Chapter 972: Tales Of Ancient Times.
Chapter 972: Tales Of Ancient Times.
His voice was wistful as he said, "But even those without spirit roots could make up for this deficiency by forging their body, changing their blood, and strengthening their life force, all to ultimately build a life root that could connect with spirit energy in the environment and cultivate.""Did I mention that cultivation was completely free?" Tepid Scholar asked them.
Without waiting for an answer, he said, "I did. In their days, you didn’t need to pay anyone to be awakened or to access the spirit energy everywhere."
"To top things off, cultivators didn’t need to spend their lifespan to produce power. They could use the spirit energy in the environment to freely produce power. So yes, the time of the ancient cultivators was a time of plenty and prosperity despite some difficulties."
Scoffing, he said, "And what difficulty did they face? It was mostly the difficulty of greed. They fought each other for precious resources and the like. Their greatest enemy was themselves."
His voice had become agitated as he spoke. He spoke as if he was angry with the ancient cultivators.
So after speaking, he shook his head and said, "Don’t mind me. I got carried away just thinking about all that was lost."
"I shouldn’t waste energy on that. After all, it is no use being angry with an era that is no more."
"At that time, ancient cultivators had what they called the immortal realm. It is where we Dao Lords reside right now. But not only was their immortal realm more beautiful and full of divine crystals scattered everywhere, but it was also full of beings like us."
"Right now, there are eight Dao Lords. At its peak, there were nine of us. But in the time of the ancient cultivators, there were thousands of Dao Lords. Can you imagine that? Thousands of them, I tell you."
Trying to envision millions of Dao Lords, Loki’s scalp tingled. Hurriedly, he shook his head to get rid of the image of thousands of Dao Lords from his mind.
As he shook his head, he thought, ’If the Dao Lords of that time were in any way similar to the Dao Lords of our time, then I can’t imagine that the people below them in cultivation could lead a good life.’
Meanwhile, Tepid Scholar was still speaking. He said, "Now we have four super worlds and maybe one more super world belonging to the dragon. But in their days, ancient cultivators had tens of thousands of super worlds."
"There were hundreds of thousands of large worlds, not the ten we have now. There were also millions of medium worlds and billions of small worlds."
"It was a time of great prosperity where the Dao Lord rank was not the apex of cultivation. There were even stronger people with more advanced cultivation back then."
"But all of these and many more came to an end when the Sea of Worlds was invaded. Then the previous domain king was killed, every Dao Lord was killed, and the immortal realm fractured until it became what it is now."