Chapter 349: This Realm, in Mortal Peril 4

Chapter 349: This Realm, in Mortal Peril (1/3)

Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators

Dream-Making Expert

Buddhism speaks of three great sufferings in the human world.

The suffering of not getting what one wants, the suffering of encountering those one hates, the suffering of parting from loved ones.

But at the end of the day, it all comes down to not getting what one wants.

As the saying goes, one does not fear a brother’s hardship; one fears a brother driving a Land Rover.

One does not worry about scarcity but about inequality. That was roughly it.

So although the Divine Spirit Realm appeared to be overflowing with resources on the surface.

Under the system of the Divine Spirits providing for mortals, productivity had been greatly liberated.

Everyone had no worries about food or clothing.

The problem of poverty had long since been completely solved.

Every person could even live a life where food came to their mouth and clothes came to their hands.

But the mortals of the Divine Spirit Realm were not happy.

No.

It was not merely a question of happiness or unhappiness.

Rather, the vast majority of mortals in the Divine Spirit Realm had no expectations for life at all.

They even felt the mortal world was like a prison.

Because they were too close to heaven.

Close enough to see it, yet unable to reach it.

Even though there existed channels like the Ascension Assembly that could let a mortal ascend to heaven in a single step.

The Ascension Assembly’s selection quota was far too small.

Even during the Divine Spirit Realm’s most flourishing period.

The Ascension Assembly’s selection pass rate had once been as high as fifty percent.

The highest number of people to pass the Ascension Assembly selection in the history of the Divine Spirit Realm had reached twenty-seven million.

The Star Academy had been scared witless.

They urgently dispatched vast amounts of cultivation resources.

But twenty-seven million cultivators, against a mortal population of twenty billion at the time.

Was still far, far too few.

And in the six Ascension Assemblies held in the last sixty years, the selection pass rate had already dropped to less than ten percent.

The last Ascension Assembly.

With a mortal population of six billion in the Divine Spirit Realm, fewer than six hundred thousand people had participated in the Ascension Assembly.

And in the end, fewer than thirty thousand had passed the Ascension Assembly and become cultivators.

It sounded unbelievable.

After all, the Divine Spirit Realm had long since solved the problem of food and clothing.

Everyone did not need to work, and could devote themselves entirely to martial training.

Even if one’s aptitude was poor, one could still be selected in a thousand.

This was imaginable.

After all, the people who remained in the mortal world to reproduce were themselves the failures who could not pass the Ascension Assembly.

The bloodline passed down by such a group of people.

If they could give birth to some divine blood or holy body.

Then chances were they had been unfaithful or cheated.

But even so.

People who could achieve Innate before thirty and qualify for the Ascension Assembly.

Should number at least twenty or thirty million.

Yet there were not.

It was like how it felt as if university students had already flooded the streets.