"Bottleneck?" He You repeated the word.

Weiwei nodded and confirmed: "Yes, the bottleneck."

Her tone seemed a little complicated, and she continued:

"When some monks broke through their cultivation level to the ninth-grade Great Perfection and tried to evolve further, an accident occurred. It seemed that as long as the spiritual energy in their bodies broke through a certain threshold, it would cause thunder tribulation...

The space of the earth will immediately lock these people and destroy them...

Even at the ninth level, it cannot resist...

At first, the monks did not know the reason, and only thought it was a certain 'natural phenomenon'. Some mortals saw it, and attributed it to the punishment given by the way of heaven... "

"The monks at that time naturally did not believe in the so-called way of heaven. The concept they adhered to was that man had always conquered heaven. Therefore, they began to study and try to analyze the principles and causes behind the punishment of heaven.

However, the more they studied, the more desperate they became. The exploration of countless monks ultimately pointed to the same result, that is... there seems to be a certain "nature way" in this world.

Or it is some rule that is completely unreasonable... It is checking and balanced by humans, and as long as humans try to cross that critical point, they will be erased."

"This is naturally an extremely terrifying answer, which makes the entire ancient immortal world uneasy, because if it is impossible to advance, the knowledge of the entire immortal world will fall into eternal stagnation."

Hearing this, He You couldn't help but interrupt her and said, "Why do you say that? I mean... I can't break through the peak of the ninth grade, why does it lead to knowledge stagnation?"

And in his opinion, it was a very strange thing.

"Because of lifespan." Facing his inquiry, Weiwei gave this answer, "I can probably think of your ideas, I'll give you an analogy.

Just like the earth where you live now, it seems that civilization is developing rapidly and changing with each passing day. However, you probably have heard of a saying that the basic science field of human beings has long been stagnant."

"The principles and essence of new things that seem to be emerging nowadays were studied by scholars hundreds of years ago. In the fields of basic physics, mathematics, etc., it has been a long time, and there has been no major breakthroughs."

He You nodded and said seriously:

"I have indeed heard a lot of similar voices. In fact, I have had doubts about this problem before... when I was not practicing yet, and I have consulted some information...

Of course it is very simple and mostly forgotten.

I only remember... it seems that a scholar once proposed a 'big filter' theory to explain it.

The roughly meaning is... a civilization will go through stages from desolation to entering the sea of ​​stars.

Perhaps, in some two stages, there will be various insurmountable obstacles, just like a large filter, only a very small number of civilizations can overcome those obstacles...

Now the science on Earth has encountered a barrier.”

"This statement sounds interesting," Weiwei exclaimed, "In fact, thousands of years ago, the ancient immortal civilization crashed into their filters.

But unlike human situations, those monks clearly know what the bottleneck they are facing, but they are unable to change it at all."

"The bottleneck they encountered...is what you mean by lifespan?" He You mentioned this word again.

"Yes," Wei Wei nodded seriously in the palace, "The monks' knowledge inheritance model is very special. Because of the existence of spiritual consciousness, a great monk's computing ability is extremely terrifying.

This helped them develop brilliant Wenmin in a very short time, but it also invisibly created a trap, that is, the trap of knowledge."

"As civilization develops, more and more knowledge is needed. At that time, monks below the sixth-grade Tongxuan realm could not even master the vast knowledge...

Even for efficiency or arrogance, those great monks who have more knowledge are accustomed to preserving it in the form of spiritual consciousness.

So much so that any monk who has not mastered the spiritual consciousness cannot even read..."

Speaking of this, Weiwei paused for a moment, raised her head and looked at the countless books in the vast palace around her.

He You also fell silent.

He had a deep understanding of this, but the knowledge in the database of Juquxian Sect was so complicated that it was millions and tens of millions of volumes, but he still could not read them, let alone master them.

This is like an invisible barrier that completely separates the monks.

Cultivators and mortals below the great monks cannot even master knowledge.

"Knowledge oligarch..." He You suddenly said this word, "A lot of knowledge is mastered in the brains of a few monks, and those with low cultivation cannot bear so much data..."

Miss Long exclaimed after hearing this: "It's exactly that. In fact, this mechanism of preservation and inheritance of knowledge not only blocks ordinary cultivators from the door of knowledge, but even great monks... are limited by this."

"A sixth-level realm cannot withstand the amount of data mastered by the seventh-level realm...the seventh-level realm cannot withstand the eighth-level...the brain of every cultivator is like a computer with fixed storage capacity and computing power.

If you want to receive more knowledge, you can only improve your cultivation and "expand"...

Otherwise, you can only store it in a dispersed manner. The knowledge in the sea of ​​consciousness in the Nine-level realm needs to be divided into several parts and handed over to several eight-level realm to store..."

"It seems like a feasible solution." He You said.

Wei Wei sighed miserably:

"Knowledge seems to be feasible. Have you ever thought that in this mode, the death of any great monk will lead to the permanent loss of part of the knowledge.

If you want to avoid this problem, you need a large number of monks to share the pressure...but how is this possible?

Although there are many human races, there are few who have the qualifications to cultivate immortals..."

"And, even if the problem of knowledge storage can be solved, the computing power is still fixed. If you cannot break through your cultivation level, the most powerful computing power on the earth will be only the peak of the ninth grade...

It is impossible to improve any further. Even if you let a few ninth grades form a computing array, it will soon reach the ceiling due to insufficient quantity..."

"And most importantly, monks have lifespan limits!

Even if humans practice to the peak of the ninth grade, it is difficult for them to break through their lifespan of 200 years... and once they age, their computing and memory abilities will decline...

Lifespan is like an unreleased lock, blocking all monks.

So... I fell into a dead knot, that is, if I do not break through my cultivation level, the best result of the entire immortal world will be to stagnate.

Even worse, knowledge may be lost due to various reasons and the rapid degradation of the entire civilization will occur."

Civilization degenerates!

He heard this and was shocked!

Just imagine, no developing civilization can accept degeneration?

And Wei Wei's words made him unable to help but have some associations.

That is, does the "knowledge trap" also exist in ordinary human society?

No!

In fact, this kind of problem has long been encountered in human society.

In a long time, there were still people who "read books all over the world". In modern times, who can remember all the knowledge?

Even if it is just a subject area.

Who can learn all the life of a hundred years and learn it thoroughly?

Almost impossible!

The way humans can solve this problem is to subdivide knowledge.

Each discipline is divided into countless branches, and then covered with a huge population, and through cooperation, it promotes the inheritance and development of knowledge.

However, the cultivators lack a huge number, so they fell into the so-called "knowledge trap".

"What?" He You spoke again in the quiet hall.

He believed that those ancient monks would definitely not sit still and wait for death.

Vivi continued to tell:

"Faced with a desperate situation, there was a huge quarrel in the world of immortal cultivation thousands of years ago. In the end, the monks on Earth were probably divided into three factions, namely the "Evolutionary Sect", the "Exploration Sect" and the "Voyager Sect".

"The evolutionary faction, as the name suggests, cannot break through the thunder tribulation and improve its cultivation, then find a way to extend the lifespan of the monks, and they calculate the hypothesis.

If the lifespan of the ninth level can be doubled and their working years are extended, they can continue to advance the civilization of immortal cultivation by more than 300%.

And the development of technology will inevitably solve all the problems they encounter."

"The Exploration School was dominated by monks from the West on Earth at that time. Yes, in that era, not only monks in the East, but also in the West. They advocated that we continue to find ways to find out the 'way of heaven', find out the cause of the 'thunder tribulation', and eliminate it."
Chapter completed!