Chapter 628 - 367: Returning to Beiming Dragon City, Rising with All Creatures
Chapter 628: Chapter 367: Returning to Beiming Dragon City, Rising with All Creatures
The orthodox Path of Enlightenment for the Profound Sect is achieving Daluo, while the unorthodox path achieves Taiyi. Strictly speaking, the strength difference between the two isn’t significant, but generally, the Profound Sect’s inheritance is more formidable, giving an illusion that Daluo is stronger than Taiyi.
Indeed, it is like this.
After Vast Sea ascended to True Immortal, only his physical body and Mana as well as principles improved, without any special changes.
The Yin-Yang Immortal Cauldron was originally a low-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure, upgraded to mid-grade by the infusion of Power of Heavenly Dao.
The form of the chaos Demon God’s true self increased significantly, now about 80 kilometers tall.
It seems not much improved, far from the thousand-kilometer length of Su Yu, who is also in the True Immortal realm, turned into the dragon state. However, strength isn’t entirely defined by size but by quality.
For the same 100-meter height, one weighs only 5,000 tons, another 50,000 tons; which is mightier?
Having completed the tribulation, Vast Sea returned to the Chaos Realm, while Su Yu continued his journey.
Regardless of her cultivation, as part of the Chaos Orb, Heavenly Dao cannot leave the Chaos Orb, unless she attains the Daluo fruit and chooses for the Primordial Spirit not to assimilate with the Chaos Orb but with the Dao of the Earth Immortal world.
Yet if she chooses the Dao of the Earth Immortal world, she will no longer be the Heavenly Dao of the Chaos Orb, meaning her path ends.
Being an innate chaos Demon God, she has only two paths to attain the Primordial Infinite Great Luo Golden Immortal, namely Saint status: one is the path of the chaos Demon God, proving the Dao through force; the other is evolving a great world within the Chaos Orb, sanctifying through merit.
In the Earth Immortal world, neither sanctifying through merit nor sanctifying by severing the three corpses works, as the Earth Immortal world’s Heavenly Dao does not allow the birth of new Saints.
From Pangu’s opening of the heavens and earth creating the wilderness to it shattering into the Earth Immortal world, it has given rise to countless great beings, yet aside from the original six Saints, no seventh Saint was born.
Heavenly Dao disallows it, so Vast Sea cannot become a Saint in the Earth Immortal world.
Her path to sainthood has just two options: either go beyond the Earth Immortal world into the depths of the wilderness, following the chaos Demon God path,
or evolve a great world within the Chaos Orb, sanctifying through merit.
The chaos Demon God path has an uncertain future and requires leaving the Earth Immortal world completely, as a mature chaos Demon God isn’t permitted to re-enter the Earth Immortal world.
Conversely, evolving a great world within the Chaos Orb, sanctifying through merit, offers a clear path.
If the Chaos Orb can be fully repaired, and once Su Yu’s cultivation reaches its pinnacle, achieving the Dao of Daluo, and the true form of the chaos Demon God reaches at least level 90, it can emulate Pangu, opening heaven and earth within the Chaos Orb, using the body of the chaos Demon God to evolve a great world, merging the endless chaos essence within the orb, proving the Dao through force.
Vast Sea, on the other hand, within the newly evolved great world, could create heavens and earth, enlighten all creatures, and establish a fateful race, merging her Chaos Orb Heavenly Dao with the remaining chaos essence, combining boundless merit, thus proving the Dao of Primordial.
Though the Chaos Orb’s essence is inferior to the great wilderness created by Pangu combining three thousand chaos Demon Gods, it’s still a Chaos Supreme Treasure, its essence can support one proving the Dao through force as a Primordial, and one proving the Dao through merit by evolving a great world.
Additionally, the domain could have multiple positions similar to the six Saints of the great wilderness, although the Chaos Orb’s essence is inferior to the Earth Immortal world, the position isn’t Primordial Saint.
This means the Chaos Orb’s essence can birth at most two Primordial Saints but isn’t sufficient for a third.
"That’s enough."
A chance to become a Saint, what more could one ask for?
Next, continue the journey, soon reaching the underwater stronghold from before.
After a strong spatial distortion, the surrounding space transformed, he returned to Celestial Pillar Mountain, immediately receiving a notification, discovering he’d earned 500 points of Immortal Merit.
"The Erosion Moon Patriarch fled?"
Su Yu was very surprised, as per Jin Chi earlier saying, if he could capture the Patriarch alive, turning in the Erosion Moon Blood Seal would earn him a minor merit; if the Celestial Court’s generals killed the Patriarch, he’d earn 1500 Immortal Merit.
Only 500 Immortal Merit now indicates that turning in the Erosion Moon Blood Seal was useful, it indeed worked in finding the Patriarch, but did not succeed in killing him, allowing his escape.
"An ancient monster that lived this long truly has some skill."
He doesn’t suspect the Celestial Court of holding back, nor is it possible the Celestial soldiers were ineffectual, it’s just that the Patriarch was too cunning, possessing some ability.
Exiting the teleportation platform, Su Yu immediately greeted Jin Chi:
"Old brother, I’m back."
Jin Chi replied after a brief wait:
"Was in a meeting, where’s General Su, I’m here to welcome you with a feast."
"???"
The two met soon, Su Yu curiously asked:
"You already know?"
Jin Chi chuckled and said:
"Fancy that talk, old brother, I’m right here at Celestial Pillar Mountain, any tribal news transits through me to the Cyan Immortal Domain or elsewhere in the Earth Immortal world, I actually got the news a few years back."
He looked Su Yu over, unable to hide amazement in his eyes, saying:
"Never thought Mr. Su’s power exceeded my expectations; as a Celestial Immortal to possess the strength of a Profound Immortal, it’s unheard of, even those geniuses who joined the reputable Golden Immortal Taiyi Daluo sects aren’t so."
"I recall, Mr. Su, you’re under the Profound Clarity Upper Sect; this sect is the dojo of Guang Chengzi, the leader of the twelve Golden Immortals of the elucidation teaching, every hundred years there are ten slots to advance training at East Victory Divine Continent’s Nine Immortal Mountain Peach Source Cave, you best strive for one of these slots."