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Chapter 1746 Four Mountains
"Director, what you mean is..." Qi Sheng raised his head, as if he understood something, but also seemed to understand nothing.

"Qi Sheng, if a farmer is born without the talent for cultivation, his entire life will be oppressed by four mountains. But do you know which four mountains these are?" Liu Xu suddenly asked.

"Four mountains?" After hearing this, Qi Sheng began to think seriously, and then asked tentatively, "Among these four mountains, is there one mountain that is the Heavenly Palace?"

"Yes, this first mountain is the Heaven!" Liu Xu recalled the many historical materials of Gu'an World that he had read these days and said, "There was no Heaven in this world. In the beginning, it was ruled by the human race. Each small or middle world was a tribe. After that, the tribes would elect a leader of the human race, who would issue major policies and implement various measures to develop people's livelihood, thus bringing order to the world. This is also the beautiful era called the Age of Sages in history books!"

"Of course, the so-called era of saints may not be so beautiful. It's just that the records in history books have become mottled. Unless you have the ability to travel through time to check, there are only a few pages of text in the book left. I won't go into details here."

"It's just that since the establishment of the first heaven, Gu'an World has spent a full 1 billion years under the rule of the heaven, so the heaven has also collected heavenly taxes for 18 billion years!"

"Saint Qi, do you know what heavenly tax is?" Liu Xu asked again.

"Of course I know that!" Qi Sheng raised his head and said, "The Heavenly Court needs a lot of Heavenly Yuan to rule the world, so every year all the people have to hand over 50% of their Heavenly Yuan to the Heavenly Court. This is the Heavenly Tax!"

"Yes, then what is this Tianyuan?" Liu Xu asked again.

"Tianyuan is Tianyuan..." Qi Sheng was stunned. He didn't seem to expect Liu Xu to ask this question. It was like Liu Xu asked him to explain rice. This question was very confusing. However, seeing Liu Xu's eyes asking him to continue, Qi Sheng could only explain, "Tianyuan is a kind of spiritual power naturally produced in the human body. It can help feudal lords and officials strengthen themselves and mobilize heavenly power to fight. It is a necessary power for the Heavenly Court to maintain the safety of the Gu'an world. Therefore, the Heavenly Court collects half of the Tianyuan as tax every year, and also uses it to protect the people under its rule!"

"It's true what's written in the book, but it's not the whole truth!" Liu Xu glanced at Qi Sheng, then sighed, "In fact, the so-called Tian Yuan is the human spirit, the human will, the human soul, and the reason why humans are human. It is the basis for being able to think and understand the world as human beings. It is also the most critical and core force in the entire world."

"As long as humans are alive, they will think, have their own will and actions, and will give birth to many thoughts and ideas. These thoughts and ideas will eventually rise to the sky and gather in the hands of the Lord of the World. After purification and refining by the Lord of the World, these will become the most fundamental force in the void, that is, the power of the world!" Liu Xu explained.

"This is the power of the world! This is the power of the world that people from other worlds talk about every day. Why did our teachers never tell us about this when I was in school?" Qi Sheng widened his eyes and asked in confusion.

At the same time, he did not expect that he would be able to learn what the power of the world is from Liu Xu, the librarian.

"Because I don't need to tell you these!" Liu Xu said calmly. At first, he was also very confused, why a world that has existed for billions of years can't even understand such a basic definition as world power.

Later, Liu Xu figured it out. Didn't the Chinese in history spend millions of years not realizing that what humans depended on for survival were actually oxygen and glycogen?

Before this, the world of Gu'an had no concept of world power at all. It was not until other worlds began to invade that the term "world power" popped up from time to time among the people of these alien worlds. Only then did the people of Gu'an world know the concept of world power for the first time.

"Is Tianyuan the power of the world?" Qi Sheng asked after figuring out the power of the world. "No, the power of the world generated by humans is sustainable and will be naturally released with various lives. Collecting such world power is harmless to humans. But Tianyuan is different. Tianyuan is actually the soul of human beings, the root of all will and thoughts, and the source of the power of the world."

"The Heavenly Court harvests 50% of the Tianyuan every year. The world power after refining these Tianyuan is equivalent to the world power passively produced by a person in ten years. Naturally, it is more tempting." Liu Xu sighed.

"Then what will happen after half of Tianyuan is cut off?" Qi Sheng seemed to have figured something out and couldn't help but ask.

"It will recover, but it will also accelerate death!" Liu Xu said, "In fact, you know it yourself. Once people complete the sacrifice of cutting off the Tianyuan, everyone will fall into a sleep that lasts for a short period of three days or a long period of about a month."

"This is actually because the loss of Tian Yuan is too great. Humans have no choice but to sleep to isolate themselves from all mental activities and fully recover the lost soul. Only when the soul can barely support a person's daily life will they wake up from sleep. However, the soul recovered in this way is only about 70% to 80% of the total amount. The rest of the soul will slowly recover within a year."

"This is also the reason why after waking up from a sleep while offering sacrifices to the Heavenly Palace, one has to live in a daze for several months before being able to barely get by."

"But such recovery is not without cost. In addition to the divine soul, everyone has their own true spirit. Restoring such a large amount of lost divine soul consumes a huge and terrifying amount of true spirit, until it is too late to recover. In the end, the true spirit is unable to restore the divine soul, and the person falls into a dead sleep."

"Qi Sheng, do you know how many years a mortal can live in other normal worlds without extraordinary powers?" Liu Xu asked again.

"I don't know... Does that mean they can all live to 60 years old?" Qi Sheng hesitated for a while and gave a number that he also thought was a bit exaggerated.

“Hahahaha!” Liu Xu laughed wildly. “In other worlds, if a mortal is healthy and knows how to take care of his body, and no one ever comes to harvest his Heavenly Essence, then he can live to be around a hundred years old at most!”

"One hundred years?" Qi Sheng sat down on the chair in shock. "But the average life expectancy of our people is only thirty-five years old!"

"This is not surprising. Those officials and nobles, even if they did not practice cultivation, lived to be over eighty years old." Liu Xu sneered.

"But they are blessed by the Heaven..." Qi Sheng opened his mouth and said.

"No, it's just that they don't have to pay the heavenly tax!" Liu Xu pointed out without any emotion.

(End of this chapter)