Chapter 915 The World Has Changed
Cross the heaven in one step and reach the earth.
When he saw the familiar mountain range and the familiar hilltop in his memory, Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.
I haven't been back for hundreds of years. The world has changed a lot. I wonder if Anshan is still the same as it was before?
His heart was filled with emotions, but he also knew that hundreds of years were nothing in the eyes of immortals and gods, but in the eyes of mortal beings, they were a chasm that was difficult to cross.
Even though most of the creatures in Anshan can awaken their wisdom and practice cultivation, each creature has different aptitudes, and many creatures find it difficult to reach the realm of immortality even after spending their entire lives.
Li Yuan has already prepared himself mentally. Many of the creatures that he once remembered may have already turned into dust.
He did not fly directly up the mountain, but walked step by step towards Anshan from the huge city.
The huge city is still as magnificent as ever, with tall buildings everywhere, enough to accommodate tens of millions of people.
It’s a pity that the country outside this place is no longer called Anyue.
Li Yuan walked step by step along the main road of the giant city. With a thought and a listening ear, he roughly knew what had happened in the past few hundred years.
Ever since the death of Emperor Anyue, and the ascension of his great-great-grandson, Emperor Yuezong, who began to secretly suppress the spiritual science, Anyue has been on the path of division.
The royal family intended to keep something as incredible as spiritual science in their own hands, rather than spreading its benefits to all people.
However, the old officials of the institute firmly support the path of Li Yuan and Emperor Anyue, believing that spreading some technologies throughout the world can truly promote the arrival of an era of spiritual science explosion.
As long as Lingke's high-intensity weapons technology is mastered and not leaked, the research institute believes that it will not truly shake the authority of the royal family.
Emperor Yuezong had a benevolent character and was considered wise and powerful among the emperors in human history.
After the human world was divided, he led Anyue to reorganize various industries and suppress evildoers, and indeed stabilized the Western Shenzhou in a very short time.
At that time, the western part of China was in a state of disrepair and needed manpower in large numbers of jobs. The people had a secure life and no worries about food and clothing, and the situation was peaceful and harmonious.
Emperor Yue Zong was relatively calm and composed. He admired his great-grandfather, Emperor Anyue. Even though he had some ideas about spiritual science, he did not do anything extreme. He joined forces with the immortals and cultivators to suppress them a little, then stopped his actions. He slowly discussed ways to find a balance with the old ministers of the research institute, and everyone was able to accept it.
However, several decades passed in the mortal world. After Emperor Yuezong passed away, his descendants succeeded to the throne, but they did not follow the will of Emperor Yuezong, "stability first, people first". Growing up, they were influenced by some immortals and ascetics, each one more extreme than the other, and truly embarked on a radical path.
After hundreds of years of unification, the name of Anyue has long been glorious and brilliant to the point of being inflated.
In this world, apart from Emperor Anyue and Li Yuan, no one else can gain the wholehearted respect of the people of Anyue.
No matter who succeeds to the throne, he will always be shaken and constrained by many factions.
However, at the end of the catastrophe, Li Yuan died in a bloody battle, and Emperor Anyue also died of old age. As if it was God's will, the huge Anyue lost two backbones who could truly control the situation.
The ancient feudal ideas of the dynasty were ready to move, and it instinctively chose the path of fearing gods and ghosts. This was what all dynasties in the long ancient history did, which helped them control the people. However, Lingke wanted to pursue the truth of the world, make the impossible possible, break the mundane shackles, and release the corrupt ideas.
The two sides gradually collided and ultimately became irreconcilable.
The internal struggles that followed caused the entire Western Shenzhou to suffer from war, and a large number of spiritual weapons were destroyed or consumed.
The internal strife directly affected Anyue's progress in contacting the other three divine states and restoring the great unification.
Not to mention that in the vast ocean between the four divine continents, there are also extraordinary beings who deliberately block it, so as not to let Anyue's past influence affect other continents. As a result, the connection between the four divine continents became even less, and the spiritual technology was constantly suppressed until it was gradually lost.
Until now, advanced spiritual technology has almost disappeared from the human world. Even the facilities that were built in the past have long been rusted and unusable after hundreds of years of erosion.
In order to ensure that the spirits of the world do not riot, the dynasty and the extraordinary beings behind it almost stepped on the bottom line that all the spirits could accept and retained some people's livelihood technologies. This was a bit of comfort to people who were accustomed to spiritual creations.
However, the high cost of spiritual electricity and the unaffordable expenses of medical equipment have gradually changed people's attitude towards spiritual science.
One generation hated the dynasty, the next generation was helpless, and by the next generation, they had become accustomed to the "expensive luxury" of spiritual creations; hundreds of years had passed, and people's cognition had long since changed, and their attitude towards spiritual science had become indifferent.
Common people can only imagine the glory of the past spiritual science era from stories and vernacular novels.
Even if someone is curious about spiritual science and wants to delve into innovation, they will eventually give up or die due to "unexpected circumstances", which has almost become a taboo.
Li Yuan walked in the former capital of Anyue, reading all the books at a glance, listening to all the sounds, and roughly understood the various things that had happened in the past few hundred years.
Only then did he realize that now, even An Yue was only in name.
After several rebellions and civil wars, the descendants of Emperor Yuezong have long disappeared in history. Now Anyue can only hide in Anshan. It is unknown which line of descendants left by Emperor Anyue will inherit the throne.
Outside the borders of Anshan, there are already many countries, each fighting independently.
After a long period of separation, there will be reunion, and after a long period of reunion, there will be separation. This is an irresistible trend that cannot be stopped even if the glory of Lingke reappears.
People's hearts are easily moved and they will not always submit to the leadership of a certain force. The Anyue system cannot be perfect. Invisible class oppression will always exist, and there will always be dissatisfied people who will rise up and abolish everything.
However, looking at the interior of the huge city that had been almost completely transformed, and looking at the people getting used to the life before the emergence of spiritual science, Li Yuan was still filled with mixed feelings.
This civil strife that swept across Western Shenzhou and even indirectly affected the other three Shenzhous was undoubtedly caused by Lingke.
If people had no disagreements and no prejudice against spiritual science, even if those extraordinary beings wanted to use their power to suppress it, it would not be so smooth.
After all, this spiritual science was created by him, Li Yuan, and An Yue, and it is equivalent to a part of his inheritance. Those immortals, gods, demons, and other beings, considering the name of Yuan Zun, would never dare to act openly and risk being condemned. After all, it is the complexity of human beings themselves that gives them the opportunity to plot behind the scenes.
No matter how glorious something is, it always has its two sides. Li Yuan could only sigh at Anyue's decline and consider it the end of their relationship.
God arranged for him to be reborn in the mortal world hundreds of years later, and also arranged for him to be revived hundreds of years after his earthly death. Perhaps this was intended to avoid Anyue and sever his worldly ties, lest he be entangled in cause and effect due to a momentary lack of compassion, which would be difficult to resolve for a long time.