Shen Ye locked himself in his training room. He vowed that he would not emerge until he had broken through that final barrier and become a Cultivator. He did not rush into practice, but instead sat cross-legged on a meditation cushion, calming his mind to think. He recalled everything he had learned from ancient texts about Cultivators, trying to clear his thoughts.
Cultivators—also known as practitioners or immortal seekers—were the dominant cultivation system during the Mythological Era. Cultivators possessed the power to command the skies and traverse the earth, to burn rivers and boil seas; they could battle formidable ancient beasts and achieve immortality. In that Mythological Era, civilization was nakedly brutal, a place where the strong preyed upon the weak without pretense. In those days, the human body was frail. To survive and secure food, humanity had to struggle not only against a harsh natural environment but also against powerful, ferocious beasts, living precariously in the gaps between survival and extinction. It was under these dire conditions that the ancestors of humanity created the methods of cultivation, mastering the formidable power of heaven and earth to establish a foothold.
Thus, the path of cultivation was carved out; it was the foundation upon which humanity relied for survival. Ancient texts record that the methods of cultivation were learned from ferocious beasts, though some claim they were passed down from other worlds; the truth of these c…
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