Eternal Tale

Chen Xun and Black Bull casually chose an unoccupied cave abode in the Spirit Realm Manor to begin their secluded cultivation and healing, temporarily setting aside their distracting thoughts.

At this moment, the qi of the Five Elements in heaven and earth converged towards them like mighty rivers.

Their bodies were like vast oceans of the Five Elements, greedily absorbing the surrounding qi of the Five Elements.

Chen Xun and Black Bull sat cross-legged on the ground, their brows relaxed, quietly contemplating the power of a Great Ascension Venerable.

According to the Spiritual Qi Immortal Path of the grand world of immortals, the Unity stage involves comprehending the power of the Great Dao, merging one’s cultivation with the power of the Great Dao to reach a state of unity with it. The key lies in the power of entering the Dao.

The Great Ascension stage is akin to transforming from the Nascent Soul to the Void Refinement phase, where the spiritual roots become one. Entering Great Ascension from Unity means the power of the Great Dao becomes one.

In this realm, one comprehends and masters the power of rules, merging one’s cultivation with the rules of heaven and earth, reaching a state of mastery and application of these rules.

A single drop of water, during the Qi cultivation and Foundation Establishment phases, can kill with a flick of the finger. In the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages, it can be infused with mana, causing immense damage with a mere gesture, affecting a vast area.

In the Transformation and Void Refinement phases, this drop of water can be enhanced with the energy of heaven and earth, further increasing its destructive range, capable of obliterating a small city in an instant.

However, after reaching Unity, the power of the Great Dao enhances it, resonating with heaven and earth, making this drop of water unstoppable. Even after destroying a small city, it can devastate the land, piercing through hundreds of feet.The more the power of the Great Dao enhances it, the greater the destruction it can cause, incomparable to the enhancement by the energy of heaven and earth, akin to the difference between a son and his father.

But if one reaches the Great Ascension Venerable stage, this drop of water becomes a rule of heaven and earth, capable of creating a torrential flood out of nothing, engulfing thousands of miles of land and mountains.

The more Great Dao powers are merged during ascension, the stronger the power of rules becomes.

However, in today’s grand world, even the most talented cultivators must sever their connection to the Great Dao to reach the Great Ascension Venerable stage. Merging three thousand Great Dao powers is nearly the limit.

After all, there are too many talented individuals seeking to break through the limits, but the upper limit of the Unity stage in the immortal path of the grand world also has its limits.

It’s not as if severing five thousand Great Dao chains during the Void Refinement phase to break through Unity will allow you to rely on those five thousand Great Dao powers to break through to Great Ascension.

Firstly, the power of the Great Dao is too vast, with a solid foundation, making breakthroughs difficult and prone to backlash from the rules of the Great Dao.

Secondly, the physical body and primordial spirit cannot withstand the breakthrough of five thousand Great Dao powers merging into one. Many talented individuals have fallen during breakthroughs in every era, serving as a cautionary tale for future generations.

This is one of the reasons why the gap between Unity stage cultivators and talented individuals is so terrifyingly large, and why within the immortal path realm, the most common battles are fought across smaller realms.

However, there is a lower limit to the power of the Great Dao needed to break through from Unity to Great Ascension, roughly around five hundred Great Dao powers, but such power is too thin to easily open the gate to the Great Ascension stage.

Typically, cultivators who can steadily enter the late Unity stage possess around a thousand Great Dao powers, making them relatively stable and almost considered talented.

This is also why the distance you can travel within the Tower of Heaven can predict how high your upper limit will be.

Of course, it is normal to continue increasing your Great Dao power during the Unity stage, as there are still many opportunities in the grand world.

If you haven’t cultivated to five hundred Great Dao powers by the late Unity stage, your path is cut off, and you can enjoy your later years, as the Great Ascension stage cannot be broken through with Qi-Enhancing Pills alone.

However, at least after breaking through to the Great Ascension stage, the gap in dueling power between individuals decreases significantly, and battles across smaller realms become rare, almost unseen.

But during the Unity stage, the desire for top-grade spirit stones becomes immense, as the nickname ”boundary-breaking stones” is not just for show.

Firstly, they can stabilize the power of the Great Dao during the Unity stage, only slightly inferior to the gifts of the immortal realm, and can even enhance the power of the Great Dao postnatally.

Although not comparable to the Heavenly Origin Qi, there is absolutely no other resource that can enhance cultivation in such large quantities.

After all, heavenly materials and earthly treasures are rare and hard to come by, naturally not as abundant as top-grade spirit stone mines.

Secondly, the most important aspect is the enhancement of the realm, with spiritual qi as the foundation and the power of the Great Dao as the upper limit.

The two complement each other during the Unity stage, and this item, known as the boundary-breaking stone, also enhances the perception of heaven and earth.

Thus, it is said that with top-grade spirit stones paving the way, the Great Dao lies beneath your feet.

However, many cultivators spend a lifetime without ever encountering top-grade spirit stones, and even Chen Xun and his companions have few, unable to supply the beings emerging from the Immortal Prison, and must earn them slowly.

But they have another item, the Heavenly Origin of the immortal realm.

Although it cannot be used as currency in the grand world, and its widespread use is not as good as top-grade spirit stones, its boundary-breaking effect is much better, belonging to the heavenly materials and earthly treasures that absolutely enhance cultivation during the Unity stage.

As long as this item is slowly nurtured to become more abundant, it can truly open the path to the heavens.

Whoever he wishes to enter the Great Ascension stage can do so, and this is not just the Great Dao beneath your feet, but the immortal path beneath your feet!

And now, whether it is the cultivation methods of the grand world or other cultivating items, they are being improved and strengthened by the strong, with each generation surpassing the previous one.

Chen Xun himself doesn’t know what kind of brilliant era they will witness in the future, only hoping that those around him can live a little longer.

In this era, being able to merge three thousand Great Dao powers into one to break through to Great Ascension is absolutely considered a formidable figure, with their name spreading far and wide, possessing the demeanor of a Heavenly Venerable.

However, after Chen Xun and Black Bull entered the Unity stage, they possessed a more powerful system for adding points, and with the primordial spirit aiding in absorbing the gifts of heaven and earth, the immortal realm’s lightning forcibly obliterated their myriad paths, helping them merge into one...

The former tribulation tempering the body has now become a tribulation tempering the Dao in this immortal realm, but regardless, it is considered another form of heaven’s gift.

With an unparalleled stance, they sacrificed two primordial spirits to obliterate the myriad paths, breaking through to the Great Ascension Venerable stage, creating an unprecedented record in the grand world of immortality!

But such a grand achievement is known only to heaven and earth, with no outsiders aware, and coupled with the even stronger system bonuses, they are absolutely invincible within the same small realm.

They even have the confidence to confront those in the mid-Great Ascension stage, but... there is no need.

The power of the Five Elements immortal path rules can already nourish heaven and earth, with the power of the Five Elements being endless, eternally flowing, and truly a divine power of heaven and earth.

During duels, their mana is vast and unending, as boundless as an abyss, capable of obliterating a region with a mere gesture, with the energy and aura completely annihilated, leaving no trace.

The Five Elements Immortal Body and Five Elements Immortal Eyes have both transformed into the power of rules, with no one able to ignore their defense and directly strike their essence. It can be said that their means of survival have reached their peak in the Great Ascension stage, making them extremely difficult to kill.

Cultivators who have reached their current realm all possess dozens of means of survival.

This is also why Shi Jianbai said that Great Ascension Venerables are extremely difficult to fall, as everyone wants to live well, and it’s not as if obliterating them to dust means they are completely annihilated.

Only the yin-yang death energy can invade the essence of the same realm’s Great Dao, obliterating all means.

Relying on the power of the Five Elements, defeating a Great Ascension Venerable may be easy, but killing one is exceedingly difficult.

But when combined, it is certain death! In the vast expanse of heaven and earth, if Chen Xun and Black Bull set their sights on you, even if you transform into thousands, they will gradually obliterate your body’s essence.

It can only be said that provoking them within the Great Ascension realm will definitely lead to major trouble.

Black Bull’s current array formation rules have merged with the Great Dao, possessing terrifying suppression over the power of rules that merge with the Great Dao.

Unless you can merge myriad paths into one, you can only prepare to abandon the rule-based means of the Great Ascension during duels and rely on spells and physical strength for a direct confrontation.

However, after Chen Xun and Black Bull broke through to the Great Ascension stage, the system’s shackles had long been broken. Chen Xun had already calculated that the Great Ascension stage should allow for an addition of 440 points.

If they want to max out all five attributes, it would only take a mere 450 years. Now, with no one hunting them down or plotting against them, they can safely max out their points.

When Chen Xun broke through to the Great Ascension stage, he discovered that aside from the World Soul, the other four attributes, when combined, formed the power of the rules of heaven and earth!

He finally understood why the longevity point bonus didn’t seem like a simple multiplication relationship; it was just that the realm hadn’t been reached, making many things difficult to comprehend.

The 440-fold bonus of the myriad path rules was unimaginable even to Chen Xun himself, with the upper limit of the realm’s elevation making him feel an illusion of invincibility.

He even wanted to say: ”Mid-Great Ascension stage, that young man, yes, you, try taking my Five Elements Palm with a ten thousand path rule bonus, I’m just curious to see how you’ll die...”

Chen Xun was somewhat afraid to casually imagine the realms beyond, fearing that in such a stable and magnificent world, his future anger might cover the sky with a single palm, causing rivers to flow backward, the sun and moon to lose their light, and blood to flow for millions of miles.

But he must not become arrogant, he must live to the end, and cannot act impulsively again.

The future he imagined in his heart was one where the immortal path lost its luster, the world was empty, with him as the beginning, a single word capable of overturning heaven and earth, the myriad clans bowing down, with no one able to restrict their freedom in the world.

It was a rare moment of arrogance for him, having broken through two major realms in succession, maintaining his composure until now was already quite an achievement, and casually imagining was nothing more than human nature.