Chapter 1081

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Protagonist:

Xu Changqing

This question caused Long Yuan and Mu Yunni to be simultaneously stunned.

They had originally thought Xu Changqing would bring the Nine Extremes Heavenly King's instructions, or speak of the Heavenly King's next arrangement.

They did not expect it would actually be this question.

Long Yuan was silent for a moment, his gaze lingering for an instant on the White Tiger mark on the back of Xu Changqing's hand, and he quickly formed a calculation in his heart.

The person before him was someone the Nine Extremes Heavenly King valued.

No matter what step he reached in the future, this honor alone was enough to make one re-evaluate the relationship between them.

Drawing closer now clearly held only benefits, no drawbacks.

Thinking to this point, Long Yuan replied: "The Nine Extremes Heavenly King has existed for too long; his specific cultivation or realm, perhaps only the Dao Venerable knows clearly."

Upon hearing this, Xu Changqing asked again: "Then the realms after Spirit Transformation, you surely know those, right?"

Long Yuan nodded: "Yes, this I know.

After Spirit Transformation comes Refining Void, Body Integration, and Mahayana."

Xu Changqing pressed further: "Can you be more specific?"

Mu Yunni stood to the side, listening quietly, not interjecting.

Long Yuan smiled slightly, then raised one finger: "Golden Core Stage, Awakening of Divine Ability."

Next, he raised a second finger: "Nascent Soul Stage, birth of Dharma Aspect."

Then, he raised a third finger: "Spirit Transformation Stage, Dharma Aspect transforms into a Deity.

Once the Deity is formed, the cultivator no longer merely borrows the laws of heaven and earth, but can actively wield the laws using the Deity as a medium."

Hearing this, Xu Changqing nodded slightly.

He knew all of this; after the Three Layers of Spirit Transformation, the Deity indeed elevated his control and understanding of Law Power to a whole new level.

Subsequently, Long Yuan raised a fourth finger: "Refining Void Stage, Deity transforms into Shen Guo.

This is not a simple enhancement, but a qualitative transformation.

The Deity is no longer a single Deity, but takes one's own laws as foundation to open up a small world independent of heaven and earth — this is the Shen Guo.

Within the Shen Guo, you are heaven.

Shen Guo undestroyed, cultivator undying.

Of course, this is only the theoretical saying.

In reality, if one encounters an existence far surpassing one's own realm, the Shen Guo will still be annihilated."

Mu Yunni nodded slightly at the side, adding: "The size of the Shen Guo is closely related to the Refining Void cultivator's foundation.

The deeper the foundation, the purer the laws, the more vast and stable the Shen Guo opened.

Long Yuan and I are both Refining Void, yet in the degree of Shen Guo condensation, there is still a difference."

To this, Long Yuan did not deny, but raised a fifth finger: "Body Integration Stage, flesh body, divine soul, laws, dao rhyme, Deity.

The five merge into one, fusing into a single whole.

Reaching this step, the cultivator himself is a complete heaven and earth, no longer relying on external laws for support.

A Body Integration cultivator's every word and deed are laws, every movement contains dao rhyme."

Speaking here, Long Yuan took a deep breath, raising a sixth finger: "Mahayana Stage."

His tone clearly turned solemn, as if touching an extremely grave topic: "Mahayana has three paths to walk, each perilous beyond measure; the slightest carelessness leads to destruction of both body and spirit."

Xu Changqing listened very seriously, now actively asking: "Which three?"

Long Yuan said seriously: "First, the Dao Merging Path.

Man merges with heaven, I am the Dao.

The cultivator thoroughly fuses himself into the laws of heaven and earth, becoming one with the laws themselves.

Reaching this step, the cultivator himself is an extension of the Great Dao, with no boundary between him and the Dao.

Second, the Transcendence Path.

Sever karma, transcend the three realms, in all realms there is no me.

The cultivator severs in one stroke all connections between himself and the entire world; henceforth he is in no divination of heavenly secrets, in no cycle of karma.

Cultivators of this path, once they leave a world, leave behind no trace of their existence whatsoever.

Third, the World Creation Path.

Spread the Dao to all beings, gather vows to achieve sainthood, ten thousand spirits worship.

The cultivator does not open a Shen Guo, does not merge with the Dao, does not transcend, but creates his own Dao lineage, spreads the Dao to all beings, condenses the vows and faith of all beings into himself, and thereby achieves an immortal position.

In the Tianyuan Realm of old, many Ancestors walked this very path!"

Xu Changqing waited a long time, seeing no continuation, suddenly raised his head, stared straight into Long Yuan's eyes, and couldn't help asking: "What about immortals?"

Long Yuan was stunned by this question.

Xu Changqing's tone carried a hint of confusion: "Dao Friend Long Yuan, you've said so much, then how should the immortal realms be divided?"

Long Yuan and Mu Yunni looked at each other, a wry smile simultaneously surfacing on their faces.

This question, Long Yuan could not answer, and Mu Yunni could not answer either.

The division of immortal realms was long ago buried along with that great calamity ten thousand years ago.

"Dao Friend Xu."

Long Yuan shook his head, a trace of helplessness in his tone: "This question of yours, I'm afraid only the Nine Extremes Heavenly King or a Great Dao Venerable could answer.

Unless you go to the Beidou Star Domain, otherwise in this heaven and earth, you will never find the answer."

Seeing this, Xu Zhangqing asked no more.

Although the answer had a slight discrepancy with what he thought in his heart.

But at least he understood what the next several Great Realms would have to face.

As for the Immortal's realm?

We'll talk when I become an Immortal!

At that time, won't I know?

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The night wind gradually subsided, the sea surface returned to silence.

Long Yuan and Mu Yunni, seeing Xu Zhangqing no longer pursuing questions, did not speak further.

The three people bid farewell outside Yaoguang Cave.

Xu Zhangqing alone transformed into a green light, streaking toward Dongyu.

And after returning to Qingmu Sect, he hardly rested at all.

Although the Demon God Rebellion was pacified, the trouble left behind was even more severe than Spiritual Vein severance.

Not to mention, not one in ten sects, large or small, survived.

Moreover, in mortal nations, displaced commoners numbered in the tens of millions.

Long Yuan and Mu Yunni, though in name overseeing the overall situation, were after all Refining Void Cultivators, managing the Tianyuan Realm's grand scheme.

As for the restoration of every Spirit Mountain, the reclamation of every Spirit Field, the rebuilding of every sect — these trifling-to-the-extreme tasks, ultimately someone had to do them.

Therefore, Xu Zhangqing was this person.

He used Qingmu Sect's name, contacted the surviving sects of Dongyu, gathered the scattered cultivators for reconstruction, radiating outward with Fengrao Commandery as the core, inch by inch repairing Spiritual Veins, sowing Spiritual Herb Seeds, rebuilding Spirit-Gathering Arrays.

And the System played a huge role in this process.

Others repair Spiritual Veins relying on spirit stones and Array Plates; he repairs by farming.

One batch after another of supreme-grade Lingti were planted, catalyzed by Wood-element laws, roots plunging deep into the Spiritual Vein depths; withered Spiritual Veins, like dried-up riverbeds, slowly recovered vitality.

In this process, Xu Zhangqing's cultivation was also quietly changing.

In the battle with Demon God Kong Fang, when Seven-Colored Demonic Light and Five Elements Power collided, in those frozen instants, he vaguely touched the edge of Space Law.

Time Law and Space Law were originally not things a Spirit Severing cultivator could comprehend.

But Xu Zhangqing was not an ordinary Spirit Severing cultivator; his deities were not one, but six.

No, if all Spiritual Roots merged into one, there would even be a seventh, Chaos Deity!