Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 539: Chapter 326: The Reason Behind It

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Having extracted this information from the souls of these people, Xu Yang had clarified the cause and effect, origins, and developments of this Divine Artifact.

Everything started from the matter of “Ascension.”

The Wandao School has been established for over twenty thousand years.

As for the latter ten thousand years, there is little need to say much; it marked the beginning of the Demonic World’s emergence and the merging of the two realms.

At that time, to counter the looming threat of the “Demonic World,” Xu Yang forcefully suspended the Ascension process of the Wandao School.

Even after the problem of the Demonic World was resolved, entering into the new era of integration between the World of Dao and Law and the Yuan Spirit World, the matters of Ascension were not resumed.

There were two main reasons for this, one being that after the integration of the two realms, the Heavenly Earth Prime Spirits recovered, ending the Five Calamities Turbid Age of disconnected spiritual machinery and arduous cultivation. Cultivators of the Scholar’s Palace could entirely rely on the resources of this world to step into the Integration Realm, thus there was no necessity for Ascension beforehand.

This is one reason, and as for the other, it is the uncertainty of Ascension.

In the ten thousand years before the establishment of the Wandao School, even dating back to the “North City Academy” era, due to the slumber of the Yuan Spirits and the Five Calamities Turbid Age, cultivation could only reach the Nascent Soul Realm. Afterwards, one would need to break through the realm and Ascend, following the marks left by the Ancient Immortal Gods, and cultivate in the legendary “Immortal Realm.”

Even later, when he founded the Wandao School through the use of Skill Characteristics, as well as false cultivation, agricultural production, and Luotian Dajiao, he couldn’t solve the problem of insufficient Spiritual Energy. He himself was stuck in the Nascent Soul Realm, unable to break through to Deity Transformation, only able to rely on the Earth Deity Law to extend his life.

Others did not have his capabilities and could not cultivate the Earth Deity Law in the Five Calamities Turbid Age where the spiritual machinery was disconnected. If they didn’t want to be trapped until death, they could only Ascend to the Upper Realm in search of hope for advancement.

Thus, from the North City Academy era to the over ten thousand years after the establishment of the Wandao School, utilizing Divine Soul cultivation, Luotian Dajiao, and the power of Skill Characteristics, it cultivated nearly three thousand Nascent Soul Cultivators who Ascended to the Upper Realm through the marks left by the Ancient Immortal Gods.

However, once these three thousand Nascent Soul Cultivators Ascended, they disappeared without a trace like mud cows entering the sea.

Not a single person returned, nor was there any message sent back.

Such developments added labels of “danger” and “unknown” to the uncertainties of Ascension. After the integration of the World of Dao and Law with the Yuan Spirit World, Xu Yang, even more concerned about safety, has not yet restarted the Ascension process to explore the secrets of the Upper Realm.

Although Ascension was not restarted, he still harbored great curiosity and the desire to explore this “Immortal Gods Upper Realm.”

According to his original plan, when the Wandao School had cultivated a batch of sufficiently powerful Integration Cultivators, he would then deploy an incarnation to explore the Upper Realm and see if it was possible to make progress.

But unexpectedly, before his plan came to fruition, Xiao Qingyun and others brought him information from the Upper Realm, as well as the situation of the Wandao School’s Ascending cultivators.

The situation was not good!

According to the memories of Xiao Qingyun and others, the Upper Realm they belonged to was indeed the one that the Ancient Immortal Gods of the World of Dao and Law had Ascended to in the past.

However, the ancestors of the major Tao Lineages of the World of Dao and Law, as well as the myriad gods and buddhas they worshipped, including supreme powers like the Ancestor of Tao and Buddha, had all vanished without a trace.

What happened?

No one knew, at least Xiao Qingyun didn’t know; such ancient secrets from the Upper Era were beyond the reach of a cultivator of his level.

He only knew that in the distant past of the Upper Era, there was a major catastrophe, a great upheaval. The Ancient Immortal Gods who Ascended from the World of Dao and Law, along with the original inhabitants and supreme powers of the Upper Realm, all vanished in that catastrophe, plunging the so-called “Earth Immortal Realm” into a period of Dark Chaos.

Fortunately, although the Ancient Immortal Gods vanished, their heritage did not perish and instead left behind many Mana Points in the world.

By relying on the heritage left by the Ancient Immortal Gods, as well as the pathways the beings of the Earth Immortal Realm had explored in the darkness, they finally, after countless tens of thousands of years, restored the Earth Immortal Realm’s cultivation atmosphere. There began to be Mahayana Cultivators Crossing the Tribulation and Proving the Dao, achieving the Immortal status and thereby living eternally in the world.

After these Immortals Proved the Dao, they further excavated the heritage left by the Ancient Immortal Gods. Some even took over their Tao Lineage directly, establishing forces such as “Heavenly Court,” “Underworld,” “Four Seas Dragon Palace,” and various Immortal God sects.

Xiao Qingyun and the others came from the “Heavenly Court!”

Although it was a continuation of the Tao Lineage and maintained the name, it was not the true Ancient Heavenly Court. Still, to be able to establish a foundation and stand as a sect named “Heavenly Court” in the Immortal Realm, surrounded by world powers and Immortals, they had to possess tremendously strong capabilities.

Based on the memories of Xiao Qingyun and others, there were five emperors in the Heavenly Court, all of whom were Immortals who had passed through the Ninefold Celestial Tribulation. One of them acted as the center and was known as the Heavenly Court Emperor, while the other four were aligned with the east, west, south, and north directions. They emulated the system of the “Four Imperial Protectors” of the Ancient Heavenly Court and served as the Four Auxiliary Imperial Lords of the current Heavenly Court.

Xiao Qingyun and the others were subordinates under the command of the “Western Extreme Great Emperor” among these Four Auxiliary Imperial Lords.

With the five emperors, the five True Immortals, the Heavenly Court had not unified the Earth Immortal Realm but was still the mightiest among all powers. Alongside forming alliances with forces inheriting Ancient Immortal Gods’ doorways such as “Fengdu Underworld” and “Four Seas Dragon Palace,” it can be described as a colossal entity pressuring the entire Earth Immortal Realm, with few able to challenge it.

Unfortunately, there were just a few, not none at all!

In the Earth Immortal Realm, inheritors of ancient traditions were not limited to the Immortal Gods. Demons too had legacies, and even in greater numbers and more complete. Some even retained bloodlines, the descendants of Ancient Demon and Demon Monarchs.

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