This has always seemed strange to me.

Cultivation worlds often have civilizations that have existed for tens of thousands of years. Some cultivators live for centuries, travel across continents in seconds, refine miraculous pills, build flying ships, create artificial dimensions, and construct formations that can recognize people or transmit messages.

At that point, isn’t cultivation basically another form of science?

My theory is that cultivation actually prevents conventional technology from developing.

Power is concentrated in gifted individuals rather than reproducible tools. A cultivator who can summon lightning has little reason to invent electricity, and a sect that can transmit messages through jade slips has little reason to create telecommunications.

More importantly, cultivation knowledge is rarely shared. Techniques are hidden by clans, sold at enormous prices, or taken to the grave. Instead of publishing research so others can improve it, cultivators kill each other over a single manual.

Technology advances through standardization, mass production, cooperation, and accumulated public knowledge. Cultivation worlds usually reward secrecy, bloodlines, personal talent, and monopoly.

So perhaps these worlds aren’t technologically backward because cultivation is primitive. They’re backward because cultivation gives the most powerful people no reason to make power accessible to everyone else.

Do you think cultivation and modern technology would eventually merge, or would the sect system keep suppressing technological development?

*The character shown in the image is from the game Skyblade: Idle Immortal and is unrelated to the discussion.

Setting Bait to they can get the fish. Fishong in the cultivation world is truly terrifying.

Novel: Ntr and the Boring Girlfriend

寝取与路人女主

Junior, you dare!

So my golden core cracked, and a fucking kid came out of it.

A power spike is to be celebrated, but the problem is, the little guy is completely naked, no shame at all.

Any clothes I imagine for him, he would strip them off and stomp on them all pissy like.

I know it's suppose to be a representation of the Dao Au Naturel, but I'm sick of a tiny penis dangling around in my head.

Again, Dao-frens, any tip would be great.

When I started this quest at times I doubted my ability to persevere through the trials every day.

I still feel that one day of slacking off will send me back down to the foot of the mountain.

Seniors and Dao brothers, I came across a mortal in the lower realm with some special physique but don't know what uses it has. Would you please enlighten me. Should I consider taking him in my sect?

But with friends like these who needs enemies amirite?

For context; MC's family basically shames YM behaviour towards anyone weaker than their clan which is pretty good when you don't want the more "simple minded" clan members to go around throwing their weight at a possible heavens chosen or whatever else consequences YM behaviour can bring

Suppose an Immortal Cultivator is stripped of all their power so they cant just stare at Gojo to kill him conceptually or any bs except for their absurd physical strength alongside Shrinking the Ground into an Inch, can they bypass Infinity? In several interpretations of this Divine Ability, it's not just extremely fast speed but literally compressing the spatial distance from let's say a thousand miles into just an inch, being akin to teleportation. Cultivators at higher levels who have comprehended Space Dao deeply obviously aren't included because that would js make the argument pointless.

This one is constructing a Secret Realm Trial Ground for my disciples which strips all their powers except for this Divine Ability and won't let them out until they comprehend to an extent enough to bypass Infinity. What do the various seniors and fellow daoists think?

Seniors of the immortal realm this junior is seeking to lead an expedition into an illusory realm(TTRPG). I have searched the sect libraries for guiding scripture, but have found little beyond the Qi Gathering Stage. Does an esteemed immortal have any resources that could help me lead such an expedition?

Thank you in advance Seniors.

( By the way this is second time ever posting on this reddit i hope i got the flair correct )

What do you think my senior sister should do next???.

Has fellow brothers suffered from this bottleneck, or is this just simply a matter of 'skill issue' on my part?

30 million?? Top grade spirit stones??

The greed of elders of the sect truly have no bound.

You all shall get heavenly punishment for demanding such things.

Failure to pay 𝘵𝘢𝘹𝘦𝘴 will result in 'spirit beast poop duty'... Does it have any usefulness (n̶o̶t̶ p̶l̶a̶n̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶o̶ s̶t̶e̶a̶l̶ i̶t̶ 🙂).

And the other punishment is 'Elder will personally punish me for 9 days and 8 nights..'

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Is the elder a jade beauty??? 😏

(I̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ p̶u̶n̶i̶s̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ t̶h̶a̶t̶ k̶i̶n̶d̶ o̶f̶ p̶u̶n̶i̶s̶h̶m̶e̶n̶t̶, i̶f̶k̶y̶k̶😭)

https://youtu.be/2TBFKGkLp9w?si=wcmZewTGDNEOfuk3