The more popular a sub-discipline is, the more it appears in the public topic, the more rapidly it develops.

It's actually quite understandable. If a discipline wants to continue to advance, it either needs one or two top geniuses to make theoretical breakthroughs, or it needs a large number of talents to continuously accumulate experience and move forward steadily.

Mathematics with its emphasis on speculation belongs to the former, while creatures with its emphasis on experimentation and experience belong to the latter.

But in either of these two directions, there is a premise.

Person.

Only when more people are invested in this field, the chances of genius appearing will be greater.

Only when more people are invested in this field, the accumulation of data and experience will be faster.

And "popularity" has become a very critical choice at this time.

A popular discipline has more opportunities to promote itself and more people can be interested in itself.

Paleontology, on the other hand, is "unpopular".

Especially on Earth, this profession is even in a state of gradual shrinkage.

In China, this state of affairs is not much better.

Now studying ancient beings, in addition to understanding the principles of evolution and summarizing the model of evolution, is also a benefit of "observing ancient beings and comprehending new supernatural powers".

In the case of the former, now Jiyingu's research on genetics and bloodline is more in-depth and more straightforward. The research on modern creatures in Spirit Beast Mountain is also more detailed than the study of ancient creatures in Guling Cliff.

After all, the research objects of Spirit Beast Mountain are all extant species, and they all have detailed records. And for Gu Ling Cliff, except for some remaining evidence, too many things need to be guessed.

And the latter...... No matter how strong your innate supernatural powers are to imitate living beings, there is not much significance in this universe where the distance between theory and technology is very small.

For hundreds of years before, Gu Lingya relied on the study of the ancient demon clan [there was no concept of the first new demon clan and the updated demon clan in that era].

But now, things are different.

In this universe full of puzzles, in this universe where the evidence of the existence of "ancient immortals" is all over the starry sky, Gu Lingya's disciplinary thinking and research direction can play a great role.

It's just that this is something that the Shenzhou Immortal League has only realized in the last hundred years. They have plans to revive the Ancient Spirit Cliff, but they haven't harvested enough talent yet.

If it was when the Ancient Spirit Cliff was declining in the past, Tianling Ridge might even transfer a genius of Xue Bufan's level to Spirit Beast Mountain or Jiyin Valley.

It's just that Xue Bufan will have to wait for at least another three or four years to join the dark department.

Before this, it was difficult for Feng Luoyi to come up with an ancient spirit cliff monk who was academically strong and had good psychological quality.

In the "Expedition of Angels" and "Expedition of Envoys", the Ancient Spirit Cliff Monks are also scarce resources.

He shook his head apologetically at the man with a face full of shame, and changed the subject: "The Origin Exercise Theory and the Origin Exercise Theory have no way to prove or falsify it at present. It is also possible that neither of these exercises exists. Perhaps the original nebula creatures were also born saints, and there were no mortal stage exercises at all, and all the exercises were imitating them. ”

The man nodded: "The 'strongest' among the presumed ones does have this possibility." ”

"Do you have any other hypotheses?"

Feng Luoyi's previous focus on this department was not enough, at least not enough in recent decades.

The man said, "There are some." ”

I saw him scratch his hands in mid-air, give an order, and then, a fine map appeared in front of Feng Luoyi.

This is a dendrograph. Each root system is a specific exercise, and each specific exercise belongs to a general category, and there are larger concepts on top of each category.

"At one point, we were going to imitate the taxonomy of bibliophilia and the way of living beings, and to classify all the exercises. The man said, "We hope that we can trace the roots through this method and find the original exercises." ”

Feng Luoyi took a closer look and found that all the exercises were concentrated under dozens of categories—they should be at the level of "science", not even at the level of "outline". "Is this ......," he asked.

"We made this classification based on the similarities between the exercises, not only the harmony of the exercises themselves, but also the similarities of the cultivation concepts. He smiled bitterly: "Then, when you gather here, there will be no then." ”

"We can feel that there are some different heavens and earths, and there are obvious traces of similarity in the exercises—there may be many light-years between these heavens and earths, and there is no similarity in the species on them. But they can just give birth to similar cultivation concepts and cultivation paths. Of course, I know that this interval is not of much significance due to the existence of the fairy road, but ......"

"Isn't that weird...... How could there be so many different origins?" Feng Luoyi said, "I originally thought that those exercises were all from the Origin Exercises or the Primordial Exercises. ”

"There may be an Origin Exercise or a Primitive Practice, but the 'present race' is not exposed to the same 'Source Stream'. There was a sigh in the man's tone: "Maybe the original designers are really no longer there, as you suspected, or those designers have long since fallen apart - the 'source' that the current ethnic group is exposed to is obviously some groups."

Feng Luoyi quickly understood.

The origin of the human race's primordial infant law is the biggest rebellion of the first demon race, the Demon Emperor. If it weren't for the Demon Emperor's intent to descend across hundreds of astronomical units, the Ancient Dragon Emperor would not have allowed the Terrans to come into contact with the Yuan Infant Law.

He pointed to a broad category and said, "The exercises of this 'family' include three genera, each of which has 30 to 40 kinds of exercises, and these exercises come from seven different heavens and earths. Among these worlds, the oldest civilization has been barely passed down for tens of millions of years, and the world is on the verge of depletion - maybe it has been depleted a few times and restored a few times, and the civilization may have been interrupted a few times, we chose the exercises excavated from the ancient immortal caves, and the youngest one has a 1.6 million year inheritance. We have also selected the most original batch of exercises as representative samples. ”

Feng Luoyi asked, "What is the result?"

"As a result, the immortal path that began 10 million years ago and the immortal path that began 8 million years ago are counted as one genus, and the one that began 7 million years ago, 5 million years ago, 2.7 million years ago, and 2 million thousand years ago is counted as one genus, and finally the one that starts alone is counted as one genus. ”

"Actually according to the time?" Feng Luoyi was in high spirits, and seemed to think of something terrible.

"The 'sowers' behind them -- let's call them for the time being, 'sowers', the concept is also changing, and ...... Matures every time. The man said: "The cultivation thoughts of these immortal paths are also becoming more and more ...... Delicate, refined?

"The way to break the game......" Feng Luoyi muttered.

He remembered the Ancient Dragon Emperor.

Only those who are immortal can conduct empirical evidence in millions or tens of millions of years.

Feng Luoyi thought about it carefully, then gasped, and then smiled bitterly.

"So, those immortal Daos that have been inherited for less than 500,000 years are still under the observation of those powerful guys?" he smiled bitterly, "We are still a little too arrogant...... Fortunately, the 'seeders' had no ill will. ”

They used to do things without even realizing that they were being watched. It's scary.

But soon, more problems came.

"In other words, there is not just one group of 'sowers', but these many forces, which are ...... And what about the harvesting immortals?"

"Where did those immortals who reaped as soon as they appeared come from? Could it be the civilization planted by the 'sowers'?"

"Have the sowers moved away from mere predation, or have they recognized the serious consequences of plundering and strengthening themselves?

"And that's weird. The dragon clan rejects the Yuan Infant Law, and if they stand on the same side as the dragon clan, then ......"

The more he thought about it, the more terrifying it became.

Under the "Eternal Class," what does the "Third Estate" look like? In addition to the Third Estate, which is presumed to be only "individual," how many other forces like the Dragons seek to "break the situation"? Are the Ancient Immortals "strong people who seek a way to break the situation but fail," or are they "the Fourth Estate, which surpasses the Third Estate"?

The things that the man knew were limited to this library, and he didn't think as much as Feng Luoyi. He still smiled bitterly: "The affirmation of the idea of 'sower' is also recently, the contact between our Immortal Alliance and the Dragon Clan-as a result, we really don't seem to have achieved anything in the past hundred years." ”

"No, these achievements are already something to be proud of. He said, "Is this map a simple score?" or is it just a list of representatives?"

He remembered that the other immortal Dao exercises collected by the Immortal Alliance were more than that.

"That's all we've put together -- it took a lot of people close to 70 years. He shook his head: "The rest, there are still many things that cannot be explained." ”

"I don't understand, is it too different?"

"Nope. He said: "Some of them are also not part of the Yuan Infant Law, they are too miscellaneous to analyze, and I don't know if they come from any 'sower'." There are also some exercises that come from the 'Dao area' that I also don't understand. But...... Maybe those 'Dao area' exercises are closer to the Origin Exercises?"

It is not very simple to understand whether an exercise belongs to the Yuan Infant Method. The cultivation process of each race is different, the cultivation philosophy is different, and the language is also different, so it is difficult to judge whether an exercise belongs to the Yuan Infant Method based on the description of the exercise alone.

The definition of "Yuan Baby" given by the Immortal Dao of the present law is "the acquired spiritual organ that fuses the soul and carries the consciousness". And if you want to know this, you have to study a good exercise.

Even if an immortal path only needs to study a few representative exercises, it will take a long time to establish a correct understanding.

In a hundred years, it is already a miracle to have this achievement.

Feng Luoyi patted him on the shoulder: "You are really proud enough, but it's a pity that these things can't be published outside with your name." But maybe a thousand or ten thousand years from now, ......"

The man's thin lips twitched a few times, and he squeezed out a smile: "I hope that I will be a nameless person for the rest of my life...... We never had to face such a universe. (To be continued.) )