Chapter 7 A Brief Overview of Ylang-Ylang Society
You should know that the people on earth have never lacked traitors and speculators, nor have they lacked the cords to follow the strong.
But Ast obviously thought the Earthlings and the Earth government too smart and strong, and thought the Earthlings' resistance too strong, which led to a troublesome and evil Ast plan.
This may be related to common sense judgments such as Astor's education environment or worldview values. For example, in his impression, among the low-level civilized stars he had come into contact with, the indigenous people were very strong, and they would rather be broken than full, etc.
Or, in the society where Astor lives, there are relevant laws that prevent Astor from using this threatening and inducing method to contact civilizations of this level of earth. And because he pays attention to the spiritual body, it is very likely that he can be found out by others after doing similar things and cannot be hidden at all.
Anyway, since Astor is over a thousand years old, even if he does not live in human society, he will definitely have his own set of time cycles and cannot treat such a thousand-year-old monster as the requirements of human society. But he is definitely not a fool. He must have his own considerations and reasons for his choice to do this.
Who stipulates that people must be worldly-wise when more than a thousand years of Earth?
Who stipulates that an alien must think about problems like humans?
Let’s continue to think about it. With the advanced civilization where Astor is located, the social group must have already overcome the pressure of survival. As the saying goes, it means that the material foundation is extremely rich, and what is developed should be the spiritual civilization in a higher field.
Thinking of this, Cheng Yuan became interested in the Yilan Alliance, which was unknown but most likely to contact in the future, so he began to ask about the Yilan Alliance.
According to Ina's statement, due to the Big Bang, many of her memories were damaged. She did not understand the detailed situation of the Yilan Alliance, so she could only give a rough idea based on the existing remaining information.
What we can know now is that the Yilan Alliance where Astor is located is a large union franchise with the Yilan Galaxy as the core and consists of many other galaxies. A Yilan Galaxy alone is as big as the Milky Way. It is conceivable how strong the strength of this alliance is.
However, although it is huge, due to the dimensions of time and space and other factors, in layman's terms, it is impossible to get along with each other, except for extremely low accidents such as the temporal storm, or the real high-level gods taking action, there is basically no possibility of contact with each other.
In fact, the Milky Way itself is a galaxy with a very low level of civilization. In this Milky Way, there are many civilizations similar to the Earth, and even civilizations that have escaped from the stellar system, but none of them exist that can escape from the Great Milky Way.
Without talking about it, I would still say that I will be the Yilan Alliance.
Although there are countless races in the entire Yilan society, it is basically divided into three major classes according to the level of development of citizens' souls, and it is not so-called equal treatment.
The residents of these three levels, according to Cheng Yuan's understanding, are the primary, intermediate and advanced levels. Residents of different levels correspond to different rights and obligations, and their treatment is naturally different.
Among them, the primary residents are called the civilian class. Every individual in this class has a fixed materialized body, which is similar to humans. It has an innate body, like human civilization, mostly carbon-based life.
Because the soul power of civilians is still very weak and cannot escape from the shackles of their bodies and reach the level of undamaged free transfer, lifespan is also very limited. Even if these people generally live much longer than humans in their races, they are not really longevity.
In the Yilan Alliance, there are the largest number of residents at this level, and they are not divided into race or civilization level. As long as you are willing to join the Yilan Alliance, you are protected and restricted by the Yilan Alliance laws, and strictly implement the obligations given to you by the Yilan Alliance, and are accepted by the federal government, you can become the lowest Yilan Alliance residents.
Once the civilian class can make their souls strong enough to freely transfer into the new body material body when the mental body is exhausted and has qualified adaptability to the new body, they can become an intermediate noble.
The most important point here is the pass rate.
In other words, during the transfer of souls, the first transfer of the spirit body must reach a soul of 99.99% without any damage, so that your soul will basically have no unbearable damage during the transfer of souls; the second is the adaptability, that is, the adaptability of the soul transfer into a new body, and can perfectly control the new body. This value must also exceed 99.99%. Only soul transfers that reach these two values at the same time can be considered qualified. Forced transfer of souls in other unqualified situations does not count. Once the assessment is passed, you can be upgraded to a citizen of the middle class and become a noble.
Intermediate residents, called executors, belong to the aristocratic class, refer to those souls that have broken away from the shackles of the original body and can be freely transferred in different matter bodies without loss. Just like the soul has evolved into an operating system program that does not require a fixed computer host as a carrier, but can freely replace the hardware carrier as needed. Astor is this level of existence.
To use the setting of fairy tale, the aristocratic class is the guys who have cultivated their souls to the point where they have left their bodies or cultivated their Nascent Soul.
In this class, six levels are divided according to the strength of the soul and the size of its power, namely Gonghou Bozinan and Lord. Astor belongs to the lowest level of Lord. Of course, these titles are all the results of translation.
Take Lord Aster as an example. Although he achieved free and lossless migration of his soul, he was not powerful enough, so he could only use a special external linker to perform this lossless migration. It was like two computers that had to be transmitted with data cables, and wireless transmission was not possible.
It is also because of this that Ast was shot and killed by the female policewoman Wen Jing after moving to a human body. Ast had the opportunity to use the permission bracelet to teleport back and transfer his soul in time. Unfortunately, he was probably hit by the critical point and was not expected to be fragile to the human body. He died too quickly, which led to his failure and a mistake that led to eternal regret. No, it disappeared and no hatred.
In addition to the evolution of civilians through self-training, most of the nobles were actually local residents of the Yilan Alliance.
For example, Astor is the star field of the aristocratic core area of the Yilan Alliance. Zach was born. It was a star field with strong competition and combat awareness. The children there had a strong body as soon as they were born, and they could also receive aristocratic education and directly learn advanced soul evolution skills. Because they were unique, they usually escaped from the shackles of their bodies in their early childhood and became true intermediate citizens, that is, aristocrats who were truly recognized by the alliance.
To put it bluntly, people like Astor are like second-generation nobles born in developed countries. They are born with the most favorable treatment and various resources that ordinary people do not have. They belong to natural noble people.
Although most nobles and civilians do not live together, they often meet and contact each other. However, you don’t have to worry that ordinary civilians will be bullied by powerful nobles, because in the Yilan Alliance, although the hierarchy is very strict, the relevant basic rights of each citizen are respected quite well, and there are also a series of strict and flexible legal provisions. Therefore, even powerful nobles cannot bully civilians at will, at least they cannot bully them unscrupulously, because arbitrary oppression of civilians will not only tarnish the honor of the nobles themselves, but will also be severely punished.
This is very different from the situation in fantasy novels where the ruling class with superpowers can bully those who are incapable at will. It can only be said that Yilan society is indeed a high-level civilization. While focusing on ability, it takes into account both fairness and justice, rights and obligations.
Perhaps because it has evolved into an endless and vast high-level interstellar civilization, there is a broad external space to expand. In addition, the social forms are also different, and the material has long been extremely abundant, so the class contradictions among citizens are very small and can be ignored.
Therefore, the nobles are the backbone of the social composition of the Yilan Alliance. They are the real elites of the entire alliance. While enjoying more rights, the nobles also assume more obligations and responsibilities. Every noble is proud to fulfill their obligations and contribute to the Federation. They are a group that regards honor as life and is also a group respected by everyone.
As for the last, he was also the highest-level citizen, called the manager, and the highest ruling class of the Yilan Alliance, commonly known as the gods.
The characters at this level are stronger and more mysterious. They don’t easily contact the residents of the two classes of intermediate and juniors and are the real masters hidden behind the alliance. Therefore, Astor doesn’t know what the specific situation is, such as whether they are divided into what level and how they are divided, let alone Ina, such things cannot be known unless they are a certain class.
At present, I only know that many of the gods of this level have evolved into an entangled state between pure energy bodies and material bodies. They no longer need any physical body as their soul support, because they can create a material body or pure energy body as needed as they need.
Their power is huge. They can travel freely in space without the help of any external objects, and even transform a planet and create a civilization by their own efforts.
According to Cheng Yuan's understanding, people of this class are like gods who have achieved success in practicing Taoism, or the gods in myths, who are part of myths and legends, and are worthy of the common name of the gods.
It should be pointed out that because the Yilan Alliance is a society with extremely rich material, highly developed spiritual civilization, and pays more attention to the spiritual body, material things are very weak in this society, and things like property industries are not placed in their eyes, especially the nobles and gods.
Therefore, although Cheng Yuan inherited Ast's property by chance, he was still just an outsider who had not been accepted by the alliance, and was not a member of the alliance. Even if he now became a member of the alliance, regardless of whether he inherited Lord Ast's inheritance, according to Cheng Yuan's current mental state or soul strength, he could only barely be considered a civilian or the lowest among the civilians.
Of course, this was also expected by Cheng Yuan, and he would not be inferior because of these things.
"What, since Ast is born a noble, does he have any methods of cultivation? That is, a method to improve the level of soul?"
"Of course there are. The family of Your Excellency Astor is a noble family, with three great dukes. Therefore, the spiritual cultivation method of Your Excellency Astor is one of the more advanced methods in the Alliance's spiritual cultivation method."
"Well, since I am the heir, can I learn this method?"
"Can."
"Even if I am an earthling, I may have a different life composition from the Astor race?"
"Of course, because the spiritual body cultivation method is to cultivate the spirit body and soul, and the soul is essentially a collection of information for high-level creatures, which is the cognition and degree of interference of everything in the entire world, and is also one of the basic components that control the material world. Therefore, all high-level creatures can practice the spiritual body."
"Oh, this is like Buddhism. Anyone can become a Buddha, which is fair." Cheng Yuan nodded, "So since that's the case, please teach me the spiritual training method of Astor."
"Dear Commander, you have taught you the spiritual body practice method of Your Excellency Astor."
"Teaching me? When did you happen? Why don't I know?" Cheng Yuan said in surprise.
"Do you remember the inheritance ceremony held in the command room?" Ina said calmly, "that is, the kind of ceremony you held by pressing your hands on the crystal of wisdom."
"Oh, you mean the ceremony where you press your hand on that crystal ball and then emit blue light?"
"Yes." Ina replied, "The official inheritance ceremony of the Astor family is not only material property, but also spiritual body cultivation methods. Only by inheriting the spiritual body cultivation methods can one be the real heir and gaining the highest authority. In fact, during the ritual process, the blue light is called the light of wisdom. When it spreads throughout your body, it has already imprinted the cultivation method in your body, but it has not been activated yet."
"But why didn't I feel anything?" Cheng Yuan asked again, "How come there is no change at all?"
"This is because the light of wisdom enters your body, and it will take a period of testing and adaptation." Ina continued, "During this time, the light of wisdom will conduct a comprehensive test on your body, calculate the talent you have, and then calculate the most suitable method for your cultivation based on your talent. As long as the test and calculation are over, you will have the most suitable method for your own cultivation in your mind, and you will know it. In other words, there is no fixed method for the cultivation method of the light of wisdom, it varies from person to person."
"So how long will this test take?"
"It's hard to say. According to your time concept, it may only take a few seconds, maybe a year, two years, or even a dozen years, and the test results may not be accurate in one go, or they may be staged and part by part. So, please wait patiently, regardless of whether your mental training method appears, it will not prevent you from becoming a commander."
"You said so, what else can I say?" Cheng Yuan shrugged, "Since it's already like this, let's go with the flow. Anyway, this is out of thin air, and there is nothing to complain about, just accept it calmly."
"Commander wise!"
"I just realized that you can flatter me."
"According to the earth, I just follow the local customs and tell the truth."
Chapter completed!