Chapter 803 - 753: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
Chapter 803: Chapter 753: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them
Pei Xuanjing, upon founding the Taoist Academy at first, faced great resistance from various factions, for these powers treated their own Cultivation skills as state secrets, unwilling to share them freely, reluctant to divulge.
They were well aware that their ability to occupy so many benefits and resources today was not because they were inherently strong or exceptionally talented but because they monopolized Cultivation, holding the resources and skills of Cultivation in their hands and limiting the common people, which led to the current situation.
If everyone truly started from the same starting line, with the same education and resources, even those in high positions now had no confidence that they could maintain their status in such competition.
However, Pei Xuanjing, though fully aware of their thoughts, did not care. Despite their dissuasions, his establishment of the Taoist Academy laid bare the skills they treated as treasures, offering ordinary people from humble backgrounds a chance to compete, a possibility to rise.
No matter if Pei Xuanjing’s intent was to accelerate internal competition, to bring forth more individuals of talent, to gain more insights, the outcome was undeniable: billions of ordinary people benefited from his deeds.
Facing Pei Xuanjing’s move, these powers, despite their deep resentment, were helpless and could only let it be, because Pei Xuanjing was powerful enough to make them unqualified to stop him.
Over the years, the Cultivation World continued to experience internal competition. Even after the Revival of Heaven and Earth, when countless Heavenly and Earthly Treasures emerged, these powers gained more benefits and their strength continued to climb. However, their actual situation was not as good as they had initially expected.
Because more and more Cultivators emerged, the internal competition of Cultivation increased. Even if among thousands of Cultivators there was one with great talent, the sheer number of Cultivators meant that the strong ones who arose put significant pressure on these powers, adding many competitors to their ranks.
Moreover, especially after the connection between the two realms, the returning Cultivators and powers from the Sky Wasteland posed fierce competition, greatly impacting the development of the native forces of the Great Ming World.