Chapter 7 A Brief Overview of Ylang Society
Hearing Ina say this, Cheng Yuan understood that he seemed to have been shackled while getting this unexpected inheritance, and he would not be able to be independent for a long time, and while he got great power, he could only continue to implement this evil plan.
It's a demonic temptation!
But when it comes to evil, in fact, if you think about it carefully, the key to whether evil is evil or not depends on what position you stand on and what angle you look at.
From the perspective of human beings themselves, Astor cruelly grabbed his own kind and engaged in that kind of experiment, which is comparable to the devil's 731, which is absolutely evil and absolutely anti-human sin! Astor is also definitely a heinous fellow to be spurned by all humanity!
But from another perspective, from Astor's own standpoint, it doesn't seem to be evil, because he is not human.
Thinking about the attitude of human beings towards other animals, and thinking about the calmness of human beings when dissecting mice, it is not difficult to understand this Astor's attitude towards humans, even if Cheng Yuan, as a human being, is a little unacceptable psychologically.
According to Ina, in the Eland Alliance, civilizations like the Earth civilization that have not developed to master a star system and travel across star systems between stars, and do not have special valuable resources are not within the scope of reciprocal contact, but they will not take the initiative to infringe, which is a state of ignorance, that is, the three nos principle of no contact, no interference, and no research.
To put it simply, the current level of the earth is not even qualified to let others look at themselves, let alone invade.
Therefore, from this point of view, that Astor's attitude towards human beings, at least from his own point of view, is already more gentle and respectful of human civilization.
After all, as Ina said, the level of science and technology on the earth cannot pose any threat to Ina yet, even if the nuclear bomb can cause damage, but it must be able to find people and hit them, as long as Astor gets into the spaceship and stays up, not to mention, the whole earth really can't do anything about him, and it is difficult to even find it.
What's more, Ina's current fragility is due to the fact that she has spent all her energy on self-repair, and if she is really in a hurry, she will give up repairing and start a war with the earth first...... Ahem, although Ina is a lifeboat, she doesn't have too much force, and interstellar navigation may not be very good, but within the scope of the earth, dealing with the current earthlings is estimated to be as simple as drinking cold water.
As for saying that Astor was killed by a small policeman with a small pistol before he got up in the house, it can only be said that it was an accident, it was his bad luck to the contrary, and luck is this thing, regardless of whether your life level is advanced or not, if your luck is bad at home, God will also fall, not to mention Astor who is not a god.
Not to mention anything else, if Cheng Yuan is in Aster's point of view, where is it so troublesome, and there is no need to play any secret forces, don't repair yourself first, concentrate energy, drive a spaceship to negotiate with the Earth Political Axe, and use threats or technology exchanges and other means to obtain the manpower and material support you need.
Why? Needless to say? With Ina's living spaceship, with the nano-scale robot he composed of, with his ability to combine into various high-tech weapons at any time, and with her elusive stealth ability, he could sweep across the earth.
You must know that the people of the earth have never lacked traitors and speculators, nor have they lacked the soft bones of the strong.
But Astor obviously thinks too shrewdly and too fiercely about the earthlings and the earth's political axe, and puts the earthlings' resistance ideals too seriously, which is why he has come up with a troublesome and evil Astor plan.
This may have something to do with the common sense judgment such as Astor's educational environment or worldview values, for example, he may have the impression that those low-level civilization planets he has come into contact with, those original inhabitants are very strong, and they are all rather broken than broken existences, etc.
Or, in the society where Astor lives, there are relevant laws that prevent Astor from using this method of threat and inducement to contact a civilization of this level on Earth, and because of his focus on the spiritual body, it is likely that he has done similar things and can be found out, and he can't hide it at all.
Anyway, since Astor is more than a thousand years old, even if he doesn't live in human society, the time cycle must have his own set, and he can't treat such a thousand-year-old demon with the requirements of human society, but he is definitely not a stupid person, he must have his own considerations and reasons for choosing to do this.
Who stipulates that people with more than 1,000 earth years must be old and sophisticated?
Who stipulates that an alien must think like a human being?
Continue to think about it, with the kind of advanced civilization where Astor is located, the social group must have already passed the pressure of survival, and as the saying goes, the material base is extremely rich, and the development should be the spiritual civilization of the higher realm.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yuan became interested in the unknown but the most important thing to contact in the future, so he began to ask about the Yilan Alliance.
According to Ina's account, because of the big bang, many of her memories were damaged, and she didn't know much about the detailed situation of the Ylang Alliance, so she could only give a rough idea based on the remaining information.
What can be known now is that the Ylang Alliance where Astor is located is a large alliance with the Ylang Ylang galaxy as the core and many other galaxies combined, and just one Ylang Ylang galaxy is as big as the Milky Way, so you can imagine how strong this alliance is.
However, although it is huge, because of the space-time dimension and other factors, it is generally said that it is impossible to add anything far away from the galaxy, except for the extremely low accident of space-time storm, or the real high-level god shot, there is basically no possibility of mutual contact.
In fact, the Milky Way itself is a galaxy with a very low degree of civilization development, and even in this galaxy, there are many civilizations similar to the earth, and even civilizations that have escaped from their own star system, but none of them can break away from the big galaxy.
Gossip aside, it's still said that it will be the Ylang Alliance.
Although there are countless races in the entire Yilan society, basically, they are still divided into three major classes according to the degree of development of the citizen's soul, and they are not engaged in so-called equal treatment.
These three levels of residents, according to Cheng Yuan's understanding, are the three levels of primary, intermediate, and senior, and residents of different levels correspond to different rights and obligations, and their treatment is naturally different.
Among them, the primary inhabitants are called the civilian class, and each individual of this class has a fixed materialized body, that is, similar to human beings, there is an innate body, and like human civilization, carbon-based life is the majority.
Because the soul power of civilians is still very weak, they cannot break away from the shackles of the body and reach the level of undamaged free transfer, so the life span is also very limited, even if these people generally live much longer than humans, but it is not the real meaning of longevity.
As long as you are willing to join the Ylang Alliance, be protected and restricted by the laws of the Ylang Alliance, and strictly implement the obligations given to you by the Ylang Alliance, and be accepted by the Federation, then you can become the lowest resident of the Ylang Alliance.
Once the commoner class can make its soul strong enough to be able to freely transfer into the new body material body when the spiritual body is qualified, and have a qualified suitable surname with the new body, it can become a middle-level nobleman.
The most critical point here is the pass rate.
That is to say, in the process of soul transfer, the first transferred spirit body must reach 99.99% soul indestructibility, so that there is basically no major unbearable damage to your soul in the process of transfer; The second is the degree of fit, that is, the degree of adaptation of the soul to the new body, which can perfectly control the new body, and this value must also exceed 99.99%. Only the soul transfer that reaches these two values at the same time is considered qualified, and the forced transfer of the soul in other unqualified situations does not count, and once the assessment is passed, then you can be promoted to a middle-class citizen and become a nobleman.
Intermediate residents, known as executors, belong to the aristocratic class, and refer to those souls who have been freed from the shackles of the original body and can freely transfer in different material bodies without damage, just like the soul has evolved into a set of operating system programs, and does not need a fixed computer host as a carrier, but can freely change the hardware carrier as needed, Astor is the existence of this level.
In the setting of Xianxia, the aristocratic class is the guys who have cultivated to the point of out-of-body or cultivated Yuanying.
In this class, it is also divided into six levels according to the strength and power of the soul, which are the dukes and lords, and Astor belongs to the lowest level of lords, of course, these titles are the result of translation.
Take Lord Astor as an example, although he has achieved the free and lossless transfer of the soul, but because it is not strong enough, it can only be carried out with the help of a special external linker, just like between two computers, which must be transmitted with the help of data cables, and wireless transmission cannot be achieved.
It's also because of this, so after Astor migrated into a human body, he was shot and killed by Wen Jing's policewoman, Astor had the opportunity to use the authority bracelet to teleport back and transfer his soul in time, but unfortunately, he was probably hit by the vital point, underestimating the fragility of the human body, and dying too quickly, which led to his failure, and a misstep became a thousand years of hatred, no, it was completely gone, and there was no hatred.
In addition to the aristocracy evolved from commoners through self-training, most of them were actually natives of the Ellang Alliance.
For example, Astor is the star field of the aristocratic core area of the Yilan Alliance, Zakxing was born, it is a star field with a strong sense of competition and combat, and the children there are born with a strong **, and they can also receive an aristocratic education and directly learn advanced soul evolution skills, because they are blessed, they can usually get rid of the shackles of the body in their early childhood at the age of about 100 and become real middle-level citizens, that is, nobles who are truly recognized by the alliance.
To put it bluntly, people like Astor are like the second generation of nobles born in developed countries, who are born with the most favored treatment and various resources that ordinary people do not have, and belong to the natural aristocratic people.
Although most of the nobles and commoners do not live together, they often meet and contact with each other, however, you don't have to worry about ordinary commoners being bullied by powerful nobles, because in the Yilan Alliance, although the hierarchy is very strict, the relevant basic rights of every citizen are quite respected, and there are also a series of strict and impeached legal provisions, so even powerful nobles cannot bully civilians at will, at least not unscrupulously violate laws and regulations. Because the casual oppression of commoners will not only tarnish the honor of the nobles themselves, but will also be severely punished.
This is very different from the situation in fantasy novels, where the ruling class with superpowers can bully the incapable at will, and it can only be said that Yilan society is indeed a high-level civilization, focusing on ability while taking into account fairness and justice, rights and obligations.
It may be because it has evolved to a boundless and vast high-level interstellar civilization, so there is a vast external space to expand, plus the social forms are also different, and the material has long been extremely rich, so the internal class contradictions between citizens are very small and can be ignored.
Therefore, the aristocracy belongs to the backbone of the social composition of the Yilan Alliance, they are the real elite of the entire alliance, the nobles enjoy more rights at the same time, but also assume more obligations and responsibilities, and each noble, to fulfill their own obligations, contribute to the federation is proud of the group, is a group that regards honor as life, but also a group respected by everyone.
As for the last, and also the highest-ranking citizen, known as the Administrator, and the highest ruling class of the Elan Alliance, commonly known as the Protoss.
The characters of this level are more powerful and mysterious, and they easily do not come into contact with the inhabitants of the intermediate and junior classes, and belong to the true masters hidden behind the alliance. Therefore, the specific situation, such as whether there is a hierarchy between them, how to divide them, etc., Astor is not clear, let alone Ina, this kind of thing, less than a certain class, is impossible to know.
At present, it is only known that many of the gods of this level have evolved into a state of entanglement between pure energy bodies and material bodies, and they no longer need any material body's body as soul support, because they can create a material body or a pure energy body at will according to their needs.
Their power is huge, they can freely travel in space without the help of any foreign objects, and even transform a planet and create a civilization by themselves.
According to Cheng Yuan's understanding, people of this class are like immortals who have achieved cultivation, or those gods in mythology, who belong to the existence of myths and legends, but they are worthy of the common name of the gods.
It should be pointed out that because the Yilan Alliance is a society with great material abundance, highly developed spiritual civilization, and more attention to the spiritual body, the material is a very weak thing in this society, and things like property and industry are not placed in the eyes of them, especially the nobles and the gods.
Therefore, although Cheng Yuan inherited Astor's property by chance, he is still just an outsider who has not yet been accepted by the alliance, and he is not yet a member of the alliance, and even if he becomes a member of the alliance now, whether he inherits Lord Astor's inheritance or not, according to Cheng Yuan's current mental state or soul strength, he can only barely be regarded as a civilian, or the lowest among civilians.
Of course, this is also expected by Cheng Yuan, but he will not feel inferior because of these things.
"Then what, since Astor is a natural nobleman, does he have any cultivation methods? That is, the way to increase the soul level? ”
"Of course there is, Your Excellency Astor's family is a noble family, and there have been three grand dukes among them, so Your Excellency Astor's spiritual cultivation method is one of the relatively high-level methods in the alliance's spiritual cultivation method."
"Well, since I'm the heir, can I learn this method?"
"Yes."
"Even if I'm an earthling, maybe it's a different life composition from Astor's race?"
"Of course, because the spiritual body cultivation method is the cultivation of the spiritual body, the soul, and the soul is essentially a collection of information of high-level beings, it is the cognition and degree of interference with everything in the entire world, and it is also one of the basic components of controlling the material world, so all high-level beings can carry out the spiritual body cultivation method."
"Oh, it's the same as Buddhism, anyone can become a Buddha, it's fair." Cheng Yuan nodded, "Then since that's the case, please teach me Aster's kind of spiritual training method." ”
"Your Excellency Commander, you have already been taught the spiritual body cultivation method of Your Excellency Astor."
"Taught me? When? How did I not know? Cheng Yuan was surprised.
"Remember the succession ceremony in the command room?" Ina said calmly, "It's the kind of ritual you perform by pressing your hands on the wisdom crystal. ”
"Oh, you mean the ritual of putting your hand on that crystal ball and then emitting a blue light?"
"Yes." Ina replied, "The official inheritance ceremony of the Astor family is not only the material property, but also the cultivation method of the spirit body, and only by inheriting the cultivation method of the spirit body can the real heir and obtain the highest authority." In fact, during the ritual process, that blue light is called the light of wisdom, and in the process of spreading throughout your body, it has already imprinted the cultivation method in your body, but it has not been activated yet. ”
"But why didn't I feel anything?" Cheng Yuan asked again, "Why hasn't there been any change?" ”
"This is because it will take a period of testing and adaptation for the light of wisdom to enter your body." Ina continued, "During this time, the Light of Wisdom will conduct a comprehensive test of your body, calculate the talent you have, and then calculate the most suitable method for your cultivation according to your talent. In other words, there is no fixed method for cultivating the Light of Wisdom, and it varies from person to person. ”
"And how long is this test going to take?"
"It's hard to say, according to your concept of time, it may only take a few seconds, maybe it will take a year, two years, or even more than ten years, and the test results may not be accurate at one time, it may be phased, part by part. So, be patient, and whether or not your Mental Training Method appears will not prevent you from becoming a commander. ”
"You've said that, what else can I say?" Cheng Yuan shrugged his shoulders, "Since it's already like this, just let it be, anyway, this is also from a blank, and there is nothing to complain about, just accept it calmly." ”
"Commander Wise!"
"This, I just saw it, it turns out that you are still a sycophant."
"According to the earth, I'm just telling the truth as the locals do."
“…… Well, since you are so sincere, I have to reluctantly accept your compliment. ”