Chapter 1055

Jianyu of Nanzhan Buzhou. "How could this be?"

Zhang Liang was somewhat surprised; listening to the report below, he still found it somewhat hard to believe.

"Are you wondering why those sects are unwilling to learn, even though this Earth Deity Path is so good?"

Su Fan seemed to see through Zhang Liang's surprise and smiled faintly.

"You knew it all along?"

Zhang Liang was still somewhat puzzled. He had studied this Earth Deity Path deeply for several years; although he had not practiced it, he had made great progress thanks to Su Fan's analysis.

Over these years, he had also entered the path of cultivation, and his progress in both arrays and runes was very obvious.

If he were to practice this Earth Deity Path, he would certainly have great gains.

It was precisely because he understood this Earth Deity Path so well that he felt its terror all the more.

Especially for those cultivators who lack resources, it is an even greater opportunity.

Compared to those major powers, the greatest effort for cultivators from bottom-tier sects or loose cultivation backgrounds is to become Earth Immortals.

Yet, for them, becoming an Earth Immortal is often an unreachable goal.

Even if they cultivate to the peak of Soul Refining and have the opportunity to undergo the tribulation to break through to Earth Immortal, many people often do not dare to do so.

It is just like in Su Fan's main world, where many Nascent Soul stage cultivators, despite reaching the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul, still do not dare to undergo the tribulation.

Because the lightning tribulation is simply too dangerous; for loose cultivators, the probability of death is almost certain.

Without undergoing the tribulation, a Nascent Soul Great Perfection cultivator can still live for several thousand years, and at worst, they can reincarnate; once they undergo the tribulation without sufficient preparation, death is almost certain.

In reality, even with sufficient preparation, most cultivators are only surviving by the skin of their teeth.

Only those top-tier major powers, because they have the trump cards left by their predecessors, especially Dharma treasures and spirit treasures, can help them succeed in undergoing the tribulation and becoming Primordial Spirit stage cultivators as much as possible.

The top-tier sects in the Yuanyang World are similar to the top-tier sects in Nanzhan Buzhou of the Mythical World.

The inheritances of the sects under these major powers in Nanzhan Buzhou mostly come from those Great Supernatural Beings, with endless secret techniques, and coupled with some immortal artifacts and spirit treasures, it is not very difficult for their disciples to undergo the Earth Immortal tribulation.

Even for the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations, they have special methods to deal with them.

But ordinary sects have no way, let alone loose cultivators.

Even if these people luckily survive the Earth Immortal tribulation and become immortals, they still have to face the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations upon becoming Earth Immortals or even Heavenly Immortals.

Especially the Three Calamities, which are extremely terrifying.

Only by truly surviving the Three Calamities can one be considered a truly carefree immortal.

But clearly, for those loose cultivators or cultivators from small sects, this is the most difficult and dangerous part.

In the Earth Deity Path, combing through and optimizing the earth veins is a merit to heaven and earth, which the Heavenly Dao will naturally record.

In the future, when facing various cultivation calamities sent down by the Heavenly Dao, they will be weakened.

Cultivators with profound merit can even be directly exempted from these calamities.

The Heavenly Dao is impartial; if you have merit to heaven and earth, then heaven and earth will not make things difficult for you.

Cultivators practice by consuming the resources of heaven and earth, so the Heavenly Dao sends down calamities; if you survive, you can settle the previous karma with heaven and earth, and if you don't, you turn into origin energy and return to heaven and earth, which is also settling the karma.

With merit, it is equivalent to repaying this part of the karma in advance, so naturally, there are no calamities.

Zhang Liang does not believe that those people cannot see the benefits in this.

Cultivators may lack vision, but they are definitely not stupid.

The reason he does not practice it is that his own cultivation has already reached the peak of True Immortal, and he has no calamities at all.

Moreover, he is currently charging towards the Golden Immortal realm, and practicing the Earth Deity Path would instead affect his breakthrough.

After all, the Golden Immortal realm is the true threshold of the Immortal Dao; as long as he successfully reaches the Golden Immortal realm, he will be an immortal and indestructible existence.

By then, if he truly cannot charge towards the Great Luo realm, then switching to the Earth Deity Path will be no problem at all.

Conversely, practicing the Earth Deity Path now will only interfere with him.

As for those sects in the Jianyu, perhaps those few True Immortals do not practice this Earth Deity Path, but why are the other disciples silent about it?

Do they really think he is trying to harm them?

Or are they worried about something else?

Their Sword Sect is powerful; if they wanted to unify the Jianyu, they could have annexed those few sects long ago.

It is just that Zhang Liang has always disagreed; after all, Nanzhan Buzhou is not the Jiuzhou, and it is normal for sect battles to occur.

But if one were to unify a region, the major sects in other regions would inevitably eye the Sword Sect with hostility.

The strength of the Sword Sect relies more on Gai Nie; if Gai Nie were removed, the Sword Sect would be slightly inferior compared to those major sects that rule a region, let alone those sects that rule several regions.

Since he established the Sword Sect, Zhang Liang naturally does not wish for the Sword Sect to be like a flash in the pan.

At the very least, it was established with his own efforts, and furthermore, this Sword Sect can also become a bridgehead for the Hundred Schools of Thought in the Jiuzhou.

The Hundred Schools of Thought previously wanted to preach in Nanzhan Buzhou.

After all, compared to the Jiuzhou, Nanzhan Buzhou is larger.

It is a pity that they have never succeeded; using the Sword Sect's ships to go out to sea is beneficial for the Hundred Schools of Thought.

And as a disciple of the Confucian School who also practices the inheritances of the Military and Daoist Schools, Zhang Liang also hopes that the Hundred Schools of Thought will get better and better.

Moreover, for the Sword Sect, the joining of the Hundred Schools of Thought can actually make the Sword Sect stronger.

After all, the Hundred Schools of Thought are not weak and also have strong experts.

The Confucian School alone has quite a few strong experts at the Immortal realm.

The Military School may rarely enter Nanzhan Buzhou, but the Daoist and Yin-Yang Schools are very eager to go to Nanzhan Buzhou to preach.

And the strength of the Daoist and Yin-Yang Schools, especially the strength of their top-tier experts, is incomparable to that of the Confucian School.

In the Jianyu, Zhang Liang has always slowed down the expansion of the Sword Sect, constantly deepening its foundation.

Having obtained the Earth Deity Path from Su Fan, he immediately let his disciples begin to practice it.

Zhang Liang does not care if those with powerful talent do not practice it; after all, there is no need to worry about those disciples failing to break through to Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, or even True Immortal.

And for those with poor talent, practicing this Earth Deity Path is actually not too bad in terms of effect.

At the very least, over these ten-plus years, some disciples have successfully created spirit lands.

They have opened up quite a few spirit lands for the Sword Sect; although they are only the lowest-grade spirit lands, it represents their success.

A single lowest-grade spirit land can also provide for several Soul Refining stage cultivators to practice.

Nanzhan Buzhou indeed has many spirit lands, and in the wilderness and mountains, there are even more that are abandoned and occupied by those demon beasts.

It is not easy for human cultivators to develop them.

Do not think that Nanzhan Buzhou is the world of human sects; the demon race is not weak either, especially in those mountains where some have abundant spiritual energy, but the environment is also very harsh, making it difficult for sects to develop.

Naturally, they can only be left abandoned.

They can only develop places that are easy to develop.