At ten, the Infant Stage; at twenty, the Adult Stage; at ten thousand, the Great Adult Stage; at fifty thousand, the Greatly Adult Stage.
Even Xu Zhi did not know whether to laugh or cry. Sitting at the edge and sipping tea, he said, "Are these the Primordial Innate Gods and Demons of the prehistoric universe? With this kind of growth stage, they really can grow stronger just by eating and drinking."
But theirs was a barbaric tribal civilization with no cultural heritage, so naturally their naming was simple and crude.
"In this era, the so-called cultivation realms, from First-Order to Tenth-Order, are not realms at all. They really are just natural stages of physical growth and development!"
"But it takes ten thousand years just to reach First-Order. Even for natural growth, that is unimaginably long." Xu Zhi suddenly fell into thought and began calculating data with the magic core. "In the mature universe of later generations, if one did not cultivate and merely accumulated naturally, one could probably reach First-Order in a few hundred years."
First-Order was not some miraculous realm.
Yet here, it took ten thousand years to reach. It was probably because this universe was incomplete.
Only in later generations, after sages attained the Dao one after another, benefited the universe, Harmonized with the Dao of Heaven, and filled in the gaps with mature universal laws, did the cultivation progress of living beings accelerate. That was why cultivation became so swift.
The predecessors planted trees, and the descendants enjoyed the shade.
"In other words, living beings in the universe originally cultivated extremely slowly. That is the natural state of things. Our mature universe of later generations was shaped by the grand vows made by generations of Dao-attaining sages."
Xu Zhi felt that he had gained another piece