Chapter 231 - 231 228 Above the Immortal Dao
Chapter 231: Chapter 228 Above the Immortal Dao Chapter 231: Chapter 228 Above the Immortal Dao Heavenly Snake Ridge, Ning Wuxu casually summoned a cloud, which carried him and Qin Feng towards the back mountain of the sect.
Qin Feng curiously stepped on the white cloud beneath his feet, feeling as if he were stepping on a soft woolen blanket.
After a moment, he shifted his attention from the cloud and asked, “Master, why is our Beast Taming Sect’s Cave Heaven World called the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven?
This name makes it seem like a cave heaven belonging to the Demon Clan.
Since our Beast Taming Sect mainly specializes in taming demon beasts, why not change the name?
Could it be because our sect has raised many spiritual beasts within the cave heaven?”
“Ha-ha, that’s because this cave heaven was originally called the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven.”
Ning Wuxu laughed heartily, “It was initially the cave heaven of the Ten Thousand Demons King of the Heavenly Demon Realm.
However, in the late stages of the Ancient Great Tribulation, the Ten Thousand Demons King was forcefully cut down by the ancestor of our Beast Taming Sect, who then conveniently took over this cave heaven.
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To ensure that later generations would not forget the hardships suffered when ravaged by the Demon Clan, the ancestor did not change the name, continuing to refer to this cave heaven as the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven.
As for the spiritual beasts inside, those were rehomed there later.
The original demon clan members were all annihilated as soon as the ancestor seized the cave heaven.”
Upon hearing this, Qin Feng’s emotions also surged, “Disciple only knew that the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven was a treasure left by our ancestor, but had no idea it was seized by the ancestor after slaying a Demon King.
The cultivation of our ancestor truly penetrated heaven and earth.”
“That is, of course, the case.”Ning Wuxu nodded, saying, “If this cave heaven were not originally refined by a Demon Clan great power, it would not be so suitable for raising spiritual beasts.
Over tens of thousands of years, the Supreme Elders have modified it numerous times, and now, aside from the areas they use for cultivation, all other regions within the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven have been turned into habitats suitable for various kinds of spiritual beasts to live in.
For this reason, our Beast Taming Sect has never been short of top-level spiritual beasts.
Otherwise, if we were to rely on disciples from generation to generation to capture spiritual beasts from the outside world, those rare top-level spiritual beasts might really go extinct.”
Qin Feng knew that his master spoke the truth.
After the Ancient Great Tribulation, the cultivators of our realm had nearly wiped out the Demon Clan after thousands of years of battles and encirclement campaigns.
There were not many of those remaining top-level demon beasts to begin with, and if they were hunted without restraint, they might indeed be completely extinguished.
For instance, his Ruyi Golden Snake could probably only survive in perilous places like the Ancient Battlefield; otherwise, the cultivation world would not have gone tens of thousands of years without seeing another one.
Similarly, whenever a spiritual beast of the level of Liu Wuxiang’s Black Water Mysterious Snake appeared, the sect would send people to investigate whether the disciple who obtained such a spiritual beast was worthy of being nurtured.
As long as these disciples were not too lacking in talent, they would receive appropriate care, thereby giving these disciples more opportunities to rise.
Aside from encountering these top-level spiritual beasts during their travels, the other way for Beast Taming Sect disciples to obtain them would be through the sect.
If they accomplished great feats, the sect might reward them with a top-level bloodline spiritual beast.
Another way was to work hard to earn spirit stones, or to have the backing of a powerful family, allowing them to buy one with money at the Ten Thousand Demons Pavilion.
If they had also made considerable merits for the sect, they would receive an appropriate discount.
In each generation of disciples, there would be some with higher aspirations.
If they could not obtain a top-level spiritual beast from the outside, they would rather temporarily refrain from refining a lifebound spiritual beast and focus on improving their cultivation in preparation for acquiring a top-level spiritual beast in the future.
With some luck, they might also happen upon a large sum of spirit stones or, occasionally during the suppression of bandit cultivators, stumble upon some exotic treasures, thereby gaining the resources to purchase a top-level spiritual beast.
However, more disciples still chose to refine their Lifebound Spiritual Beasts early on.
They preferred to nurture their own spiritual beasts later on, allowing their Lifebound Spiritual Beasts to gradually enhance their bloodline and acquire Divine Skills.
Just like Elder Yan Zhongli from the Outer Spiritual Ape Peak, he used a considerable amount of essence blood from top-level spiritual beasts to cultivate his own Lifebound Spiritual Beast, thus obtaining greater strength and Divine Skills.
In fact, within the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven, there are certain special top-level spiritual beasts that have to give up a few drops of their essence blood every once in a while for the Beast Taming Sect disciples to use in cultivating their spiritual beasts.
Since the quantity of essence blood is not much, the Sect would not consider selling it.
It’s only permitted for their own disciples to exchange it for merit.
Outer disciples lack sufficient cultivation, and usually cannot accumulate enough merit, so the essence blood from those top-level spiritual beasts is mostly circulated among Inner Sect Disciples.
“In reality, even if some Demon Beasts have become extinct in this world, we cannot blame it all on the disciples of our Beast Taming Sect,”
Ning Wuxu said, “Although the disciples of the Sect enjoy capturing various powerful Demon Beasts, we are just one Sect after all.
Compared to the entire Cultivation World, we are nothing significant.
The real blame should fall on the numerous schools and sects of the Cultivation World, including countless Loose Cultivators.
These cultivators wouldn’t pass up a top-level spiritual beast suitable for cultivation, either.
Even if those cultivators aren’t skilled at nurturing them, selling them would still yield a significant sum of Spirit Stones.
That’s why the existing top-level spiritual beasts are so rare.
Luckily, towards the end of the Ancient Great Tribulation, based on the advice of Gui Ling Ancestor, our Sect began to capture top-level spiritual beasts from various places in the Cultivation World, and even spared no expense to buy them from other Sect forces.
This ensured that many spiritual beasts whose lineages had been severed in the outside world can now be found within the Mountain Gate of our Beast Taming Sect.”
“Gui Ling Ancestor was indeed farsighted,”
Qin Feng couldn’t help but speak in praise after hearing this.
“Of course,”
Ning Wuxu said with a smile, “In fact, over these years, the real manager of the Sect’s affairs, guiding the Sect’s growth and development, has been Gui Ling Ancestor.
As for Jue Tian Ancestor, the second-generation Grandmaster, he serves more as a deterrent to the forces around us.”
Upon hearing his Master’s explanation, Qin Feng understood that Gui Ling Ancestor, who is skilled in the Heavenly Mechanism Calculation, thus remains behind the scenes to guide the Sect’s development, while the second-generation Grandmaster uses his formidable cultivation to intimidate all sides and deter others from coveting the Beast Taming Sect.
“Master, what is the cultivation level of the second-generation Grandmaster and Gui Ling Master?
You haven’t told me about the realm divisions after becoming an Immortal,”
Qin Feng asked curiously, “After becoming an Immortal, does one live forever without worrying about lifespan?”
“Hehe…”
Upon hearing this, Ning Wuxu couldn’t help but let out a light laugh, “Eternal life?
That also depends on the realm.
You should know that longevity is not eternal life, and eternal life does not mean immortality.
In the Cosmic Great Thousand, even the stars that are said to exist eternally have an end, and the grand sun illuminating the void will have a day when it extinguishes, let alone us living beings.”
Qin Feng wondered, “Is it like our realm divisions, where one gains a certain amount of Life Span with each advancement in realm after proving the Dao?”
“It’s not the same, the realms after becoming an Immortal cannot be compared with those before proving the Dao.”
Ning Wuxu explained, “In the Ten Thousand Worlds of the universe, the division of realms varies.
Each world, each race, has its own unique method of division.
The Demon World has various divisions of Demon Kings and Demon Saints, and the Demon Realm has distinctions like Demon Kings and Demon Gods.
Of course, those worlds that have been ruled by strong races from other worlds are exceptions.”
“Then how are we cultivators divided?”
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“Our Human Clan Cultivators continue the Cultivation Realm lineage from the Ancestor Realm, carrying on the ways of cultivation from the Ancient Human Clan.
Despite some differences that arose after proliferating in this realm, on the whole, there has been consistency.”
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Ning Wuxu said, “You already know the realms of cultivation that lead up to Proving Dao.
Today, as your teacher, I will only explain the realms that follow Becoming an Immortal.”
“Disciple listens attentively.”
“Hmm.”
Seeing his disciple’s respectful attitude, Ning Wuxu was very satisfied.
In day-to-day life, he did not mind how his few disciples messed around, but when it came to imparting the Dao and teachings, the necessary respect had to be there.
This respect was not only for him, as their master, but also for the ancient heritage.
“The realms of cultivation after Proving Dao, like those before achieving Dao, are also divided into six major realms, namely True Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Profound Immortal, Golden Immortal, Saint Immortal, and Daluo.
Among these, Golden Immortal, Saint Immortal, and Daluo are also known as Immortal, Eternal, and Creation, respectively.”
Ning Wuxu said, “Once a cultivator comprehends the Heavenly Dao to a certain degree, they can provoke a Heavenly Tribulation.
After surviving the calamity, one becomes a True Immortal, with a life span of one hundred thousand years.”
“Only one hundred thousand years?”
Qin Feng asked in surprise, “Is that not a bit short?”
“Hehe, not at all.”
Ning Wuxu laughed, “Ordinary mortals live from birth to death in just a few decades, and one hundred thousand years is enough for mortals to propagate thousands of generations.
Even from your birth to now, you’ve only lived for a mere decade or so.
Compared to that, you won’t find it short.”
Qin Feng thought about it and realized that it was true; even a few thousand years were enough to foster a powerful and ancient civilization, let alone one hundred thousand years.
“However, for immortals who pursue the Dao, one hundred thousand years of life may not seem like much.
Sometimes, they may spend hundreds or thousands of years in secluded meditation, understanding the Dao.
In the boundless cosmos, there are ancient beings that have survived from distant eras, and their age cannot be measured in years.
It is said that our Human Clan ancestors prefer to measure such ancient and powerful existences in terms of Yuan Hui or great calamities.
You needn’t worry about this; such things are too remote for us and not yet within our reach.”
After a pause, Ning Wuxu continued, “To comprehend the Longevity Dao and become a True Immortal means to be able to wield the Power of Laws in battle and easily suppress those cultivators who have not reached this realm using Dao Principles.
This is the biggest difference between an immortal and cultivators like us who have not Proved Dao.
To advance from the True Immortal Realm to Heavenly Immortal, one must understand one’s own Daoist Immortal Technique from the cultivated Dao.
This type of Immortal Technique allows a more rational utilization of the Power of Laws, displaying much greater force than the mere manipulation of laws by True Immortals, moving beyond the general use of laws at the True Immortal Realm.
Furthermore, upon achieving Heavenly Immortal, one’s life span increases multiple times.
The exact increase varies from person to person, depending on their accumulated depth of cultivation but at the very least, it should be several hundred thousand years; in many cases, it can be as long as a million years.
Advancing further to become a Profound Immortal grants one a life span of several million years and allows one to condense the cultivated Dao into a unified force, which can be wielded at will.
Every gesture hold immense power.
In terms of war power, the difference between a Heavenly Immortal and a Profound Immortal can be imagined as the gap between Divine Skills and Great Divine Power.”
Hearing his master explain this, Qin Feng immediately formed a rough idea in his mind.
It seemed that the gap between Heavenly Immortal and Profound Immortal was indeed tremendous.
Of course, it’s not to say that Divine Skills cannot contend with Great Divine Power; a very small number of powerful anomalies can fight beyond their level, but those are very rare exceptions.
Normally speaking, a cultivator with Great Divine Power is at least several times stronger than another with similar Divine Skills.
“As for Golden Immortal, that is another realm entirely.”
Ning Wuxu said with emotion, “For a Profound Immortal who wishes to achieve Golden Immortal, there are two paths.
One is to follow one’s own path of cultivation and monopolize a single Power of Laws within the Heavenly Dao, thereby achieving Golden Immortal.
The true body becomes Immortal, existing eternally with the world; as long as the world bearing the Dao does not perish, one need no longer worry about lifespan.”
Qin Feng listened intently; he had not expected that the realm of Golden Immortal required monopolizing a Dao.
No wonder it could confer eternal life.
“And the other path?”
He asked eagerly.
“Hehe…”
Ning Wuxu chuckled as he looked at his own disciple.
The lad was only at the Foundation Establishment Realm now.
Why the rush for matters pertaining to the Golden Immortal Realm?
“The other is to blaze a new path all on one’s own.”
Ning Wuxu explained, “In the Cultivation World, there are many existences at the peak of the Profound Immortal Realm, including our Beast Taming Sect’s Gui Ling Ancestor and Ancestor Kongkong, who belong to this realm.
It is extremely difficult for these Profound Immortals to advance because the Dao created by a world’s evolution is finite, and many cultivators’ paths of cultivation overlap.
For example, there are countless cultivators practicing Fire Element Techniques, and a fair number of them have become immortals.
Because the Fire Dao was long ago occupied by the Skyfire Ancestor of the Divine Fire Palace, others can only cultivate up to the peak of the Profound Immortal Realm.
To Prove Dao and become a Golden Immortal, one must forge a new path with a different Flame Principle and create a new Fire Element Technique.
This is why there are various Fire Element Techniques like Sun True Fire, Qian Yuan True Fire, Glazed Glass Flames, and Nanming Leaving Fire circulating in the world.
Take our Sect’s Gui Ling Ancestor, for example.
The Profound Turtle he subdued had the Innate Eight Diagrams naturally engraved on its shell.
As such, Gui Ling Ancestor took up the path of the Innate Eight Diagrams, becoming best at Prediction Calculation and deducing the future.
However, this path was already claimed by the Heavenly Mechanism Elder of the East Domain’s Heavenly Mechanism Palace.
Therefore, Gui Ling Ancestor has not been able to step beyond that and reach the Golden Immortal Realm until now.”
Upon hearing this, Qin Feng’s brow furrowed, and he couldn’t help but ask worriedly, “Then does Grandmaster Gui Ling have a chance in the future?”
After all, this was one of the strongest beings in his Sect; it would be a great pity if the ancestor reached a standstill.
“Of course there’s a chance, but it’s extremely difficult.”
Ning Wuxu said, “The Dayan God Monarch of the Great Capital’s Dayan Divine Palace also proved his Dao with the Eight Diagrams and became immortal, eventually stopping at the peak of Profound Immortal.
Later, with his immense wisdom, he saw through the mysteries of the Heavenly Dao, blazed a new trail, and Proved Dao as a Golden Immortal with the Dayan Divine Calculation.
For Grandmaster Gui Ling to progress further, he too must blaze his own trail.
This is why he willingly went to the Otherworld, aiming to leverage the prediction techniques of other worlds to confirm his own path to Golden Immortal.”