But the version offered by the technological path was different.
First, one had to understand the origins of this Great Thousand World.
The technological path.
Originally, it had not strictly belonged to any of the orthodox Great Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity.
Nor had it belonged to the eight hundred minor and heterodox paths.
Yet it possessed a peculiar characteristic.
That was compatibility.
The technological path had emerged from the enlightenment of the Han Dynasty.
During the Great Tang Dynasty, the word "science" appeared for the first time.
In ancient times, science had been called imperial examination studies.
It encompassed ways of thinking that tested one's personal cultivation, moral character, and theories of governance.
But there was no denying it.
Even in an era with abundant Hundred Schools of Thought, when everyone could cultivate.
As the earliest sprouts of science.
Artisans had always suffered under the suppression of the class hierarchy.
Scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants.
Those categories neatly divided the social strata of ancient Huaxia civilization.
Artisans had been placed among the three teachings and nine schools.
They could not enter the halls of refinement.
Nor did they possess the right to govern.
One had to understand that, through the Human Path, ancient members of the Human Race could surpass in a hundred years the cultivation other cultivators earned through thousands or tens of thousands of years of bitter effort.
In the end, this had also led to certain flaws.
For instance, an inability to defend themselves against large numbers of mortals.
Throughout the Human Race's more than two thousand years of recent dynastic history.
There had never been a shortage of Great Confucians whose cultivation equaled the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm in certain respects, yet whose achievements and reputations were ruined for one reason or another-or, one