Chapter 714: Saint or Death

"I don't know. At the end of the immortal road, there may be a saint or a dead person."

Bai Mo only gave an ambiguous reply.

"Is this really the right path..." Xu Xuanling muttered in his heart after hearing this.

Not only her, but everyone else has also thought about this crucial matter. Is the way Bai Mo found out really okay?

Some people tried to believe it after deduction, and then tried hard to cross the boundary of immortality.

Of course, many more people tried their best and are still missing.

The path to immortality through reincarnation has never been a smooth road, and once it fails, it will most likely disappear silently into another world.

This also brought a huge trouble to the Federation - no one was sure whether the people who disappeared during the tribulation were dead or not.

For a sixth-level monk with countless wealth to his name, but whose life or death is uncertain, too many people will be interested in what he leaves behind.

They are often the strongest within their families and organizations. If they suddenly disappear, their subordinates and descendants may not be able to keep what they have in the midst of hungry wolves.

Just like the Yunjie who disappeared without saying hello, the Yun family, which was once the strongest pillar of the federation, instantly degenerated into several second-rate families who competed for family property and refused to accept the other.

But if Yun Jie can return to the Federation after becoming an immortal, integrate these people who once belonged to the same banner, and liquidate those outsiders who have tried to seize the family wealth, then he will soon be the leader of the Federation again.

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Apart from those who believe in Bai Mo, there are naturally many people who are always skeptical. They stop where they are and try to find their own way.

Sixth-level monks have a full life span of two to three thousand years. It is not completely unacceptable to spend an extra three to five hundred years to find a path that is more suitable for them.

As long as they can tolerate the latecomers who have successfully ascended to immortality and take away the rights that originally belong to them.

The Federation has always been a society where the strong are respected.

The power of immortals is real.

A seventh-level immortal who has just been promoted can easily deal with ten sixth-level perfections.

The second metamorphosis of life forms made the gap between the two as vast as a cloud of mud.

The right to vote in the Bundestag speaks for itself.

Each person in the fifth level has one vote, each person in the sixth level has twenty votes, and each person in the seventh level has five hundred votes.

But no matter what, in such a fast-paced modern society, choosing to disappear for decades to return to another world is still an extremely risky decision.

When you come back after a few decades, it is very likely that everything in the world has changed. After all, this is not a fantasy world. You can come out of seclusion for tens or hundreds of years and everything will be the same as before, with dancing and horses running.

Decades of scientific and technological development of mankind are enough to bring about earth-shaking changes to the entire society.

Just like the Cloud Tribulation, before the Tribulation, the Human Federation was still just a wandering race trapped in a corner of the moon.

Over the past few decades, the Federation's footprint has spread over half of the solar system, and its population has expanded from billions to hundreds of billions.

The rapid expansion of population depends on two factors.

First, the assimilation of aliens through transformation and cultural transformation.

The Martians, Mercury, and Venusians who were sent to various noble hereditary leader ships for assimilation and education... After decades of hard work, their original culture and once inhuman bodies have been completely wiped out. It took on human form inside and out.

Although there are still some stubborn humans who insist on the concept of pure blood and look down on naturalized people, and there is still some vague discrimination in society, they have indeed become a member of the Human Federation.

The first generation of naturalized people may still have some original memories left. After all, the memory of their mother tongue is always difficult to completely wash away. But by the second generation, they have been taught to become human beings from birth.

To them, their "ancestors" two generations ago are no different from how humans see monkeys today.

Second, the birth of artificial womb technology.

This is an epoch-making invention, both for the Federation and the White Land.

It allows humans to get rid of the restriction on fertility rate caused by pregnancy in ten months. Of course, more importantly, childbirth no longer needs to be voluntary.

As long as there are sufficient germ cell samples on hand, any force that can use artificial womb technology can produce a large number of people, and then conduct loyalty education from an early age, and become their own direct lineage when they grow up.

However, this is obviously a violation of human rights, and the federal government has explicitly prohibited such things. However, the huge benefits still make many forces do it in private.

Anyway, as long as the population production base is placed on the hereditary leader ship of the nobles, generally no one will know about it.

Having a large number of loyal subordinates is the dream of every organizational leader.

As for germ cells, those are the best to get. There are countless black markets all over the Great Thousand Leaders, waiting for the poor to sell everything they can.

Compared with selling non-renewable organs, selling reproductive cells is undoubtedly a long-term business.

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The sun is the source of life in the solar system. The sunlight and heat released through nuclear fusion every minute and every second bring life and civilization.

Coal and oil, which symbolize the food and blood of pre-industrial civilization, are essentially solar energy stored hundreds of millions of years ago.

Today's Federation, apart from the evil technology of lighting up artificial wombs, has basically got rid of its dependence on fossil energy minerals.

They developed the black technology of using plastic waste to reverse industrial production of coal and oil, and at the same time, they also moved towards a new era of mixed use of atomic energy and psychic energy.

That’s why I have the qualification to go to the sea of ​​stars.

After all, there is no planet in the known universe that still has coal and oil.

Without this most important industrialized raw material, humanity's original industrialized technology tree is equivalent to being broken at the waist. Trying to bypass them to develop industry... is no less difficult than rubbing a nuclear bomb with your hands.

Of course, there are not many fierce people in the Federation who can rub nuclear bombs with their bare hands. If a seventh-level immortal is willing to use his full abilities, he can indeed rub nuclear bombs with his bare hands.

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Without the constraints of the Star Spirit, the speed at which the White Ink Whale swallowed the sun became even more terrifying, and the surrounding gravity also changed enough to attract the attention of ordinary people.

The first to notice all this was naturally Xu Xuan Zero, who had a shadow left in the sun, and then the federal observation station.

On the contrary, ordinary people living in the Daqian leader ship have no feeling at all about the changes in the sun's gravity.

Because they are inside the Daqian leader ship, which has an artificial gravity source controlled by a computer, which rebalances gravity all the time to ensure that changes in gravity will not make humans feel uncomfortable.

Federal scientists discovered decades ago that the gravity of the living environment has a great impact on human health.

For example, if the gravity is less than the normal value of the earth, the human balance system will be abnormal, which will lead to nausea, vomiting and other phenomena. If you live in a weightless zone for a long time, the body muscles will even gradually degenerate.

Intermediate and high-level transcendent beings protected by life fields will be fine, but ordinary people have no way to avoid the side effects of weightlessness and can only live in an environment that artificially simulates gravity sources.