Utopian Micro-Society, Cradle of Geniuses!
[At the entrance, He Xiangdong made an inviting gesture to you.]
["Mr. Chen Dong, welcome to our underground base."]
[Adou sat atop his horse, marveling.]
["Uncle Chen, you were right—they really are an underground organization!"]
[You looked around. Thanks to the effects of "Reverse Engineering," you could see that this place was filled with all manner of cultivation creations.]
[Formations were everywhere, maintaining the stability of the environment.]
[The glowing sphere overhead was a Pre-celestial Spirit Treasure. Behind it was another, smaller sphere that was not glowing for the moment, also a Pre-celestial Spirit Treasure. It was presumably meant to imitate the moon.]
[The cliffs along the edges were covered in countless karst caves, within which strange birds lurked, seeming to serve as guardians of this space.]
[The Cultivators here had basically all mastered Divine Patterns. You could see many of them using Divine Patterns to help farmers and workers labor, or to speed up the building of bridges and roads.]
[The Divine Patterns they used actually came in three colors: golden Commoner Patterns, red Noble Patterns, and one you were seeing for the first time—black.]
["Black Divine Patterns?"]
[He Xiangdong nodded.]
["Those are Heavenly Patterns."]
["Heavenly Patterns?"]
["Divine Patterns are divided into Heavenly Patterns, Earth Patterns, and Human Patterns. They were originally created by the ancestors of our Human Race so that even low-level Cultivators could borrow a portion of a Divine Ability's mighty power.
That way, even those with poor aptitude could possess the strength to protect themselves.
After the 'Great Uprising,' our Human Race was instead forbidden from learning Divine Patterns.
Those Alien Races stole our Divine Patterns and changed them into Imperial Patterns, Noble Patterns, and Commoner Patterns.
They even ranked the right to learn Divine Patterns into different grades.
Yet when our ancestors divided Divine