Chapter 144: Simulation: 17 Years Flew by (Part 1)
In the blink of an eye, seventeen years hastily passed by.
The first year.
Minglun Martial Pavilion expanded, transforming into Minglun Martial School, its area nearly doubling to half the size of Jiangnan City, encompassing countless industries. Intelligent networks had become widespread, and digital consumption was gradually becoming popular.
Sun Shisheng once again expanded the Taixu Illusory Realm to encompass the entire solar system. The number of world passageways in the Taixu Sphere also increased by three hundred, reaching a total of three thousand three hundred.
Enterprises around the globe were eager to collaborate with Minglun Group.
As a result, Jiangnan City became the most prosperous city in the world!
The second year.
As vitality cultivation and mental cultivation were incorporated into compulsory education, the sales of the diluted lunar essence slowly rose. City residents would typically spend a thousand yuan each month to provide lunar essence for their children, hoping to give them a head start.
After all, this society requires competition.
In order to better popularize cultivation among the masses, Sun Shisheng and Li Hansha conducted joint research. Using resources from the myriad worlds and combining them with Earth's environment, they created a new type of rice based on hybrid rice—
Taiji Rice.
This rice could absorb the essence of the sun and the moon for growth, fully utilizing the energy of the sun with nearly ninety percent efficiency.
Moreover, this rice could grow anywhere, as long as there was light from the sun and the moon, with just the addition of adequate water during the planting period.
And its yield was astonishing—one mu could produce ten thousand jin!
When Minglun Group first released Taiji Rice, the entire world thought Minglun had gone mad.
Ten thousand jin per mu!
This was completely regressing back to that preposterous era!
However, Minglun proved them wrong with facts.
Minglun used live broadcasting to publicly showcase the cultivation of Taiji Rice without any interruption.
Sowing, seedling selection, transplanting, irrigation...
In just two months, Taiji Rice had grown from tender seedlings to the height of small trees, about three meters tall, and each rice plant had two panicles, each bearing a thousand grains of Taiji rice.
This rice, once dehusked, was twice the size of ordinary rice, sparkling and translucent like crystal, seemingly with flowing light inside, extraordinary and magical.
Now, everyone knew that Minglun had introduced something that could benefit everyone.
As a result, the government collaborated with Minglun to promote this Taiji Rice.
The third year.
Taiji Rice spread throughout the entire Xia region. The people from remote mountainous areas even erected statues of Sun Shisheng and Li Hansha, worshipping them daily.
And in that year, newborn infants had a vitality of 0.05.
One must know that in the past, an adult's vitality was only 0.5, but now, a newborn infant had one-tenth of an adult's vitality.
This was the effect of Taiji Rice.
As Taiji Rice absorbed the energy in the light, it also released a kind of energy similar to Spiritual Energy that was beneficial to biological growth, hence it was also considered a man-made revitalization of Spiritual Energy.
However, the first to enjoy this Spiritual Energy were not the wealthy people in the cities, but the farmers still living in the rural areas.
Nevertheless, the gap in benefits did not widen.
After all, eating Taiji Rice was the best way to enhance one's vitality.
But the cultivation of vitality was related to the Mental Realm.
If your mental realm did not meet the standard, no matter how many natural treasures you consumed, you would just eat in an amount equal to what you excreted because if your mental realm did not improve, the body could not unlock enough potential, reaching a state of saturation.
The fourth year.
Minglun Martial School expanded further, with parts of it undergoing reconstruction.
That year, Minglun Industry's smartphones had become widespread across the length and breadth of Jiangnan, with almost every person in many cities within Xia possessing one. However, other groups had also begun to imitate and produce their own smartphones.
In this regard, Minglun tacitly consented.
After all, this could hasten the modernization of data across the globe.
Moreover, Minglun-branded smartphones would later be able to interact with other smart household items developed by Minglun, offering an integrated operating experience.
They were far superior to other brands' smartphones.
The fifth year.
Virtual gaming officially launched!
Aside from Fantasy Realm: Supreme Martial Arts and Fantasy Realm: Elite, there were many other adventure, racing, and detective games, nearly indistinguishable from reality.
This greatly captured the attention of society.
The Fantasy Realm series, to ordinary people, was like an entirely second world—so real and so fantastic.
Of course, the most important aspect was that in the Fantasy Realm series games, various virtual currencies were universally accepted and could be used to purchase various skins and weapons in the game.
Even so, because the recharge ratio of game currency to real currency was 1:1, the game currency from the Fantasy Realm series could be used similarly to real currency.
In Jiangnan City, one could even use Game Coins to purchase real-world products.
Moreover, within Minglun Martial School, this game currency could be used to buy Minglun's special medicinal formulas that could help ease physical fatigue after training.
While deep sleep could relieve fatigue, that ultimately consumes one's own physical strength, whereas external medicine could help assist in cultivation.
The sixth year.
The Taixu Illusory Realm expanded tenfold, equivalent to the size of ten solar systems, with a small portion of it materializing into reality.
Consequently, Sun Shi Sheng secretly transferred the core area of Minglun Martial School into it.
By now, the core of Minglun Martial School was placed upon the Taixu Illusory Realm.
The rumors surrounding Minglun Martial School in the outside world became increasingly mystical, with some even believing that the founder of Minglun School was an immortal descended to earth.
That year, GOD's mentality had a transformation, no longer looking down on humans as monkeys. Although he still bore a somewhat proud expression, he had become much more amiable compared to the past.
In that same year, Jiang Wudao, at the age of twelve, began to formally practice martial arts; his Mental Realm, after six years of Foundation Establishment, instantly reached the second level of deep sleep.
His life force was particularly remarkable, having reached 1.
In the seventh year, under the leadership of Sun Shisheng, Minglun Martial School began to categorize martial arts into different levels.
There was no inherent hierarchy in martial arts, but categories were made based on the power of martial arts, the comprehensiveness of their training, and whether they involved the mental aspect.
From low to high, the rankings were classified as D, C, B, A, S, etc.
Since cultivation was a global phenomenon, they adopted these more common designations for division.
D-grade martial arts comprised the basic ones with strong practical application and fierce attacking moves.
Examples included Muay Thai, military boxing, taekwondo, karate, sanda, modern combat, etc.
C-grade martial arts were a bit more complex, beginning to involve the secrets of various bones, meridians, and internal organs. Li Hansha's Dragon Chant Iron Shirt and Tiger Roar Golden Bell Cover were examples of this.
However, this referred to the original two arts. The two ultimate techniques that Li Hansha practiced now had already been refined to a level beyond S-grade.
B-grade martial arts melded mind and physical abilities, with each movement combined with meditation. The latest chapters are always available first on MV5LEMPYR.
Such martial arts, when executed in conjunction with meditation, are tremendously powerful, but also extremely difficult to learn, often leading to nerve disorders, with meditation posing the risk of falling into demonic confusion and insanity.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the training of these martial arts requires the supervision of an expert.
A-grade martial arts were preliminary skills of mind governing power, essentially requiring practitioners capable of deep concentration to use them.
This stage mainly relied on Innate Gang Qi, which, once activated, had tremendous power and gave the sensation of shifting space, turning the air into raging waves with a mere exertion.
A-grade martial arts at their highest realm could even allow one to walk on air.
As for S-grade martial arts, they required the pill breath level or above to practice and, once used in conjunction with the power of the mind, could evolve various phenomenal effects.
Killing, enlightening others, or suppressing the heavens were all but a thought away.
When the five major categories of martial arts were announced by Minglun, the entire society experienced another intense shock.
With the spread of life force cultivation and mental practices, people aspired even more intensely for higher-level martial arts.
The eighth year.
In the entire Jiangnan region, the average life force of people reached 0.6, an increase of 0.1 from before.
But don't underestimate this 0.1; before reaching a life force of 10, every increase of 0.1 represented a qualitative leap, each making one twice as strong as before!
The ninth year.
With the popularization of Taixu rice, the Western countries were prepared to spend a lot of money to import Taixu rice from the East, aiming to uncover the secrets of Taixu rice.
However, Taixu rice's genes could not be replicated by conventional means, and the grain seeds were controlled by Minglun.
The Western research yielded no results; they could only continue to import from the East.
That year, the average life force of people in Western countries was 0.55.
The tenth year.
Minglun Martial School expanded further, covering the entire Jiangnan City.
It could be said that Jiangnan City was now under the control of Minglun.
The eleventh year.
The Taixu Illusory Realm officially opened!
Many players entered the truly ordinary level of the Fantasy Realm, mainly evolved from games.
That year, due to the widespread adoption of Taixu rice and the opening of mental cultivation, the global population continued to grow substantially, reaching six billion!
The twelfth year.
Minglun Martial School underwent reforms, dividing itself into an inner court and an outer court.
The outer court referred to the academies in Jiangnan City, while the inner court was established within the Taixu Illusory Realm.
That year, Sun Shisheng also informed the outside world that the so-called Taixu Illusory Realm was a true illusory realm created by him, which, in the future, could potentially become a transit point to the myriad worlds of the heavens.
Mankind's journey lies in the stars and oceans!
Almost everyone's dreams were ignited, beginning to strive in this direction, ready to venture into the distant cosmos!
The thirteenth year.
In the Jiangnan region, the average life force of people reached 0.7, and even in mountainous areas, the average life force could reach 0.6.
Outside the Jiangnan region, the average life force was 0.58.
The gap had widened.
That year, coincidentally 2008, the capital hosted a world-class event, the Olympic Games, showcasing the charm of Huaxia to the entire world.
Due to the average life force of the nationals being around 0.7, with athletes reaching 0.8~0.9, nearly half of the gold medals were captured by Huaxia athletes.
This provided a tremendous boost to their morale.
Meanwhile, the Westerners were at the height of despair.
Especially in the 100-meter sprint, where a young Chinese competitor astonishingly ran the distance in 8.31 seconds, shattering human conception!
This was indeed too exaggerated!