90 To The Yach (1/2)
After Elizabeth and Yrre finished packing Elizabeth's things, Elizabeth led the way out of her room and onto the outside of the dojo. To her amusement, Atid had called numerous black SUVs for those leaving to Sharktop Island. Apparently, with the way the cars were set up, there should have been one for each person. But, because of Elizabeth's sudden return, several people wanted to share a car with her.
The SUVs were indistinguishable from limousines, at least with respect to size. So, even with Elizabeth, Jane, Sun, and Atid occupying the passenger area of the car, Yrre could still fit comfortably; hidden from all eyes aside from Elizabeth's, of course. Thus, a lengthy conversation between Elizabeth and her guests took place, as they were driven to the local harbor.
Elizabeth gained a basic understanding of what the dimension upgrade did from the perspective of regular people and the others ”learned” what happened to her. Understandably, the effects of the dimensional upgrade were too much for the Martial Society to conceal and even though their connections and power across the world was basically uncontested, it was decided that soon, the appearance of ancient-style martial practices would resurface.
Elizabeth couldn't help but shake her head at the thought that before she even encountered the Mage and Martial worlds of the Shadow Realm, her own home dimension would be changed to fit the same style. With spiritual energy now running amok, it would be easier than ever to join the ranks of practitioners, and as such, certain development of civilization was to be expected.
The dimensional upgraded didn't just change the spiritual air, or lack thereof, on Earth or its surrounding universe. Rather, there was also a complete and extreme augmentation of the innate talents already present in both people with and without talent for cultivation. Only the worst of the worst, complete no-talent borne, people could pass through the baptism of the dimensional upgrade and turn out unchanged.
The average person would now possess either bad or mediocre levels of innate affinity for their compatible energy types and those that were talented before could even enter the Spirit Realm without much trouble. However… the biggest change Earth experienced because of the dimensional upgraded didn't even have to do with the people. Instead, with the change in spiritual air, previously unobtainable spiritual items, ingredients, ores, and abilities could be cultivated.
Elizabeth didn't have that much experience with Earth's martial skills and methods, only that one Ice cultivation method that Jane chose to share with her. A technique that was created for the purpose of creating sacrifices for another's cultivation. Yet even with that technique, which couldn't at all be classified as one of the more profound or advanced methods, Elizabeth managed to create her own functional Peak-tier Mortal Grade Ice Cultivation Method. Moreover, with the descriptions of the spiritual items she had thus far interacted with, Elizabeth could tell that Earth wasn't short on excellent techniques by any stretch of the imagination. Rather, they were unfortunately not in a place where such methods could be correctly cultivated; something which was no longer the case…
Now, with all these new variables introduced to the previously tame Earth, a new era was bound to develop. An Era of cultivators, where what was previously thought to be impossible would no longer be the case. An Era, where every able person would need to learn cultivation and the previous paradigm of civility and law would undoubtedly change.
The saying ”Give a man the power and he's bound to use it,” couldn't be closer to the truth. Previously, that ”power” was only used by an incomparably small proportion of humanity. That small proportion being those in the Martial Society; even they always resolved things through the power of their fist, not words or diplomacy. But now that around 95% of all humans had the capability and inclination to gain what is effectively a superpower, things would quickly devolve into total anarchy if the same systems were not put in place.
Through her conversation with the others, Elizabeth learned that the higher-ups in the Martial Society would soon formally declare the change to the globe and that as they were talking, those same higher-ups were discussing with the various world leaders of how it would all transpire. Given that the Martial Society had their greatest practitioners from parts of the world like the United States, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, India, Southern Africa, and Western Europe, it was highly likely that there would be many changes to the territories of said parts of the world and that those too, would be announced alongside their main reveal.
The very last thing Elizabeth discussed with Atid was the state of everyone's cultivation. For Jane and Sun, Elizabeth could rely on their Affection to bypass her Inner Strength's limits at probing their spirituality. But Atid himself needed physical contact for Elizabeth to examined. Being at the Spirit Realm, after the dimensional upgrade's baptism, his foundation, while not perfect, was still good enough to keep going for several Stages.
Sun had advanced to the Warrior Stage and similar to Jane had a Pseudo Perfect cultivation. He and Jane could be operated on to reform their Qi Connections and enter the path of True Perfection with Elizabeth. But, for Atid, to get the same results would require Elizabeth to put in more effort than she cared to spend. For someone who had yet to help her out, she wasn't planning on sharing that she could still fix his foundation.