What Great Revival, Divine Awakening, the return of the stars, Doomsday Judgment... but essentially they're all referring to one thing.
However, no matter how Zhu Haomiao searched, all the information about "Spiritual Energy Recovery" on the web remained vague and unclear.
Instead, there were plenty of unreliable conspiracy theories and jokes, with various true and false bits of information making it nearly impossible to extract anything useful.
Thinking back to the textbooks, the term "Spiritual Energy Recovery" was merely mentioned in passing with just four words—[Heaven and Earth Reconnect].
Zhu Haomiao couldn't help but think of an ancient mythology.
"Yao commanded Xi He to govern the heavenly seasons and earthly rituals, ensuring that heavenly gods did not descend and earth spirits did not rise to heaven, maintaining order without interference, thus creating—Severing Earth and Heaven."
Severing Earth and Heaven!
Heaven and Earth Reconnect!
It all connects in a loop!
Vaguely, Zhu Haomiao felt like he grasped something, but upon further thought, he couldn't nail down any specifics.
After pondering for a while, Zhu Haomiao shook his head, temporarily setting aside his doubts, and continued seeking useful information online.
Soon after, a trending search on a certain topic caught his attention.
......
The comment section was full of quirky theories, then the familiar classic transitions began: this nation how, definite body question, I deep thought.
Hiss~
Zhu Haomiao sucked his cheek, painfully massaging his forehead, his mind buzzing.
This flavor is too overwhelming, don't they ever update the version in this Otherworld?
We've already moved on to new techniques over here!
Please, give us a hand!
Zhu Haomiao couldn't help but let out a long sigh, his brain aching from the familiar taste.
Mr. Ye was right indeed!
Every world's critters really are the same!
Damn it!
How can you manage a nation with these critters around?
Only someone like me, with firm beliefs, noble character, humility, and kindness...
In his musings, Zhu Haomiao's mind suddenly conjured various rebellious thoughts, making him silently cover his mouth.
Hmm... At least I haven't had the chance to do anything wicked yet!
Planning a crime and committing a crime are not the same!
As long as I haven't taken action, I'm a decent person!
Exactly!
I'm a good person!
Simplifying the logic slightly, Zhu Haomiao nodded firmly, strengthening his own [Dao Heart], and continued searching for information online.
He wanted to find out how he could legally enter the Illusion Realm early.
Ye Wan Ning had previously explained the principles, but his situation clearly couldn't be generalized.
In the real world, he's like a powder keg, perhaps entering the Illusion Realm might provide a way to restrain himself.
He had tried meditation, Zen, quiet cultivation, and sitting still in reality. While not entirely useless, their effects were marginal at best.
He finally understood that without gaining the seeds of extraordinary power in the Illusion Realm, cultivating solely in reality was almost futile.
Transcendent powers can only be obtained in transcendent environments...
After extensive searching, Zhu Haomiao discovered that the information online was mixed, of varying quality.
Even he, with only brief formal training, could see that much of the information was filled with amateurs' silly imaginings about professionals, so naive it was laughable.
Eventually, Zhu Haomiao found that all high-quality glimpses of information pointed towards a professional internal forum.
"C7 Forum…"
A forum jointly created by seven domestic Supernatural Academies, requiring a student ID to register...
And [Central Super] is one of the members of C7!
"..."
So, did I just skip the game's beginner tutorial and went straight to fighting monsters and leveling up like an idiot?
Looking at the registration page, Zhu Haomiao suddenly recalled that some teacher had mentioned this before, but at the time, he was too focused on eating, lazing, and sleeping, so he quickly forgot all about it!
Remembering it wouldn't have helped anyway, since at that time he didn't even have a computer or a phone, he spent all his money on food...
Pulling out his student ID, Zhu Haomiao successfully registered as a member, instantly opening a new world.
"Chinese Martial Arts is the strongest! No arguments allowed!"
"I'll strike you down with a [Nine Heavens Divine Thunder]!"
"Then I'll use [Eight Forces Combined], how would you respond?"
"Using two of the Eight Basic Forces makes you a [Heroic Destiny] expert, three makes you a [God's Destiny] prodigy, [Eight Forces Combined]? What kind of destiny do you think you have?!"
"You mage sissies are all aimless salted fish, a real man turns the impossible into the possible!"
"Magnetic field freaks, get out of C7!"
"Crude brute! Daydreaming!"
"Stop arguing everyone, we Shushan Sword Immortals are the strongest, cultivating both martial arts and spells, able to take a head from a thousand miles away, invincible!"
"Go away, you heretic!" ×2
......
After watching for a while, Zhu Haomiao found that the daily forum debates revolved around the [Martial Arts System vs Magic System].
Debating whether [Martial Arts] or [Spell] systems were superior, something that has no real conclusion, yet everyone was enthusiastically arguing daily.
However, from their debates, Zhu Haomiao also gathered a lot of useful information.
The [Martial Arts] in China is an extremely outstanding and mature system among all worldwide [Combat Professions], showing great strength in most low-mystery Illusion Realms.
Highly versatile, strong survival ability, capable of solo combat, as well as group operations...
But its weakness is the lack of effective methods against [Void Spirit] creatures in the early stages, let alone those unreasonable Law-type monsters.
However, Magic professions are precise opposites, specializing in dealing with [Void Spirits], with much greater perception and detection range than martial artists, and high resistance to mystery.
Their weakness is weak solo combat ability in the early stages, reliance on protection, and fear of getting ambushed.
Of course, there is also a dual cultivation system of martial arts and magic, but mastering it well is called [All-Purpose], otherwise, it's just [All-incompetent].
Usually only those who see themselves as [Heroic Destiny] or even [God's Destiny] prodigies choose this path.
So, which path should I choose?