Love letters are not allowed in the exorcism notebook!-Chapter 591 - 14: New Gods of the Zodiac, the Twenty-Eight Mansions

Without warning, Bai Shanshan laid out the cultivation methods of the Twelve Laws in great quantity, enough to overfeed or even kill someone.

All that blather at the beginning, boiled down to just one sentence—why should one cultivate these Twelve Laws.

To dispel disasters, resolve difficulties, and attain the Dao for eternal life!

For students who had just been exposed to this field, it was quite a good beginner’s guide. However, for experienced players like Wang Yunxiao, it was pure nonsense.

Wang Yunxiao not only didn’t dislike it, he was even envious and jealous.

We never got such refined food back then. When Teacher Liu gave us lectures, he directly brought up cognition theory and talked about the philosophical concept of ’seven buns,’ which left us all dumbfounded.

And then there were things like "I may not be right," "You don’t have to listen carefully"... not a single sensible word.

Now with Teacher Bai, even though the content was still complex and abstruse, there was at least a beginner’s guide and main quests, giving you a general direction to strive towards.

The fear was that this would be the first time the youngsters were exposed to such mystical knowledge, and they would harbor unrealistic expectations about the presented "meal."

With no one-click smart assistance for cultivating with nature’s spiritual energy, what rubbish, total crap, only idiots would learn this!

Wang Yunxiao had not yet fully grasped the text content of the Twelve Laws when he saw two clusters of Ghost Shadows suddenly burst and scatter with the wind.

The number of survivors dropped from 85 to 83 in an instant.

Yikes! They weren’t really pinched to death, were they?

Wang Yunxiao thought about it and decided it was unlikely since they had all entered this Outer Dimension from Dreamland. With Dreamland as a buffer, one would not truly die—a basic common knowledge related to the Outer Dimension.

But this sort of common knowledge was not possessed by many, clearly feeling the intimidating move from Bai Shanshan, which had a noticeable impact on the surrounding Ghost Shadows.

Who knew where Li Mumu was? Everyone was a vague shadowy figure, utterly indistinguishable.

The greatest benefit of this was to avoid misunderstandings and friction caused by the recognition gap between each other. You think this is good, I think that’s good, always striving to determine a ranking...

Bai Shanshan had no mood to deal with these little ghosts, simply opting for a drastic measure by blindfolding everyone and gagging them, listen if you want, learn if you don’t.

I’m not your real mom.

Wang Yunxiao looked around and didn’t find any familiar figures, so he could only refocus on the information in front of him.

Among them were parts he was quite familiar with, namely the methods of the Azure Dragon Constellation Zone—Chess Herald, Advisor, and Garrison Soldiers.

The Righteous Path’s cultivation of these three methods was almost monopolized by officials, but this could also be interpreted as cultivators of the Azure Dragon Constellation Zone being more inclined to submit to the state and collective will on a cognitive level.

The core essence of the Twelve Laws is cognition, which is knowledge Bai Shanshan hadn’t yet taught to the novices.

From a cognitive perspective, one can see that the cultivation directions of the four great Constellation Zones of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise have clear differences.

The Azure Dragon Constellation Zone could be considered civil servants of the state, while the Vermilion Bird Constellation Region leans towards functional departments and technical professions.

The White Tiger Constellation Zone seems largely related to religious beliefs, whereas the Black Tortoise Constellation Zone is suffused with a sense of the Jianghu World.

The temples and the Jianghu World, the doers and the dreamers, create a delicate set of symmetrical pairings.

After reading the complete introduction to the Twelve Laws, Li Mumu had only one thought— the President might be a Libra, as the design of this system seems to carry a hint of an obsession with balance.

The same Dharma Gate is divided into the Righteous Path and the Heretical Path, and on top of that, a more traditional realm division has been designed.

Refinement of Essence into Qi, Refine Qi into Spirit, Refine the Spirit and Return to the Void, and Refine the Void and Merge with the Dao represent the four major realms, that is, four stages of advancement.

The Heretical Dharma Gate is easy to practice, with rapid strength growth, and it seems there is no such thing as the decay of power during the cycle of the Moon Phases.

But one can only cultivate up to the realm of Refine the Spirit and Return to the Void, without the ability to advance further.

On the other hand, the division on the side of the Righteous Dharma Gates is more complex and rigorous.

For example, the "Demon" Cultivation Method she practices on the Righteous Path can be advanced to a "Moon Demon"; the next realm allows for advancement to an "Earth Immortal". After this, two paths diverge, leading to either the advancement to "Heaven-Turning Great Sage" or "Sea-Turning Great Sage," corresponding to the Constellation positions of the Zhi Fire Monkey and the Water-Monkey, respectively.

So in the end, I, the old lady, will become a monkey?

In this world, there are no figures such as Hongjun the Primordial Saint, the Mixed Yuan Saints, the Twelve Golden Immortals of Taoism, the Eight Great Disciples of the Inner and Outer Sects... both Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West are just popular novels circulating in the market.

In the surge of the times, the legendary Buddhas and gods of the Zhou heaven have vanished. With the old gods fallen, the New Gods were born. Nowadays, the officially recognized deities and beliefs within the country are mostly those who followed the President through wars and paid a great price.

Such as the Qianjin Church, the Red Lantern Society, the Ma Family and Li Family between Baishan and the Black Waters, the Master of Ten Thousand Transformations of the Fusang People, the Responsive Heavenly Mother converted by the Sea People...

Li Mumu noticed that this Cultivation System of the Twelve Laws occupies only forty of the so-called "fifty paths of the great Dao"; the remaining nine paths seem to be left for future generations to complete.

She recalled someone had once hired the Longevity Sect with a hefty sum to investigate the true secrets behind the Twelve Laws. Now it appears that this is one of the most important secrets.

On Noah’s Ark, only Noah’s family could board the ship.

Yet on this ark built to withstand the tides of time and space, the President generously left nine empty spots.

Some spots have already been taken.

Based on what Li Mumu knows, at least one among the Guiding Bodhisattva and the Master of Ten Thousand Transformations, independent of the Twelve Laws System, already holds a ticket.

The remaining seven positions might already be eyed covetously by others.

The direction of the Joshua People is completely wrong; they shouldn’t be wasting effort on conspiracies and tricks. Putting forth genuine effort to grab one of those tickets is the right choice. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Unfortunately, they seem to be completely unaware of this, and Li Mumu certainly has no need to remind them.

The world does not have absolute fairness, neither to the poor nor to the wealthy.

The forty Righteous and Heretical paths correspond to the twenty-eight constellations, which represent the New Gods of the new era.

Of course, if explained using String Theory, one could also say that it was the creation of twenty-eight High-Dimensional Strings out of nothing, the interference between them producing the observation group that anchors the Real World.

As the saying goes, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand readers’ eyes.

Everyone’s perception of the world is different, but under the observation of twenty-eight different professional perspectives, even if it is still impossible to achieve an absolutely real result, it can be infinitely close to reality.