Eternal Tale

Chen Xun and Black Bull cultivated the rules of the Five Elements, and even their vital energy flowers had transformed into the World Soul Flowers, connecting them completely with the spiritual qi of heaven and earth and the qi of the Five Elements.

The spiritual qi of heaven and earth related to the power of flesh and blood, a secret they had long discovered.

The qi of the Five Elements pertained to their immortal path and physical bodies. When the two merged into one, they could reshape the innate qi of the Five Elements!

If they could further integrate the Heavenly Origin Qi from the dawn of creation, the three qis would become one, allowing them to transform into all things and achieve true immortality, free from all causes and effects.

This was the true enlightenment of the immortal path and divine abilities brought by understanding heaven and earth after breaking through to the Great Ascension stage.

However, this divine ability was still in its infancy, with a long road ahead.

They had only obtained a wisp of the reshaped innate qi of the Five Elements, stored in their primordial spirit, and the fusion was extremely slow. At this rate, Chen Xun estimated it would take hundreds of years to manifest even a wisp.

This was also related to their own realm and strength. The fusion of the three qis might only be achievable at the Tribulation Crossing Venerable stage, relying on realm and time to slowly progress.

After breaking through to the Great Ascension stage, they hadn’t heard of any heavenly secret realms to exploit, all being naturally formed postnatal secret realms.

Those battles were far more ferocious than innate secret realms, not within Chen Xun’s consideration, nor did he plan to venture there again.Top-grade spirit stones or spiritual pills were means to enhance the Spiritual Qi Immortal Path, but their Five Elements Immortal Path had no such opportunities, lacking top-grade Five Elements stones.

Moreover, countless cultivators were stuck at the early Great Ascension stage, and even the five guardians of Wild Heaven, who had lived for over ten thousand years, were stuck at this realm.

The most crucial aspect was cultivating the power of rules at the Great Ascension stage, relying solely on enlightenment and top-grade spirit stones, which was insufficient for longevity. Wealth, companions, methods, and land were all indispensable.

Great Ascension Venerables could establish sects and domains recognized by the grand world.

Such cultivators were respected wherever they went, rarely engaging in duels or battles, instead exploring the rules of heaven and earth, their whereabouts elusive.

But exceptions like the Ghost Face race existed; in such a vast world, there were always oddities, each living their own way, without criticism.

It could be said that at the Great Ascension Venerable realm, one could dominate a part of the grand world. Those who reached this realm could often find their names on the Chaos Immortal Spirit List, none being simple beings.

Yet, in such a grand world, even a small number of ordinary cultivators breaking through to the Great Ascension stage was not uncommon.

For instance, those from Wild Heaven were such, not considered prodigies. A cultivator could consume three types of longevity-extending treasures in a lifetime, but they clearly hadn’t used them all.

To progress further in the Great Ascension realm, the spiritual qi of heaven and earth had become foundational. The key was how much the power of the Great Path transformed into the power of rules during the breakthrough to Unity.

For example, if three thousand powers of the Great Path merged into rules, in the Great Ascension realm, it was a process of slowly converting each path into the power of rules.

The spiritual qi immortal path of the grand world was quite complete, and the combat power in duels was quite straightforward, never ambiguous.

They divided the power of rules into ten parts. With three thousand powers of the Great Path breaking into the Great Ascension, cultivating one part meant three hundred powers of rules entering the mid-Great Ascension stage.

From three hundred to nine hundred was a process. Once nine hundred powers of rules were fully converted, one could advance to the late Great Ascension stage.

From nine hundred to eighteen hundred was another process. Once the remaining eighteen hundred powers of rules were fully cultivated, it was the peak of the Great Ascension, ready to cross the tribulation and enter the Venerable realm!

The deeper the foundation, the harder the breakthrough. This was not just talk in the grand world; being stuck due to lifespan was a helpless choice for many prodigies. Each major realm of the immortal path was interconnected, with no shortcuts.

The basic ratio of the power of rules in the Great Ascension realm was 1:3:6, but for Chen Xun and Black Bull, it was quite exaggerated. In the early Great Ascension stage, they needed to convert a thousand powers of the Great Path into rules.

In the mid-Great Ascension stage, they needed to convert three thousand powers of rules, and in the late Great Ascension stage, six thousand powers of the Great Path!

To put it in a straightforward way, a drop of water, for a prodigy with three thousand powers of the Great Path entering the early Great Ascension stage, could be transformed into three hundred great rivers.

Chen Xun and Black Bull could transform this drop of water into a thousand great rivers. If they maximized longevity points in the Great Ascension stage, the system’s power would expand it by four hundred and forty times!

A drop of water could directly become a monstrous flood, annihilating all beings! None could withstand it!

If Chen Xun cast a Heavenly Origin Starfall spell in the Great Ascension stage without control, it could potentially evaporate and destroy a thousandth of the Mengmu Sea Region!

Without the strong suppression of the grand world rules, the destructive power of an immortal path expert would be beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators.

Even though the Era of Great Slaughter among the myriad clans was so long ago, the strongest clans of the grand world unanimously believed that the vast heavens and earth had yet to recover...

However, such a straightforward way of calculating the immortal path was only applicable to basic realms, suitable for most cultivators.

Those enhancements from dao artifacts, the power of rules, formations, or grand spells were naturally not included in the combat power range.

The gap in minor realms was naturally not in the number of rules refined but in breaking through that shackle, suppressing lower realms with the power of rules!

In the early Great Ascension stage facing the mid-stage, the power of rules was suppressed by thirty percent. Facing the late stage, it was suppressed by ninety percent, a gap as vast as the heavens!

In this realm, one could not casually fight across minor realms as in the Unity realm. Even if one ascended to the Great Ascension stage with the power of ten thousand paths, in the early stage, one could at most cultivate a thousand powers of rules.

Even facing a late-stage Great Ascension Venerable who ascended with the power of a thousand paths, seemingly a huge gap, it was nothing. But being naturally suppressed by ninety percent, leaving only a hundred powers of rules, one could only flee.

The suppression of rules by the heavenly path was naturally the same as the suppression by the Chaotic Path in the celestial realm, all traceable, born of heaven and earth, impossible to escape the laws of the immortal path.

But Chen Xun and Black Bull truly ascended to the Great Ascension with the power of ten thousand paths. Even if suppressed by ninety percent, they still had a hundred powers of rules, plus the system’s longevity point bonus, a pressure of forty thousand powers of rules!!!

They could be said to be invincible in the Great Ascension realm, the system’s points finally revealing a grand and terrifying side in the late immortal path realm, a scene of world-destroying proportions.

However, they had just entered the Great Ascension stage and had not yet begun refining the power of ten thousand paths into one.

But when they refined three hundred powers of the Great Path into rules, even facing the ninety percent suppression of the late Great Ascension stage, they would have over ten thousand powers of rules!

These cultivators would be like pigs and dogs, the rules of heaven and earth resounding, defeating them with a wave of the hand!

The truly invincible path of Chen Xun and Black Bull was finally beginning to open at the Great Ascension Venerable realm, though they hadn’t realized it yet, being severely injured.

However, Chen Xun had long planned in the Tongtian Tower. If they were to cultivate the power of rules, they could only rely on the Heavenly Origin they captured.

They now had 350 longevity points of World Soul combined, accelerating the cultivation of wood attributes by a year.

If they maximized the Great Ascension longevity points, it would be 440, accelerating cultivation by a year, quite exaggerated.

The growth of the Heavenly Origin depended entirely on the feedback from the qi of heaven and earth, identical to spiritual plants.

It could be said that if spiritual herbs were infinitely elevated in age, but the concentration of spiritual qi was insufficient to support them, they would gradually wither.

The situation with the Heavenly Origin was that as long as heaven and earth existed, the Heavenly Origin would not perish, a symbiotic and interdependent relationship, an absolute treasure of the celestial realm, to be glorified.

Fortunately, Little Crane’s main body was fine, its age increasing, absorbing more and more qi of the Five Elements from heaven and earth. But in such a vast and magnificent grand world, Chen Xun had never worried about insufficient feedback, and the third sister was a longevity body.

At this moment.

In the cave abode, the qi of the Five Elements had completely gathered into a sea of qi. One man and one bull had fallen into silence, and the Five Elements spiritual roots within them began to sprout two tender buds, but their growth was too slow, requiring time to nurture.

They hadn’t heard of any precious herbs to restore the Five Elements primordial spirit, and it was unlikely this grand world had any, relying only on themselves.

While healing, they stabilized their realm, unaware of the rapid passage of time.