Damn, I turned into a monster

Chapter 228, Section 226: What do you think I am?
After spending nearly three months in Baichi City and attending classes for three months, Wang Wu finally had a chance to take a vacation.

In these three months, his strength has also improved by leaps and bounds, and he is now not far from becoming a third-grade martial artist.

Of course, it may still take half a year or even a year to achieve this, but it's already quite good considering his current talent.

Even though his reshaped body after reaching the highest level gave him even greater talent than before, it still took time for him to reach the third rank.

Half a year, or a year, is a very short time, and it is insignificant compared to his current lifespan.

The Yin-Yang Divine Sect's techniques have the characteristic of prolonging life, and when martial artists reach the fourth-grade complete realm, their cultivation techniques will also provide an amplification to this stage as their bodies and brains are reshaped.

Moreover, it represents a substantial increase.

Each sect's cultivation methods provide their own unique enhancements during the process of reshaping the body and achieving a complete state.

Those who cultivate the Yin-Yang Divine Sect's techniques and achieve the 'Complete Realm' can also have their bodies referred to as the 'Yin Spirit True Body'.

Its effects are numerous, but one of the less important effects is that it greatly extends the lifespan of cultivators.

As for why it's an unimportant effect, it's because under normal circumstances, as long as one reaches the upper three ranks, lifespan can already be greatly extended.

Of course, this significant extension applies to the second-grade realm, while the lifespan of the third-grade realm is not that long, probably only tens of thousands of years.

However, if one cultivates the Yin Yin Divine Sect's techniques, the Yin Yin Divine Sect's 'Yin God True Body' can further extend the user's lifespan. After all, since the name contains the word 'god,' one is bound to live longer.

Moreover, it's not just a 'slight' increase, because it's a nearly tenfold increase in lifespan, directly increasing from 50,000 years to nearly 500,000 years.

Five hundred thousand years is a very long period of time. In Wang Wu's hometown, anatomically speaking, "modern humans" only officially appeared 300,000 years ago.

Before that, it was the era of 'Homo erectus', also known as late hominids.

Knowing how to use fire, knowing how to use tools.

Evolution is a slow process, and it's not always about achieving the best; it's always about getting what works. As a species, humanity naturally has many flaws in the process of evolution.

However, the path of martial arts, the path to transcendence, can push the evolutionary speed of the human species to its limit.

From the first hominid to walk upright on the ground to the first late hominid to light a fire, the time span is over a million years.

However, the time span between an ordinary modern human and a 'superhuman' who can conjure flames from the palm of their hand is no more than ten years.

Compressing millions, no, even tens of millions of years, into just a few short years—that is the path to the extraordinary.

For a superhuman, 100,000 years is an extremely long time.

Of course, for some extraordinary beings in certain worlds, this period may still be too short. After all, their talents are limited, and their development of the path to transcendence is extremely limited. This leads them to spend hundreds of thousands of years in seclusion, and even then, they may not be able to break through.

Finally, amidst endless anxiety and fear, they reach the end of their lives, turning into a speck of dust in the universe, and before dying, they sigh:
"Alas! The path to transcendence is so arduous!"

However, this problem does not exist in Earth martial arts, because no matter how poor your talent is, as long as you are not afraid of death, you will definitely have a chance to reach the top.

This is the true value of being born a god; Earthlings are the same.

As for why Wang Wu can also enjoy this kind of treatment, the answer is that Wang Wu is also an Earthling, so of course he can enjoy this kind of treatment as an Earthling. Isn't that a normal thing?
"This is Yingdu, the capital of my Great Chu."

After three months of 'devil training', Wang Wu chose to visit the Chu region on the ground during his vacation to see the local customs and culture.

He came to Yingdu, the capital of Chu, alone, without Tianwu or his master Yin Shenli. His master Yin Shenli had been completely immersed in the great joy of her improved strength.

Every day is nothing but death battles, and the speed at which his strength improves is like flying.

As for Wang Wu, he certainly worked very hard, and his progress was also very rapid. The First Emperor was very satisfied with his progress.

Of course, if this speed were with Yin Shenli or Prime Minister Qin, they would definitely reprimand Wang Wu. Prime Minister Qin might be alright, at most telling Wang Wu to try harder.

But Yin Shenli was different. She would only use the most offensive language to insult Wang Wu, and then use Wang Wu's tongue as a towel until... cough cough.

In short, Yin Shenli was extremely strict with Wang Wu, so strict that Wang Wu suffered greatly and could not bear the humiliation.

Now that he has arrived in Yingdu, he is accompanied only by a woman from the State of Chu whom he met a few days ago. She is not a noblewoman from a high-ranking family, but just an ordinary villager.

Of course, this villager was not so ordinary either, because she was very talented. When she was very young, she was spotted by a cultivator from the sect who came down to select disciples and brought back to the sect to cultivate.

For most ordinary people in this world, joining a sect is indeed a very good way out. Of course, if one lacks talent, one can also choose to work for the imperial court and become a clerk.

Just like in my hometown's ancient society, there is a significant difference between officials and clerks here. Of course, it's also different from my hometown, because clerks also need to pass an exam to take office, and clerks are a prerequisite for officials.

That's right, this is closer to the official system of my hometown in the modern world.

There is no imperial examination here, but there are separate examinations for selecting officials. These examinations are quite difficult, but once you pass, you are guaranteed a job. You start as a low-level clerk and work your way up until you become a high-ranking official or general.

However, it would be inappropriate to say that this society is a modern society disguised as an ancient society, because it is indeed quite different from that one.

Noble families and royalty control the most important departments of a country, while ordinary people can only become their deputies at best. Only a very few commoner officials can become prime ministers.

Moreover, the prime minister here doesn't have much power. Although his treatment is indeed top-notch, it's just a... cough cough, I digress.

Regardless, this did provide ordinary people with a path to upward mobility and gave them hope for the future.

At the same time, the powerful families here do not care about the background or social status of their members when arranging marriages. As a polygamous society, it is not a problem to marry as many women as you want.

As for the internal struggles after entering the family? Just tell me whether you got married or not, whether the lovers became a couple or not.

Nothing happened between Wang Wu and the female cultivator, as they had just met on the road and were currently only acquaintances.

"This place is really huge." Wang Wu followed her words and looked ahead at the incredibly tall city wall. Yingdu covers an area of ​​20,000 square kilometers, and the entire city is surrounded by a giant city wall that is hundreds of meters high.

If you were to fly up into the sky, you would find that the city has an extremely vast plain inside, and a huge river runs through the entire city.

The entire city is situated on the Chu River, another major river in the Chu Kingdom. Its width is slightly less than that of the Li River, where Baichi City is located, and its length is also slightly shorter.

Of course, it is still wider than any river on Earth in Wang Wu's hometown.

Yingdu was situated on this great river, spanning both banks. On the east and west sides of its massive city walls were also the city's two giant ports.

In these two huge ports, Wang Wu also saw some things that he recognized. If he wasn't mistaken, they should be coastal defense guns.

Moreover, it is a very large coastal defense gun, with a caliber that looks to be at least 1,000 millimeters. You should know that the Gustav Gun back home only had a caliber of 800 millimeters.

As for why Wang Wu could clearly see the caliber of the port's coastal defense cannons from dozens of kilometers away, well, he could see it clearly anyway. If he couldn't even see it from such a short distance, wouldn't his upgrade have been in vain? After all, he was a fourth-grade master.

"Once we enter the capital, you'll see even more luxurious things, Fellow Daoist Wang," Wei Yiyi said with a smile to Wang Wu beside her.

Wei Yiyi's strength was not very strong either, only at the True Realm level, but this did not affect her ability to fly into the sky, because Wang Wu carried her up.

"Alright, let's go down." After staring at the city for a while, Wang Wu led Wei Yiyi back to the ground. When they returned to the ground, Wei Yiyi still had a hint of reluctance on her face, clearly still savoring the feeling from just now.

After all, she had just been held in Wang Wu's arms.

The appearance of a demon is extremely lethal; even a sect cultivator like Wei Yiyi would find it difficult to withstand. She, however, was merely an ordinary True Realm cultivator within the sect. While she might be considered a winner in life among ordinary people, within the sect, she could only be described as middle class.

Or rather, the terms "high-income class" and "middle class" are actually not quite appropriate. Because in reality, there isn't such a class as "middle class," and even now, the True Realm level isn't exactly commonplace; it represents the backbone of any sect.

Even so, Wei Yiyi had little opportunity, or rather, little money, to experience being a monster. All the money she had earned over the years had been used to build up her family's wealth.

She was just an ordinary farm girl. After entering the sect and achieving the True Realm, she naturally obtained a lot of sect resources, and her income also increased dramatically.

Now that she had prospered, she naturally began to develop her family business. First, she purchased land, and then she started to get involved in commerce. This was the path that most commoner cultivators at the True Realm followed.

Then let your parents have a second spring, let them have more children, let those who already have siblings have as many children as possible, and start arranging marriages for those who are not married.

After all, cultivators have significantly reduced fertility, but ordinary people certainly do.

And so, with a True Realm cultivator as its foundation, a new local clan was established.

Population is resources, population is power. The more children a family has, the higher the chance of producing the next True Realm cultivator.

However, developing a family is destined to be a long process. Wei Yiyi is already 120 years old this year. She entered the True Realm at the age of 70 and began developing her family at the age of 75.

Today, the Wei family she belongs to has grown from a family of three—her father, her mother, and herself—into a large local clan of seventy people.

Yes, only seventy, because her parents had a very good relationship and only wanted to have children with each other. Although they had several children with Wei Yiyi's help, their efficiency was still not very high.

Her younger siblings are quite successful; they have all started their own families and careers. Last year, her eldest brother even added three sons and four daughters to the family, which made Wei Yiyi very happy.

This also made her work even harder when carrying out sect missions and serving as an offering to others.

This is the life of ordinary people and ordinary cultivators in this world. Wei Yiyi is a microcosm of an ordinary rural cultivator in this world.

He showed early promise and was noticed by a sect cultivator, who brought him into the sect to cultivate. At the age of seventy, he achieved the True Realm and began to develop his family, contributing to its growth.

Now, at 120 years old, she has made her family very prosperous, but she has neglected her personal life.

However, she does relax occasionally, but she doesn't have much time for dating.

She wasn't ugly at all; in fact, she was quite pretty. She had no shortage of suitors in the sect and was known as the "Fairy Wei Yi."

The True Realm is the limit that most 'ordinary people' in this world can reach.

Of course, with the cultivation techniques passed down by the Extreme Heaven Divine Sect, the True Realm will soon be over, and ordinary people will be able to reach even higher realms.

But that obviously won't happen in the next few years; it will take some time before it takes effect, and that time will be measured in decades.

Looking at the handsome man beside me, no, not just handsome, he was monstrous-looking.

Wei Yiyi's eyes almost stretched into tears, but she quickly regained her composure and suppressed the restlessness in her heart.

Because she was very clear that a man as outstanding and powerful as him was not someone an ordinary True Realm cultivator like her could ever hope to reach.

Being able to travel with him for this long is already very good; as for anything else, she doesn't dare to ask for too much.

"Oh! What a handsome young man! Why don't you come to my carriage for a chat?"

Back on the road, the two continued forward, but after walking for a short while, a frivolous voice caught their attention.

Wang Wu looked in the direction of the sound and saw a thigh exposed outside, as well as a beautiful face half-hidden behind the car window.

"Hmph." Wang Wu looked at the other person and snorted coldly, "What do you take me for?"

"Hehe, my little husband, if you're willing to serve me, I can give you some unexpected benefits!"

"Besides, my looks and figure are far superior to those of the female cultivators around you who are wrapped up tightly. Why not give it a try?"

As she spoke, the woman kicked forward, and a smelly cloth shoe flew off her foot and hit Wang Wu in the face.

(End of this chapter)