weaving the Saint Body had jumped to the top among all the teams?"

Since it's the other party's report, they naturally have to listen to it.

It turned out that Li Ruxiang and his group from Rehe City were shocked after seeing the first edition of the book "The Creation of the Image of the Buddha".

My scalp tingled, and my whole body trembled.

The story in the book and their experience that night were not just similar, they were exactly the same.

An idea uncontrollably popped into my head:

What exactly happened that night?
Have we traveled through time?
Have we really gone back to the past?

He even became the leader of various tribes in that ancient tribe, helping the footless bird complete its great mission.

Outrageous!

Their minds were buzzing.

Li Ruxiang, who was leading the group, was the very builder of that magnificent structure. He said:

"Huh? Brothers, that night I built the Nine-Turned Intestines Maze to test Butterfly Heart?"

"Did we travel through history and become the strongest figures in history?"

They felt a slight fear of this mysterious and bizarre mythological experience.

"No!"

The couple said, "Do you remember Li Ruxiang telling you before that you felt the appearance of immortal gods was sometimes a bit off, too realistic?"

“I did say that.” Li Ruxiang nodded.

The couple exchanged a glance, and the man said:
"I believe that the immortal gods actually came to our books to see us creating things."

"He was somewhat nostalgic for the past. Seeing how brave, clever and resourceful we were, he was reminded of the butterfly tribe leaders he knew in ancient times."

"Seeing that we were frowning and stuck in a rut, he gave us an opportunity."

“It pulls us into the depths of his true memories, allowing us to witness those memories firsthand.”

This analysis left everyone stunned.

"You mean, that night, we were just bystanders? Just dreaming?" Li Ru frowned slightly. "Dreaming of another being? Watching his life?"

but.

The research findings inside are almost too similar to his own!
They're both snakes, and both are organs of the large intestine. How could it be such a coincidence?
The idea of ​​using the Nine-Turned Intestine Maze as a trial was actually something Li Ru thought of because he loved eating this dish!

but.

They seem to have different personalities. In the movie, he seems very kind and even tries to persuade the other person to turn back.
He was a little confused.

I can't quite tell the difference.

The young man said:

"The Butterfly Clan has a long history. What kind of things haven't they studied? Over the long course of time, what we are researching now, they may have already researched."

"For example, if you build an intestinal maze, people in history would probably have faced similar challenges. Who wouldn't first think of making someone navigate a maze?"

They continued their discussion.

There is absolutely no evidence to prove whether it is true or false.

Their discussion is pointless; they should see what benefits they've gained.

This is the most practical approach.

The one who said before that they would receive blessings once they completed the first holy body of this era?

The immortal deity, seeing that their research was progressing slowly, looked at their past historical experiences and helped them speed up their research.

They couldn't tell the difference, so they reported it to headquarters.

When Hot Carp and the others heard about this, they were also quite surprised:
"Is this some kind of immortal deity who, having nothing better to do, casually helped them recall their past?"

"I don't know!"

"What could be unclear about this? The first possibility is that the immortal god allowed them to see his past memories, certain creatures from the past history."

"The second possibility is that an immortal deity personally sent them through time to change history, which would be terrifying."

"The third possibility is that the history is not in the past, but in our present. It may be in some parallel universe that is still going through the Jurassic period, with a time difference from ours."

This wave of analysis has only made people more nervous.

(End of this chapter)