Run Away, This Civilization Is Cheating

Chapter 783: Chapter 529: Patrolling the City_2

The children playing together was quite normal.

Even if these children were ordinary people who hadn’t set foot on the Extraordinary Path, and these Senya people averaged at the Fifth Stage, with some even reaching the Sixth Stage, who could be called “Life Gods,” there was no cause for concern.

This sense of security did not come merely from rules and regulations; it primarily stemmed from extraordinary power.

Even though several consecutive trials had not threatened the Human Civilization Mother Star, the preventive standards of human civilization cities had always been extremely high.

This even involved the level of laws.

In the city, citizens were forbidden to harm each other!

From the moment malicious intent arose, it would be bound by rules, even if it were manipulated.

At first, some malignant events occasionally occurred, but now, the probability of such events in the city had become “zero.”

Shen Hao walked past these Senya people and continued forward.

Then, he discovered rows of “dining establishments.”

Yes, dining establishments.

In today’s human civilization, there were no conventional “stores.”

It’s not that there was no trade; rather, all trade activities were concentrated online, and even the direct contact between “individual” to “individual” was eliminated.

Everything was uniformly managed by the commercial department of civilization.

This was not enforced but was a natural evolution and development.

After all, compared to the disputes between individuals, unified management could conduct uniform and standard distribution.

Merchants no longer needed to find traffic or advertise themselves; as long as they created valuable products, they could easily be consumed in the vast market, avoiding the energy drain from intermediary steps.

Even if what they made was downright garbage with no demand, it still had its value and could be used in the Refining Spirit Pot or the newly acquired Void Gluttonous Stomach.

For buyers, it was even simpler.

They could directly input their needs online, and all related products would appear, complete with detailed descriptions and rigorous reviews.

There was no situation where you couldn’t buy something or couldn’t sell something.

This led to the gradual but complete disappearance of all physical stores, making “shopping” an ancient activity that no longer exists.

However, as Shen Hao saw before him,

dining establishments, or a series of time-sensitive shops, still existed.

These dining establishments were not mere dining.

In the era of All People as Transcendents, eating was no longer a necessity for mortal life but a higher extraordinary need.

For cultivation, healing, and enjoyment.

Even spiritual issues could be solved through gourmet food.

Therefore, extraordinary paths like “Spirit Chef” and “Demon Chef” were also popular paths.

Combat power was not necessarily weaker, and it was also easy to earn the resources needed for upgrading.

Just from what Shen Hao saw at the moment, some dining establishments even gathered spiritual power, with celestial phenomena manifesting, creating a grand spectacle.

Moreover, the crowd here was indeed not small.

There were even some people who, after dining, directly attained enlightenment, protected by the laws of heaven and earth, forming a circle of faint white light, and the required resources would directly appear and be invested.

Even if their balance wasn’t sufficient, as long as they were in enlightenment, they could borrow in advance.

This was also a decree signed by Shen Hao, and he had even personally adjusted the related laws.

Such scenes made Shen Hao a bit sentimental.

Over countless years, he didn’t know how many schemes and decrees he had read and signed, some of which he couldn’t even remember. As long as they didn’t present major issues, and were indeed beneficial for the livelihood and development of civilization, he signed and endorsed them for implementation.

Until now.

It was only by witnessing the changes firsthand that he felt a sense of realization.

Shen Hao walked slowly along this street of “dining establishments,” experiencing the various states of business inside each shop.

Most were alone; the buyers would state their effects and needs, then come over to wait. But some were calling friends, treating it not only as cultivation but as sharing and socializing.

Like comrades from the battlefield, or friends and classmates assigned to different military districts during the idle period between trials.

Though several decades had passed since the last trial ended, the last trial was truly too long.

It lasted two thousand years.

Unless one reached the Sixth Stage to achieve true immortality, the lifespan of the Fifth Stage was only six or seven thousand years.

Shen Hao even heard some Fifth Stage warriors who had just returned from the battlefield sighing deeply.

“An entire trial, and I couldn’t gather enough military merit for my talent breakthrough. This trial lasted over two thousand years, and my life is already halfway over. I fear I’ll be old by then.”

“Old Hu is better off. He has a good chance of gathering enough merit in the next trial, but as for me, working in the Accelerated Secret Realm on production and research, my life is already more than halfway gone. I don’t have enough merit points and may become one of the first transcendents to die of old age in the trial era.”

“The Immortal Ascension Road, burning the Divine Fire, living as long as the heavens, seem simple, but are far from easy.”

“Yes, indeed.”

“…”

In today’s human civilization, almost everyone could reach the Fifth Stage, and it didn’t take too long, at most a few hundred years.

But the average level remained the Fifth Stage because there was a true threshold at the Sixth Stage.

The “True Gods” on the Magic Road, the “Immortals” on the Cultivation Path…

Almost all paths had this stage as an incredibly vital watershed.

Without stepping into it, one remained an ordinary life form, incapable of resisting the erosion of time.

Once stepped into, their consciousness would involve the level of laws, truly living as long as the heavens.

Even if the consciousness eroded over the long years, it would not truly die.

And this level, even in today’s human civilization, was not reachable by everyone.

Previous citizens did not reach old age because the Fifth Stage was easy, and their lives of thousands of years seemed unattainable.

But now, a thousand years was no longer considered long.

Especially for those in the Fifth Stage working and cultivating in the Accelerated Secret Realm, they could feel their aging and the erosion of time.

So this worry was not just for the people before them.

A short while ago, after the high-level officials announced the time of this idle period, it caused quite a stir.

“The proportion of those stepping into the Sixth Stage is about eight to one.” Shen Hao quickly recalled the data.

This data wasn’t current but predicted after considering various factors.

Natural talent, even with the talent of the Chosen Ones, couldn’t achieve such numbers.

Incorporating various resources, technologies, and foundations, this ratio was calculated.

Of course, this was only a temporary number.

As time passed and human civilization acquired more resources, this ratio would inevitably rise.

However, this still meant that a significant number of people, potentially the majority, might reach the end of their lives in the Fifth Stage.

“To exist eternally as Heroic Spirits could be some consolation.” Shen Hao remained silent for a moment before he could only shake his head temporarily.

This was not something that could be resolved now, and besides, having such a sense of crisis could further motivate people to cultivate and work hard.

In fact, Shen Hao had just seen a new report recently.

The report proposed raising the number of formal military legions in human civilization to the Sixth Stage, requiring all Fifth Stage individuals to retire from military status and engage in production work, particularly in the cultivation, nurturing, and production of high-level resources.