Seeing that it was going to be late at night, Li Ran directly invited Ye Xing to stay at his home for a few days, Ye Xing thought about it, and agreed, so he went to the inn to take his package and followed Li Ran to the inner city.

Because of Li Ran's token, entering the inner city, the guards did not ask Ye Xing's identity, entered the inner city from the long bridge on the river, and came inside, Ye Xing was immediately keenly aware that the aura was much stronger than that of the outer city.

The two walked for a while, and when they arrived at a large mansion in the inner city, Ye Xing realized that Li Ran was still the son of the Tang royal family, and it should be the kind of royal prince with a relatively high status, Li Ran was still the son of the prince, although he had not yet been knighted, but as the only son of the prince, he would be at least a prince in the future.

Li Ran's father, Prince Rui is the half-brother of the emperor of the current Tang Empire, and he has had a good relationship with the emperor since he was a child, and he could have lived in the imperial city, but Prince Rui is still more willing to live in the inner city and is more free.

Li Ran has practiced since he was a child, and he is a royal genius, but he rarely appears in the outer city of Tianjing City, and outsiders don't know about it, but within the royal family, Li Ran is the descendant that the ancestors of the Li family pay attention to.

Li Ran was twenty-one years old at the peak of the ninth layer of qi refining, and at the same time he was also a master of martial arts at the ninth level of the innate nature, this is a genius among geniuses, and now he has just not had a chance to break through for a while, and he recently came out of the cultivation secret place of the imperial city and came home to live temporarily.

Li Ran arranged Ye Xing's residence in his courtyard, and he didn't have a rest at all, because they were all monks, drinking fine wine, eating food, and chatting freely.

Ye Xing took a look at the luxurious furnishings and exquisite design here, and he also admired it very much, and he also saw the scenery photos of the first mate hanging on the wall as a mural, which of course came from the Tianxing Kingdom.

Ye Xing is extremely interested in astronomical and geographical knowledge, and about the structure of things between man and nature, that is what Li Ran is most enthusiastic about.

Ye Xing also did not hide his own opinions, such as the internal composition of the human body, the origin of life, natural selection, the evolution of life, etc., and generously gave shocking insights and speculations, which are completely different from the statements of God and God in this era.

Ye Xing resolutely refused to admit the existence of gods, anyway, even if he was a master of Yuanying, he couldn't be regarded as a god, but he was more capable, and he hadn't heard of it, and he had never heard of what life and miracles the Yuanying Ancestor had created.

Li Ran asked, "Brother Ye, you said that creatures constantly have to adapt to the environment because of the changes in the living environment, so they create their own new skills, I recognize, but that is only an improvement of the technique, and there is nothing innovative in principle." You see that the knife is still a knife, and the style of the knife of 50,000 years has changed at most, the bird is still a bird, and it has not become another creature, and the essence is not different."

Ye Xingdao, "The knife is still a knife, but the raw materials used to make the knife have changed, this is innovation, bronze was used before, iron was used later, and now iron-copper alloy that will not rust is used, and the composition principle has also changed. As for the birds, the abilities of the birds are still evolving, and the birds can also use stones to break open the fruit to eat, this is evolution, not created by God."

Li Ran thought silently for a while, and said, "What you said also makes sense, but isn't this a god who is guiding the creation of new things and new skills?" ”

Ye Xing said, "There is a chance, you go to the Tianxing Kingdom to see, countless new things have been created, I heard that the Tianxing State has a car, which is faster than a horse, which is the evolution of human ability, of course, it is a new skill, not only a change in technique, but also a new principle of it." Could it be that the gods of the Heavenly Star Kingdom will do this, but the gods of the Tang Dynasty will not? ”

Without waiting for Li Ran to answer, Ye Xing added, "You heard that the kind of innovation in the Heavenly Star Kingdom was created by the gods and taught to the craftsmen? Isn't it the result of countless craftsmen's continuous attempts, repeated trials, and continuous improvements?"

Ye Xing pointed to the mural and continued, "This must not have been created by the gods, right?!" ”

Li Ran nodded, took a big sip of wine, paused for a while, and then said, "I still don't know, if our cultivation exercises are all created by our predecessors and continuously improved by our descendants, and are not granted by God, then who created the exercises out of thin air all of a sudden, why are we still not as good as our predecessors, at least I can't create a new cultivation method, it stands to reason that the descendants should be more powerful than the predecessors!" But I've never heard of anyone who has created a new cultivation method? ”

Li Ran's long series of questions made Ye Xing also blindsided, and he didn't know how to answer for a while, and after thinking for a long time, he said, "At the beginning, there was only one set of simple exercises, continuous improvement, multi-directional evolution, and after generation after generation, new exercises were produced, and slowly became unrecognizable." You've probably also noticed that the various words we use when we practice any exercise are the same, which explains that the practice is actually based on the same origin."

Li Ran nodded and said, "Maybe!" By the way, Brother Ye, what do you think of the Heavenly Star Kingdom? ”

Seeing that the other party changed the topic, but did not expect the other party to talk about Tianxing Kingdom, Ye Xing said directly, "Although I have never been to Tianxing Country, I heard that I only heard about it when I went to Tianjing City. ”

Li Ran shook his head and said, "Brother Ye, you are from the Hidden World Sect, and you don't know the real Heavenly Star Kingdom at all. Tianxing Country is already the first power in the world, to be honest, decades ago, it surpassed Datang, and now the national strength is far above Datang"

Ye Xingdao, "I've been out of the hidden door for a few months, and I've heard about it, and I haven't paid much attention to the major events in the world, and I really don't know about it, so let's talk about it."

Li Ran said, "Of course, Datang has a large number of detailed works in the Tianxing Kingdom, and we also know a lot about the Tianxing Kingdom, in fact, in addition to countless advanced weapons, the Tianxing Kingdom is extremely powerful, and the people are also extremely rich, and now the population is about to catch up with the Datang." Except for the number of high-ranking monks, it can be said that it surpasses Datang in any aspect."

Ye Xing smirked and said, "We sent a few high-level cultivators, what is the use of a powerful weapon?" A high-ranking monk topped him a thousand soldiers! ”

Li Ran said, "Wrong! The existing weapons of the Celestial Star Army, for ordinary monks, are instant kills, and high-level monks can't withstand it at all, and now their guns and firearms are ten times more powerful, and they also have combat planes and combat locomotives, they don't need any roads at all, they can attack us, and there is no way to resist at all! ”

Ye Xing said, "No, Datang can't imitate their firearms?" Our 10,000-year-old empire has countless talents, can't it be imitated? ”

Li Ran said, "Of course, we have also imitated a lot of firearms now, but it is difficult to produce, and the performance is also very different from the other party. ”

Ye Xing said disapprerovingly, "Won't you go and loot the other party's key personnel?" ”

Li Ran nodded and said, "Of course we did, those who were taken captive had no way of knowing the real core secrets, they could only talk about it, and they couldn't make the same thing at all." There are thousands of processes involved in a single firearm, and it is not at all possible that ten or eight can understand the whole picture, and no one knows the whole picture. It is said that the Celestial Star Kingdom does not know about a single high-performance gunpowder formula at all, and all of them only do one process. ”

Ye Xing said, "Where did our genius go?" Can't you analyze it? ”

Li Ran said, "I really can't analyze it, our Great Sect Master of Medicine Refining Ancestor personally took action, and we didn't get anything!" It's not a spiritual weapon at all, but it's more powerful than the spiritual weapon we know."

Ye Xing wanted to end this topic very much, and said, "Anyway, the Heavenly Star Kingdom doesn't dare to do anything to Datang, let's talk about Dayuan and Nanban."

Li Ran said, "Also, we have at least ten Yuan Infant Ancestors in the Tang Dynasty, no matter how strong the Heavenly Star Kingdom is." The Great Yuan Empire, now attacking the Western Regions, is said to have destroyed countless countries in the past few decades, and the land has doubled. In recent decades, they have also changed their strategy, and have begun to contain and accommodate the conquered tribes, and their culture and national power have continued to grow, and now the national power and population have caught up. ”

Seeing that Ye Xing listened attentively, Li Ran said, "Dayuan is more pioneering, Datang is too old-fashioned, he just wants to live in the glory of the past, and he has no enterprising heart at all, these few months, I go to the outer city every day, the more I know, the more I can't believe it, it turns out that we are no longer the center of the world."

Ye Xing sighed, stared at Li Ran's face, and said seriously, "So, where do you think is the center of the world, does the world really have a center?"

This question has existed at the bottom of Ye Xingdi for decades, and I have been wondering about it since I was a child, so I have never had relevant knowledge.