The gods and Buddhas of the heavens naturally did not form the scale they are on from the beginning, and not all of them survived the baptism of the nuclear bomb and made an appointment to become immortals together. At the end of the Doomsday War, in order to fight against the remnants of the armed forces around the world, the Immortal Buddha Group had lost a lot of personnel.

And even later, with a theoretically infinite lifespan and being able to escape fatal injuries again and again with the help of the reincarnation net and backup shell, they are not truly immortal. Since there is a way to live forever, there will always be a way to counter it, and it is not impossible to kill gods. In the war with the rebels, there will also be immortals who will die, and there will also be immortals who will betray like golden cicadas.

Even without this kind of factor that led to the decrease in membership, as the Heavenly Palace and the Great Thunder Yin Temple grew stronger, they would naturally have the need to expand their staff. The gods are involved in a wider range of scientific and technological fields, and industrial production is gradually subdivided, resulting in countless complex lines.

However, automated management is not a panacea, and no matter how many supercomputers assist it, a limited number of personnel cannot complete a large number of management plans. In terms of scientific research, multi-faceted AI cannot completely replace the role of humans. The Gods and Buddhas need to add fresh blood to meet a variety of needs.

Fertility is naturally the first method that comes to mind, and there are still some immortals who are related by blood. But this approach does not take into account the uniqueness of humanity, or divinity, in that environment.

Quite simply, who can afford to maintain a kinship that lasts for hundreds of years?

When everyone reaches the age of a few hundred years, the age gap between the two generations is negligible. Mothers and daughters will have the same youthful appearance, and the life experience of the elderly will no longer be used as a capital for discipline. As an immortal, he can't tolerate another person who is not as capable as himself, but who just gave birth to his own and pressed on his head.

Infinite lifespan breaks those old notions that there will be no love that lasts for centuries. There will be no family affection that lasts for centuries. Different from the myths, the family-style god system is just a conjecture made by human beings according to their own circumstances, and when people really become gods, these things only make them feel a kind of backward depression, and constantly cause all kinds of unnecessary conflicts, and killing mothers and fathers once became the mainstream.

"From this point of view. Li Jing and his three sons are really rare and stable. Xuanzang couldn't help but laugh.

Tian Peng agreed, and then went on to explain: "Later, the meaning of fertility has basically been diluted to the point of disappearing, and new immortals are no longer born from within the immortal Buddhas, but are selected from among mortals. ”

The scope of this choice is extremely limited, and enlightened people generally arise only in shelters, and in a specific number of intervening shelters. Because the environment here is closed and suitable for controlling variables, many of them were intentionally built social experiment sites before the war. It's very easy to get things done. A small number of wasteland outcasts, if they meet the conditions, can also rise to immortality.

As for the requirements for becoming an immortal, in addition to concentrating on chanting scriptures and comprehending the Dharma like a monk, or studying the so-called Taoism spread by the heavenly court to the depth, it is also necessary to have extremely high scientific research potential.

This does not refer to the kind of fire thieves who crack the secrets of science and use the techniques learned by the Immortal Buddha to bless the world, but those criminals who focus on elimination. What the gods really want is. Mortals who delve into the mysteries of immortal Buddhism, but regard the technology contained in them as the method of enlightenment.

If an eligible person is found. A messenger will be sent to ignite it. If the other party intends to seek the Tao, the underworld will retain some of their memories and personality traits, and they will continue to precipitate after many reincarnations. Any mistake in the middle will lead to elimination. Until the final review is passed.

After attaining enlightenment, these newcomers will first be cleared of most of their memories of their life in the mortal world. That is, "cut off the edge of the dust". Then inculcate the way of life of the immortal Buddha and unify their positions. The second is to input the relevant basic knowledge into the brain according to each person's strengths, arrange the Buddha's immortal position, and become a formal member of the Immortal Buddha.

This set of immortal cultivation process, Xuanzang originally had a general understanding. I don't know if I didn't care enough before or lost my memory, and many details are only known now after listening to Tiancang's narration, so I don't feel bored waiting when he explains. However, Xuanzang only noticed now that such a suitable place for cultivating immortals as the Chang'an Refuge was not selected, but as the starting point of the scripture learning plan, which made him feel strange......

After listening to Tianpeng's words, the Nine-Tails were puzzled: "Why is this immortal cultivator you said different from ours?" ”

"Huh? What Miss Nine-Tails knows is ......"

"We are not in a shelter, but in a closed town. Becoming an immortal is not to be chosen, but to compete. The conditions for becoming an immortal were told to us from the beginning, but we had to pass various tests to qualify. Our names are numbered by letters and numbers, and they are used as real names, and only those who have attained enlightenment can change them to their official names.

"There are also classes among immortal cultivators, and they must climb up step by step from the bottom. Since resources are limited, in order to compete for those few immortal places, members of the same level will stimulate various open and secret battles, and everyone will try their best to seize the resources in the hands of others, stepping on the loser's head to advance upward. ”

Tianpeng was dumbfounded: "This is really ...... It's very different. But I've never heard of such an immortal cultivation organization. ”

Nine-Tails said, "I don't quite know what's going on. As far as I know, it's not an illegal organization as you said, it has existed for many years, and there have been immortals who have inspected it, but I haven't had a chance to see which god it is. ”

Is it a new type of institution duly authorized to be established in the mortal world? How come I've never heard of such a place......

Xuanzang folded his arms, frowned and pondered for a while, and asked the Nine-Tails: "Then what is the reason for your escape, just because you found out that you are an artificial son. Was it born in the palace? ”

Nine-Tails shook his head and said, "Of course not, although I was quite shocked when I found out. What the regulator initially told everyone was that we were all selected to be summoned there after accumulating yin virtue and forming good karma in our previous lives. So it's not too surprising to find out that you have no father or mother. The point is that some of my companions and I stumbled upon the cultivation of immortals as a hoax. ”

"Oh? How, exactly? Xuanzang straightened up and concentrated. She'd mentioned this before, and now the mystery was finally being revealed.

Nine-Tails' face became ugly, she took a deep breath, and said slowly, "Those who have achieved positive cultivation have not gone to the Heavenly Palace or the Spirit Mountain. They were brain-drained and transported to a secret room. Their corpses were thrown into another giant machine and crushed to make artificial sons. Medium of culture of the uterus. (To be continued......)