Five Paths of Development, the Origin of Bronze
Huayin Jiaoyue originally had an extremely aloof demeanor, showed a change in her temperament when introducing her respected and admired elder.
"This is the vice dean of our Bronze Academy, the [Path of Suppression Sacrifice] Gao Yangshi [Priest Zhenkong], and also a Middle Tier 3 High Priest. He has already touched upon several powerful laws concerning space and suppression, and even our True King Qingshang has praised him as having the potential to advance to High Tier [Civilization Ritual Master]."
Hearing these somewhat flattering words, Gaoyang Zhenkong both amused and exasperated, and then offered an explanation.
"Perfected Heavenly River, don't listen to this girl's talk about the possibility of becoming High Tier. Generally, mastering multiple rules already gives one a chance to advance, but what are the chances of success? Otherwise, our Bronze Human Race, with its heritage spanning over a million years, wouldn't have only had one True King. Instead, we spent millions of years refining High Tier [Civilization Ritual Artifact] to become High Tier civilized race."
"However, the Transcendent System created by the True Man is quite unique. Although it is similar to the cultivation methods in the world of immortal cultivation, the differences in its internal structure are completely different from the theories we are talking about."
Huayin Jiaoyue then introduced several professors and mentors, who were priests of the [Path of Illusion Sacrifice], [Path of War Sacrifice], [Path of Spirit Sacrifice], and [Path of the Soul], all of whom were among the best in their respective fields.
Based on the different types and functions of the sacred artifacts they forged, the Bronze Sacrifice System is mainly divided into five paths: Suppression, Illusion, War, Spirit, and Soul. These also represent the five directions of development of the Priest System.
After the introductions were finished, Gaoyang Zhenkong then spoke.
"Now that we've finished introducing ourselves, please come in. I've heard you have a special tea that enhances understanding and cleanses the mind. You must try our unique Bronze Age cuisine."
The arrangements for the Dao Discussion Conference are now complete, and we are only waiting for the professors, mentors, and other Middle Tier experts from the academy to arrive. Of course, some of our academy's Initial Tier students should also attend this public Dao Discussion. If you find any worthy disciples, Fellow Heavenly River, please feel free to accept them as disciples. After all, different life backgrounds lead to different ways of seeing things, which will be helpful for you in perfecting your Transcendent System."
Besides interacting with beings of the same level, one can also find directions in the cultivation systems of other human races that they might not have noticed before.
The Avatar and Wang An share the same consciousness, but are using two minds at once, so naturally they also have this intention and nodded.
The group entered the bronze hall in the center of the back square. Inside, they saw all kinds of bronze decorations in various shapes and sizes, including small and exquisite Bronze Divine Tree and birds, and complex mythical beast totems with bared teeth and claws.
Of course, the bronze walls also depict major historical moments of the entire Bronze Human Race over more than a million years.
The first image shows a planet where the outline of a continent can still be vaguely seen – this is Blue Star. On this planet, a person created the first bronze artifact and gathered the people of a tribe to worship, sacrifice, and pray to it.
Next, the entire reception work was transferred to the Gaoyang Zhenkong, where everyone toured the place and introduced it to the Avatar.
"These bronze engravings record the origins and prosperity of our entire Bronze Human Race, spanning over a million years."
"This first image depicts the origin of our Bronze Human Race's priesthood. Unlike other human races that transitioned to slave societies or feudal eras due to declining productivity, our Bronze Human Race developed extremely advanced techniques in bronze craftsmanship."
"While making bronze ware, I felt for the first time a special phenomenon called [accumulation]. Understood with current knowledge, it can be regarded as a kind of vibration, breath, or the unique legal principles and rules of bronze."
"Based on this understanding, our bronze processing technology has reached a new level. Even the most advanced equipment from the pre-nuclear era can be manufactured by perceiving and understanding this special phenomenon. This has led to the creation of extremely brilliant bronze smelting technology and bronze mechanical technology."
"However, while the mastery of bronze-making techniques increased productivity, it also had some other side effects. This type of technique, which relies on individual perception to produce, meant that our society as a whole remained in an era dominated by priests who had mastered advanced bronze-making techniques."
With gray hair and a weathered voice, Gaoyang Zhenkong of relief and emotion.
"But this can also be seen as an opportunity for our Bronze Human Race, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to create the Bronze Priest System later on."
The group then looked at the second picture, which depicted the discovery of the Galactic Transcendent Council, located far on the outskirts of the Solar System, where numerous professional stones were dropped, catalyzing the entire civilization's transition to the extraordinary era.
"It was precisely because our Bronze Human Race discovered this perception, which is close to the laws and principles, and has the potential to spontaneously transition to the transcendent era, that the inspectors of the Galactic Transcendent Council stationed here at the time believed that the conditions for starting the trial had been met. Before we had developed the power technology that most eras had mastered, we faced this trial."
The third image shows a battle between countless enormous beasts and tiny humans wielding bronze weapons, but the battle is extremely brutal.
Of the bronze buildings that once covered the land, only one in ten remains.
Today, Huayin Jiaoyue and the other professors and mentors do not feel much sadness about this scene, but rather view it with a sense of remembrance and reverence, for it is the path they came from.
From this picture, the Avatar also keenly sensed that these bronze artifacts and bronze buildings were somewhat different.
Even though it's engraved here, it contains a lower level of [Ruin Copper Spiritual Essence], and some patterns have even appeared that can resist attack Formation Domain.
"Then came that brutal professional trial. Although our ancestor [Qing] created the Bronze Priest System and led us to fight against those powerful beasts, he himself sacrificed himself in that war."
This trial also led to the Bronze Human Race, which had a population of over 100 million at the time, to only one million surviving as they transitioned into the Extraordinary Age.
Speaking of these things, Gaoyang Zhenkong, who had been somewhat calm, suddenly became as heavy as a thousand pounds, pressing down on every life present. His originally peaceful demeanor, like an elder introducing the glorious history of their ancestors to a younger generation, abruptly changed, Avatar could even sense a chilling killing intent.
"The inspector who initiated the trial was from a Middle Tier civilization within the Beast Clan Alliance. It was only after we annihilated them that we fully investigated and discovered that this was intentional on the part of the Beast Clan Alliance. They hoped to use this to eliminate the original intelligent race and give rise to a new Beastman civilization."
"And after we advanced to High Tier of civilization and launched a civilization war to destroy them, we also spurred the improvement of the modern professional Body Refinement."