At this point, Ouyang Chen felt he had strayed too far off topic. He shook his head and returned to Ronan's question. "I first heard information related to your grandfather and father in the early to mid-80s. Yan Hong had just published Prototype Neural Format Research, and the Deep Blue Project was already being prepared for launch... I only looked into it as background information."
Ronan let out a breath. "Something had already happened by then."
He had been born in 80 Year, and Mother had died that same year. From then on, the situation had already taken a sharp turn for the worse. As for when Grandfather and the others entered the public eye, it was because they had been accused of conducting illegal live human experimentation. That was already in 83 Year. By then, everything was beyond saving.
Seeing Ronan's somewhat dejected expression, Celestial Master Gao could not help explaining. "I think there were just too many things happening in the 80s. More than two-thirds of the Extraordinary Species still active in the world today emerged during that decade. Every new Extraordinary Species came with a cultivation method that seemed effective at the time... Damn, it was enough to make your eyes spin."
"Back then, everyone really flocked to them."
Ouyang Chen nodded, agreeing with that assessment. "Every Extraordinary Species represented an entire system, capable of sparking heated discussions and experiments, with people competing to compare their strengths and weaknesses. And everyone wanted to trace things back to their source and find a universally applicable method.
"The Body Cultivator side was all right. There had long been a consensus on tempering the body through Abyss Turbulence. On the Mental Side, the theoretical prototype of Three Layers, One Zone, One Domain had already appeared in the 60s and 70s,