Otherworld Advance Team-Chapter 1764 - 1757: Strength Ranking

In handling such issues, the Yichuan Clan has always taken a lenient approach. Of course, this is not for the sake of the performer, but rather for the child’s feelings.

No matter the faults of the performer, she is still the child’s mother, and separation is the best choice. If she were to be executed, it would be detrimental to the internal unity of the Yichuan Clan should the child learn of it one day.

Of course, once the performer is expelled, it means she will no longer have any contact with the child. Even if someone tries to use her to threaten them in the future, the Yichuan Clan will not compromise.

Yichuan Lai is a sly old fox. Even if punished this time, it’s likely he will make the same mistake again.

Yet, within the Yichuan Clan, both the patriarch and Yichuan Fei, who is in charge of family affairs, exercise great restraint towards this matter, turning a blind eye.

The Yichuan Clan needs to maintain the strength of the tribe, so they are happy to see new descendants being born.

As the Yichuan Clan becomes a target of many, they are very sensitive to the matter of their survival. In addition to ensuring the continuous growth of the tribe, they also scatter many descendants among the people to prevent being wiped out by enemies. Xing Hu is the best example.

After dealing with family affairs, Yichuan Fei hurriedly left Liangyu Mansion, rushing to the Capital City to discuss matters with his father, while the Advance Team stayed in the mansion awaiting a response.

They stayed at Liangyu Mansion for two days, and during these two days, Yichuan Fei did not return, nor was there any news.

Xing Hu and Qingtang were still in a state of shock, unable to accept the situation. However, since his identity was already revealed, the servants in the mansion treated him with great respect, truly considering him a young master of the Yichuan Clan.

In their spare time, the Advance Team did not sit idle; they went around gathering intelligence. After two days of effort, they managed to collect quite a bit of valuable information, especially about the Yichuan Clan.

Do not underestimate the Yichuan Clan as the leaders of the Wen Family group; they also possess the strongest combat power below the Nascent Soul Realm, which was the Yichuan Xv whom the Advance Team had encountered before.

Yichuan Xv is a master at the peak of the late Golden Core Realm, just one step away from entering the Nascent Soul Realm. However, he seems to have given up on the idea of becoming a god, so his realm remains at the Golden Core Realm.

There are many different standards for ranking the strength of cultivators in Kyushu.

Firstly, the official standard acknowledges the Emperor Wu as the most powerful cultivator in the entire Empire, without exception.

But in fact, because the Emperor Wu only needs to defeat other throne contenders within the clan to have the chance to become the new Emperor Wu, although claimed to be number one, it is not truly the case.

Next is the ranking of generals’ strength, which is also one of the official rankings.

Before the Dongsheng Empire’s military reforms, the most direct way for generals to advance to high positions was by elevating their realm.

This ranking is not absolutely accurate either because if it were purely based on realm, Yichuan Xv would undoubtedly move up to become the highest-ranking general in the Empire, which is the Grand General of the Imperial Palace.

In reality, however, the current Grand General of the Imperial Palace is Gaofeng Yang from Yun State. Yichuan Xv’s rank is as a Senior General of the Executive Council.

There are many reasons for such rankings, including military reforms like the consolidation of commanders who need both troop command abilities and high-level realms.

Moreover, connections play a role; Yichuan Xv’s rank as a Senior General of the Executive Council also puts him in command of the Forbidden Army of the Capital City.

The most direct reason for his command over the Forbidden Army is his familial ties as the nephew of the Emperor Wu, who naturally prefers to entrust such elite forces crucial to the Capital City’s security to his relatives.

Thus, while according to the generals’ ranking, Gaofeng Yang is the Empire’s strongest general, in reality, he is slightly weaker than Yichuan Xv, who is truly an invincible master.

There are many theories as to why he no longer advances his realm.

Based on the intelligence the Advance Team gathered and their own experiences, the most direct reason Yichuan Xv gave up cultivation is probably his concern about a decline in his strength.

According to the Advance Team’s understanding of the Nascent Soul, no matter how cultivators refine themselves, they are unlikely to surpass or even reach the technological level of the Ancestors, like encasing consciousness within specific objects using magical power.

Therefore, the so-called Nascent Soul is essentially using the body as a vehicle to convert consciousness into a Nascent Soul, much like the demigods they are familiar with.

But the body ages, and no matter how these Nascent Soul Realm cultivators struggle, once their bodies die, their consciousness, no matter how strong, is futile.

Fula from the Advance Team initially became a demigod using her body as a vessel, perfectly fitting the Eastern Continent’s cultivation system’s description of the Nascent Soul.

But as everyone saw the result, as her body gradually died, her consciousness slowly faded. The Advance Team had no choice but to transfer her consciousness copy into a crystal, preserving her.

In reality, everyone knows the real Fulajie’er has died; the current Fulajie’er is merely a consciousness copy constructed with magical components.

Using her body to drive the demigod, Fulajie’er is akin to an unmanned drone operator, simultaneously controlling her consciousness copy.

Thus, it’s inferred that the Nascent Soul model in the Eastern Continent is likely similar to Fulajie’er’s, initiating with constructing a magical consciousness copy and then proceeding with synchronized control.

While unmanned drone operators are indeed quite safe, operators too suffer from birth, aging, illness, and death. This means that no matter how powerful a Nascent Soul is, once the vessel ages and dies, the Nascent Soul will dissipate.

The War of the Gods destroyed the Ancestors, so the surviving artificial intelligences faithfully performed the duties assigned by the Ancestors, not allowing uncontrollable True Gods to emerge in this world.

Hence, the Eastern Continent’s cultivation system is destined to be incomplete, and the Nascent Soul Realm, though powerful, has many drawbacks. This is probably one of Yichuan Xv’s concerns.

Human abilities are limited; the deeper one delves into the operation of magical power, the more fragile the body feels.

The body restricts the pursuit of higher magical power output, meaning the best way to increase output is to abandon the physical body.

However, Tana strictly restricts the development direction of the Otherworld, making a great effort to suppress the appearance of True Gods. Thus, in the Western Continent, mages will not abandon their bodies in pursuit of powerful magical output.

The highest-ranking mages in the Western Continent are Forbidden Curse Mages, who cannot escape the body’s limitation on magical output. Although they possess magic power on the level of nuclear weapons, this is the ultimate output at the cost of life.

Fulajie’er and Liseya in the Western Continent are complete exceptions. It wasn’t for their access to the Ancestors’ technology; they would never have had the chance to become demigods, as their death of the body would directly lead to their demise.

Because of this, the Advance Team finds it difficult to understand the Eastern Continent’s pursuit of transcending to immortality. Is this in-between state truly meaningful?

Of course, the Advance Team hails from Earth, growing up in a scientific environment, so they excel at interpreting the phenomena of the Otherworld through scientific methods.

However, the people of the Otherworld lack this scientific spirit; the majority remain in a primitive state, attributing abnormal phenomena more to deities and ghosts, though there indeed exist so-called gods in the Otherworld.

Even today, they still believe that man can conquer nature, not believing in the existence of so-called shackles.

In more primitive times, people were more inclined towards idealism, believing that human will could control the operation of heaven and earth. They were unwilling to accept that humans can only transform the world, not change it.

Returning to Yichuan Xv’s case, he is indeed smart, understanding how to timely cut losses, not excessively pursuing the highest martial power.

Yet, despite this, with his cultivation at the peak of the late Golden Core Realm, he still manages to overwhelm competitors.

The success of Yichuan Xv is evidently a deep concern of the Yichuan Clan for their safety.

Although they are the leaders of the Wen Family group, they still actively embrace this power present in nature because they clearly understand that once they refuse such power, they will be mercilessly crushed by hostile forces.

The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons. The Advance Team believes that not giving up on martial power is the most correct decision the Yichuan Clan has made so far.

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