687 Live Well With Big Tool (2/2)

Wang Lu smiled and said, ”This is certainly a big topic. According to the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals, it's probably peace and development.”

Four Element Supreme shook his head. ”It's reproduction. For a community, the most important thing is to multiply.”

”... Supreme would probably get along well with the people of Yin and Yang School.”

Contrary to expectation, Four Element Supreme coldly snorted, ”Their practices are corrupted! They only deserve my spit!”

After he thought about it, Wang Lu also agreed. People from Yin and Yang School took pleasure in sexual intercourse, but every time they did it, they always used protections… For a person who advocated reproduction, contraception was absolutely the greatest desecration in the world.

Four Element Supreme seemed to have seen through Wang Lu's thoughts and said, ”Reproduction and giving birth are two quite different things. For giving birth, as long as a couple makes love, the woman could bear and give birth. As for reproduction… it's actually referring to those who give birth to their own kind of creature.” After a pause, Four Element Supreme used a vulgar analogy that violated his style, ”People bear people is reproduction, people bear dog is simply giving birth.”

”Pfft.” Wang Lu couldn't help but laugh. However, he then realized that for Four Element Supreme, the so-called reproduction in the immortal cultivation world was not the union of men and women in the general sense. Instead, it referred to the inheritance of the spirit root.

A cultivator was a human who had spirit root and could cultivate. Thus, only a human who could also cultivate could reproduce. If a cultivator gave birth to a mortal, wasn't it the same as giving birth a dog?

In turn, he also understood why Four Element Supreme was so fond of noble immortal cultivation families.

Because these families could artificially control the inheritance of the spirit roots—for the inheritance in the excellent families, the combination of two cultivators with spirit roots had a very high probability of reproducing cultivators. Although each time, such combination took a lot of energy, making their fertility rate below the average, it was still much better than the casual pursuit of luck by the others.

At the same time, it was not difficult to understand the so-called stealing opportunities: those ordinary people who had natural spirit roots bestowed upon them that appeared one after another in the long river of history, didn't they basically steal the opportunities from the immortal cultivation people?

”I think I probably could understand Supreme's idea.”

If it were to be assumed that the spirit root resources in Nine Regions were fixed, the spirit root resources would become more and more dispersed with the rising population as a whole. To make an extreme assumption, it would be difficult to say if the golden generation could be born if the population grew one hundred times. No matter how random it was, it was still subjected to the law of large numbers.

At this time, the reproduction of cultivators was very important. If cultivators could stably give birth to their offspring, they would not be robbed of too many spirit root resources by the vast number of mortals, so as to maintain the development of their own group. If not, they would just be a group of individuals. Then, thousands of years later, there would be no future for the group of cultivators.

”No matter how strong a cultivator is, they are still not an immortal. People who cultivate immortality seek detachment and think that ascending to the immortal realm might result in immortality. However, this crisis of the Fallen Immortal had broken the conclusion that immortals live forever. In this case, we should admit that it is difficult for individuals to be truly immortal and, instead, only the group can be immortal… at least relatively immortal.” Four Element Supreme said, ”Since the beginning of history, the longest living cultivator could only reach around ten thousand years. In the present age, the longest living cultivator South Pole Immortal Weng is only over four thousand years old. However, the history of cultivators, from the Desolation Age, is at least hundreds of thousands of years or even longer—Shengjing Sect once excavated the remains of a magical weapon with at least two million years of history. Compared with the lifespan of an individual, the lifespan of a group of immortal is the true immortality.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Lu sighed. ”However, if it's difficult to ensure the reproduction of the group of cultivators, then cultivators would eventually die out.”

”That is exactly the case. Supreme Wang Lu could understand all this so quickly, I am really pleased.”

Wang Lu smiled but did not reply.

The ideas of Four Element Supreme and all the assertions were based on the equilibrium of the resources of spirit root of Nine Regions. However, at present, there was absolutely no reliable evidence to prove this.

Of course, Wang Lu was not questioning the other party. To a certain extent, he even agreed with this view. Similarly, he also agreed with the idea of strengthening the reproduction of cultivators and improving the vitality of the group.

However, like Four Element Supreme, this viewpoint was extreme. People with reproductive ability were noble, but the rest were just plebs stealing the opportunities, and that only by strengthening the reproduction could the group survive… These viewpoints were very difficult to accept for Wang Lu.

However, Wang Lu did not come here to argue over ideas. There were many more Elders in Heavenly Sage Hall that had 'wonderful and unique' ideas and who were more paranoid than the Four Element Supreme. Not to talk about anyone else first, his own Non-Phase Peak was a very good example.

He came here to maintain the stability of the Union of Ten Thousand Immortals. And with this view, Four Element Supreme should not be the destroyer of the situation.

However, before Wang Lu could open his mouth, Four Element Supreme said, ”So, let's get back to the topic. Supreme Wang Lu, when are you going to marry and have children?”

”…”

”I have been observing you. Although you are not a disciple of a noble family, you have an unusually strong reproductive inheritance attribute. If you are to have a union with a female, even if she is just an ordinary woman, you guys would certainly be able to produce good offspring. If the blood that flows on those disciples of aristocratic families is noble blood, then the blood that flows in your vein could be called as the blood of king.”

Wang Lu wrinkled his eyebrows. Although it was good to be praised by people, to be praised like this, it simply felt ridiculous.

”Supreme, please stop for a moment… If you don't mind me asking, how could you tell what is inside my body? An unusually strong reproductive inheritance?”

Hearing this question, Four Element Supreme seemed to have found Wang Lu's question more peculiar. ”Didn't you just say it yourself, that you live well with a big tool?”