"It wasn't meaningless." Chen Zui suddenly spoke. "The fish in a pond can breed, just like the human dynasties of your Mortal Realm—the subjects of one generation after another will all be subjects of the dynasty."
How rare. Chen Zui-Zui could actually use an analogy.
Wen Xu thought, That was truly well said. In a sense, Divine Cultivation really was like a ruler expanding territory and consolidating his domain. A divine cultivator might be benevolent, but he could never lack means or authority.
He even felt that, in some respects, the Divine Way somewhat resembled the Emotionless Dao—or perhaps it had been born from the Emotionless Dao, then improved upon.
So under what circumstances did the first person to cultivate the Divine Way discover this path? Wen Xu could not help but leave that question in his heart.
"That gives me the chills. It sounds like a relationship of pure exploitation and enslavement. If that's all it is, then once Divine Cultivation reaches its later stages, wouldn't one completely disregard life and measure everything by faith? That would be far too tragic." Bian Chunchou's words were always full of emotion. In his view, when someone bore the lives of too many people upon his shoulders, he had to treat them with solemnity rather than define their relationship in such cold terms.
Perhaps that was also why divine cultivators had become increasingly scarce. It was not that no one tried, but that ordinary people did not even know where the threshold for trying lay.
"Why would you think that?" Chen Zui asked. "Divine cultivators do indeed need faith in the early stages, but once they reach the Body Integration Realm, deity and self become one, and they no longer need to rely on faith. Mother said that once any cultivator reaches