Chapter 143 Simulation: Birth of the Spiritual Treasure
"Nowadays, Ming Lun as a major group is the undisputed overlord; our Jiang Corporation can only survive by relying on them," said Jiang Batian, a middle-aged man and the CEO of Jiang Corporation. He had a square face and an invisible aura of authority emanated from him.
"Dad, survival shouldn't be hard, we don't need to cooperate with Ming Lun," Jiang Mingxin, the son of Jiang Batian, said, puzzled. "Cooperating with Ming Lun means being controlled by them."
Once controlled, there would never be a day to turn things around.
He was ambitious.
It's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big sea.
That Sun Shisheng, indeed a genius, had even initiated the concept of vitality, proposing mind cultivation which he greatly admired.
However, he did not feel he could not surpass him.
Although Sun Shisheng indeed led them by a great margin in those two aspects, they had now grasped the concepts of vitality and mind cultivation and were diligently learning. Surpassing Ming Lun in the future was also a possibility.
Jiang Batian said in a deep voice, "That may be the future, but if we don't cooperate with Ming Lun now, even the smaller enterprises will soon surpass us."
"To be too ambitious can lead to failure."
"Of course, we must not lose our pride either."
"We can learn from their strengths during the process of cooperation with Ming Lun, then innovate our company. And certainly, we won't remain just a small company in the future."
At this point, Jiang Batian paused and looked towards his other son, Jiang Mingde, and asked, "I heard you've sent your son, Wudao, to the Ming Lun Martial Arts School?"
Jiang Mingxin was shocked, "Little brother, are you serious? Isn't our nephew only six years old?"
Jiang Mingde said gravely, "To achieve great things, we must use extraordinary means. Wudao is precocious, exposing him to mind cultivation early couldn't be better, and the best place in the world for that is the Ming Lun Martial Arts School."
Jiang Batian nodded, "If Wudao can persist, then he will undoubtedly make great achievements in the future!"
Meanwhile.
At the Ming Lun Martial Arts School, the old batch of students was receiving the new batch.
The oldest was fifty years old, already aged, claimed to be here to fulfill a martial arts dream, but it was more about experiencing life.
For such elderly persons, Ming Lun Martial Arts School naturally had a way — GOD.
This person was the best way to receive the elderly.
After all, among the core figures of Ming Lun, the oldest, active in the battlefield during the seventies and eighties, was him.
GOD was quite helpless but because Ming Lun did not support freeloaders, even if he was a disciple of Li Hansha and paid tuition, he still needed to provide some services for the Ming Lun Martial Arts School.
The youngest of this new batch of students was only six years old.
It was Wudao.
His eyes were clear and bright, although young, he seemed to understand a lot, not crying or making a fuss, presenting an almost precocious demeanor.
GOD naturally noticed Wudao too.
In his eyes, this child was a fine piece of uncarved jade, needing only a skilled artisan to reveal its rightful brilliance.
"It's just a pity he's too young."
GOD silently shook his head.
Reality is not like a fantasy novel where one starts training at seven or eight; the best age for training begins at twelve.
Children too young, even if they appear mature, don't have fully developed minds.
Their bodies are still growing, and it's definitely not advisable to use overly intense training, as it's very likely to result in deformity unless someone continuously watches over them.
Clearly, GOD didn't have the time for that.
And Sun Shisheng and others weren't going to pay too much attention to Wudao either.
Because for them, it was more important to evaluate one's mental growth after maturity, rather than innate talent.
Talent?
That was the least valuable thing for them.
As for mind cultivation...
A six-year-old child whose mind has not yet developed, how could he train the mind?
However, children of this age also tend to enter deep sleep more easily, especially since their bodies are in a rapid growth phase.
And deep sleep has comprehensive effects on a person.
If this child could master deep sleep, he could indeed catch up to an adult's physique at a relatively fast pace.
After recruiting the students, Ming Lun arranged dormitories for them.
And during the entire process, there were people watching everything, unnoticed even by GOD.
"That Wudao also has extraordinary destiny," Wang Chao stroked his chin. "If his past destiny was a blue carp, then entering Ming Lun, he can transform into a flood dragon, marking the beginning of his rise."
"However—"
"He cannot be considered a true dragon."
Sun Shisheng examined Wudao and spoke. "A true dragon can grow large or shrink small, ascend or hide; when large, it stirs clouds and spouts mists, when small, it conceals and hides its form; it soars through the universe when ascending, and lurks beneath the waves when hiding."
"This person can learn from the dragon, rising with the times, but cannot adapt with the times. He is like a 'dragon' that 'shallow waters can't nurture a real dragon.'"
"Such a dragon, most sorrowful."
Wang Chao understood this principle too and said, "Such a dragon blames his failures on various external factors, without introspection, too arrogant."
Dragons do not dwell with snakes, which is nothing more than the speech of those who think too highly of themselves.
This opinion is too narrow."
The status of a person comes in many levels, yet do we not all reside on the same planet?
If we broaden our perspective further, do we not all live under the same cosmic sky?
Although Jiang Wudao was still quite young and his worldviews had not fully formed, Ming Lun was currently only a martial arts academy that taught martial arts and spirit cultivation.
A person's worldview largely depends on their parents.
The education provided by schools is merely supplementary.
As for Sun Shisheng, Wang Chao, and others meddling in Jiang Wudao's future...
That's thinking too much.
They had no familial or personal ties with Jiang Wudao.
"Eh? Isn't that Zhu Jia?" Wang Chao spotted someone familiar, a reporter he often saw on TV in the past.
"If I remember correctly, during high school, you were quite fond of this beautiful reporter," Sun Shisheng said, his gaze also shifting to Zhu Jia, who was practicing Tai Chi and activating her Qi-Blood, teasingly. M|V|LEM*PYR is the home of this chapter
"It was only in freshman year." Wang Chao retorted. After he stepped into the path of spirit cultivation, he had stopped paying attention to her.
Unexpectedly, she too had joined Ming Lun Martial Arts Academy, and judging by her strength, she was probably at the level of developed Qi pressure. She practiced ancient martial arts and her vitality was about 0.7.
Soon after, their figures slowly dissipated.
Just like they had quietly arrived, they quietly left.
Inside the Quiet Courtyard, Wang Chao was savoring his tea, feeling his thoughts returning to him, and he said with a smile, "The Jiang Corporation does have some luck, for most people, seizing the opportunity to ride the clouds and ascend is like becoming a true dragon.
"And for a person like Sun, it's—"
"A natural-born Saint."
Sun Shisheng glanced at Wang Chao in surprise and asked, "When did you learn to flatter?"
Wang Chao smiled, "I'm speaking the truth."
Sun Shisheng smiled and continued sipping his tea.
The taste of the mortal world was becoming ever richer.
"By the way, Sun, I've realized that I can now advance to the 'Sitting in Oblivion' stage, but after debating with Li Hansha, I felt something was not perfect, as if something is still missing... Li Hansha felt the same way," Wang Chao spoke about his spirit cultivation.
"Why do you think that is?"
"What are Li Hansha and I lacking?"
Sun Shisheng put down his tea cup and said lightly, "Haven't I mentioned it before? The Three Pure Ones."
Wang Chao suddenly understood.
The "Spiritual Treasure Celestial Venerable" had not yet taken his place!
His Holy Embryo was identical to Primordial.
Li Hansha's Holy Embryo was also no different from the Moral Celestial Venerable.
Now, only the last Pure One was missing.
Although the discussion of the Three Pure Ones was somewhat illusory, once he and Li Hansha each solidified their Primordial and Moral Holy Embryos, a certain connection was formed mysteriously between them.
Certainly, without waiting for the Spiritual Treasure, they could ascend to 'Sitting in Oblivion'.
But, the slight imperfection in their hearts would always make them feel somewhat abrupt.
"When will Su Jie appear?" Wang Chao asked.
"Now, just born," Sun Shisheng seemed to see through the cause and effect of the world, "But don't disturb him, otherwise he might lose the aura of the Spiritual Treasure."
The concept of fate is elusive.
But overall, it is related to one's character.
And a person's character is ever-changing.
When Sun Shisheng first met Wang Chao, although his Primordial aura was magnificent, it was essentially as fleeting as a dream or an illusion. If he did not meet the right person to alter his character, he might lose that Primordial aura.
Now, Wang Chao also understood this point.
Therefore, though he did not admit to being the Primordial, he was willing to act like one!
Li Hansha felt the same.
It was simply because their characters and their paths really aligned with the aura of the Primordial and Moral among the Three Pure Ones.
Perhaps there really was some mysterious response between them.
"Now I know, Li Hansha and I will just linger in the stage of Holy Embryo for a couple more decades. We are not short of this little time," Wang Chao was not pursuing the path of accumulating divinity or establishing a divine domain; thus, even if he spent his whole life in the Embryonic Breathing Realm, the strength of his body and his spiritual power would continue to grow.
Moreover, with the Taixu Illusory Realm, which possessed infinite potential and might even encompass countless worlds in the distant future, he had authority as well.
Emulating the mythological Primordial and then creating the thirty-sixth layer of Daluo Heaven in the Taixu Illusory Realm at that time would be wonderful, wouldn't it?
"Staying in the Primordial Respiration stage for a while longer will benefit you and Li Hansha, and allow you to prepare for the final revealing stage," Sun Shisheng nodded slightly, "As for Spiritual Treasure, his path lies within the mortal world, where he can catch up to you quickly."
Wang Chao sighed, "So it sounds like, although Spiritual Treasure is the last to be born, in terms of talent, he actually is the highest among the three of us?"
Sun Shisheng nodded, "Indeed so."
And the "Spiritual Treasure" they were discussing was at that moment beginning to babble and toddle, but his eyes were exceptionally bright, seeming to be infinitely curious about everything.
Being born on Earth, a human soul descends from the void, accepts the enhancement and refinement from the heavenly spheres of countless worlds, and has more potential than intelligent beings born in other worlds.
And those bestowed with the aura of the Three Pure Ones have boundless potential...