The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings-Chapter 901 - 851: Life Simulation - Mystical Land of Blessings = Ecosystem
Chapter 901: Chapter 851: Life Simulation – Mystical Land of Blessings = Ecosystem
Every matter has its advantages and disadvantages; there is no such thing as an absolute benefit without harm. As such, the Path of Qi Refinement also has its limitations. One of them is the extremely demanding requirement for talent in the later stages. To achieve something on this path, one must have an exceptionally high demand for one’s own understanding and wisdom. Understanding is understanding, realization is realization, but if one does not comprehend, even if someone explains it word by word, enlightenment cannot be attained.
The final Path of Spirit Refinement, in Pei Xuanjing’s view, is both mysterious and a path that opens the door wide to cultivation, allowing countless people to enter.
The Path of Spirit Refinement focuses on refining the divine soul and not the physical body, emphasizing that the physical body is merely external while the divine true spirit is the essence of a living being. Even without the existence of a physical body, as long as there’s the existence of a divine soul, one can be immortal between Heaven and Earth.
This includes the widely spread Incense God Path of the Taoist School, the Talismanic Skill, the Buddhism School’s sudden enlightenment method, the Demonic Gate’s Dark Spirit Dao, the Witch Deity Teaching’s Ghost God methods, and Pei Xuanjing’s own practice of the Spirit Divine Tao, all of which can be classified as belonging to the Path of Spirit Refinement.
However, the saying “cultivate one’s nature without cultivating destiny, and dark spirits struggle to achieve holiness through countless calamities” implies that paths that only cultivate the soul and not the body are extremely difficult in the journey towards becoming immortal. Achieving something in such a path would inevitably require one to go through severe trials and tribulations, and the successful ones are one in ten thousand.
The three basic paths of Essence, Qi, and Spirit – the Way of Essence Refinement leads to the Path of Human Immortal upon reaching the sixth level; one can choose to unveil what’s deeply hidden to ascend to the realm of True Immortals, or take on the Divine Spirit Authority to ascend to the Divine Immortal Path.
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The Path of Qi Refinement at the sixth level offers three paths for ascension: whether it is the self-contained Heavenly Immortal Way, the Earth Immortal Path that merges with a Small Thousand World, or taking the Divine Immortal Path through a talisman, all are fine choices.
As for the Path of Spirit Refinement, it corresponds to the Divine Immortal Path and the Ghost Immortal Path. However, the Divine Immortal Path for spirit refiners can only be the Dark God Earthly Deity. To become true deities of the Spirit Divine Tao, the divine soul must be extremely drawn toward life and transform into a Yang Spirit; this path is fraught with difficulty and danger.
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Therefore, the mainstream path in the world is the Path of Qi Refinement. Whether it is the Way of Essence Refinement or the Path of Spirit Refinement, most cultivators choose to practice them in conjunction with others, but few decide to specialize primarily in such paths.
“Although theoretically, Cultivating Three Ways Simultaneously is the best choice, providing the most options for ascending to immortality at the peak of the sixth level, this path is also the most difficult. Cultivators have limited energy, and the deeper they delve into each path, the harder it becomes to manage them all. Even though they know that being able to certify the Way of the Five Immortals of Heaven, Earth, Man, God, and Ghost simultaneously is the most powerful, for most cultivators, they eventually have to prioritize and specialize in one path while practicing the others on the side,” Pei Xuanjing shook his head slightly as he thought to himself.
Everyone knows that the more solid the foundation, the more options one has when ascending to True Immortality, and the stronger one will be afterward. But not everyone has a Life Simulator like him at hand to save a great deal of time and advance simultaneously on multiple paths. In reality, it is likely that only after truly ascending to the True Immortal Realm will they have the lengthened lifespan to choose other paths.
“If such deductions hold true, after a cultivator ascends to True Immortal, with a prolonged life and no worries about their lifespan, the continuation of strength enhancement will bifurcate into two developmental directions,” Pei Xuanjing also had a rough deduction about the cultivation directions of those in the Immortal Dao Realm.
One is to continue to ignore external matters after choosing any path to ascend to the True Immortal Realm and intensively cultivate within that chosen path to the utmost limit.
The other is, like Pei Xuanjing, to continue to cultivate other paths after ascending to True Immortal through a certain path and successively elevate the other paths to the True Immortal Realm as well.
“However, the Great Tao is ultimately about converging through different paths. Regardless of which of the two paths, the final direction is the same. Because once the former reaches the ultimate peak and finds no room for improvement, they naturally will start cultivating other paths to gain new insights. Similarly, after elevating all five paths to True Immortality, the latter will still aim to continue cultivating these paths to their extremes. In the end, they embark on the same journey.”
Myriad Laws and myriad paths all converge in the end. Whether it’s reaching the peak through one path of cultivation or progressing equally in several, the difference is only in the path chosen, but the same is the goal and the process of the evolution of all living beings.
The three paths of Essence, Qi, and Spirit are the foundation of the cultivation path. Cultivating all three to condense a Golden Core—fundamentally formless and intangible—gathers to form the Golden Core and disperses as Essence, Qi, and Spirit. This is presently Pei Xuanjing’s foundational cultivation method.
With Essence, Qi, and Spirit as the foundation, to gather the Golden Core and consecutively certify the Way of the Five Immortals of Heaven, Earth, Man, God, and Ghost, advancing them equally to reach the ultimate realm of undying, eternal immortality.
Within this fief, the craftsmen summoned have built the prototype of the mystical land of blessings that Pei Xuanjing plans to create, according to the design. Many of the design’s core pivotal points contain the foundational elements of formations deduced by Pei Xuanjing. Once the prototype of the mystical land of blessings is complete, activating these foundational elements will envelop the mystical land in a formation, giving birth to a Spirit Land conducive to cultivation.
This prototype of the mystical land of blessings is based on the Yin Yang Five Elements, extending to the Three Talents and Four Images, corresponding to the Seven Stars, and subtly integrating with the Eight Trigrams, Six Harmonies, and Nine Palaces. The most central location, which is to be Pei Xuanjing’s future cultivation site, is at the center of the mystical land’s prototype, evolving the Tai Chi Formless Dao.
Beyond that, the terrain matches with mountains and rivers, vegetation covers the land, and living beings take shelter—all contributing to the emergence of the Wind and Thunder aspects, which in the future can transform into an independent and self-sufficient mystical land of blessings not relying on Heaven and Earth for sustenance.
“The creation of such mystical blessed lands and Spirit Realm Cave Heavens is akin to scientists from my previous world who tried to emulate ecosystems by establishing independent biodomes. Except, unlike those biodomes which often failed for unknown reasons, the cultivation world has seen the successful evolution of these lands through the research and experimentation of countless cultivators,” thought Pei Xuanjing.
He wasn’t the kind of cultivator who was hidebound by old ways, thinking everything was unchanging. On the contrary, because Pei Xuanjing’s entire practice has been an independent exploration without being constrained by antiquated templates, he maintained an open-minded attitude towards many things, even sometimes adopting the mindset of not rejecting anything potentially useful.
Thus, in the process of attempting to create this prototype of a mystical land of blessings, Pei Xuanjing recalled knowledge from his previous life and swiftly integrated it, continuously improving and forming a set of cultivation theories for his Earth Immortal Path that were uniquely his own.
