Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 447 Mind
"Lord of the city, Father, something terrible has happened!"

Li Feng rushed to Li Luo's study where he handled official business, his expression still showing lingering shock.

"The sky won't fall."

Li Luo reprimanded him with displeasure: "In the future, you will be responsible for taking over my duties and maintaining the normal operation of Vermilion Bird City and even the cities of Radiant Star. How can you be so careless?"

“I…I understand, thank you for your kindness, Father, but…but…Ji Fuyou is here! And…”

Li Feng spoke quickly, clearly knowing that he needed to focus on the key points in his description: "His strength is not at the eighth rank at all, not even the ninth rank as we guessed! It's the tenth rank!"

As he spoke, he gasped for breath: "He has cultivated the Starlight Saint Body and advanced to the tenth level, equivalent to the mid-stage of the Heavenly Realm!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly found that the room had become very quiet.

His father...

The Lord of the Vermilion Bird Holy City, a supreme expert of the Shining Star realm, the pillar of his clan, and a ninth-tier Heavenly Realm expert who once came into contact with envoys from a higher civilization and was bestowed with the blood of the Phoenix…

At this moment, it was as if he had been frozen in place, completely still and standing there motionless.

Immediately, Li Feng's heavy breathing also involuntarily decreased.

After a breath or two, he cautiously and tentatively called out, "Father?"

And these two words...

Like calling back a soul, it finally broke the deathly silence in the arena.

Li Luo's pupils visibly widened, and then suddenly contracted.

After this change, he seemed to finally open his mouth, uttering a slightly hoarse voice: "Ten...tenth rank!?"

"Tenth rank".

Li Feng nodded emphatically.

"Starlight Holy Body?"

Li Luo asked again.

"Yes, the Starlight Holy Body!"

This was witnessed by Li Feng, who was also planning to accompany Ji Fuyou to welcome his arrival.

After asking the question, Li Luo fell silent again.

He knew very well how he broke through to the ninth rank.

This step was only possible by tapping into the potential of the Phoenix Blood.

If he cultivates normally, it will take him at least another year or two to reach the ninth level of the Heavenly Realm.

It wouldn't be surprising if it took longer, and only with the help of the second round of the Heavenly Ranking Trial, could one achieve a breakthrough.

Knowing the difficulty of breaking through to the Heavenly Realm, even after Fang Qiyun reached the eighth level and Li Feng claimed to have seen a lot of information about the Heavenly Realm in the Void God Realm, he still didn't believe that Ji Fuyou could break through so quickly.

But as it turns out...

He was wrong, terribly wrong.

Level ten!

Ji Fuyou not only reached the ninth-order Heavenly Realm long ago, but also made further progress in the control of the ninth-order Heaven and Earth, entering the star-shaping stage and advancing to the tenth order, which is equivalent to the middle stage of the Heavenly Realm!

He can have such a miraculous encounter as the Phoenix Blood, but Ji Fuyou can't?!
Not only did he have such extraordinary experiences, but his adventures were even more exaggerated than those he had.

It is infinitely more powerful.

"Really..."

Li Luo opened his mouth, wanting to comment, but in the end, only four words came out.

"Incredible!"

Those who wield power turn the impossible into the possible time and time again!
Ji Fuyou's advancement to the tenth rank at an unprecedented speed, before the second round of the Heavenly Ranking War had even begun, is nothing short of an impossible miracle.
"Father, Chairman Ji is currently in talks with Lord Yuan Yi. As the host, should we... also go and meet with Chairman Ji? See if we can offer any assistance or obtain any benefits during these talks?"

Li Feng whispered a reminder.

"It's time to go see Chairman Ji."

Li Luosheng nodded.

"Tenth rank... Let alone the second round of the Heavenly Ranking War, many civilizations that survived the third round of the Heavenly Ranking War might not even be able to produce such a powerful figure..."

With such extraordinary figures existing in the Crimson Star Civilization, as long as no particularly unusual circumstances arise, surviving the third round of the Heavenly Ranking War should not be a problem.

While each battle in the Heavenly Rankings carries risks, it also brings enormous rewards.

After two rounds of war, it's not guaranteed that Ji Fuyou will reach the twelfth rank, but the probability of advancing to the eleventh rank is almost one hundred percent.

And the eleventh rank has a high chance of surviving the fourth round of the Heavenly Ranking War...

If left to grow, the Crimson Star Civilization, in terms of potential alone, is already catching up with those civilizations in the fifth or even sixth round.

Yaoxing must do everything in its power to befriend this civilization.

Only in this way can both sides make rapid progress and grow together.

Having fully grasped all of this, Li Luo stood up impatiently: "Let's go to the Wanling Clan's courtyard right now."

……

At this moment, Ji Fuyou and several members of the Wanling Clan had arrived inside the courtyard and taken their seats, where he briefly introduced the characteristics of the Wanling Realm and the Void God Realm.

During this process, Wanling's agents, as well as Fang Qiyun, Xiao Hanxue, and Gu Yinbing who came with Ji Fuyou, kept secretly glancing at him.

Fang Qiyun recalled the scene of Ji Fuyou cultivating on Cloud Peak Mountain more than once. At that time, he was always surrounded by starlight, and she wondered if Ji Fuyou was shaping a celestial body.

However, this guess was too far-fetched, and the gap between the eighth and tenth ranks was too huge, so she dared not hope for it or think about it too much, for fear of being disappointed.

But right now...

Ji Fuyou manifested a celestial body in full view of everyone, surrounded by starlight, and countless people gasped in shock...

The speculation has now been completely confirmed.

At this moment, an unprecedented joy filled her heart. If it weren't for the crucial occasion of her meeting with Yuan Yi, the highest authority in the Realm of All Spirits, she probably would have cheered.

Compared to her, Xiao Hanxue and Gu Yinbing acted more normally.

Xiao Hanxue never doubted her captain's talent and strength.

In addition, she herself did not have a deep understanding of the power of the ninth and tenth ranks, and she only knew that the captain was invincible.

As for Gu Yinbing, she had a similar mindset.

Although she tried to catch up with Ji Fuyou every time, she always managed to leave him far behind. After a while, she seemed to get used to it.

While they were lost in thought, Ji Fuyou and Yuan Yi's conversation had also reached a deeper level.

"The suicide rate is rising sharply? People who upload their consciousness to the Realm of All Souls have already gained near-immortality, yet the suicide rate is getting higher and higher?"

Ji Fuyou was somewhat surprised.

"We can't understand this either."

Yuan Yi sighed, "We dare not release the actual suicide figures at present, otherwise it will inevitably cause great panic. Many people are looking for solutions, but they have not found a way. They only know that it may be related to mental state."

"Mental condition..."

Ji Fuyou's heart skipped a beat: "Emptiness?"

"Correct."

Yuan Yidao: "Numerous data show that once they lose their physical form, they are naturally unable to effectively access new information from the material world through their bodies. Over time, they will be swallowed up by emptiness and nothingness, and will feel that life is meaningless, thus choosing suicide."

"Emptiness, nothingness..."

Ji Fuyou pondered for a moment, and soon grasped another key point: "The meaning of life, the continuation of life without attachments, without anything to rely on, naturally has no meaning to living."

"That's one of the guesses."

Yuan Yidao said, "We have heard that your civilization has also chosen a similar path, so we are eager to communicate with your civilization to see if we can find a solution."

"Although our civilization has followed a similar path, we have not abandoned our physical form."

As Ji Fuyou spoke, he turned his gaze to Yuan Yi: "Can't we just let those consciousness entities download their consciousness back into their flesh and blood bodies? Let them live again in flesh and blood form?"

"It's hard."

Yuan Yidao said, "On the one hand, if we really did that, it would overturn the meaning of our existence as a race of myriad spirits; on the other hand..."

He gave a bitter laugh: "There's no going back?"

"Huh? The technology doesn't support it?"

Ji Fuyou looked at the highest authority of the Wanling Clan.

"It's not that the technology doesn't support it, but rather that once you've uploaded your consciousness and enjoyed that complete freedom, having to return to your physical body and endure its various constraints, such as fatigue, pain, disability, and physiological changes, becomes unbearable for everyone, leading them to upload their consciousness again."

Yuan Yidao said, "Even if some people's consciousness is forcibly imprisoned in their flesh and blood, most people will still choose to commit suicide after a long time. Only a very small number of people can survive and live numbly, but they will not live for long."

"Imprisoned within flesh and blood..."

Ji Fuyou's expression was somewhat strange.

When did the flesh and blood become a form of confinement?

Is it torture to keep the Wanling race living in bodies?

What kind of fallacy is this?
and……

"With the biotechnology of the Wanling race, how could a body created still have injuries and defects?"

Ji Fuyou asked.

"The disability I'm referring to isn't physical disability, but rather... psychological disability. This involves a very peculiar mechanism, namely, the perception of 'I'."

Yuan Yi pondered for a moment and said, "Take the most basic game on Red Star as an example. We start from scratch, create a character, and gradually make him stronger. But if the game updates very quickly and you can't keep up, then you find a character that is stronger than you and can be bought with just a little money. Many people will waver and choose another character. Once they do that, they lose the essence of the game."

He said in a deep voice, "Because there are always more powerful characters for sale than the one you just bought."

Ji Fuyou quickly understood what Yuan Yi meant.

"When the members of the Myriad Spirits Clan upload their consciousness and abandon their original bodies, even if they obtain more refined bodies, they will not cherish them. Instead, they will repeatedly replace them with more 'perfect' bodies. However, even the most 'perfect' body will be constrained by the form of flesh and blood. Compared to a pure ideology, it will always be incomplete. In the end, they will not be able to bear it, break free of the shackles, and return to the Myriad Spirits Realm."

Yuan Yi paused as he spoke, then added, "In fact, those members of the Myriad Spirits Clan who have had this experience have a much higher suicide rate than others after returning to the Myriad Spirits Realm."

Physical injuries and disabilities are easy to repair, but how can psychological injuries and disabilities be healed?

Ji Fuyou was somewhat moved.

Yuan nodded.

Based on Yuan Yi's description, Ji Fuyou eventually came to a conclusion.

"The biggest problem of the All-Spirit Race is not in their bodies, nor in the All-Spirit Realm, but in their minds."

He looked at Genichi: "After your consciousness was uploaded, it corrupted your will, destroyed your beliefs, and eroded your souls."

(End of this chapter)