im prettu sure that the enforcement of it was quite harsh in the beggining but due to religious people being the majority they are pretty lax now. Basically mentioning gods in the context of religion is no problem and having some fun wity ghost atoriea is ok as long as it's very explicitly entertainment but if you try to open a store to practice some palm reading or sell talismans thatbwould getvyou in trouble.
At least in front of the public, metaphysics still needed to be shielded.
Urban · Gemini Sheep
There are also pills, formations, natural treasures, better alcoves/areas with rich spiritual energy, so on and so forth, so if he takes 90 years to reach the peak fo the stage he still has like 40-50 years to prepare to advance to the next stage. if he uses everything else he could probably do it in half the time having 100 years to advance.
Under normal circumstances, it would take at least seven or eight years for a cultivator who had just reached the Foundation Establishment Realm to reach the bottleneck of the first level.
Eastern · West Traveler
i would guess that is just a joke aboit him being a mostly idle office worker. there are statistics that show an office worked usually do about 2hs of work a day in an 8h day job so he is saying that he effectively get payed to do nothing, or read webnovels in this case, for the majority of his work hours.
In his previous life, Xu Mo was a paid online novel reader. How could he not understand what the voice in his mind meant?!
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