Chapter 1 Naturally
Of course, the vast majority of people wouldn't be foolish enough to choose a heritage at this price point, because the government has already made it public that various free cultivation methods taught in major academies and official cram schools are roughly at this level.

However, these publicly available inheritances mostly focus on defense and vitality, followed by enhancing physique and strength. Compared to cultivators of the same level, their lethality is very low. Still, for ordinary people, they don't need to cultivate those combat-related spiritual techniques with great destructive power.

If they really want to possess lethal power, they can apply for qualifications, pass various psychological tests, and then honestly complete tasks, accumulating points for exchange.

As for the Immortal God inheritances, the price is surprisingly not very expensive. General Immortal God inheritances are uniformly priced at '360,000 points.' Converted, that's the amount of points an average citizen accumulates in thirty years. Compared to the preciousness of Immortal God inheritances, it's actually not that much, and these are just the free points given away.

For those who are truly determined to cultivate, as long as they work hard during the Holy Ascension Selection and perform well in the academies, receiving Grade A evaluations from professors each time, then with various academy rewards, 300,000 points is not an unattainable goal. Similarly, publishing papers in related fields can also earn corresponding point subsidies through citation counts.

This is a carefully calculated number. If a person does well in the Holy Ascension Selection, works hard in the academy, and often completes officially released extraordinary tasks, contributing to the country with their abilities, then they will inevitably obtain points roughly equivalent to a set of Immortal God inheritance during their four years in the academy.

In this way, after graduation, they will have undergone four years of collective assessment from the academy's professors, and their points will be sufficient to officially begin their cultivation.

At this time, most people are in their twenties, and twenty-year-olds have mature minds, and age is truly considered young for cultivators, not delaying any progress.

Of course, even with so many explanations, this price still drew dissatisfaction from many people.

Many who felt they shouldn't have to pay for an Immortal God inheritance were furiously typing on their keyboards, loudly expressing their opinions.

"Didn't the Dragon King say that his inheritance can be cultivated by anyone? Why do you still charge 360,000 points?"

"What about Su Zhou? He obviously also received an Immortal God inheritance, right? Why doesn't he have to wait, and the government just gives it to him?"

These resentful remarks, at first glance, do have some logic, but these people clearly overlooked one point: Immortal God inheritances are not something anyone can cultivate. Take the Leize inheritance, for example. An ordinary person who tries to cultivate it dies. Even Su Zhou himself personally experienced it, roughly figured out the dangers, and came up with countermeasures, but there is still a risk of death.

Moreover, this risk of death is for those geniuses with extremely strong control over their spiritual power. For ordinary people, the mortality rate would probably be more than doubled.

Although there are safe Immortal God inheritances that ordinary people can cultivate, whether they are ordinary people or geniuses, if they want to go further in the future, they must choose the cultivation method that is most suitable for them.

Four years in the academy and cultivation through related tasks are enough for a normal person or genius who is determined to cultivate to know their own physical strengths and weaknesses, what they are good at, what they are not good at, and where their future path should lead.

Only when cultivation is developed to this point, will the Immortal God inheritance they choose be the most suitable for them.

To give an analogy, without a foundation, directly dropping a several-ton pie from a thousand meters in the air will only kill most people, rather than making them think the pie is delicious. Immortal God inheritances are like this, falling from the sky, several-ton pies that ordinary people who have not experienced training cannot catch.

As for Su Zhou…

"He was the top scorer in the Holy Ascension Selection's spiritual test, and he has completed so many tasks since entering school. He's been on the news several times. Are the trolls blind?"

"Can you kill a leader of a mysterious organization during summer vacation and cooperate with the South Sea Fleet?"

"Right? Trolls are just jealous, bleh."

Currently, the number of Su Zhou's fans is showing an explosive growth trend... mostly due to the *Ancient Wilderness* program.

Although a large part of them are mindless protectors who support Su Zhou without any reason, this feeling... is really great!

Su Zhou's comment on this was: "Although I used to find these kinds of fans annoying when I was criticizing other people, now that I see other people criticizing me, I think these fans are really considerate!"

"Your ass determines your position. I'll keep criticizing next time!"

In short, in addition to the aftermath of the *Ancient Wilderness* program, many things happened around the world before the end of 2015 and the arrival of the New Year.

For example, Jiaolong Jiu Ming now has a *Zheng Guo* South Sea household registration. He, along with Garuda and some intelligent iron-eating beasts located in Chuan Province, became the first batch of new *yaozu* (demon race) citizens of *Zheng Guo*.

Some people may ask, what are iron-eating beasts? Iron-eating beasts are those black and white creatures that usually stay in air-conditioned rooms eating things, and even if they live-stream themselves defecating, millions of fans will watch with smiles (or even more). In short, judging from the current domestic public opinion in *Zheng Guo*, no one seems to find anything strange, and even feels it is taken for granted.

"Huh? They live better than me, okay!" Many people commented, "They aren't even citizens, so what am I? Humble.jpg."

Of course, many silly netizens, after seeing Garuda's photo, immediately said that they were ready: "That blonde girl is so cute, I stan her!"

"I've been stanning Garuda since birth!"

They don't know about the Kunlun Secret Realm and think this is the *Zheng Guo* government hiding the Golden-Winged Great Peng inheritance—being good-looking means you can do whatever you want.

By the way, because Garuda is a biological classification, Garuda has given herself a new name, 'Jin Qiong,' which, according to the meaning of the local dialect in the Northwest Plateau, is also Golden Peng.

Of course, this is just the name on the ID card. In the absence of a second Garuda, Su Zhou and others still call Jin Qiong Garuda.

"Jin Qiong is a bit too serious," was Su Zhou's comment at the time, but other than that, there was nothing wrong with the name. Garuda's willingness to take a human name proves that she does have a desire to become human.

And in secret, according to what Su Zhou knows, Yansheng's main body and his artificial intelligence clones are conducting a transformation of the national monitoring network. In other words, the *Zheng Guo* government is deploying 'detection arrays' in major key areas across the country, intending to build a spiritual power monitoring network similar to a modern surveillance network.

For example, like Su Zhou's previous life of going out at night to hunt ghosts and kill *xiemo* (fiends), unless it is in a remote mountain area, it would be impossible to hide it from the local patrol officers. Major cities will have extremely dense spiritual power monitoring networks that can detect the breeding of妖邪(demonic entities), *xiemo* (fiends), and various dangerous elements intending to commit crimes at the first time.

According to the *Tian Du* meeting that Su Zhou attended, the *Zheng Guo* government even plans to connect the teleportation arrays and the spiritual power monitoring network when the spiritual energy recovery gradually stabilizes. This way, no matter what danger occurs in any place, the corresponding emergency response personnel can quickly arrive through the teleportation array.

"A heavenly army descending from the sky." This was Su Zhou's only thought at the time.

On the surface, however, there was a rather unexpected thing that no government around the world had anticipated.

That is, for ordinary people, their acceptance of the Mimicry Path is far higher than anyone imagined.

"Cat-eared beauties aren't bad."

"As long as they look good, who cares... And from the sound of it, the Mimicry Path can't possibly have bad-looking results. It's like customizing your own face."

"Customizing your own face... I even want to cultivate the Mimicry Path!"

"Wake up, you're human. If you cultivate the Mimicry Path, you can only create妖(demon) bodies—and normal cultivation can gradually beautify you anyway, it's the same."

Even some game enthusiasts were quite excited.

"Could it be that *Old Days Ark* is an official Mimicry Path promotion game? Look, they're all beast-eared demihumans!"

"Is this another one of the government's grand strategies?"

For grand strategy theorists, everything can naturally be a grand strategy, but in reality, it's just that modern people have been bombarded with various bizarre settings and information, and before the Mimicry Path actually damages their interests, most people are willing to wait and see and express their willingness to accept it.

After all, they objectively exist here. Are you going to close your eyes and shout, "I can't see!"?

Everyone understands the logic.

As for Su Zhou, recently, after witnessing the power of true Immortals and Gods, he has naturally been diligently cultivating.

The Sky Pool Dragon King's statement proved that Immortals and Gods do exist, and the power of Immortals and Gods is known to all. After popularization, most people know that the Sky Pool Dragon King's complete form possesses the power to change the格局(structure) of a country. Not to mention suppressing a planet, but suppressing a continent and an ocean is definitely not a problem.

Such an existence still cares about the survival of the human race, which indeed makes his posthumous reputation very good. There are even related fans who have established private websites. In terms of popularity, he is far more well-known than other Immortals and Gods.

The *Zheng Guo* government also solemnly announced that the Dragon King's inheritance and spirit tablet will be placed on the *Tong Shen Tai* (Platform to the Gods), receiving the most stringent, highest-level care.

The relevant intelligence about Earth connecting to various great realms in the past was also thrown out because of the Sky Pool Dragon King's name 'Sky Pool.' In this way, the Europa Union also knows where the magical beasts appearing around the Slovenian mountains came from. They are creatures from alien realms, and those space-time channels have been connected to Earth since ancient times. With the recovery of spiritual energy, those realms will eventually reconnect to this world.

However, exploring other realms is still a bit difficult for Earth's humans, who have not yet fully stabilized the global situation. Therefore, related explorations have not been put on the agenda. The major forces around the world are, at most, deploying troops to guard areas where space-time channels may appear, preparing for defense and counterattack.

"The Sky Pool Dragon King, according to the common level division, should be a 'High-level Overlord' or even 'Peak' strength."

At this time, Su Zhou is absorbing the dense spiritual energy to cultivate in the *Qinxing* Academy's closed-door training room.

In his heart, he is thinking about the matters related to Immortals and Gods: "Overlord is the equivalent of a *Di Xian* (Earth Immortal) level, controlling an entire Sky Pool realm... Indeed, the master of a land is an Earth Immortal."

" *Tian Xian* (Heavenly Immortal) and *Tian Zun* (Heavenly Venerate) are naturally self-explanatory—after witnessing them firsthand, I have a clear understanding of the division of levels."

Having a goal provides motivation. Although Su Zhou is not the kind of person who will become complacent because of other people's praise, as the current de facto number one human in the world, he does not feel much pressure in this world, and cannot compare to the state of wanting to become stronger and cultivate at all times in the Godwood world.

However, after slightly witnessing the divine powers and power of an Earth Immortal, a妖神(demon god) Dragon King, Su Zhou has also gathered all his motivation and began to cultivate with unprecedented seriousness—turning bad people into chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep, then you can eat steak and evil souls. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

Currently, Su Zhou is cultivating the Sky Pool Dragon King's inheritance, the *Mingxing Hualong* (Primordial Dragon Transformation) method.

-- *Mingxing* refers to primordial energy, the boundless sea of chaos before the formation of heaven and earth, the natural energy of heaven and earth.

*Hualong*, no need to explain, this is the Sky Pool Dragon King's fundamental cultivation method.

Just as everyone knows, the Sky Pool Dragon King is an extremely obvious master of Water arts and the Mimicry Path. His *Mingxing Hualong* method is the仙神(Immortal God) path of giving birth to all things with water.

In the past, he used a Sky Pool sea area as a womb to recreate his fundamental True Dragon body and become an Immortal God.

However, although the Sky Pool Dragon King initially specialized in the Water element, as his strength gradually improved, approaching the 'Immortal' *Tian Xian* (Heavenly Immortal) realm, Cen Yun gradually explored a path of Water giving birth to all things.

Of course, in fact, any attribute can give birth to all things. For example, just like the initial fire can create the era of fire, there can naturally be an initial water to create the deep-sea era... The myriad realms of the heavens are colorful, and there will definitely be 'water worlds' that are all water, and there will also be 'fire worlds' that are all lava and flames.

No attribute is higher than any other attribute. Everything is not the strength or weakness of the 'law,' but the strength or weakness of the person. The myriad paths lead to the great path, and the Sky Pool Dragon King is standing on this boundary line.

"This Dragon King is cultivating quite well. If the spiritual energy hadn't been cut off, it would have been no problem for him to cultivate to immortality, and this 'path of Water giving birth to all things,' if it continues to be derived, is the cornerstone of the 'Creator Realm.'"

Even Yala did not skimp on comments: "Although the name is *Mingxing Hualong*, it is not just about transforming into a dragon. Just like the so-called *Mingxing*, which is the primordial energy of heaven and earth, that guy obviously used water spirit as the foundation when he turned sea cucumbers into dragons, then into humans, then into fish. It is the method of mimicking all things."

"Of course, his choice of dragon form as the fundamental combat form proves that his vision is indeed good!"

"That's right, the dragon form is indeed good!"

Yala boasted about himself with a smug look, and Su Zhou, who was waiting for the other party's true body cultivation method, naturally followed suit, anyway, boasting doesn't cost money.

It must be said that the various Water elemental spells and cultivations in the *Mingxing Hualong* method have filled the loopholes in Su Zhou's Water arts. In the past few days, with this method and Water assistance, he can now freely perform various complex movements in the water, as well as move quickly.

This makes Su Zhou more like a true dragon descendant in the traditional sense, rather than a fake dragon from who knows where.

"If I cultivate it to a small success, then I can summon wind and rain myself, instead of just waiting for thunderstorms to strike lightning!"

Thinking this way, Su Zhou felt that the *Mingxing Hualong* method was truly complementary to him, allowing him to take a big step forward in strength even when his realm has not been improved.

Of course, improving strength is a good thing, but the realm cannot be left behind.

The current Su Zhou is preparing to break through the final barrier to his advancement to the high level of Transcendence while cultivating the *Mingxing Hualong* method.

Spiritual organ - brain.