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This day on June 18, 9999 in the nine-day calendar.

Cheng Li's conversation at the Tongling Peak Elders Meeting on Qingling Island is destined to go down in history.

At this time, no one knew what kind of seeds Cheng Li's words would plant in the hearts of the six elders present.

No one knows how much impact Cheng Li's words will have on the next nine days.

However, everyone on Qingling Island knew that on this day, Cheng Li became their honorary head.

And after Cheng Li became the head, as the so-called new official took office with three fires, Cheng Li first did two things.

One is to transform the spirit armor, so that the spirit armor of Qingling Island can be driven by mortals for the first time.

One is the issuance of five decrees of the head.

If it is said that the first thing Cheng Li did was to transform the spirit armor, in front of tens of thousands of people, he personally completed a miracle, imprinted Cheng Li's own glorious image into the hearts of everyone on Qingling Island, created his all-powerful image, and made the people of Qingling Island believe more and more that he is the savior.

Then, the second thing Cheng Li did was even more earth-shattering than the first thing.

On Qingling Island, all the cultivators, all the mortals, after learning about the five decrees issued by Cheng Li, were all dumbfounded, they couldn't believe it was true at all.

What shocked them even more was how the Council of Elders could agree to such five ridiculous decrees?

"Mortals are equal to cultivators, and they don't treat them equally? Isn't this a joke?" one of the cultivators scolded first.

"Mortals are fools who can't awaken the spiritual root, their lifespan is short, their bodies are weak, they can't be used, and they are not even qualified to be cannon fodder, so why should they compete with us cultivators for resources?"

"Yes, yes, resources are so precious now, I heard that it is already an era of extinction outside, and resources will only become more and more scarce in the future, how can you share them with those weak mortals?"

The first reaction of many cultivators is like this.

But what followed was more cultivators who stood on Cheng Li's side.

Most of them were people who had personally watched the process of transforming the spirit armor in the Refining Hall before.

"Who said that mortals are useless and don't even have the qualifications to be cannon fodder?"

"Did you go to the Refining Hall yesterday to see it? I saw with my own eyes that a very thin mortal woman was directly able to drive the spirit armor with ease after an hour of training!"

"That's right, since this mortal can drive the spirit armor, then he has combat power and can fight for Qingling Island! Since he can fight for Qingling Island and contribute to Qingling Island, why can't he enjoy resources?"

However, there are still some people who have more stubborn ideas.

"Even if this mortal can drive the spirit armor, can it be compared with the spirit armor of a cultivator? The combat power of a cultivator driving the spirit armor is not comparable to that of a mortal! The mortal driving the spirit armor you are talking about is only able to make some of the most basic operations, and it is still far from being put into actual combat!"

Someone else immediately retorted: "This is only temporary, Cheng Zhangmen said, the spirit armor drive system, now only the first version has been developed, and more versions will be iteratively developed in the future, and the spirit armor drive system will be continuously optimized!

"Besides, that mortal has only just been trained for an hour, if a group of professional spirit armor is selected from the mortals at that time and the most rigorous training is carried out every day, then the mortals may not be able to exert their combat power comparable to that of a cultivator!"

There were also people from the Refining Hall who also chimed in: "That's right, and the current Tiangong Number, Wufeng Number, and Ruying Number, these three standard models are all designed for cultivators. I heard from our hall master that he plans to develop a new spirit armor specially designed for mortals, and when the time comes, this kind of mortal spirit armor will greatly strengthen the protection and ease of operation, so that the spirit armor will be more suitable for mortals to drive in terms of hardware structure, and I am afraid that mortals will not be able to exert the power of the spirit armor at that time?"

Almost all the people in the Mortal Society are on Cheng Li's side, and their views are even simpler.

"Even if the spirit armor piloted by mortals is not as good as that of cultivators? What is the biggest advantage of our mortals, is that there are many people!

"What if one of our spirit armors can't do the spirit armor driven by the cultivators, if we get three spirit armors together, can't we beat the spirit armor driven by the cultivators in the foundation building period?"

"Moreover, now that the number of cultivators on the island has decreased sharply, we can't drive so many spirit armors at all, and with the help of us mortals, we can form a new combat force and contribute our own strength to the future war!

"In that case, what about us mortals enjoying a little resource?"

Views like this are naturally shared by the vast majority of mortals.

At this time, there were 150,000 mortals and 20,000 cultivators on the island.

As the heated discussion on the island deepens, more and more mortals make their voices heard.

"We mortals, in the past thousands of years, have worked hard and complained, cultivating refining tools and cultivating them, as long as it is the hardest and most tiring thing on the island, and you cultivators are the most unwilling to do, we mortals have done it. But all this time, there has never been a cultivator who is willing to look at us squarely.

"Fortunately, there is a benevolent lord like Cheng Sect who uses the power of heaven to appear and issue such a decree, which is simply a blessing for us mortals!"

Some cultivators said disdainfully: "In the era of mass extinction, he is not doing charity, he will only push our Qingling Island to the brink of extinction!"

Immediately more mortals retorted, "No, you're wrong. Cheng Zhangmen is not doing charity, he didn't say that this is the only way to save Qingling Island! Only by gathering the strength of everyone in the civilization can it be possible to get a glimmer of life!

"Yes, Master Cheng said, we mortals have great potential, and once we exert ourselves, we will not be much weaker than cultivators!

"That's right, have you heard? The Science Avenue that Master Cheng said is the Xuantian above the Nine Heavens, a great avenue specially tailored for mortals!

"There are three thousand avenues, and even the grass and tree spirits can cultivate the Dao, why can't we mortals?

"We mortals must also have a great avenue that can be cultivated, a great avenue that can become an immortal like other cultivators and other grass and tree spirits, and that is the avenue of science!

"You look at the third of the five decrees, what kind of scientific committee will be established, and what kind of thesis reform will be established?"

"Yes, I heard that in the future, the allocation of resources on the island will be evaluated according to wisdom, and the criterion for evaluating wisdom is to write a thesis.

"Writing a dissertation? What's that?"

"I don't know very well, I heard that it is a way to explore the Great Dao, and it still needs to be learned, no, that exercise...... Oh no, the textbooks have already been handed out. I heard that in the future, each cultivator will have a copy of each person, and they must finish studying those textbooks in the shortest possible time. ”

Gradually, the trend of public opinion on the island shifted from resistance and incomprehension to curiosity about novelties, and after knowing that the distribution of resources in the future would be completely distributed according to the quality of the papers, with the instinctive pursuit of interests, everyone's curiosity shifted to the discussion of papers and science.

And at this time, the latest executive order also came down.

"With the establishment of Qingling Primary School, all children under the age of 10, regardless of whether they have awakened the spiritual root, must be compulsorily enrolled, and they will also study nine years of compulsory education, and the subjects are divided into mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, which are four subjects. The pace of learning varies from person to person, and students need to be taught according to their aptitude, and if there is a fast learning speed, they can enter Qingling Middle School in advance. ”

"Qingling Middle School will be established, and all those who cultivate in the Qi refining period and foundation building period will become the first batch of students in Qingling Middle School. All the first batch of students are required to complete the textbooks of the nine-year compulsory education within one month, and if they are unable to complete their studies by the end of the year, they will not be able to graduate and will not be eligible for promotion to Qingling University. ”

"With the establishment of Qingling University, all Jindan stage cultivators will become the first batch of students of Qingling University, and Cheng Li will serve as the first professor of Qingling University, and personally teach all students. It is required that within 5 days, all Jindan stage cultivators must complete the nine-year compulsory education course. ”