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This tactic, once only used by superpowers, has now become a winning strategy for ordinary people, or a trump card for deterring reciprocal destruction. It ensures that the current bipolar world of the United Nations is willing to protect the safety of ordinary Americans, allowing the United States to continue to exist in its current state of division without completely leaving, still appearing as a single country on the surface, but actually taking turns dominating diplomatic occasions. The absurdity of this situation has even left China and the Soviet Union dumbfounded.
Well, it's normal for young people to have a bit of fun. Before the US split apart, it wasn't even 300 years old, so of course it was young people.
Currently, both the Soviet Union and Tokyo University are promoting the internal settlement of superhumans. To put it bluntly, this means separating the living environments of superhumans and ordinary people, maintaining rational contact between the two sides, and at least preventing superhumans from indiscriminately slaughtering ordinary people and creating potential threats of national division. The new cities are basically located near the capital region.
To put it bluntly, this is the future new capital of the two countries. After all, the physical and intellectual abilities of superhumans far surpass those of ordinary people. With the popularization of cultivation techniques, the future world will inevitably belong to superhumans.
The new recruits under Yun Xiao's supervision are part of Dongda's extraordinary talent training system. According to the plan, Dongda will popularize extraordinary talent training in the future. As long as they are not the kind of outliers who are completely unable to adapt to extraordinary power, the goal is for everyone to become extraordinary!
This can be considered as mastering advanced productive forces.
Are there no bureaucrats or families who want to monopolize supernatural power?
Yes, but those who wanted to do it and those who actually did it were all secretly bleed dry by Qin Shan. After so many years of careful selection and the Avengers' screening of officials one by one, Dongda's political arena has reached the cleanest level in history. The price is that more than two million people have had their family records removed from the genealogy over the years, not counting those who fled overseas and were killed by Qin Shan. It can be said that a second self-revolution has been completed.
In addition, the Changbai Mountain Academy for Extraordinary Individuals, which currently boasts the most comprehensive teaching materials and the best training facilities in the world, is under Qin Shan's actual control. Those who graduate from there are guaranteed to be well-rounded in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education. Those who fail to meet these standards are expelled without even a chance to continue their studies.
This results in a very low graduation rate for Changbai Mountain College, but the certificates are highly valuable.
In addition, the instructors are all top figures in the Chinese civilization, and no one can bribe them. Therefore, it is the fairest academy for cultivating extraordinary individuals in the world, a truly exceptional existence beyond the norm.
Outside of schools, the state is most concerned about the violent institutions, the military and police.
Both the People's Armed Police and the military must be equipped with superhumans, and the superhumans in the People's Armed Police first enter the military to receive comprehensive training. As a level three superhuman, Major Instructor Yun Xiao is definitely a dragon among men.
According to Qin Shan's standards, those who can become Level 3 superhumans on Earth now have a one in ten thousand chance of becoming high-level superhumans in the future, while for other superhumans, the probability is one in ten million. That's a difference of a thousand times.
It's still very low, but at least there's a tiny glimmer of hope.
The nation is also very interested in high-level superhumans. The battles between high-level superhumans from other worlds were nothing short of nuclear weapon clashes, and unrestricted nuclear bombardments without any pollution. Their destructive power and versatility gave them an overwhelming and terrifying advantage over other countries.
In the next hundred years, whichever country first produces a high-level superhuman will gain a huge first-mover advantage.
Therefore, Southeast University has invested heavily in this area. The new recruit class that Yun Xiao is currently leading is also known as the elite class. Although there are fewer than 20 people, the funds that the country has invested here are equivalent to ten times the debt owed by Evergrande.
In terms of cost, it wouldn't be a problem to make a solid gold statue of these people using the same standards as the Buddha statue.
The sole purpose is to cultivate these individuals into high-level superhumans and expand the leading advantage of Tokyo University.
However, after Yunxiao finished class today, she did not ask everyone to leave, but instead informed them that a new teacher would be coming.
"Next, the Divine Continent Civilization will send a high-level transcendent being to give lectures. From the day he arrived here, I, like you, have been his student. Now, let's give a round of applause to our Divine Continent instructor!"
The moment the applause rang out, Qin Shan appeared on the podium.
It's just simple spatial teleportation, nothing special. He used it more skillfully than breathing in his past life.
After eliminating most of the external dangers, Qin Shan shifted his focus to cultivating outstanding talents within the company. With his current strength, it would be easy for him to make slight adjustments to his body. With just a few simple steps, he could transform his physique and appearance significantly from his original self.
Actually, it doesn't matter if he doesn't make any adjustments. There are a lot of people in the world named Qin Shan, and quite a few of them look seven or eight parts like him. This is the surprise of genetic inheritance. There is another you in the world who has no blood relation to you, but looks like your brother/sister.
Qin Shan's appearance caused a gasp from the crowd below, as they hadn't noticed anyone nearby at all (the senses of superhumans are extremely sharp, but none of them had detected Qin Shan).
That's normal. The area they perceive as nearby is the region covered by their five senses, while Qin Shan's vicinity is basically more than ten kilometers away. If it weren't for his incredible spatial ability to help him escape in his previous life, he wouldn't have been able to survive until the end.
"Hello students, my name is Qin Shan. From today onwards, I will be your new instructor. You are all the future of Earth's civilization and the hope of humanity in this world. I hope that you will stay humble and prudent in the training ahead, and forge ahead with determination. Becoming an extraordinary person is only the first step towards the peak. There are even more difficult challenges waiting for you. Now I will just give you a familiar local saying: 'Never forget your original intention, and you will achieve your goal.'"
This is truly Qin Shan's own life experience. The strength, spirit, and values of extraordinary individuals can easily become disconnected. At best, they may go astray; at worst, they may become monsters. He had seen far too many similar examples in his previous life.
The truth is, no matter what path you choose to take, you leave an anchor point in your heart, always remembering that true freedom is not about being able to do what you want to do, but about being able to choose not to do what you don't want to do.
The above is a summary of life experiences from the elderly. These young men and women obviously cannot understand it immediately, but as long as they can remember it, that's fine. When the crucial moment of success arrives, this insight can save as many people as possible.
"Next, I'm going to ask you a few questions. Those of you who have awakened to the superhuman level, please raise your hands."
Only four students in the top class raised their hands.
Qin Shan nodded, telling them to put their hands down, and then asked, "Those of you who have become extraordinary individuals within a year through cultivation, please raise your hands."
All the remaining students raised their hands; after all, it was a top class, so it was normal.
Qin Shan gestured for everyone to put their hands down and continued, "As you can all see, those who awaken to superhuman status on their own are still a very small minority in the human population. But that doesn't mean their potential far exceeds yours. Whether you awaken on your own or through cultivation, it's just an opportunity to prove that you can enter the world of superhumans. This isn't just empty talk. I can tell you seriously that at least at this stage, you're all on the right track."
Qin Shan had to say these words, because they were very important. The difference between self-awakening and cultivation-awakened talent was not as big as imagined. It was about the difference between 1.0 and 1.001. You were ahead, but not completely ahead. This kind of decimal advantage was really not enough to gain an overwhelming advantage in a short period of time.
Please note that this is overall data, excluding those rare exceptions who are practically born with a silver spoon in their mouth (like Qin Shan). When you are still at 1.0, others start at 10, a tenfold difference. Not only would ordinary people feel despair, but even geniuses would feel frustrated and ask God: "Why did Heaven create both Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang?"
However, the rare are still rare. In most cases, your efforts haven't reached the level where you need to compete with top-tier talent. Don't let a few exceptions blind you. Believe in yourself. As long as you keep moving forward every day, you don't need ten years of hard study. In six months, you'll have left a bunch of people behind you.
The tenacity to persevere to the end is the rarest quality.
Those who persevere to the end are the pioneers of their time. When you can see their backs, you've already lived a very fulfilling life. Give yourself a round of applause. If you still want to fight, then compete with them in terms of lifespan. The winner who survives to the end is also a winner. No one stipulates that only a head-on victory counts as a victory.
It is important to make these points clear and to cultivate a positive atmosphere within the elite class, starting with avoiding arrogance and impatience and establishing equal relationships.
Ordinary people would say it has no effect, but if a high-level superhuman instructor from the Divine Continent civilization says so, then it must be the truth.
People have been walking this path for years, and you, a skinny little monkey who hasn't even fully evolved, dare to rebel against the Heavenly Gang? Go and cultivate honestly.
Sure enough, after Qin Shan said that, the atmosphere in the elite class was noticeably different. The previous atmosphere of "I awakened on my own and am more powerful than you who cultivated and awakened" was completely gone.
"Now that everyone has realized this, let's take a ten-minute break, and then we'll have our first class, a physical exercise class."
Section 158: The Earth is Steadily Improving
A thousand books may contain false teachings, but a single sentence can convey the true essence. This saying holds true for the cultivation of extraordinary individuals, though the reality is quite different.
The cultivation and emergence of extraordinary individuals is a slow and painstaking process. Without any issues, Qin Shan spent over three hundred years in his previous life to reach the ninth rank, and after him, there have never been more than twenty people at the ninth rank in the world.
Even with all the technologies fully matured, it would still take a gifted superhuman at least a hundred years to advance from the first to the ninth rank, even with sufficient resources, and that's without considering the possibility of going astray.
It's important to understand that back then, humanity was essentially feeling its way across the river, with many things unknown. Many paths to extraordinary cultivation were paved with human lives. Just from what Qin Shan himself had seen and heard in his previous life, those geniuses who were said to be "promising to become high-level extraordinary beings before the age of XX" were mostly stuck on the path to the high level, not to mention ordinary cultivators.
You think you can achieve immortality like in "A Mortal's Journey to Immortality," but Han Li has already reached the finish line.
Therefore, cultivating extraordinary individuals requires a great deal of resources and time, including cultivation knowledge. You really can't cultivate a top-level extraordinary individual just by giving a few words.
In this life, Qin Shan has returned as a king with cheat codes. After integrating many technologies and cultivation systems from other worlds and building upon his knowledge from his previous life, he has finally created a cultivation system that is more suitable for the physique of Earth babies.
Body tempering is the first step. The physical qualities of extraordinary individuals have already reached the level of grandmasters in the traditional martial arts concept, which is a very high starting point. However, body tempering is not just about tempering the body, but also about tempering one's spirit. Otherwise, it will be like an infant holding a gun, which can fire but will also harm oneself and those around them.
Vitality, energy, spirit, blood, flesh, and bones are all indispensable.
The most difficult of these is undoubtedly spirit, energy, and mind, because these three directly influence a person's values and way of thinking. A person's values and way of thinking are constructed through observation and understanding of the world. Your life experience and personality determine what kind of person you are. If you haven't experienced something or been tested, you will really know nothing and appear very naive.
Just as ordinary people will never understand the world of mathematicians, they simply cannot.
In comparison, the physical carriers that are directly visible, namely the flesh and bones of the human body, are much simpler.
Just as fitness can improve one's mood and temper one's mind and body, the tempering of flesh and bones can also help a person develop good habits and generate positive feedback on their energy and spirit. At the same time, the effects of physical and mental training are visible, and fruitful efforts are more likely to create a positive cycle in one's mindset.
The effects of body tempering cultivation techniques on blood, bones, and flesh are comprehensive. There is no question of which to cultivate in which order. Learning about bones and flesh is just a shorthand for this system, because body tempering covers all aspects of cultivation from the first to the sixth level. These three parts of the human body, which have the widest coverage, will have a positive impact on the internal organs after the cultivator enters the third level. In other words, the internal organs are trained as well. Even if an ordinary person can cultivate these to the minimum standard, it is not a problem to live a long and healthy life.
This involves a crucial resource—blood crystals.
This thing is the currency of the superhumans, the spirit stone of the cultivation world, the energy cube of Transformers, and blood crystals will be increasingly integrated into human civilization in the future, becoming an indispensable and important energy source.
Therefore, the trend of civilization becoming extraordinary is irreversible, because the visible benefits outweigh the dangers it presents.
Besides, those so-called dangers weren't created by humans themselves. The objective environment was just there, neither good nor bad. Blood crystals don't have their own personality, so you can use them however you want. You can't blame the people who invented cars just because you got hit by one.
"Creating extraordinary potions is a time-consuming and laborious task."
Giving classes to students is only occasional. The master leads you through the door, but the cultivation depends on yourself. However, there is another thing that Qin Shan needs to do personally and constantly try and fail: the mass production of extraordinary materials.
The creation of extraordinary materials follows a simple formula: Blood Crystal + Ordinary Materials = Extraordinary Material
It sounds very simple, doesn't it? Just integrate extraordinary power into ordinary materials and give them extraordinary properties, and you've succeeded. But in practice, many factors need to be considered, such as temperature, humidity, space, pressure, and so on. Even a difference of a decimal point can result in two completely different things.
The simplest example is blood ginseng, a translucent, blood-red ginseng product that is considered an extraordinary form of ginseng.
The most precious blood ginseng is the ten-thousand-year-old blood ginseng. However, don't assume that this blood ginseng has actually grown for ten thousand years. It only means that compared to ordinary blood ginseng, its medicinal effects are equivalent to those of a blood ginseng that has grown for ten thousand years. To cultivate a ten-thousand-year-old blood ginseng, its growth environment needs to be micro-controlled. This involves seventy-nine data points that are accurate to seven decimal places, and the error cannot exceed 0.0000001. Otherwise, the growth rate will drop by a thousand times instantly.
Based on this, humanity has developed the science of microscopic biological environmental control, and Qin Shan was a master in this field in his previous life.
Because he was already at the eighth level at that time, the perception of an eighth-level superhuman is extremely sharp. Not to mention accurate to seven decimal places, it can be accurate to seventy decimal places. This is also why high-level superhumans are always busy. As long as Qin Shan wants to make money, there are as many places to make money as he wants. The starting point is nine figures. A 9.9% discount is a big deal that can make clients who are begging him write a special page in their family tree to save face.
Extraordinary individuals are accelerators of civilization, while high-level extraordinary individuals are engines of civilization.
Judging from the future civilization, it will surely be a world of extraordinary beings.
The cultivation of plants is relatively easy, since plants have a certain self-regulating ability. Even a little is better than nothing. However, there is not much room for error when it comes to cultivating extraordinary materials that have no vitality.
Just like the two pieces of jade in Qin Shan's hand, they look no different. They are both products of the soft Hetian jade that have undergone extraordinary processing. However, the former is worth at most a few hundred yuan, while the latter is worth tens of millions and has no market.
Products obtained through extraordinary microscopic smelting are equivalent to common and rare items in games, with epic items being the next level up.
However, in reality, there is definitely no such chuunibyou-like evaluation. Extraordinary materials, like extraordinary individuals, are all classified according to their rank. Their energy rating is their rank rating. Except for a very few special extraordinary materials, the rest can be used with this standard.
Does that mean that ninth-tier extraordinary beings can only use ninth-tier materials?
NONONO, no, just like when smelting steel, adding different components can affect the finished product (sometimes even accidentally adding a person (▽)r), mixing extraordinary materials of different grades and properties can also bring unexpected surprises. That's why Qin Shan had a major in his previous life called "Extraordinary Synthesis Control Science".
However, this is similar to the trial and error process in materials science. Successful formulas are derived through continuous trial and error. Although it is wasteful, that's how scientific research works. Often, proving that something is useless is also a very successful scientific achievement.
At that moment, a communication came from Lexington: "Admiral, the latest price list for materials in the Extraordinary Market has been updated."
"Thank you for your hard work, I'll take a look right away."
Where there is demand, there is a market. With extraordinary individuals, there will naturally be a market for extraordinary materials. Even though Earth's civilization is not yet a truly extraordinary civilization, it already has a market for extraordinary materials. The vast majority of these extraordinary materials are "hunted" and "collected" from three places: Mountain City, Shanghai, and Beijing. Qin Shan has provided a set of forms to the governments of various countries on Earth according to his previous life's standards, allowing them to evaluate and trade extraordinary materials according to these standards.
The supernatural market on Earth is not yet large enough, but the transaction volume is already astonishing, with hundreds of billions of dollars flowing in every transaction. This is when converted to RMB. In fact, the transactions between supernatural beings are already mainly based on blood crystals.
This thing can assist in cultivation, it is a valuable currency in itself, and it can also increase itself, killing two birds with one stone, making it very suitable as a currency for extraordinary individuals.
However, since blood crystals themselves require refining and processing, it is true that superhumans can refine blood crystals themselves. But if there are ready-made blood crystals that can be used directly, who would want to sift through their food every day? And the only two countries in the world that are capable of refining blood crystals naturally occupy a very important position on Earth.
One is Tokyo University, and the other is the Soviet Union (new).
The technology on both sides was provided by Qinshan. Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have been integrated and have begun to enjoy the benefits of the era of superhumans. With the deep cooperation with Dongda University, they are now thriving and have become a beacon of light in the world. Especially compared with the ever-turbulent Western world, you could say that this is a new beacon.
Currently, Dongda University has opened up the Shancheng and Shanghai areas to the public, allowing superhumans from other countries to come here to collect and hunt, essentially using it as a dungeon. However, your food, clothing, accommodation, transportation, and blood crystal purification must all be done locally. Superhumans are among the wealthiest people in the world right now, causing the economy of the surrounding areas to take off.
The happiest place was Suzhou. After Shanghai collapsed, the country paid great attention to it. Not only did it directly demolish Kunshan, which had been frantically flirting with Shanghai, and let Suzhou completely absorb it (local officials who opposed it either became decorations in powerless departments or were investigated and placed under investigation), but it also helped Suzhou build nine airports overnight.
Nine airports! They've always only been able to use Suzhou Meiyou Airport, which is now being nicknamed "New Shanghai Airport."
Suzhou was extremely dissatisfied with this. What "new Shanghai"? Did it come from some rare name? My surname is Su, okay? You ask who Shanghai is? Don't you know? Wasn't it just a small fishing village that used to kneel before us, Suzhou? Hahahaha!
Remember me, Suzhou, nine airports, call me Master Su Jiu.
There's a saying: "Above is heaven, below are Suzhou and Hangzhou." How wonderful! Suzhou is finally able to hold its head high!
It's true that Suzhou has the right to be arrogant right now. Extraordinary individuals come to the Shanghai area to grind, and their daily lives are basically all in Suzhou. The GDP has skyrocketed. Not to mention the Pearl River Delta, the GDP of the entire Guangdong province, including Hong Kong and Macau, is only one-seventh of Suzhou's. Even Beijing pales in comparison. The economy of the surrounding provinces has also taken off. Now, even the Southern Theater Commander in Nanjing treats Suzhou with utmost respect. Not long ago, there were even rumors that the Southern Theater Command would be moved from Nanjing to Suzhou.
Because it's close to Shanghai, a source of extraordinary materials, the army will definitely be watching outside the large dungeon to prevent the treasures in the vault from being stolen by rats.
The new Elector city is undergoing steady upgrades.
Hopefully, the locals won't become like the Shanghai of Qin Shan's past life, otherwise...
Oh dear, we can still observe now, right? (Secretly increasing surveillance)
This is similar to the 144-hour visa-free policy; it's all an open conspiracy. As long as the cultivation resources needed by extraordinary individuals remain within China's territory, other countries have no right to bargain.
After reviewing the price list, Qin Shan was relatively satisfied with the current market trend of the extraordinary.
The prices are somewhat inflated, but not to the point of creating a large bubble. Furthermore, we have a large inventory of extraordinary materials that can stabilize market prices at any time.
The situation from my previous life, where ambitious people in Shanghai manipulated the market for extraordinary materials, resulting in a situation where there were no poor scholars among the top-grade extraordinary individuals and no high-ranking families among the lower-grade ones, will absolutely not happen again. Anyone who dares to mess around will have their entire family reunited in the underworld!
Section 159: Fragments of the World
Surrounded by beautiful women, enjoying a peaceful and serene life, Qin Shan is truly living his life to the fullest.
That's how it should have been. We could have just stayed home and waited for the ship girls to return one by one. But as it turns out, when Heaven is about to place a great responsibility on a person, it first turns them into a troublemaker. They'll come looking for you when there's trouble, and they'll cause trouble even when there isn't.
So, where did this happen?
Good news: Not Earth.
Bad news: Not Earth.
The profoundness of the Chinese language means that the same sentence can always bring unexpected surprises.
"What is this thing?"
Qin Shan was completely dumbfounded; the situation before him was clearly beyond his judgment.
In World Two, after the birth of the new United States, the socialist development trend of human civilization has become irreversible. Although the humanoids have established a nation in Antarctica, they are not out-of-control androids and can still communicate normally. In addition, the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union are rapidly replacing the role of humanoids in the field of intelligent machines. The Antarctic Republic's high-dimensional quantum network trump card is rapidly becoming ineffective.
New America is their worst disaster zone, lol, they can't contact them at all, and the humanoids there are not like them.
Having understood this, the Antarctic Republic acted very rationally, decisively choosing to shake hands with other human nations, and everyone tacitly continued to live in peace.