Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

"What exactly is a human being?"

Can machines that are manufactured and mass-produced be considered life?

"When machines possess human skin and human organs, how do we define the relationship between the two?"

What exactly is the difference between humans and machines?

Does God need to possess humanity?

Viewing life and the world from the perspective of technological civilization is completely different from the cultivation civilization.

Faced with the same problem, the two civilizations chose to explain it from different directions, and in the end, they also came to seemingly plausible but ultimately flawed conclusions.

It is still unknown who is right and who is wrong.

But what Mu An saw and heard in the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm did give him a new understanding of the world.

The civilization of the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm is a completely different form of civilization from the Nine Domains and the Crafting Realm, and it is also quite different from the technological civilization that Mu An initially had in mind.

Technological advancements have made material wealth abundant, allowing almost all material needs to be met.

In the daily grind, spiritual pursuits have become the mainstream goal, and utopia is no longer just a fantasy.

but……

With the continuous development of science and technology, the world's development direction has taken a slight detour.

Contrary to the initial predictions of human philosophers, the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm did not become a perfect society, but instead raced along a different path.

In the entire Tiangong world, the ratio of machines to humans is one hundred to one.

Looking around, robots are everywhere in the city, making humans seem like a rare species.

When machines become indistinguishable from humans, when humans are no longer conceived naturally, when emotions no longer belong solely to humans, when intelligence simulates emotions more perfectly than humans and composes stories more vividly than humans.

All concepts related to humanity have become blurred, and traditional ethics and morality have been gradually overturned.

In the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm, humans can reproduce without forming connections through desire, even on their own.

They can choose to live alone, or they are free to choose the person they live with.

This object can be a human being like them, or it can be a machine that has been given some human senses.

Of course, for most humans living in the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm, these are troubles among troubles.

Other humans, highly realistic machines...

In the eyes of the people who live here, it's all a kind of trouble.

The civilization and entertainment of the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm are advanced enough that everyone can satisfy all their desires in countless ways.

Whether it's offspring or living partners, they are widely regarded as burdens and excluded from life.

Even if they are forced to have offspring for the sake of the continuation of the human race, the vast majority of people in the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm will not take on the responsibility of caring for their offspring.

Instead, after their children are born, they send them to appropriate care facilities to be raised by machines and a very small number of "retro-minded" humans.

Generation after generation, in an endless cycle, this pattern has been maintained in the Tiangong Empire for nearly 100,000 years.

……

The Celestial Empire spans seventeen star systems, encompassing seven hundred and thirty-eight star systems and containing tens of thousands of inhabited planets.

This vast empire, except for Tiangong Star which was forcibly anchored in the old era and maintained a relatively ancient way of life, had taken "entertainment to the death" to the extreme in its seventeen other star systems.

Even those backward human civilizations that have only been discovered in recent years and joined the Heavenly Craft Empire will be assimilated by the Heavenly Craft world in a very short time.

After joining the Celestial Empire, within just a few hundred years, they will abandon all their traditions and past habits, embarking on a path of "entertainment to the death" from which there is no turning back.

Even the most conservative forces can only hold out for three or four hundred years at most.

As the first few generations pass away, the advanced civilization of the Heavenly Craft Empire will assimilate everything, allowing all those who join the Heavenly Craft Empire to participate in this endless carnival.

……

Walk from the seventy-two floors of Luochuan Castle all the way to the bottom of the castle, and then walk from the castle gate to the end of Luochuan City.

Li Chu led Mu An for a long time, long enough for Mu An to see the entire Luochuan City clearly with her own eyes, to understand the city, the star system, and the civilization from a perspective different from that of the gods.

Because she had to handle many things at the same time, Li Chu divided herself into three parts.

A unit located at the apex of the galaxy, handling emergencies from across the entire Luochuan galaxy.

She plays the role of a mother reunited with her daughter after a long separation, expressing her affection without reservation, and staying by Li Yin's side like an ordinary mother.

One of them accompanied Mu An, leading him through Luochuan City, occasionally exchanging a few words and introducing some novel things.

Although she was acting as Mu An's guide, Li Chu mostly remained silent, not expressing her own subjective opinions, and letting Mu An see for herself.

In this process, Mu An also adhered to the principle of seeing more, listening more, and learning more, gradually understanding this advanced technological civilization.

When Mu An arrived in the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm, he had already gained a macroscopic understanding of this world.

Now, he walks in the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm, using his eyes to see, his ears to hear, and a microscopic perspective to understand the world anew.

A different perspective, a different feeling.

The vastly different forms of civilization allowed Mu An to gain a deeper understanding of the Great Dao.

……

The visit lasted for a full twenty years, and the two walked neither too fast nor too slow.

Over the course of twenty years, accompanied by Li Chu and with Qinghe who followed him everywhere, he traveled to thirty-six stars and more than two hundred cities.

He witnessed cutting-edge technology, advanced civilization, and chaotic ethics.

Machines and humans coexist.

This is Mu An's assessment of the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm.

The machine is in front, and the person is behind.

On the surface, all intelligent life forms and mechanical products in the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm serve humanity.

However, if you delve deeper, you will find that the humans of the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm have long lost their dreams and pursuits, and are stagnant in their own world.

They live in a wonderful world created by intelligent life and machines, having abandoned the creativity that belongs to humankind.

If the god-making project that maintains the rule of the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm had not been modeled after humans, the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm would probably have become a world of machines long ago.

In fact, throughout the past, the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm has witnessed countless rebellions initiated by intelligent life forms.

Only because of the existence of these human gods did these rebellions not cause too much of a stir.

The core power of the entire world has always been firmly controlled by humankind and by the gods.

Intelligent life, on the other hand, oscillates between restriction and liberation.

Sometimes the machine is granted more permissions, and sometimes it is restricted.

There is no clear standard for the balance between them, and the adjustment is mostly made by the Tiangong Council.

In this process of development, the intelligent life in the Celestial Craftsmanship Realm also went in two different directions.

Civilian-made ones are more refined, more emotional, and more like a real person.

The administrative offices and the military use a more impersonal approach, with a greater emphasis on security.