"I don't understand," Yun Muchen said with a frown.
"Think it over carefully. Let it sink in."
Let it sink in?
Yun Muchen thought hard, but no matter how long he mulled it over, he couldn't make sense of it.
"There's a reason the Yun Family hasn't prospered."
"Those brains of yours... really don't work too well," Da Huang said mercilessly from the side.
"What our Yun Family lacks is resources. What's that got to do with brains?" Yun Muchen snapped.
"Resources matter, but brains matter just as much."
"Come on. Let your grandpa Da Huang give you a proper lesson today."
"Tell me, your cultivation method is to improve one world after another, step by step, right?"
"Right. Of course. That's how everyone cultivates."
"Then tell me, without your intervention, would a world stop developing on its own?"
"No. It would still develop, but the speed would be..."
"Holy shit!"
"So that's what you're planning?"
Yun Muchen finally caught on. But surely that approach was just a cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood.
A world developing on its own, without human intervention, progressed slowly. Exceedingly slowly.
Who knew how many years it would take for life to appear, or how many more before those living beings developed intelligence?
Only after they developed intelligence could they begin to touch upon cultivation.
It was an immensely long process.
"Still haven't figured it all out?"
"Honestly, with brains like yours, did you get the Family Head position through connections?"
"It might look like a cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood, but don't you know how long the early stages of cultivation take?"
"Create ten thousand worlds first. Then go about improving those thousand Small Worlds step by step."
"By the time all your Small Worlds are