Inside a fast-food restaurant.
Fang Xi had fried chicken and a drink in front of him. He held a screen as thin and transparent as glass in one hand, his fingers sliding over it with practiced ease.
Streams of information and news flashed past at lightning speed.
Great Xin had long since entered the electrical age, and its communications network was highly developed.
With this latest-generation phone, a brief search was enough to learn everything that had happened over the past several thousand years.
"Ever since the Mortal Method spread more than two thousand years ago, the immortal path has flourished!"
"All kinds of basic cultivation techniques and supporting talismans, pill arts, and formations have been continuously researched and developed, constantly breaking new ground and entering an extremely advanced realm..."
"The fact that Great Xin has endured for over two thousand years is related to this as well... This dynasty actually implements the 'Nine-Rank System'! What a rotten, backward system! It's actually displayed so brazenly in public, and even protected the dynasty from collapse for two thousand years..."
Fang Xi raised his head and gazed out the window at the streams of cars, the neon lights, and the pedestrians filling the streets. Quite a few were even wearing old-fashioned Daoist robes and ancient garments... He could not help feeling speechless.
He continued searching, and his eyes immediately flickered:
"Any cultivator of Great Xin, after Foundation Establishment, may enter the 'Clan Register' and establish a Ninth-Rank family..."
"Ninth-, Eighth-, and Seventh-Rank families are known as the 'Lower Class'... They can produce one Foundation Establishment Cultivator in every generation, and occasionally a Core Formation True Person, thereby keeping the family from declining."
"Sixth-, Fifth-, and Fourth-Rank families are known as 'Aristocratic Clans'. They can steadily produce Core Formation cultivators in every generation,