Compared with what they had seen before, this heaven now appearing in everyone's minds was undoubtedly more refined.
For it had not only achieved tremendous material abundance, but also eliminated class disparities and the oppression and slaughter people inflicted upon one another. Fundamental conflicts of interest and disputes over distribution no longer existed between them.
Yet at this moment, everyone vaguely sensed that something remained incomplete.
As with the earlier Materialized Heaven, all satisfaction here rested upon mundane materials and mundane pleasures. Thus greed, anger, delusion, and resentment remained, and obscure shadows still lurked deep within people's hearts.
The images flickered. As several lavishly dressed figures who did not seem particularly happy gazed into the distance, everyone's minds continued to ascend, arriving at the third heaven.
This was another entirely new place, where the sharing of resources and information had reached its utmost extent, distribution was timely, and disparities within the same class had narrowed even further.
Even objects containing spiritual essence, Puppet Conversion, and other such means had been put to use. Everyone enjoyed health and longevity, free of illness and calamity, and their quality of life had become more alike.
This realm was called lesser unity heaven. It had already reached the limit of what a material foundation could achieve, essentially realizing financial freedom and freedom in life in the mundane sense. Everyone was successful, and no one remained anxious.
Soon, however, they realized just what the discord they had sensed before had been.
Deep within the human heart, desire was boundless. Gaining Long only to covet Shu was instinctive, while resenting those who had and mocking those who had not filled the darker side of living beings' hearts.
People's needs were confined by the instincts of their bodies. Once all the requirements for survival and development had