"I wonder what treasure I'll draw..."
Fang Ming had the system begin the random draw.
The pointer swept past the Tai Huang Sword.
It swept past the Void Mirror.
It swept past the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Pot.
It swept past the Heng Yu Furnace.
Finally, it stopped on the Wushi Bell.
[Host, the random draw is complete and confirmed as the Wushi Bell.]
"Wushi Bell?"
Fang Ming was somewhat surprised.
"Why is it the Wushi Bell?"
"Am I fated with Emperor Wushi?"
"The Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus, paired with the Wushi Bell?"
Among the Extreme Dao Emperor Weapons, there were also distinctions in power.
Just as there were differences in combat strength among the six Saints of the Heavenly Dao.
Not all Emperor Weapons possessed the same level of power.
Generally speaking, Emperor Weapons like the Heaven-Devouring Demonic Pot and the Wushi Bell were more powerful than ordinary Emperor Weapons.
Fang Ming was naturally delighted to have drawn such an Emperor Weapon as the Wushi Bell through a random draw.
Even setting aside its power that surpassed ordinary Emperor Weapons, the Wushi Bell had the highest compatibility with the Innate Sacred Body Dao Fetus; it was the most suitable.
This was absolutely the Emperor Weapon Fang Ming most wished to draw.
But the problem was, according to probability, drawing the most suitable Emperor Weapon from dozens of Emperor Weapons, wasn't this a bit too coincidental?
"Does this system have some kind of behind-the-scenes manipulation rules?"
Fang Ming pondered, it wasn't an impossible scenario.
Even the gacha draws in later-generation games weren't purely based on probability.
Moreover, the system hadn't explicitly stated that the chances of drawing these dozens of Emperor Weapons were equal.
If that were the case, then adjusting the draw probability based on his Innate Dao Fetus physique, increasing the probability of drawing the Wushi Bell, was entirely reasonable.
"The Wushi Bell suits me very well and is very powerful."
"So this isn't a malicious bug, but a beneficial one."
"Since it's a beneficial bug, I don't need to worry about this system."
In his past life, Fang Ming certainly hated malicious bugs when playing games.
But beneficial bugs?
Weren't they better the more there were?
It was the same principle now.
...
From the moment Fang Ming ascended to the position of Human Emperor, a new chapter in human history had begun.
That year was known as the first year of the Human Emperor Calendar.
In the first year of the Human Emperor Calendar, the Human Emperor decreed the abolition of the Golden Core Dao and the adoption of the Heaven-Shielding Method.
In the first year of the Human Emperor Calendar, the Ming Yuan tribe demolished two hundred ordinary Dao temples, burned the statue of the Grand Pure Sage, and prohibited the Golden Core Dao from being lectured in the scripture halls.
In the fourth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, the蟠桃不死药 (Pan Tao Undying Medicine) had been successfully propagated, and its sub-strains were officially put into mass production. The cultivators claimed that the sub-strains of the Pan Tao Undying Medicine took an excessively long time to cultivate, hundreds of thousands of years, rendering them of little use.
However, fortunately, in the same year, the Human Emperor bestowed the supreme treasure for cultivating spiritual roots, the Heaven-Grasping Bottle, also known as the Little Green Bottle. Although it was a damaged version, it had no problem accelerating the cultivation of the Pan Tao Undying Medicine sub-strains.
They could be cultivated in less than ten years.
...
In the twentieth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, many members of the Xuan Yang tribe were trapped at the peak of the second heaven of the Immortal Platform, unable to break through to the third heaven of Immortal Dao Severing. After drinking tea brewed from the leaves of the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, they bypassed the bottleneck and directly reached the realm of Immortal Dao Severing.
Their strength was comparable to that of a Profound Immortal.
In the fiftieth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, the puppet production line was preliminarily established, and the first "Divine Being" level puppet was under construction, with elixirs serving as its core energy source.
Humans began to discuss the differences between Immortals and Gods.
Research indicated that the so-called Divine Being level puppets were capable of rivaling the combat power of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, yet there were significant differences in the details.
...
In the hundredth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, the high-energy lifeform detection base stations, incorporating both sci-fi and fantasy technologies, were completed. Humans could now predict the movements of high-level demons in advance.
Since the establishment of numerous base stations, when demons of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal or Golden Immortal level chose to invade human tribes, they often found the tribes completely deserted, with all humans having evacuated in advance.
This left the demons questioning their existence.
...
In the two hundredth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, all human tribes had completely abolished the Golden Core Dao and switched to the Heaven-Shielding Method.
Not a single human could be found practicing the Golden Core Dao anymore.
In the same year, Clan Leader Yan Wu achieved the fourth heaven of the Immortal Platform, his combat power ten times greater than before. The battle-hungry Yan Wu challenged a minor shaman from a nearby Wu tribe and emerged victorious.
Upon discovering that his shamanic true form was inferior to Clan Leader Yan Wu's human body, the minor shaman was dumbfounded and asked Clan Leader Yan Wu for methods to strengthen his physique.
Clan Leader Yan Wu merely provided him with many improved body cultivation methods, without revealing the existence of the Heaven-Shielding Method.
...
In the three hundredth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, humans no longer resided in tribal forms. Instead, they established countless futuristic cities using the power of technology.
A rogue cultivator from the Primordial World accidentally entered one of these cities and, gazing at the countless skyscrapers, felt that the scenery was extremely out of sync with the Primordial World.
Legends began to circulate among humans in the Primordial World, speaking of worlds opened by other Chaos Demon Gods.
Many rogue cultivators believed that this incongruous technology must have originated from outside the Primordial World, from the worlds opened by other Chaos Demon Gods within the Chaos.
...
In the five hundredth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, the human legions had grown to a scale of hundreds of billions. Almost every legion's basic soldiers hovered around the second heaven of the Immortal Platform and the Immortal Dao Severing realm.
Each legion had a commander whose combat power was comparable to that of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
And there were tens of thousands of such human legions.
This was equivalent to tens of thousands of beings comparable to Grand Unity Golden Immortals.
In terms of the sheer number of Grand Unity Golden Immortals, humans were no longer significantly behind the Wu and Demon tribes.
However, due to the vast disparity between Grand Unity and Grand Dao, a gap far greater than that between Golden Immortals and Grand Unity, or Heavenly Immortals and Profound Immortals, the human high command estimated that even if all legions were perfectly combined, they would still be unable to resist the three hundred and sixty-five Grand Dao Demon Gods of the Demon Court.
Nor could they resist the numerous Great Shamans of the Wu tribe.
The grand plan for human resurgence still required patience.
...
In the eight hundredth year of the Human Emperor Calendar, many humans were engaged in heated discussions on the Heavenly Net forum regarding the future development of humanity, whether it should lean towards the fantasy side, the sci-fi side, or the magical side.
Each individual had their own viewpoint.
However, the majority of humans believed that development should primarily focus on the fantasy side, especially the Heaven-Shielding Method, with sci-fi and magical approaches serving as auxiliary directions.
This was because after thousands of years of cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method, one could become a powerful lifeform comparable to a cosmic entity.
In contrast, climbing the technological tree from planetary level to stellar level required hundreds of years, and advancing from a stellar civilization to an intermediate civilization controlling tens of millions, or even billions, of solar systems.
This would take tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of years.
From the galactic level, to the supercluster level, then to the observable universe level, and finally to the god-level civilization that controlled the observable and unobservable universe and manipulated the material world.
This might not even be achievable within the lifespan from the birth of the universe to its great silence.
In terms of efficiency, it was far inferior to the rapid progress of the Heaven-Shielding Method.
Therefore, technology should serve as an auxiliary tool, improving human living conditions, food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Military strength, in essence, did not require the addition of technological power.
Currently, with the complete technological chain passed down by the Human Emperor, human civilization's technological level was still confined to the planetary level, not yet fully reaching the stellar level.