The Most Urgent Matter

Was cultivation not the only path in this world?

If those words reached anyone else's ears, they would likely draw boundless ridicule.

For tens of thousands of years, humanity had struggled bitterly in this world. Only those immortal cultivators who had transcended mortality could break free from all such constraints.

Lifespan, strength, wisdom...

Everything, one thing after another, ultimately came down to the path of cultivation.

In this world where the strong devoured the weak, how could one survive without cultivating immortality?

Without speaking of survival, how could there be any future?

Abandoning cultivation was the greatest heresy in this world. Even the lowliest demonic cultivators had striven their entire lives for no more than cultivation.

"Are you certain?"

Yet there was not the slightest mockery on the faces of Ye Xiu and the other two, seated apart before An Dongcheng.

"If wisdom is not awakened, humanity will ultimately remain trapped in endless internal strife and depletion."

"If reason is not understood, no matter how vast the wealth built, it will merely become food for others to devour."

"If one's footing is not secured, all that is sought and gained will be no more than a fistful of yellow earth."

Radiance blossomed in An Dongcheng's eyes. Never had his mind been so clear; the spiritual power within him began circulating of its own accord, as though stirred to a boil by the encouragement of his will.

"Correct."

Ye Xiu nodded.

Looking at the young man before him, he could clearly sense the thoughts stirred within him by all that he had seen and heard.

To be able to consider so many things after merely three months of study—though the overwhelming majority of the cultivation world had grown numb beneath the crushing pressure of the past, there were still people of