Chapter 248: 247 Heaven's Chosen

On the online world where Master Guan Yu was, or more precisely, the uproar in the martial arts world, Wang Wu paid no attention to such matters. After leaving the examination hall and officially entering the Qiong Lan Sect, Wang Wu entered a tense and exciting period of study.

"The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao."

"The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

"Since the name is not eternal, it is like the sound in a vessel."

"Since the Dao is not eternal, it is like the light of the sun..."

Three months after entering the Qiong Lan Sect, Wang Wu was on a planet belonging to the sect, swaying his head as he recited a cultivation method. Although he didn't know the point of reciting this stuff, everyone else was doing it.

In fact, students who had just entered the Qiong Lan Sect were not taught any cultivation methods. They were only given some books, and these books weren't cultivation manuals either—just ordinary scriptures.

They were the same kind of Daoist scripture books Wang Wu was very familiar with back home. Although he had never read a single one, he was very familiar with the few lines he had just recited from some movies and novels.

Where did this stuff come from? The Dao De Jing or something? Since he had no interest in cultivation back home, he naturally wouldn't know.

But here, this thing came from an ancient text of the Qiong Lan Sect, a book called the 'Heavenly Dharma Scripture.'

The ancient text was naturally passed down from antiquity, and this Heavenly Dharma Scripture had a significant origin. It was said to have existed even before the Qiong Yuan Civilization existed.

Simply put, this cultivation method was something the Qiong Yuan Civilization found from the ruins of a long-lost civilization. It had a very long history and was said to contain great secrets.

According to some know-it-alls in the class, although this scripture seemed ordinary, it actually hid a peerless divine art. If someone could decipher it, their fate would be completely changed.

Wang Wu naturally scoffed at this kind of claim. Not exactly scoffed, but at least he couldn't care less.

He was reciting this stuff just to pass the time, since it was usually pretty boring.

For examinees like them, after entering the sect, there would be a fairly long relaxed period. Since the sect wouldn't teach them any methods, they wouldn't assign any tasks either. Basically, they just needed to earn contribution points once a year.

This period would last for ten years, mainly to let the cultivators adapt to their place of cultivation and give them plenty of free time to handle social relationships.

Social relationships were very important in the cultivation world, to some extent even more important than cultivation and Dao attainment.

As the saying goes, temper the heart in the mortal world. If one hadn't struggled and toiled in the mundane world, the path of cultivation would never be complete.

Of course, here it was the 'Immortal Realm,' while the mortal world was the place these newly initiated cultivators had come from.

Only major sects at the level of the Qiong Yuan Sect and the higher-level super cities could be considered the 'Immortal Realm,' while everything below that was the mortal world, the mundane world.

And here, some things were actually the opposite of the cultivation novels back in Wang Wu's hometown.

In the mortal world, one cultivated diligently every day without pause, hardly wasting any time on anything other than cultivation, much like preparing for the college entrance exams back home.

But it was different here—here, you were preparing for the college entrance exams from the moment you were born.

No need to consider social relationships, no need to consider anything. As long as your talent was sufficient, even if you came from a poor family, the local sect would immediately take you in and provide you with the best living conditions.

And everything, absolutely everything, was for the moment you came of age, or rather, the moment your Dao attainment was accomplished—

To participate in the major sect's entrance examination.

As for those with insufficient talent, they could naturally come into contact with social relationships earlier than these small-town geniuses. Since there was no hope of further education, they naturally had to enter society early to support their families.

This was actually a society similar to Wang Wu's hometown, alike in many ways. The only difference was the addition of supernatural powers and immortals who could fly through the sky and burrow into the earth.

As for geniuses like them, it was different from the top universities back home. After entering, they weren't immediately thrown into studies but were allowed to play for a while first.

Of course, for a genius among geniuses like Wang Wu, the entertainment time was relatively shorter—only five years.

After five years, the Qiong Lan Sect would assign Wang Wu a master. Wang Wu didn't know who the master would be, nor what they would teach him—everything was random.

Of course, if you had connections at home, you could naturally get in touch with or choose a master you wanted in advance, but that required having connections.

As for Wang Wu, because of First Day Wu and the other two masters, he could actually enjoy this treatment too. But Wang Wu wasn't interested in such things, so he let them handle the arrangements for him.

As for what he himself was doing during this time, well, he was of course cultivating. If those cultivators who had passed the exam were indulging in revengeful entertainment, then he was doing it with a purpose...

Well, okay, he really was cultivating, always diligently studying and training hard. At most, it could only be considered balancing work and rest.

"Only thus can one be called a possessor of the Dao, not only excelling on a single peak but reaching all nations..."

He continued muttering, ignoring the young couple in the corner who thought they were very hidden but were actually completely exposed in Wang Wu's eyes, intensely exchanging secret information. As a monster, he had seen this kind of scene far too many times.

At least these humans knew to turn off the lights. In Sky Python City, the monsters would just find some nook or cranny they thought was hidden and not a public place, and start right there.

Of course, some people would use illusion techniques too. That way, if they got caught, they could still argue that they simply couldn't help themselves and didn't mean to disregard the law.

Doing it in broad daylight in Sky Python City was naturally illegal. Although not a serious offense, it would still result in detention and fines. And enforcement was quite strict, because if this law wasn't in place, the city would be in chaos.

For the sake of maintaining stability, having such rules and regulations was inevitable.

This rule existed in almost all monster cities in the Tian Yuan Realm, as well as in the monster civilization of this star system. Although Wang Wu hadn't spent much time in the Wind Kingdom, they did have such a law there.

But they also had public restrooms there, and they were unisex, so those places were always packed with monsters.

As for humans, human society was naturally different, with different social concepts. So such incidents were rare here. Even in the place Wang Wu was currently in, the number of young couples he could see wasn't actually that many.

After all, it had only been three months. Most people's mindsets hadn't changed yet. They still maintained their original state, diligently reciting scriptures every day, diligently studying, thinking about whether they could become the Chosen One.

Even though what had been handed down was just a super-ancient document that had been studied for millions of years without any results, before reality had completely crushed them and made them recognize their own limits, they still possessed the pride of being 'Heaven's Chosen.'

After all, among those here, who wasn't?

(Chapter End)