Ideological Evolution: Humans and Demons Separate
After Wen Xu passed on the [Innate Dao Body] to everyone in the Mountain Stronghold, it didn't take long for the entire human sects and settlements in the region to know about it.
This is normal. After all, it's an independent force, so how could the neighboring human forces not send an undercover agent to observe the situation?
After these human sects learned of this, human sects further afield gradually found out as well.
The main problem is that this Divine Ability can't be kept secret; everyone is spreading it and everyone is learning it.
If you don't learn, you'll fall behind.
No one has investigated the responsibility for the spread of this Divine Ability power. It is said that the cultivator who invented this Divine Ability was named Luo Yun, and he is already dead!
Look, even the founder is dead, so what problems could this Divine Ability possibly have?
Moreover, humans have discovered that it seems not only they possess this Divine Ability, but it is also being passed down among Myriad Spirits of the Immortal Dao!
There's even less reason to be so protective of one's possessions!
In the orderly land, first in City of Ten Thousand Yuan, Yang Ning alone spread the word to nearly a million people, and these million people then spread it to the clans behind him.
A single Demon Race can number in the tens of thousands to the tens of millions of Demon Beast, which translates to a spread of over a billion views.
Some cultivators who had mastered this Divine Ability were abducted by demons halfway through their journeys and were forced to hand over the Divine Ability.
The races of the Disorderly Lands acquired this Divine Ability, but it was later taken by other races during their conquests.
Therefore, regardless of whether it is ordered or disordered, the Divine Ability of [Innate Dao Body] has now become completely rampant!
From millions to tens of millions, to hundreds of millions, and then to billions, the total reach of the message was achieved in less than three years!
Of course, natural transmission alone wouldn't have been this fast; Yang Ning's many sacrificed clones also played a significant role!
With the spread of the [Innate Dao Body], the entire Zizhou has undergone a complete transformation.
First, there's the overpopulation of humans.
Before the spread of Divine Ability, nearly 99.999% of the territory of Zizhou was occupied by the Demon Race, and 99.999% of the total population of Zizhou was also Demon Race.
You could travel tens of thousands of miles and still hardly see a single human being!
But now, whether in the city or in the countryside, whether on the mountain or in the tree, whether by the river or by the sea, there are people everywhere!
The Demon Race is almost nowhere to be seen now!
Moreover, because the closer they are to humans, the greater their cultivation level increases, these people don't even have a trace of Demon Race characteristics.
Secondly, communication between orderly and Disorderly Lands began to become common.
After becoming human, the herbivores in the orderly land could eat meat, and the carnivores in the Disorderly Lands could eat grass!
This has led to some violent herbivores and pacifists among carnivores migrating into each other's territories.
This migration brought new ideas, culture, and lifestyles to both territories.
With the added benefit of [Comprehension Assist], the originally brainless Demon Race began to learn to think after transforming into humans.
Sparks of ideas began to collide.
Third, human industries began to emerge.
When Yang Ning spread the [Innate Dao Body], there was a very inconspicuous setting: when he transformed into a human, the fur and scales on his body would not become part of the human body, but would become clothes.
This clothing wasn't entirely random; it was specially designed by the Divine Ability power based on the person's appearance, temperament, and the color of their scales and fur.
The end result, naturally, is that the men are handsome and the women are beautiful.
The advent of clothing allowed the Demon Race, who originally used the sky as their bed and the ground as their blanket, to get used to wearing clothes.
And one of the characteristics of the human race is their love of beauty!
Humans love beauty and therefore like pretty clothes, but demons only have one set of clothes after they transform, and they can't even change shape.
A person can't have only one set of clothes.
In Disorderly Lands, you can steal from others; what do you do in a well-ordered place?
Some clever people put their minds to work and came up with a solution.
I can make my own clothes and then sell them to others!
However, clothes made from Spirit Materials, immortal materials, and clouds are too expensive, and bartering them is inconvenient.
Then, someone, whose identity is unknown, discovered spinning machines, cotton, and jacquard machines in a remote mountain village.
Humans have begun production!
In this orderly land, production and clothing trade began, and ideas started to collide.
Even in Disorderly Lands, tremendous changes are taking place.
After taking human form, those carnivorous Demon Beast suddenly discovered that their desire to eat meat and kill was not as strong, and they could now live on fruit.
Unlike before, when they would want to kill if they didn't eat meat for three days.
Besides, since they used to have the bodies of wild animals, living in the wild wasn't a problem.
However, it's not so convenient when you transform into human form.
At least animal hides don't mind getting wet in the rain, but clothes will get dirty!
Moreover, although the skin of Innate Dao Body is resistant to both cold and heat, being exposed to sun and rain like this will inevitably cause some discomfort.
So while some people were still busy fighting, others couldn't wait any longer and began to imitate cities and build houses and dwellings!
The current Disorderly Lands can no longer be called Disorderly Lands; it can be called: outside the city, or the wilderness!
People living in the wild are naturally called savages.
Despite the large number of immortals, the production speed of the textile machines was very slow.
The immortals with [Comprehension Assist] began to study the spinning machine and soon created a spinning machine that could be driven by Immortal Power.
But they soon discovered that this was not practical.
Because the clothes are so cheap, if he recruited low-level cultivators to work for him, the clothes he made wouldn't even be enough for an immortal to earn in a day!
So the Immortal Power was transformed into magical Law Power, and the Law Power was then transformed into water power and wind power.
The city dwellers also discovered that if water and wind power were used for weaving, there would be no need for immortals at all; ordinary people could do it too!
But the villages of ordinary people are too small, with only so many people in one village, they simply cannot support a huge textile factory!
Then a clever immortal came up with a solution: we can gather ordinary people together and build a large city for them to live in!
But ordinary people need to eat, drink, relieve themselves, and sleep; they have a lot to do.
Those who run textile factories have no choice but to try their best to find a solution.
The clothes they produced were also sold in the wild. Then some merchants discovered that the wild people no longer ate meat, but instead started eating fruit and straw.
Upon asking, it turned out that he was too lazy to hunt. Since he didn't feel uncomfortable not eating meat these days, why bother with all that trouble!
The merchants also discovered that these straws were not only edible for immortals, but also for mortals, and that mortals could even grow them!
So they took the seeds of fruit and straw back for the mortals to plant.
Four or five years later, the first batch of cultivators who practiced the Innate Dao Body began to have children!
To their astonishment, they discovered that what they had given birth to was not a creature of their own race, but a ready-made Innate Dao Body!
Some people were panicked, while others were overjoyed, since the couple were not of the same race and had never been able to have children before.
Others, however, believe that if a child is born with Innate Dao Body, wouldn't that give them a head start in life?
After all, other people's children are not only born like wild beasts, but nine times out of ten they are also unable to develop intelligence!
At this point, when they looked at the children born from their previous species who hadn't developed intelligence, they suddenly found them increasingly displeasing and even started to wonder, "How could someone as beautiful (handsome) as me have given birth to a pig!"
Moreover, developing intelligence is so troublesome and consumes so many resources.
Or should we just leave it alone?
It just so happens that the mortals are short of food!
Many people who pass the civil service exam or even just get into university no longer consider themselves to be on the same level as their former friends.
What's more, now even the races are different.
Looking at themselves now, clean and dressed in beautiful clothes, with children born intelligent and clever, and then thinking back to how dirty they used to be, crawling around everywhere, and how most of their children couldn't develop any intelligence, countless people feel disgusted.
How could I have been content to be a mere Demon Beast, and even felt proud of my status as one of the Myriad Spirits of the Immortal Dao?
Indeed, with the increase in the human population and the development of human culture, the Myriad Spirits of the Immortal Dao race also began to split.
Starting from nothing, from scratch, it began with a group of people turning away from their race and no longer considering themselves part of their former group. Then, the number of these people grew and grew.
Until one day, someone suggested it first, and the concept of Demon Beast was born!
Once these Demon Beast cultivated their Innate Dao Body and became accustomed to human customs and the culture created by human groups, they couldn't wait to sever ties with their past.
They are unwilling to accept their former customs, names, and places of residence, and even unwilling to cultivate the Divine Ability passed down through their clan. They even reject the talents inherited from their bloodline!
There is already a phenomenon of fanaticism among converts!
Some even argue that the concept of "human" doesn't refer to the Myriad Spirits of the Immortal Dao; it should clearly refer to beings with "Innate Dao Body." If you don't even have an "Innate Dao Body," how can you be called a human?
This group initially consisted of only a small number of people, but it quickly spread to various gathering places and gained widespread recognition.
After all, showing off, feeling superior, and wanting to be someone of high status are all part of human nature.
We haven't reached the level of being superior to humans yet, but being a superior demon first isn't bad either!
Moreover, once one begins to read, write, dress, and learn etiquette, it is indeed difficult to regard a group of wild beasts who eat raw meat and drink blood as one of their own.
Unless he also cultivates the [Innate Dao Body], even if he can speak, cultivate, and possess profound wisdom, he is nothing more than a beast in the eyes of humans.
At most, it's just a bit prettier and can be called a mythical beast.
What do you think when you see a mythical beast?
Be its friend? Its lover?
Or should I adopt it as a mount?
A sense of belonging is something everyone pursues. Therefore, when someone said that the concept of "human beings" should be limited to cultivators who have cultivated the [Innate Dao Body], and not belong to the Myriad Spirits of the Immortal Dao, this idea spread rapidly and gained the recognition of hundreds of millions of people.
With the existence of humans, the concept of non-humans naturally followed.
That is called Demon Beast!
Those with wisdom are demons; those without wisdom are beasts!
Thus, the concepts of humans and demons were fully established, and the Myriad Spirits of the Immortal Dao were finally reduced from ten thousand races to two races.
From the time Yang Ning created and invented the [Innate Dao Body] Divine Ability until now, only five years have passed!