The Rise of the Marquis

Chapter 55 Superstition
Wang Jian has been living in contradictions like Liu Yu.

Before he died and came to this world, on the one hand, he was the last hope of the world of cultivating immortals on the earth, a generation of arrogance with outstanding investment, and the hope of countless seniors and juniors. He shouldered a heavy responsibility and became the last hope to break through the golden core.

On the one hand, he is also very interested in science. He has received higher education and is very interested in geography, biology, physics and other subjects.

And this has always caused him to be caught in contradictions, and he has also doubted the belief of the immortal cultivator.

There are only two words in the ultimate pursuit of immortal cultivators-eternal life.

But as his knowledge grew, he began to doubt immortality. He had discussed many immortality issues with those top students in college. Everyone thought he was strange, but there were still many people who were willing to discuss their opinions with him.

As time goes by, he has more and more views. He doesn't doubt whether immortal cultivators can achieve eternal life, but whether the meaning and pros and cons of immortal life are worthy of their unswerving pursuit.

Slowly, he found that what he was obsessed with might not be the eternal life pursued by immortals, but the other side of death.
The words of a classmate when he was studying for a master’s degree are still fresh in his memory, “Death is not evolution for an individual, but a single individual withdraws from the evolutionary sequence and is eliminated. But the death of an individual can promote the evolution of a biological group, because It aborted a not entirely successful attempt at evolution.

Death undoubtedly has positive and irreplaceable significance for species groups.

Regardless of individual life and death, a species group can exist and reproduce for a long time, in a sense, it is eternal life, and the price is the death of the individual, so history is like the context of eternal life.”

He still remembers those words, so these immortal cultivators hold the slogan of the way of heaven for the public, and pursue immortality as individuals. Isn't that blocking the evolution of human groups for their own self-interest?
Eternal life represents the same, the road of future generations is blocked, eternal stagnation and solidification of power, etc.
Wang Jian has been living in this kind of contradiction, until the moment when he was the No.1 breakthrough golden elixir for thousands of years, his belief was still wavering and confused. Perhaps it was because of this that he died on the spot.

His contradictions are not at the same height as Liu Yu's, and he will not try to make others understand. Wang Jian understands that some answers can only be found by himself——
Over the past few days, Wang Jian has been practicing alone while waiting for news at the Sentinel Ridge station.

He spent five thumb-sized spirit stones to set up a small spirit-gathering array. This was a luxury that he could not imagine in his previous life. It was also the first time he had learned countless theories. The effect was very remarkable. As the magic circle began to operate, The spiritual energy in his consciousness gathered from all directions.

This trend reached its peak overnight, and the rich aura even caused the two tuberoses in the room he was in to open early, and everyone in the whole building who was near him felt refreshed.

With such a strong aura, Wang Jian seized the time to practice, and even broke through to the fifth level of Qi training without using Qi Gathering Pill.

When he came out of the house on the second floor again, he found that many people were waiting for him downstairs and in the corridor, including Wu Yi, one of his captains, Shi Sun Difang, the commander of the Heyang Mansion, and Liu Yu. Dongfang Jin, the personal bodyguard lent to him, and many military lords.

When everyone saw him coming down, their eyes all came together, their eyes shone with light, and they all saluted respectfully, even Dongfang Jin, who had always had a problem with him before, also saluted seriously, until he said no, everyone straightened up and came to speak.

First, several military lords asked him for orders. Their army had been rested and they had received some supplements. They asked them to send more troops to attack Uncle Gong. .

In fact, Wang Jian sent Uncle Gong to lead the cavalry to attack the boundary of Maling for the purpose of attacking the east and the west. His real purpose was in Heyin, so he rejected the proposal of several military lords and told them to wait a few more days before they bowed their hands and retreated.

After that, Wu Yi reported the news brought back by the scouts from the east of Hongshan. Wu'an City had indeed sent troops to the north of Maling, but they did not launch an attack.

Wang Jian was relieved after hearing this, and understood that Marquis Wu An had really sent troops.

Then Sun Difang told him that the grain and grass enough to support the army for a month had been transported from the Taogu camp to Sentinel Ridge. His classmate from Jixia Academy, the person with the highest position of prisoner in the battle of Liangtingyi, and the commander of the Maling government Shi Zuoqiu Fufeng had already arrived at Sentinel Ridge from Taogu POW Camp, and he could be summoned at any time.

After the matter was explained one by one, everyone seemed not to want to leave, and stayed with him until Wang Jian was a little scared by their bright eyes, and said directly: "Go and do your own business, don't be negligent. .” Everyone bowed respectfully and withdrew.

At first, Wang Jian didn't understand what happened to these people today, but he soon understood.

It is probably because of the incredible victories and reversals in the past, and the fact that he set up a small spirit gathering array, which caused the aura to become stronger the closer to him, so that the closer people were to him, the more relaxed and happy they felt, the more refreshed they were, and the mind was more active, which gave them some psychological benefits. hints and misattributions.

Simply put, these people have developed a "superstition" about him.

The famous psychologist Skinner once did an experiment, put some pigeons into the box, these pigeons were doing different movements when they first entered the box, some tilted their heads, some waved their wings, some put their The neck stretches in the other direction.

Then pop the food into the cage and they'll be startled, but then they'll associate their chance movement with the presence of the food.

So, after eating the food, they started to try various actions again, and "sure enough", the food popped out again.

This vague association was slowly strengthened, and as the food popped up again and again, the pigeon became superstitious.

When Skinner put them back into the group of ordinary pigeons, he found that some of these pigeons flapped their wings continuously, some always moved their heads to the upper left corner, and there were all kinds of strange movements, because it thought Just relying on this to get food.

Moreover, when these pigeons were treated with superstition extinction by the experimenters, which made them understand that their actions were not related to the appearance of food, they had to be frustrated more than 1 times before they could correct this superstitious behavior.

In the process of environment and feedback shaping behavior patterns, and behavior patterns shaping cognition, pigeons are completely unable to distinguish the causal relationship of this feedback, not only pigeons, but also humans, and even superstitious to the point where it is not uncommon to sacrifice the same kind.

With all the shocking reversals and victories these days, and after the small Juling Formation gives them the psychological feeling that they will feel refreshed and even better when they are close to themselves, it is not surprising that they will mistakenly attribute superstition to themselves like pigeons.

Wang Jian didn't know whether to cry or laugh for a while, but thinking about it should be good for him.

Dongfang Jin didn't leave, but still followed him, and said to him: "I wrote to my father about this, and he might tell His Majesty, will you be angry?" She was like a child who made a mistake, Ask carefully.

"will not."

"The businessman Wuyue who sells Lantian jade will not come to the east. They will go home for the last time at the beginning of the fog for the New Year, at least until next year. However, they said in their letter that there is a small jade mine in Heyin, although there is not much every year. It's also worth a hundred catties, and the quality is not as good as that of Lantian, but it's about the same." Dongfang Jin said.

Wang Jian was taken aback for a moment, and then made up his mind to attack Heyin in advance.

(End of this chapter)