Chapter 169 Transformation

Most of the time, human ideas are good.

Even ancient customs that modern humans disdain were originally created for the safety of everyone. And many things that now seem decadent and corrupt, things that have long rotted away, were originally created for progress.

Take the imperial examination for example... The imperial examination of the past was to select the most outstanding people from among the virtuous and talented to lead the country as officials. Naturally, virtue and ability were paramount.

But as time passed, the imperial examination gradually changed from selecting capable and virtuous people to selecting 'virtuous people' who were good at taking exams, doing problems, and writing eight-legged essays... They were not people who could truly handle affairs and see through national problems, but rather guys who were only interested in the imperial examination for the sake of the imperial examination, and eight-legged essays for the sake of eight-legged essays.

For example, the many immortal and divine sects and the many Daoist inheritances of the past were created so that later generations could follow the moral system promoted by the immortals and gods and become good and virtuous people.

But later, the teachings were forgotten, and everyone forgot why they believed. Instead, they took blind worship, the least important thing, as a glory... They did not truly understand the expectations behind those precepts, that is, what kind of person could be considered a gentleman, an awakened one, or a righteous person. Instead, they blindly and fanatically believed for the sake of belief.

National systems will become rigid, and classes themselves will gradually solidify. The parliament, originally created for equality and democracy, will become a circus where politicians control power. The various principles originally established for freedom will gradually become political correctness that least allows people to be free...

Not to mention everything else that is correct—whether it is chaos and perfection, the continuation of existence, or any belief that can be called fundamental... What thing can never change under the erosion of time and all living beings?

But the reason why humans are human is because they can always turn good things into bad things and bad things into good things.

The Miro Goddess felt this deeply.

[Human inheritance and struggle are truly inexhaustible to watch.]

Floating above the Myriad Mysteries Transmission Tower, the white-haired, green-eyed goddess reclined in mid-air like a cloud, looking down on the world. She couldn't help but sigh, [The Thirty-Six Holy Seats, with the academies as their foundation, and the oversight of the saints, were originally intended to prevent the emergence of large aristocratic families, and to use knowledge, cultivation, and contributions to all living beings as the basis for power.]

[Cultivator scientists are also rulers. To ensure the legitimacy of their power, they must consider the well-being of all living beings and make academic contributions.]

[It was originally a good idea, but as time went by, it still changed. Because there were too many contributions and too many achievements, the academies themselves accumulated a large amount of wealth and power—plus, the relationship between students and teachers was second only to that of relatives and family members. It would be strange if this didn't form academic cliques.]

As a transmission goddess who is independent from the world, floats in the clouds by nature, and looks down on all living beings, Miro has seen too many of these dramas.

Unchanging determination? Unchanging belief?

How is that possible!

It will either get better or get worse, or even be good and bad at the same time, but the only thing that is impossible is eternal uniformity.

The Miro Goddess disdained this. After all, even that Su Zhou advocated getting better, didn't he?

But as long as there is change, there will definitely be people who are dissatisfied, or even think that it is a kind of regression.

For example, the cultivation world of the Zheng Nation, which has been undergoing drastic turmoil recently due to the actions of several retired old Holy Seats.

Although everyone cultivates, not everyone regards cultivation as life. And if you regard cultivation as the most important part of your life, you can enter the real cultivation world, a bizarre circle full of sectarian academies, inherited families, all kinds of gangs, small groups, and even dangerous lone-wolf adventurers.

Cultivators from first-class academies and the three central transcendent academies are obviously the first class—the tasks they can take, the rewards they can get, and the opportunities they can obtain are more, higher, and better than those of cultivators from other academies, even with your toes you can know that.

Not to mention those truly ordinary cultivators who don't have the support of large academies behind them. What tasks can they do? All they can do is run errands, collect basic materials, and do simple work as assistants.

Yes, knowledge is not monopolized.

The Zheng Nation has popularized immortal and divine cultivation methods. Anyone can cultivate, and no one is afraid of death. With the Divine Body of Life Transformation created by the Saint of Life, everyone has excellent cultivation aptitude. With the Electronic Underworld of the Saint of Machinery, you don't have to be too afraid of dying if something goes wrong during cultivation.

So valiant and diligent, with so many creations of predecessors to back them up, theoretically everyone should be about the same.

But if that were really the case, some people wouldn't fail to get into academies after nine years of compulsory education, and some people wouldn't get full marks just because the test paper only had full marks.

The methods of learning, the perspective of looking at things, the tenacious character, the familiarity and cultivation from childhood to adulthood, and the guidance of experts... In such an intensely competitive cultivation world, people start at a point that is the finish line for others. What equality are you talking about?

But this time it's different.

[Distribute branch towers of the Transmission Tower throughout the country, open preliminary trials to all citizens, open the right to create private cultivation schools, and everyone has the full power to apply for academy resources, returning to the era of the Hundred Schools...]

[There are even incentive funds to encourage anyone to create their own research goals!]

The three-eyed, white-haired goddess murmured to herself as she wiggled her toes: [Academic cliques' grace order, Zhang Qingyun... Heh, this little guy is really making a good move.]

Having witnessed countless cycles of human life, how could the Miro Goddess not understand what the actions of the Dao Saint, the Logic Saint, and others represent?

On the surface, it seems to be a further step in knowledge sharing, or even a step backward in history, rebuilding the门户之见 (menhu zhi jian - sectarian bias) of 'sects' and 'schools,' turning a well-shared common society into a bad era of a hundred schools competing against each other...

But in reality, this is digging at the roots of the academic cliques in the academies!

Humans are impossible to be truly equal. Intern professors have to bow to full professors, and researchers have to be respectful to deans. This doesn't even have much to do with class. It's just that some people are strong, and they will be respected by others.

And these people will get more resources, and then gradually attract others to follow them, forming academic cliques.

The academies are not sects, but they are better than sects. They don't have schools, but they bind all schools to themselves—even if there are a few professors within the academy who disagree, that is a struggle within the academic clique, not a debate and exchange between two schools.

Private schools are a differentiation.

If the original academic cliques of the academies were like an entire department, whether it was materials science, composition, practical construction workers, or art design, they were all connected as a huge whole.

If research is needed in a certain direction, the academy will allocate funds and hand it over to one of the departments—and it is impossible for everyone in this department to have topics related to the current research needs, which will lead to resource tilt. The more popular the research direction, the easier it is to create larger academic cliques.

But now, with the emergence of private schools, everyone can apply for academy resources!

This is a good thing for everyone.

Those who already have power will definitely apply for more resources, and they will all belong to them, without having to balance them with other colleagues in the department.

Those who don't have power didn't have resources to conduct their own research in the first place. Now everyone has a chance, so how could they not agree?

In the end, how can the humans in this world be of one mind? Everyone has their own ideas and tendencies. Originally, the academic cliques of the academies were large and generalized. But now, with the opportunity to conduct independent research and receive funding, what scientist, researcher, or cultivator would like to share funds with others?

In the past, the Zheng Nation did not allow private schools in order to avoid the loss of mutually treasured secret techniques and the inability to progress... But now, reopening private schools is precisely because no one in this era will mutually treasure secret techniques anymore.

Private schools are simply different in research direction and research philosophy. For the same kind of thunder technique, you study the Yang Five Thunder in detail, and I study the Yin Five Thunder in detail. These are two schools. They don't interfere with each other in peacetime. They communicate with each other when needed. If they want to fight, then they fight. If they need inheritance, everyone goes to the Transmission Tower to receive it. They each have independent research funds and no grudges at all.

Easy, happy, and free, there is no need to care about the sectarian bias of the original academies, no need to think about the contradictions between the major factions in the past, but to allow everyone who wants to study their own topics to really study their own topics.

No one will refuse.

[Classes still exist, and there will still be large schools and small schools.]

The Miro Goddess stared at the many messages being transmitted in the major academies and couldn't help but murmur to herself: [But every school has equal resources and a chance to soar into the sky—as long as they can really independently research something, then the possibility of becoming famous overnight will definitely be stronger than those who couldn't get ahead in the academies in the past.]

[Compared to the past, such a hundred schools of thought contending is more fair... but also more scattered.]

The reason why the Miro Goddess is paying attention to these things is naturally because the proposals of Zhang Qingyun and others are beneficial to her.

Not to mention anything else, if the Myriad Mysteries Transmission Tower can really build many branch towers, then she won't have to always stay in the Inheritance Grotto.

[I can travel all over the world too!]

Thinking like this, the crane-haired, childlike girl showed a delightful expression: [Zhang Qingyun must be trying to please me. I'll accept his favor and give him a good hand.]

However, before she could continue to think deeply.

The Miro Goddess suddenly let out a soft exclamation: [What's going on? My body is so hot...]

She lowered her head and looked at her main body—the location of the Myriad Mysteries Transmission Tower.

At this moment, the originally pitch-black Transmission Tower, which was wrapped in the Wuh You Zhi Jing (boundless realm), underwent an abnormal change.

The gale howled, stirring up endless, oscillating spiritual energy ripples and vortices, which instantly covered most of the Zheng Nation's sky, causing everyone who noticed this to look up in astonishment, pointing and commenting on the sky above.

The Miro Goddess opened her eyes wide.

The Transmission Tower was glowing.