Interstellar Era 2973.
Human civilization discovered an alien pure cultivation civilization for the first time. After completely crushing or annihilating their top powerhouses, and considering they were all humanoid life forms, they were granted permission to identify as humans.
The entire planet was then brought under their dominion.
After all their Great Ascension cultivators and loose Immortals perished, the cultivation civilization, showing considerable foresight, surrendered.
Not only did they surrender, but they also selected elite disciples from various sects, including sect leader disciples, to be sent to the core region of human civilization. They were to serve as hostages and concurrently learn and understand the origins of these extraterrestrial demons.
How powerful they were.
And whether there was any possibility of counterattack.
The leader of this group was Duan Chang, the Holy Son of the Tiandao Sect, which was originally the foremost sect in the world. Their group entered the interstellar teleportation gate with the belief that they were prepared to sacrifice their lives and souls.
They entered the core of human territory, Immortal Star.
This was originally the beastmen's planet. After Ding Yun ascended the throne and reigned for many years, the beastmen's planet gradually became the core region of humanity, its status even surpassing that of the original Emperor Star. Many people felt that continuing to refer to it as the beastmen's planet was too narrow and detrimental to human unity and harmony.
Thus, a renaming vote was held, with Panda Star, Immortal Star, and Empress Star securing the top three positions.
As Ding Yun specifically named it Immortal Star,
It was finally renamed Immortal Star.
Upon stepping onto Immortal Star, this group of orthodox cultivators led by Duan Chang, their worldview and beliefs were severely impacted. Everything around them was unfamiliar, and all they saw was drastically different from their previous understanding.
"Why are the buildings taller than the Demon Suppressing Pagoda?"
"Good heavens, is that a floating island? That floating island is more than a hundred times larger than the floating island of Yaochi!"
"Holy Son, among these people, it seems none of them have a blood qi intensity below the Golden Core stage."
"Why do some people have the aura of beastmen?"
"Their teleportation gates can traverse different worlds. This is too terrifying. Could it be that all the myriad worlds are real? How could we possibly be their match."
"Silence! Calm yourselves. Don't make yourselves a laughingstock like yokels. From now on, keep a straight face and refrain from speaking nonsense. There will be plenty of opportunities to learn later. Do not ask questions casually."
"Yes!"
"Understood!"
After a moment of shock and panic, they remembered that they represented the face of their respective sects, and even their world. Even though they had been defeated, they could not appear too cowardly or ignorant. Thus, they quickly controlled their emotions, suppressed their inner curiosity and apprehension, and with stern faces, followed Duan Chang to the designated location for processing.
Following this, they proceeded to obtain entry permits and identification documents.
With an entry permit, they would be considered legal residents, not undocumented individuals. Identification documents were crucial for their daily lives, including food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Without them, they would be akin to undocumented immigrants, unable to move freely. Additionally, the resources submitted by their respective sects for their studies were converted into local currency, credited to their identification documents, and they were enrolled in basic introductory classes.
These classes were designed to help them gain a general understanding of the human situation, familiarize them with legal knowledge, and common sense regarding daily life, so they wouldn't cause trouble by being ignorant once they ventured out.
Therefore, it was necessary to teach them beforehand. After being taught, if they still broke the law, it would no longer be a matter of ignorance being no excuse, but rather a case of knowing the law and breaking it, making them easier to deal with.
Before long, they were all uniformly in the classroom.
They officially began their basic knowledge training, rudimentary historical education, and detailed legal instruction.
However, no matter how rudimentary the historical teaching,
When it came to the Panda Immortal Empress,
The instructor could not help but delve into a thorough explanation:
"The history of our Human Alliance has had two major turning points. The first major turning point was the era of spiritual energy resurgence, also known as the Great Cataclysm, which I have already explained to you. The second major turning point occurred in the century following the enthronement of the Panda Immortal Empress.
Before the Panda Immortal Empress ascended the throne, although the Human Alliance was still nominally unified, it had in fact become fragmented. The beastmen were on their own, the gene-enhanced humans were on their own, and the ability users were on their own. Later historians generally believe that without the sudden unification by the Panda Immortal Empress, a great war would inevitably have broken out among the three factions.
The best outcome would have been a pyrrhic victory for the gene-enhanced humans of Emperor Star.
The worst outcome would have been mutual destruction, leading to a civilizational regression amidst heavy casualties. It was even possible that several habitable planets could have been destroyed.
It was the emergence of the Panda Immortal Empress that
Resolved this crisis.
With overwhelming force, she led her disciples to unify the world. In the end, only a few high-ranking officials perished, and the four major habitable planets were forcefully reintegrated."
"Excuse me, sir!
I don't quite understand. These three groups of humans, who chose different cultivation methods, had been divided for so many years. Even if the Panda Immortal Empress forcibly unified them, the internal conflicts are still unresolved. Can this truly work?
Will there not be internal strife later on?"
Before he began cultivating, Duan Chang had served as Crown Prince for several years and had some understanding of state affairs.
At this moment, he directly addressed the core issue.
"Don't worry, I haven't finished explaining yet.
The Panda Immortal Empress clearly recognized that the unresolved internal conflicts were still a major hidden danger. Therefore, Her Majesty ultimately chose to sever the roots of the conflict directly from the source.
As is well known, the core conflict between gene-enhanced humans, ability users, and beastmen lay in the recognition of the purity of their bloodlines. Gene-enhanced humans disdained the impure bloodlines of ability users, and ability users disdained the mixed bloodlines of beastmen.
In the third year of her reign, the Panda Immortal Empress officially announced two cultivation secret arts: one called the 'Bloodline Avatar Dharma Aspect Technique,' and the other called the 'Supreme Golden Core Secret Art of the Upper Dantian.'
The 'Bloodline Avatar Dharma Aspect Technique' allowed the extraction of the beastmen's beast-bloodline for independent cultivation, eventually forming a beast-bloodline avatar dharma aspect. If cultivation continued to a deeper level, this avatar dharma aspect could revert to an ancient divine beast, thereby nourishing the body. This ensured both the purity of the human bloodline and cultivation.
The 'Supreme Golden Core Secret Art of the Upper Dantian' involved condensing the ability bloodlines within the body using Golden Core secret arts, transforming all ability bloodlines into a crystal core, and refining the crystal core into a Golden Core. The Golden Core would permanently reside in the Upper Dantian, nourishing the soul, and abilities could be unleashed normally through the Golden Core.
This also purified the bloodlines of ability users.
Finally, if one were to be overly critical, it was the gene-enhanced humans' exploration and evolution of genes that caused their bloodlines to diverge the most from those of ancient humans.
However, the Empress did not show favoritism.
In the fifth year of her reign, after allowing those gene-enhanced humans to experience the taste of being disdained, she introduced the 'Supreme Body Refinement Technique,' attributing all power derived from genes to the physical body, flesh and blood, and cells, and no longer delving into the gene level. This way, regardless of their original human classification or the cultivation methods they practiced,
Purity of bloodline could ultimately be guaranteed.
No one could use this to disdain or criticize others any longer.
This conflict was thus completely resolved and eliminated."
"Subsequently, various other conflicts and issues were, for the most part, either resolved or alleviated under the Panda Immortal Empress's various measures, successfully ushering in a new century of prosperity after the interstellar era, with advancements in all fields such as technology and culture.
The successors of the Empress, after her abdication, were largely content to follow in her footsteps, with no groundbreaking initiatives. Everything progressed according to the hundred-year and thousand-year plans established by the Empress. If you wish to learn more in-depth, you can purchase additional courses later.
Now, we will begin our law class. Please pay close attention, as this class is more important than any previous one, because it concerns whether you will break the law in the future. Do not assume you have any special privileges; if you break the law here, you will be punished according to the law!"