Chapter 37: Class Society and Flying Swords
A lot of people were waiting outside, waiting to see me. There was my "father", with a group of people, holding his breath in fear and standing obediently in the first position outside the door. There are those senior brothers and sisters from other mountains, who also lead a group of people, holding a bunch of things, standing behind with sad faces or eager to try. Those junior brothers and sisters who have me are still with a group of people, still holding a lot of things, and all their thoughts are filled in on their little faces.
I know that all these people standing outside the door are ready to see me make a fool of myself this morning, and they are also ready to give me a good-looking person. They rushed to trade with the mountain city lords below, accepted other people's things, accepted other people's daughters, ate other people's delicacies, and said a lot of cruel words, but as a result, almost all the mountain city lords below were killed by me. What are they going to do?
So, I don't have to deal with the people out there, let alone force them to take things out one by one. Because they're afraid, because they're afraid, because they want to get my forgiveness, because they want something from me, they'll spit out all the things they've swallowed, and they'll spit out a lot more.
I don't have to be afraid that someone has no eyes, they offended me before, and now they don't open their eyes, and they continue to stand outside with a very dick and a cock.
I don't have to be afraid of who the massacre just now will offend, what troubles will be sown, what enemies will be brought, and what criticism will be aroused.
Because things are no longer the same.
I am a foundation monk, and I now stand in a higher social class than them.
I have carefully used all the information I have collected in Goldfinger Space to deduce the answer to a question, that is, what is the ruling model of this Xiuzhen world with "power" as the core, and what is its social structure? Is it similar to the caste system in India, or the royalty-aristocracy-commoner-serfdom system in Tsarist Russia, or the daimyo-samurai-freedmen-serfdom system in Japan's Warring States period, the Western knight-aristocracy system represented by the Holy Roman Empire, or the canonized vassal state system in China's Western Zhou Dynasty? Or is it simply those interstellar imperial systems that only appear in dark stream science fiction?
This is an important question.
I also have a little bit of an answer.
Using Lian Yunfeng, where I live, as a recent sample, it is a very simple social structure divided into four classes. Ancestor Xie Daoqing, as a Jindan Zhenren, occupies the largest proportion of Lianyunfeng's combat power, and naturally also monopolizes the largest proportion of power and wealth. Then there was the Tsukiji monk class, which divided everything that was left. They have no independent power and wealth, and everything must be attached to the name of the foundation building monk at a higher level, just as the various feudal states and mountain cities below can only be attached to the name of the Qi cultivation monk.
So my current identity is to change from being part of the ruling class to being part of the ruling class. I am a member of the second class of Lian Yunfeng, the twentieth foundation building monk. The value of force that I personally have, roughly calculated, is probably hundreds of times that of yesterday. Right now, let me go and fight with those few well-equipped ninth-level Qi cultivators, I am blank, all the equipment columns are empty, only with the true yuan mana and spells, they are all sure to win.
Mobility from autonomous flight, long blue bars and high mana recovery speed with increased mana, and higher shield defense, higher attack and stronger penetration with advanced spells. What's more, the same spell rune, in the hands of the foundation building monk and in the hands of the qi cultivator, the effect is completely different. And in the face of the same spell, the performance of the foundation building monk and the qi cultivation monk is also different.
Illusions, Confusion, Suggestion, Curses, Changes, Poisons, Gu Spells, in addition to elemental spells, the Foundation Cultivator has more options to kill those Qi cultivators who are not resistant enough.
So I asked Xie Baoqin to be my representative, to sit in my place, to deal with the people outside the door.
And I'm going to see the person I should be seeing the most now.
The six Jindan Jurchens.
Still in the huge jungle space at the stern of the boat, they sat around casually, looking at me curiously, just like yesterday.
I stood below, not daring to feel the slightest bit of pride, and bent down slightly respectfully, allowing them to sweep over with their gaze, and look at the past with various probing spells.
Earlier, I mentioned the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the Zhuji Monk and the Qi Cultivation Monk, so what is the comparison of the combat effectiveness of the Jindan Monk and the Zhuji Monk?
Here I will make a very simple analogy, a farmer can kill a samurai with a crossbow arrow, a samurai can also use explosives and other means to kill a Qi cultivator, and a qi cultivator can also use some magic weapons with high attack power or some special means to kill a Zhuji monk, but the Zhuji monk can kill Jindan Zhenren "down to the top", but there has never been.
There may be, there will always be one or two strange things in the long history of 100,000 years, such as Lin Nineteen, who is now carrying a little red sword, or a guy with unique exercises and spells. But these have never been mainstream.
What I know now is that most of the robes worn by the Jindan True People were woven by them with True Yuan Mana. All attacks, until this layer of protection is penetrated, are ineffective. And this layer of defense is still fully automatic, and even more so, it is "actively activated by hostility".
So how much defense does this simple "robe" bring?
I saw a very strange statement in a book, and then I refined it and deduced a very strange but basically logical inference based on it.
We all know that the cultivator's main weapon is the flying sword. Whether it is an alchemist, a refiner, a formation master, a talisman master, a pharmacist, a poisoner, a craftsman, a Gu master, a worm master, an onmyoji, a demon master, a sealer, no matter which profession it is, the main weapon is basically a flying sword.
Then the flying sword became a big killer.
I have a flying sword myself. It turned out to be a magic sword, but this morning I practiced it, added some rune circles that should be in the flying sword, and added some rune circles that I liked, and then it became a pendant on my waist now, and it was also my strongest reliance when facing those Qi cultivators.
Because I have experimented, my flying sword can fly at a supersonic speed of up to 500 meters per second, and it can also be controlled by me in real time to make various movements. Moreover, my flying sword can pierce the defensive spells that can be issued by the sixth-layer cultivator when it is static, and when it reaches a speed of two hundred meters per second, plus some special effects generated by the activation of the rune array, it can penetrate the shield of the ninth-layer cultivator. And at the highest speed, when all the rune circles are opened, and when they are used as disposable missiles, they can even blow up a small mountain, and can easily pierce the shield of maximum strength that I emitted.
I have long questioned the "overlimit killing effect" of flying swords. With a flying sword in hand, a low-level monk would often turn into a carnage. Monk Tsukiji alone can intimidate tens of thousands of samurai and millions of citizens in more than a dozen feudal kingdoms, and it is the flying sword possessed by Monk Tsukiki that can create a slaughtering effect as easily as mowing grass.
And in the battle of the same level of foundation building monks, death often becomes very easy. The flying sword has a flight speed that exceeds that of the Tsukiji Monk, has a combat radius of more than three thousand meters, and has an attack power far beyond the Tsukiji Monk's own spell shield defense value, so often a conflict between lightning and flint will kill people. Therefore, various flying sword techniques and combat techniques have been developed, and the principles of getting along, acting, and fighting between low-level monks below the Jindan real person have been developed.
Why?
I put forward a conjecture that the maximum attack power of Monk Zhuji's flying sword in standard mode is equal to or less than the minimum defense value of Jindan Zhenren's "magic robe".
Therefore, the Zhuji Monk couldn't kill the Jindan Zhenren, so the Zhuji Monk frantically pursued the enhancement of the attack power of the flying sword, so that it far exceeded the defense that his own class could create, so it produced the "overlimit killing effect", which is why many ruling rules in the Xiuzhen world were derived.