Read Hero of Hearts Chapter 7486 Utopia.
Charlie walked alone through the clean streets of this ancient city, and the more he saw, the more worried he became.
Given the size of this city, it could accommodate at least tens of thousands of people. It’s hard to imagine that tens of thousands of cultivators once lived in this one place. After all, even today, it would be difficult to find even a few hundred cultivators.
Charlie wandered around the city, surprised and disappointed, because apart from the pill furnace that was impossible to take away, there were none of the unlimited cultivation resources that Bolin had imagined.
There were no magic potions, no magical artifacts, no Cultivation Techniques, and besides the Qi contained in the city, there was nothing else that could aid in cultivation.
Charlie couldn’t help but wonder: if the cultivators here had such high cultivation levels, why didn’t they leave behind any cultivation resources? Did they take everything with them when they left? But even that seemed unreasonable. A city this large and the Qi that supported its operation far exceeded the resources available to an individual. They hadn’t taken the city with them or removed the city’s formations, so why would they care about those personal resources?
As Charlie was racking his brain trying to think of it, a word suddenly came to mind—a word that had been popular since long after the Cold War: utopia.
At that time, people believed that Utopia was the best social form that humanity could imagine—beautiful, equal, without oppression, and without evil, like a perfect paradise.
In reality, such a society is almost impossible to exist; it is more often used by cults to brainwash their followers.
However, Charlie realized that the place he was in might be a utopian society typical of cultivators of that time.
In this society, the abundant Qi is shared. The people who live here are entitled to the best elixirs, so naturally they don’t need other elixirs to replenish their Qi.
As for the pills with other effects, they were likely refined and distributed centrally by the farmers here. Each household probably didn’t take them home after receiving them; they were consumed immediately after distribution, so it’s natural that there were no leftovers.
The cultivators here should be working together towards the goal of leveling up. Since they can form such a society, they should be able to share cultivation resources. If so, why would they need to hoard Cultivation Techniques?
Regarding magical artifacts, there was no doubt that tens of thousands of high-level cultivators would be invincible in today’s society. In ancient times, they would have no enemies, especially in the barren Antarctic, where it was difficult to find any creature other than penguins. The danger to cultivators was practically nil. As long as they could achieve a utopian state internally, with no external enemies and no internal conflict, magical artifacts would naturally become the most useless thing. The administrators here might even issue an edict prohibiting the private possession of offensive magical artifacts to prevent further internal trouble.
The more Charlie analyzed it, the more he felt that this must be true, so he completely gave up on the idea of looking for cultivation resources here.
Afterward, Charlie arrived at the gate of a Taoist temple. The temple gate was magnificent, carved entirely from white marble. In the center of the gate were three large gold-plated letters that spelled out “Sanqing Temple.”
The Sanqing Temple, as its name suggests, is a Taoist temple dedicated to the Three Pure Ones in Taoism. The Three Pure Ones are the supreme deities in Taoism and the founders of the sect. These cultivators, who traveled to Antarctica, did not forget to build the Sanqing Temple, indicating that they inherited the Taoist heritage. However, this made Charlie suspicious. The Four Directions Treasure Banner and the Great Wild Goose Pagoda were jointly built by the monk Xuanzang and the Taoist cultivators. What he received under the aurora was the inheritance of the Great Sun Tathagata’s hand seals. It seemed that Buddhism and Taoism had a deep integration in this regard.
However, he still did not understand what similarities there were between Buddhism and Taoism in terms of achieving immortality.
Charlie arrived at the Sanqing Hall, where three lifelike statues stood: Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, Taiqing Daode Tianzun, and Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun.
He had visited many Taoist temples and monasteries, but he had never seen a statue with such perfect realism. The facial features, limbs, and expressions seemed more lifelike than a real person, and the statue was majestic yet approachable, as if three gods were standing before it, smiling and watching over it.
Although Charlie did not yet understand the relationship between Buddhism and Taoism in cultivation, he personally preferred to believe that he had inherited Taoism. Therefore, he considered the Three Pure Ones of Taoism to be his ancestors. Therefore, before leaving the Hall of the Three Pure Ones, he knelt and kowtowed three times before the statues of the three celestial beings.
However, just as he was about to leave the Sanqing Hall, a circle with golden light and numerous talisman carvings suddenly appeared beneath his feet. The circle shimmered beneath his feet, and the golden light illuminated his body. The golden light grew stronger, and the reflection of the golden light from his body became even more intense and dazzling. In the blink of an eye, Charlie could no longer see his own body. When he looked down, all he could see was the dazzling golden light.
A moment later, Charlie suddenly felt as if his body had been drained, and his entire being seemed to merge with a dazzling light. Then, something very strange happened. He suddenly realized that the golden light around him began to disappear, and he was no longer in the Sanqing Hall, but in a mysterious room he had never been in before. This room was square, about ten zhang on each side, with a total area of about one hundred square meters. The room was made entirely of wood, from the floor to the beams and ceiling. Looking out through the wooden window, he could see smooth, parallel stone walls.
Charlie was shocked. He went to the window and looked out, only to find himself suddenly inside the square pagoda for some reason.
What’s even stranger is that when you look down, you appear to be at a very high position, but when you look up, you don’t appear to be on the top floor. And when you look inside, this floor is a completely enclosed, independent structure with no stairs connecting the upper and lower levels.
Just as Charlie was wondering why he had suddenly come here, the wooden floor in the room suddenly changed appearance. On the flat ground covering nearly 100 square meters, a complete compass pattern appeared, shining with golden light.
Unlike the compass used for feng shui, this compass has a halo in the center of the pattern, as well as in the eight directions of Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, Dui, and Qian, exactly like the halo I just saw in the Sanqing Hall.
As Charlie was pondering the purpose of the nine light rings, nine mental cultivation mantras suddenly appeared in his mind. Strangely, he instinctively knew that these nine mental cultivation mantras corresponded to the nine light rings, and that each light ring needed to be activated by silently reciting the corresponding mantra.
He knew that these nine mental techniques must be some kind of revelation given to him by this place. To confirm his suspicion, he stepped into the center of the compass.
Standing in the center of the compass’s halo, Charlie silently recited the corresponding incantation. Then, the halo emitted an even more dazzling and intense light, then began to rotate slowly. Just as before, when the light was so intense that he could no longer see the outline of his body, Charlie once again felt as if he had been instantly emptied.
The next second, when he opened his eyes again, he was no longer in the underground city in Antarctica, but in a cave he had never been in before. The cave was clearly carved out of rock by humans, and its surface was as smooth as a mirror, like an underground city. The entire cave was empty except for a halo of light shimmering beneath his feet.