Chapter 8: A Quiet Carriage Ride

Lu Da was currently sitting in a carriage across from the two little devils and while surrounded by guards at the peak of the Mortal Warrior Realm, he could never have imagined that he would one day feel safer surrounded on the battlefield then he would feel in his own carriage. The two little devils nonsense aside, he was on his way to the capital and his brothers wife would surely do something silly. He could almost guarantee he would have some sort of mishap on this ride. Whether it be the petty little queen sending bandits his way, or sudden destruction of the roads he did not know, but he knew his bored daughter would definitely attempt a prank of some sort if given enough breathing room.

In the past year his daughter had calmed down since the incident with the wolf, and yet when she wasn't learning about cultivation or studying other subjects, she would once again resort to pranks. While she learned to control said pranks from the wolf incident, she also learned the level of pain tolerance mortal fighters and warriors had was high. A piece of information that led to many a tack finding it way into seats and on more than one occasion a metal trident called a rake, made by Lu Bu, finding its way onto a gardeners face.

On that note over the past year the greatest boon Lu Da had gained was not his daughters so called enlightenment it was actually Lu Bu's creativity and affinity for forging and agriculture. Over the past year Lu Bu had created several tools for farming and while the forging itself was nothing great the tools themselves caused a small revolution to the their yearly crops. Lu Da had asked the boy how he came up with the idea and in his usual are you an idiot expression simply answered " How else could a mortal farm?".

At first Lu Da wondered if this little genius had gone insane, across the Ares continent true mortals were a minority and decreasing every year. Only mortal fighters and low end mortal warriors would tend to the crops across each kingdom and the mortal fighters who became farmers would often hold wooden spiritual roots allowing crops to grow well regardless of location or external conditions. They could enrich the soil, direct the crops growth, and even revitalize nearly dead crop. As far as crop collection? It was nothing complicated simply cut or pick out the crop, what could be easier. Meat collections were even simpler due to the plethora of domesticated Mortal Beasts handled by beast tamers and outside of those beasts hunting was quite common, not to mention the war with the beast kings allowed for a large supply of meat as well.

True mortals were given work as shop keeps, stewards, and some even became scholars and various other miscellaneous fields, the reality is their weak bodies were not prioritized for something as important as handling the empires food source not in the Holy Raiment Empire or any other empire as a matter of fact. Why would a mortal need to farm? Then reality hit Lu Da like a combat king beast or one of his daughters pranks, he a former crown prince and now Lu clan head had no concept of how mortals who often lived in slums and rural villages managed to eat day to day. Their salaries were often the lowest of the low, they had weak bodies to begin with so what work could they actually get in large cites like those he grew up in? and if it was like this in cities, what about the villages were mortals were more common? No wonder their tributes were so low Lu Da thought.

Afterwards he decided to introduce Lu Bu's tools to the villages in his region. The so called plow, rake, shovel and wheelbarrow. While the villagers expressed their gratitude, they simply saw these things as useless, a lot of the tools functions could be replicated with an Earth based martial arts and while they held no wooden spiritual roots a Wood based martial art could still produce large effects on the crop. They would much more prefer receiving some more advanced Earth martial art or one of the illusive Wood martial arts than this pile of garbage, or so they thought. As mortals could perform no martial arts with spirit energy they were the first to use them and the results were astonishing. These mortals who often never had the strength for farming work and would produce nearly worthless crop had much tidier fields, they looked less tired then before, and most importantly their crop yield went up explosively.

When Lu Bu heard of the results he wasn't surprised. While on Earth he never once had to use the tools as by his time this whole process was largely automated but he did have to learn the history of agriculture on earth. All he had to really do for his so called agricultural work was review the automated systems real work and verify the numbers per the optimized agricultural practices. Nonetheless in his memories the so called Original humans pioneered agriculture on Earth into a large food supply system to provide for themselves for centuries, they largely destroyed the planet while doing so, but those were problems for later generations. Over the past few years Lu Bu was progressively regaining his memories from Earth and after the wolf incident he decided to test some of the historical details that popped up in his head.

If he was honest how humanity on the Ares continent developed did not make sense. Technologically they were, in the nicest of terms, cavemen. The indigenous people seemed to have no real concept of relatively simple things that appeared in his mind. For example for a pair of superhumans who could shoot lightning from their hands, fly, and summon water from thin air they did not have any form of electronics, no air transport, and no irrigation system. The first time Lu Bu had to go to the bathroom outside of a diaper, he found himself in an empty room with a hole in the ground, on Earth there was toilet you did your thing, flushed, and you moved on with your day but here there was hole, a freaking hole but duty calls. After the fact though he had no idea what to do with his waste until Lady Lu barged in and asked what was taking so long. Letting her know of his dilemma she simply replied " Silly boy you don't have your martial arts yet, no worries a servant will take care of it like this.." Then she threw a fireball at the waste and left him looking dumbfounded.

In short like cavemen these people handled everything with blunt force or in this case martial arts. They simply copied the information from books and made no question of the martial arts purpose, how they were created, or how things were before the development of the martial art. For one martial arts were a strange thing overall and had no logical reasoning. In essence they allowed one to create from nearly nothing! With Lu Bu's limited scientific understanding these people could literally control atoms in the air to take on the form of their desired item ie making water, fire, and earth constructs from thin air, they could alter gravitational forces and fly at will, they could project their will on existing matter and shape it as they please. The so called laws of science be damned these cavemen could literally bend them all to their will with sufficient cultivation!