Emily Harris is nothing, what are women, anyway? They only slow down his cultivation.

　　A world of cultivation.

　　A world where all power returns to oneself.

　　A world...

　　Where, by reaching the pinnacle of cultivation, one can achieve immortality and live as long as the heavens.

　　Compared to the mediocrity of that other world, how dazzling and colorful is this one?

　　The key is, he has such good conditions for cultivation here.

　　“Cultivators have what’s called spiritual roots, which are divided into four grades: supreme, high, medium, and low. Medium-grade roots sense, absorb, and refine spiritual energy at twice the efficiency of low-grade; high-grade is five times, and supreme-grade can reach ten times.”

　　He, Henry Carter, only has medium-grade spiritual roots.

　　But Emily Harris’s spiritual roots are supreme-grade.

　　That’s also why the daughter of a merchant could catch the eye of his father, William Carter.

　　Improving the bloodline, after all.

　　However, compared to talent, cultivation resources are even more important.

　　The efficiency of a low-grade spiritual root refining spiritual energy is like earning a hundred thousand a month; supreme-grade is ten times that, but still only a million a month. A million a month—compared to the top aristocratic families, what is that?

　　If not for the rampant monsters and demons in the past century, forcing the top families and great sects to publicize cultivation methods and establish institutions like the Taixu Academy and Taixu Hall to provide cultivation education, in the past, even if ordinary people were born with innate Dao bodies, they would have no hope of breaking through class barriers.

　　They wouldn’t even qualify to come into contact with the cultivation world.

　　“Compared to the basic Qi refining method taught at Taixu Academy, the Vermilion Bird Qi Refining Method passed down in the The Carter Family is far more exquisite.”

　　Henry Carter pondered, and soon retrieved the Vermilion Bird Qi Refining Method from his memory.

　　A top-tier Qi refining method!

　 Ordinary cultivators might sell their lives to those great families and still never get a chance to learn it.

　　“In this world, if you don’t reach Qi refining, you can only do the lowest-level jobs. Only by sensing Qi, cultivating true Qi, and stepping into the Qi refining class can you be considered elite. It’s easy to earn over a thousand taels a year—considering a bun costs one wen, and a thousand wen equals one tael of silver, that’s equivalent to an annual income of a million.”

　　Henry Carter digested the memories and was somewhat surprised to discover that, starting a hundred years ago...

　　There were actually certain protection rules for ordinary people in this world.

　　Though mortals can’t enjoy the privileges of cultivators, cultivators also can’t kill mortals without reason. Otherwise, at best, they’ll be sent to the front lines to fight monsters and demons; at worst, they’ll be executed on the spot as an example.

　　Moreover, the art of fate-divination in this world is extremely advanced.

　　Cultivators, with their great power, have many ways to kill mortals without leaving a trace, but the relatives of mortals can spend a fortune to hire a fate cultivator from the Hall of Heaven’s Inquiry, who can capture the threads of fate from the Fate Realm, reconstruct the crime, and bring the criminal cultivator to justice.

　　Of course, the cost of hiring a fate cultivator is astronomical, far beyond what most families can afford. Most mortals wouldn’t dare challenge a cultivator; even if a loved one dies, a token compensation from the other side is enough to make them swallow their anger.

　　“On the surface, the social structure seems relatively stable.”

　　Henry Carter said.

　　“In White Jade City, on average, only one in a hundred people has spiritual roots, and even among those, it’s not easy to sense Qi. Cultivating true Qi only makes you stand out among commoners and live comfortably, but to enter the wealthy class, you need to reach mid-stage Qi refining. To be considered a notable figure, you must reach at least the seventh layer of Qi refining...”

　　Of course, that’s just in White Jade City. In small towns or villages outside the city, regardless of which layer of Qi refining, as long as you’re a cultivator, you’re a big shot.

　　Just as Henry Carter was focusing on the Vermilion Bird Qi Refining Technique, he seemed to sense something deep within his spiritual world.

　　As he concentrated his mind on the target...

　　A book!

　　In his perception, a book suddenly appeared!?

　　“One Hundred and Eight Ways to Destroy the World?”

　　The very book he was reading before he inexplicably transmigrated?

　　“What’s going on with this book?”

　　Henry Carter tried to focus his mind on the book.

　　The next moment, the book seemed startled and quickly fled. Henry Carter instinctively grabbed at it...

　　A page fell from the book.

　　At the same time, the book itself gave a “whoosh” and hid deep within his spiritual world, vanishing without a trace.

　　Henry Carter was baffled and could only glance at the single page that remained.

　　“One Hundred and Eight Ways to Destroy the World: Nuclear War?”

　　This, Henry Carter knew.

　　He had read this page of the book.

　　It said the world would be destroyed by nuclear war.

　　However, nuclear war can’t destroy the world; it can only wipe out human civilization.

　　Even the power to destroy human civilization doesn’t come from the nuclear explosions themselves, but from the nuclear winter caused by the detonations.

　　You see, in his world, the total global nuclear arsenal was close to twenty billion tons. If all were detonated, it would cause massive fires around the world. The smoke and dust from the fires would rise into the sky, enter the atmosphere, block out the sun, and create a terrifying nuclear winter. At that time, of those who survived the nuclear war, less than one in ten would make it through such a harsh environment.

　　Compared to the destructive power of nuclear weapons...