The Haiya Sect monk looked at the fruits of his labor and showed a satisfied expression on his face.
He slightly arched his hands to the merchants on both sides of the street, then turned into blue light and soared into the sky, leaving the work site. Next, he had to rush to the next main road covered with snow to continue his work.
Public service work.
Although this was not the first time for Yang Lu to witness a cultivator's magical performance, he was still amazed by this miracle, which was like a low-end version of "Moses Opening the Sea".
Cultivators helping people clear snow is nothing new in Haiya City.
Although cultivators all have the ability to move mountains and reclaim seas, the existence of the heavenly merit system has prevented the Kyushu cultivation world from becoming a jungle arena where the jungle is dominated by the jungle.
According to the rules of Heaven in the Jiuzhou Cultivation World, any behavior that is conducive to social stability will be rewarded by Heaven's merits, and any behavior that undermines social stability will be punished by Heaven. Merits are like some hidden attributes in the earth's online games.
It can't be seen or touched, but it does exist.
It is precisely because of this hidden incentive and constraint mechanism that ordinary people do not have to worry about dying when they go out, old monsters who have practiced for thousands of years will not fall like dumplings, and a game equilibrium can be formed among the strong.
In Yang Lu's view, if there were no constraints from heaven, the cultivation civilization would have destroyed itself long ago.
This is not his subjective assumption.
At the peak of the Cold War on Earth, less than five countries in the world possessed nuclear weapons, and the launch of nuclear weapons in each country required at least 2-3 far-sighted national leaders to press the nuclear button at the same time to officially take effect. But even so, human beings
All-out nuclear war almost broke out several times.
Looking at the entire Kyushu cultivation world, there are tens of millions of Qi-refining stage monks who are comparable to humanoid tanks, hundreds of thousands of Foundation-building stage monks who are comparable to humanoid tactical missile launchers, and tens of thousands of Golden Core-stage monks who are comparable to humanoid nuclear warheads.
There are monks and hundreds of Nascent Soul stage old monsters whose destructive power far exceeds that of hydrogen bombs.
If these masters of cultivation want to activate their magic, they only need a slight movement of their spiritual thoughts. This is a much simpler process than launching a nuclear bomb. It is so powerful that it can even change the climate of the planet.
It is precisely because merit is so important to a cultivator that too much loss of merit can even cause a cultivator to degenerate into an irrational demon. Only the humanoid nuclear bombs in the cultivation world can form a stable game equilibrium.
What the Haiya monks did just now to clean the road is the most common daily task for cultivators in Kyushu - cultivating merit.
The so-called cultivating merits can be simply understood as the cultivation version of helping others. However, there is no accurate explanation in the cultivation world about what kind of good deeds can be done to obtain heavenly merits.
After all, merit is invisible and intangible, and cultivators of all ages can only continue to explore through the method of "putting forward hypotheses - testing in practice - revising hypotheses".
Cleaning up the snow in the city like the disciples of the Haiya Sect can earn you heavenly merits; maintaining the financial stability of the Jiuzhou cultivation world like the Lingshi Reserve Bank can also earn heavenly merits; killing demons and slaying demons like some "ancient monks" can also earn you heavenly merits.
Those who guard the soil can also obtain the merits of heaven...
Corresponding to merit, if a cultivator's behavior is denied by heaven, then the cultivator will also obtain a kind of "negative merit" - which is the so-called karma.
Killing and abusing mortals at will will lead to karma. Malicious attacks on junior monks who are lower than oneself will lead to karma. Destroying social stability will also lead to karma. Even malicious damage to people's livelihood infrastructure will also lead to karma.
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It is precisely because of the existence of karma and retribution that the balance of the game is barely reached between cultivators and mortals, and between high-level cultivators and low-level cultivators, allowing the entire society to operate normally.
But even so, there is still a serious inequality between the status of cultivators and ordinary people.
After all, cultivators who slaughter mortals only need to deduct their merits as the price. As long as they don't kill people with serious sins, they will not fall into the devil's path due to karma. However, when mortals fight against cultivators, the price they pay is their own lives.
For cultivators, killing mortals can be regarded as some kind of special consumption behavior. There is only a question of whether it is worth it, not whether it is feasible. Cultivators killing people with passion are like impulsive consumption by people on earth. It is not a rare thing.
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This is why, when Chen Ping asked Yang Lu to intervene in the Qingning Chamber of Commerce, Yang Lu was very resistant.
The white gloves of becoming a cultivator may seem majestic on the surface, but in fact they are dancing on the tip of a knife. If the cultivator behind the hostile chamber of commerce is severely offended, the consequences will not be something that a mere mortal like him can bear. The other party
You can't afford to offend Jin Daomen, but killing him, a pawn, is not a problem!
This is like a chess game of life and death. You can only play chess honestly, but your opponent may overturn the table at any time if he loses. If you are not careful in this kind of chess game, the result will be irreversible.
Fortunately, Chen Ping did not deliberately let him die, but just asked him to do what he could. So Yang Lu planned to join the Qingning Chamber of Commerce to see the situation before deciding on the next action strategy.
Just like Chen Ping said, no matter what happened, he could at least hide under the big tree of Qingning Chamber of Commerce and enjoy the shade.
This is countless times more comfortable than a homeless shelter!
Furthermore, although mortals are in an absolutely disadvantaged position compared to cultivators, Yang Lu is not without room for proactive action.
Since he can attract the attention of the president of Lingshi Reserve Bank through a working paper, he can naturally exert his special influence through other channels.
It's just that the Immortal Ascension Conference is about to start in three months, and he doesn't want to cause too much trouble before then. If he can test his spiritual root qualifications by then, then he can play with one force and reduce it to ten.
It is necessary to do these twists and turns.
Along the clean and refreshing streets, Yang Lu led Murong straight to the destination of his trip - the headquarters of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce.
Yang Lu had only been to the homeless shelter run by the Qingning Chamber of Commerce in the civilian area, and had never been to the headquarters of the Qingning Chamber of Commerce in the wealthy area. Fortunately, finding the way was not a problem for Murong, who was a newspaper boy.
Under the guidance of the newspaper seller, they quickly found the right direction.
Haiya City has a radius of more than ten miles. According to the standards of the medieval era, this is definitely a world-class super metropolis. However, Yang Lu has long seen through observation that Haiya City is actually a modern city in the guise of a medieval city.
The existence of spiritual energy arrays and immortal cultivators makes the productivity of the cultivation world roughly equivalent to the early industrial revolution era. If compared to London and Paris in the 18th century, Haiya City is the largest commercial port in the eastern part of Zhongzhou. The size of a city is not that big.
exaggerate.
Although the area of Haiya City is quite vast, the areas where wealthy people gather are relatively clustered together. With the main palace of Haiya City as the center, Haiya Pavilion and several large chambers of commerce are arranged outward in a ring according to their status.
As an emerging force that has just intervened in Haiya City in recent years, the Qingning Chamber of Commerce can only build its headquarters at the junction of the wealthy area and the civilian area. However, the straight-line distance from Haiya Pavilion is not too far, and it can be reached on foot.
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Since the grassroots monks of the Haiya Sect have just completed the work of clearing the snow on the roads, most of the businesses on the left and right are still closed, and the whole city has not yet fully returned to its original bustle.
Walking on the slightly empty street, Yang Lu suddenly noticed something was wrong. He always felt that someone was quietly following him about twenty or thirty meters behind him.
