Section 128 Cultural invasion
Hearing Xingyu's "dream", Cui Pengxiao's mouth opened wide in surprise. Perhaps for other astromagicians, getting more ordinary people on the road of technology is not something to be surprised at all. After all, ordinary people are too low-level for astromagicians, and how to develop has nothing to do with the astral world.
As two groups sharing a blue sky, the connection between the secular world and the astral world is only a limited material exchange. Even, ordinary people are just a group of astromagicians who provide supplies, and they are just slaves of astromagicians who ask for living materials.
And the group of astralists, at least in the past, was absolutely small and rare. There are tens of billions of ordinary people on the entire continent of the world, but the number of astral magicians who need to be supported is only a few tens of thousands. This ratio is too low. Astrologists themselves don't consume much wealth...... The labor cost in this world is too low, and the astral magician needs at most some food, clothing and other materials to ensure his survival. Even when a huge amount of medicinal materials were needed in exchange for pills before, it was just to mobilize some ordinary people to use their "leisure" time to pick.
As the famous saying goes, in a great person, a day is nothing more than a liter of rice, a bed, and warm and gorgeous clothes...... And so on, after death, it is only a cemetery the size of a palm. Astrologists have never been a group that advocates material comforts, although for ordinary people, astrologists are unattainable immortals, but it is really not a big burden to make offerings.
Astrologists are not particularly power-hungry people, and their control over the world is only to be able to obtain a stable supply of goods to ensure that their lives are not bothered by these trivial matters. As for the rest, the Astral doesn't need to be different...... The astral world itself is a being that transcends the mundane world.
Therefore, on the surface, astromagicians who don't pay much attention to the lives of ordinary people will have no objection at all to whether the secular world will embark on the path of science and technology.
But that's just on the surface. In fact, at least Cui Pengxiao understands how unrealistic Xingyu's idea is. Perhaps Cui Pengxiao doesn't know the huge difference between materialism and orthodox astrological civilization, and he doesn't know how big the impact on the astral world will be if materialist ideas prevail in the world. However, he understood that at least if ordinary people could possess the powerful weapons of the Ocean Country, even for the star magicians who had successfully forged the alchemy body, that is, the star magicians of the Starry Sky Realm, they might have a great threat.
The kind of guns that shoot continuously in the maritime country...... Heavy machine guns already have a powerful threat to the astral magicians of the Sky Breaking Realm, and the cannons and other weapons that the Xue Mo Cui family introduced from the Ocean Country are not impossible to fall if the astronists of the Starry Sky Realm are hard to shake a few times. Not to mention that from the many "confidential textbooks" of the Ocean Country, Cui Pengxiao also learned that there was a more powerful thing called "Nuclear Bomb", even if it was compared to the full force of the Star Sorcerer of the Sky Splitting Realm, it was only a difference.
In this way, ordinary people are not lambs to be slaughtered by astromagicians, and more importantly, the number of ordinary people is too large. Even though the current astral world, together with the astrologists who have just started, already has a number of more than one million, it still seems a little rare compared to tens of billions of ordinary people.
In other words, if Xingyu turns the ordinary people of the entire world into so-called "Scientologists", then how will the astral world get along with the secular world in the future? Although with Cui Pengxiao's knowledge, it can be seen at a glance that ordinary people have powerful attack power, and there is still a strong gap between them and astromagicians...... The main thing is that it is impossible for the astrological magicians of the Heaven Splitting Realm to be caught up by the slow bullets, and the so-called threat is only possible...... However, a threat is a threat, and what about the time when the tiger is still napping, let alone the astrologer who often needs to retreat?
It would be sad if an astrology was in retreat and an ordinary person was being used with some kind of weapon. Therefore, after Cui Pengxiao heard Xingyu's wish, he immediately frowned.
The so-called ass decides the head, it stands to reason that Xingyu is on the side of the astrology, but his ideas betray his own class, and he simply speaks for ordinary people. This naturally made Cui Pengxiao feel that something was wrong, and after Xingyu said his thoughts, Cui Pengxiao immediately shook his head and said, "Xingyu, your idea seems to be a little unrealistic......
"Why isn't it realistic?" Xingyu has always thought that what hinders his technology is the deep-rooted "superstitious" thinking of astromagicians, and he has been prepared for this problem for a long time.
Although he could not change the thinking of the older generation of astromagicians, if he were to apply the scientific ideas of materialism to the entire secular world, I believe that the new generation of ordinary people would accept this simple, clear, and easily proven correct thinking.
After all, the astrologers still come from the ordinary people, will the new generation of astrologers still embark on the idealistic road of "superstition"? You know, even if you want to learn astrology, Haiyang Guo, or Xingyu and his master Chen Moru, have already prepared a set of materialist "unorthodox" astrology.
Although the limit of this set of astral techniques can only reach the end of the subtle realm, it is because Chen Moru and Xingyu's current highest realm is also the subtle realm. In other words, as long as Xingyu's realm is improved again, this set of astral arts still has the hope of "upgrading" again.
Then, as long as he can stay in this world long enough, long enough for these new generation of astromagicians who have accepted materialist ideas to grow up and compete with the old astrologers, then he doesn't need to worry about the so-called "consciousness" battle at all.
However, the so-called wise man may have a mistake, and Xingyu never imagined that it was the astrologist himself who really hindered his scientific development.
No matter how devout the astrologist is to the astrological civilization, and it doesn't matter whether the astrologist is a group of "cultivators". From the perspective of human nature, although the astrologers do not care whether ordinary people worship or fear them, their natural sense of superiority makes them unacceptable at all, and ordinary people can pose a threat to them.
This is a kind of instinct, anyway, it may not be a big deal for ordinary people to develop "civilian" technology, and computers are powerful and can't cause harm to astromagicians! However, what really has a role in promoting the development of science and technology is always war.
In other words, as long as the ordinary people of the whole world or the worldly rulers have tasted the power brought by technology, they will definitely give priority to the application of technology to weapons. The more powerful the weapon, the more it will naturally pose a threat to the sorcerer. Even astromagicians who have been "edified" by materialism will not allow ordinary people to climb on their heads, right?
Perhaps this is the inferior nature of intelligent beings, right? Astrologists are immortal moral cultivators after all, and in the spiritual realm, they are far from having the usual mentality like moral people.
Cui Pengxiao did not shy away from expressing his thoughts, and directly pointed out this contradiction between astrology and ordinary people, which made Xingyu realize that he had thought too simple before. Perhaps, even the level of science and technology in the previous life did not have an overwhelming advantage against a single star magician, and even if he did not use powerful weapons to die together, he did not have the capital to bargain with high-level star magicians.
However, don't forget that the lifespan of the astrologers in this world is extremely long. Maybe in a year or two, not enough technology to develop to the point where it poses an absolute threat to astromagicians, but what about a thousand or ten thousand years later?
Indeed, if ordinary people and astromagicians really belong to two "species", Xingyu's idea will not even have the slightest possibility of realization, no matter how strong the astromagician's pursuit of the astral realm is, the struggle for power and profit is inevitable.
To put it more realistically, even if the astrologist has no idea of controlling the world of ordinary people, when ordinary people gain powerful abilities, will they still bow their eyebrows to the astromagician?
However, although Xingyu also felt helpless about this, after all, astromagicians and ordinary people belong to the same human race, and they still have something in common after all. In other words, the secular world is not insulated from the astral world, and if the development of science and technology is not interrupted, it is not impossible for the scientific civilization and the astral civilization to merge.
So, instead of losing confidence, he affirmed, "I know it's hard to do this, but I believe it can be done in the end." Because, I will choose to leave this world only after the path of science is on the right track. Moreover, I don't think that the path of science and the path of astralism are necessarily contradictory cultures, maybe you don't know what the cultivation after the realm of the great star magician is like, but I can assert that if science is developed to the extreme...... It doesn't even need to be extreme, it's just a certain stage, and it can be promoted for the astromagician. In this way, in fact, the development of the path of science is also good for astromagicians. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so obsessed, would I?"
Xingyu's words made Cui Pengxiao and the others fall into deep thought. Whether the development of science will have a promoting effect on astrology, even Cui Yunfeng, the ancestor of the Xue Mo Cui family, does not dare to assert. However, Xingyu swore that he said this, and he didn't think it was true, right?
In addition, even if what Xingyu said was just an excuse he made, and the development of science and technology was not beneficial to the astral civilization, but Xingyu said that he would not leave this world until the development of science was on the right track, which meant that Xingyu's decision was basically something they couldn't change.
Xingyu is now about to stand in the position of the first person in the astral realm, if after a while, everyone can see that he has a great hope of surpassing the great astral sorcerer realm, then, who can stop him from doing what he wants to do at that time...... Even now, no one can stop him, right?
Actually, these are not important issues. Because Xingyu is not an evil person, at least from Xingyu's thoughts, it can be regarded as very "peaceful" and "gentle" for the entire astral world. At least, Yuki didn't touch the interests of most of the astromagicians. Therefore, even if Cui Pengxiao and others vaguely have no hope for the "future", they will not object to Xingyu taking his own path.
Putting these unimportant questions aside, Cui Pengxiao and the others heard something worthy of their doubts from Xingyu's words...... Xingyu is only in his twenties, and his experience cannot be exaggerated. And the strength may be very strong, but the realm has not reached the realm of the Great Star Warlock. Why would he assert that an astrologist would be interested in science when he set foot in the Sage Realm?
Could it be that Xingyu himself was actually a "visitor from outside the sky", or could it be that Xingyu himself had already been released from the "visitor" of the Sage realm? Otherwise, how could he dare to say that the development of science would have a reference effect on astromagicians?
And, in reality, this explanation may be really likely. Otherwise, how can we explain a twenty-one-year-old "little baby" or a hairless and unstable year, and rush to this point? And know the knowledge that many astromagicians don't understand?
If you are unlucky, you are the "possessed" of an extraterrestrial soul with "memories of your past life", or you have obtained the guidance of a visitor from outside the world. In short, either way, it is unacceptable to the astral world.
However, Xingyu's current strength is no longer something that anyone can suppress if they want to. Cui Pengxiao and others can only learn ostriches, and let this guy who is suspected of being a "visitor from outside the sky" go freely. Of course, Xingyu doesn't have "bad" thoughts about the astral world, which is the most important thing. After all, the astral world's wariness of visitors from outside the sky is the unfriendliness of visitors from outside the sky.
At least judging from Xingyu's thoughts now, this extraterrestrial visitor is not a big threat to this world, so there is no need for them to tear their faces with Xingyu in such a situation.
Perhaps, strictly speaking, Xingyu is indeed an extraterrestrial visitor, and he is also from a universe outside the world of astrology. However, his "invading" thinking as an alien visitor is different from those astromagicians who have no "technical content".
If it is said that visitors from outside the world in the general sense always use force to conquer this world, then Xingyu's unintentional "invasion" is actually a cultural invasion, which belongs to the category of "soft invasion". Such aggression is difficult to prevent and more hidden. But the effect is no worse than that of conquest by force.
Therefore, after Cui Pengxiao and others helplessly "admitted" the "legitimacy" of Xingyu's future actions, Xingyu secretly laughed in his heart, even if he did not have the wisdom of "politics" and governance, but the experience of his previous life can definitely bring great changes to this world, Cui Pengxiao and others will definitely regret today's decision in the future, right?