Chapter 518: Chapter 221: What If My Dharma Dragon Circled the Cultivation Realm Once? (Double Chapter)

Xue Ya hovered in the air at the frontline of the battlefield, trying her best to restrain her aura to avoid any reaction from the True Demons. This was still the "foot soldier phase" of the Fallen Immortal Land battlefield, and it would be troublesome if a Mahayana or Tribulation Immortal-level True Demon were spawned.

She looked into the depths of the Suspended Cloud Forest, where blood patterns were floating everywhere. These blood patterns, after being forged in the Obsession Furnace, would give rise to True Demons with blood patterns as the body and obsessions as the soul spirit.

As "unconventional beings" driven by obsessions, their only instinct was to do everything possible to reach the mortal world.

After observing for a while, Xue Ya thought, "The intensity of the True Demons has indeed increased quite a bit. Logically speaking, it should take about forty years for this level of intensity to form—it’s only the twenty-second year now, eighteen years ahead?"

She began to ponder,

What has accelerated the evolution of the True Demons?

The power of the True Demons is manifested mainly in two aspects: one is the quantity of blood patterns forming their bodies, and the other is the intensity of obsessions.

"The quantity of blood patterns..." Xue Ya spent some time comparing and found the increase in blood patterns followed the expected trend, with no acceleration or premature development, "then it must be the increase in the intensity of obsessions."

Suddenly, she remembered something.

About twenty-three years ago, a major event happened in the White Jade Capital—

Ancestor Qing had secluded himself to undergo the seventh heavenly tribulation.

Xue Ya’s eyebrows twitched, and the starry colors in her pupils contracted as she muttered softly, "Could it be that Ancestor Qing successfully passed the seventh heavenly tribulation..."

There have always been two sayings about achieving immortality.

Passing the heavenly tribulation, completing the test of the Heavenly Dao, then embarking on the Path to Immortality, heading to the Upper Immortal Realm. This method does not restrict the number of tribulations one must undergo—passing one, two, or three tribulations can lead to the Path to Immortality.

If one does not walk the Path to Immortality, there is another way. But this method is almost never mentioned, because it’s basically impossible.

That is, passing nine heavenly tribulations, forcibly tearing open the barrier between the Cultivation Realm and the Upper Immortal Realm.

As Xue Ya understands, since the end of the Great Wilderness Era, as the Human Race entered the Enlightenment Stage, human civilization flourished, schools of thought contended, the cultivation system was fully established, and the Ascension Era began, until the collapse of the Path to Immortality when the Human Race entered the post-Ascension Era... in these long years, there has never been a Nine-Tiered Tribulation Immortal born.

Even Eighth-Tier Tribulation Immortals are few and far between, having amounted to just three.

The Dao Ancestor, Confucian Ancestor, and Buddha created the most prosperous era for the Human Race. But they have long since perished. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

When the Path to Immortality collapsed, not only was the Path to Immortality damaged but the whole world was affected, as Buddha, out of compassion for all beings, bore immeasurable tribulations alone, and upon completion, he entered nirvana;

Five thousand years after the collapse of the Path to Immortality, war between Heaven and Man broke out, the Confucian Ancestor charged into the starry sky, ultimately turning into a star, watching over the world until this day;

Ten thousand years after the collapse of the Path to Immortality, the Dao Ancestor underwent the ninth heavenly tribulation, attempting to forcibly open the barrier between the Cultivation Realm and the Upper Immortal Realm, but ultimately failed. The Dao Ancestor could have had the chance to walk the Path to Immortality again, but he chose to give it up, contributing his fortune and creation to the world, in what is known as the "Journey to the Mortal World Doctrine."

Perhaps under the blessing of these three human ancestral sages,

the world has not faced any devastating catastrophe affecting it for ten thousand years.

Xue Ya thought, "It seems that Ancestor Qing has successfully passed the seventh heavenly tribulation, becoming a Seven-Tiered Tribulation Immortal. His persistent obsession with immortality accelerating the Fallen Immortal Land by twenty years is still within an acceptable range. Hopefully, that’s all it is."

She continued to fly deeper, to get a clearer understanding of the current intensity of the True Demons and their growth trend. With these two points confirmed, she could arrange the power distribution of the cultivators on the battlefield.

In places like this, she couldn’t afford to leak her own aura in the slightest; any carelessness could trigger a chain reaction. Furthermore, it was easy to have her state of mind affected by various obsessions.

...

Fan Wubing only stopped when there was no further path.

The blood patterns floating in the air here were already as dense as the massive tree canopy of Da Chun. The aura was utterly chaotic, and the Great Dao was completely impassable. Heads of True Demons were born amidst the intertwining of blood patterns and various obsessions.

Ahead lay the massive Obsession Furnace. It looked much like the Wall of Obsession once seen in the Fallen Immortal Land of the Eternal Night Snow Mountain.

Behind the furnace was a dazzling sea of obsessions. The number of obsessions can’t be quantified because they are constantly being born. Obsessions are the manifestation of the collective will of all beings.

The collective will of all beings constitutes the Heavenly Dao. Although Fan Wubing felt that the current Heavenly Dao might not be this way, this notion remains unaffected.

Thus, those that transform into True Demons are all worldly obsessions.

As long as obsessions do not dissipate, True Demons will be endlessly born.

Fan Wubing crossed the Obsession Furnace, placing himself amidst the dazzling Sea of Obsession. He tried to use "Swallowing Stars, Chewing the Moon" to devour them, but found it impossible. Obsessions are a part of will, and such a thing is ethereal and highly conceptual, like so-called spirit, character, vision, thoughts, existing but untouchable.

While "Swallowing Stars, Chewing the Moon" can devour everything, its prerequisite is that such things can be touched and felt.

He recalled how he managed to devour obsessions back in the Fallen Immortal Land of the Eternal Night Snow Mountain... At that time, True Demons wanted to mold him into an Obsession Furnace, proactively pouring obsessions into his will, allowing his will to directly merge with those obsessions. Experiencing countless cultivators’ lives through these obsessions enabled "Tongue Desire" to process and digest them.