Chapter 881: Sudden Appearance

However, this Mother of Lishan was quite curious right now: why had that Zhenyuanzi suddenly come to this Nanzhan Buzhou? That Zhenyuanzi was a figure of the same generation as her own teacher—an innate divine being with an extraordinary foundation. Even her teacher had praised him many times, saying that if he possessed the Grandmist Violet Qi, he would undoubtedly be a Saint.

Therefore, Mother of Lishan held him in high regard. However, he was a cultivator who lived in seclusion and rarely ventured out.

He always stayed in his Five Villages Temple.

Now that he had suddenly come to this Nanzhan Buzhou—where there were not many Great Supernatural Beings—even if he were visiting a fellow Daoist, he would usually go to those small worlds.

Could it be that he, too, was attracted by this Calamity?

That was impossible. He had not participated in the Investiture of the Gods back then, let alone this current Calamity.

She could see this Calamity clearly; in reality, it was not very significant and could only be considered a Calamity of the Heavenly Court.

The Great Qin's defiance of Heaven was, in truth, merely reclaiming the offerings meant for the Heavenly Court—about ten percent of the human race's luck.

If the Heavenly Court lost this ten percent of human luck, it would not be a fatal blow. After all, the Heavenly Court was currently the co-ruler of the Three Realms; in reality, there were almost no rebels anywhere across the Four Great Divine Continents.

The sudden emergence of the Great Qin simply made the Heavenly Court look bad.

The Heavenly Court did not take it very seriously either.

The Calamity was not large, so naturally, there were few benefits. Even she did not care much about it, let alone this innate divine being.

However, she had felt some changes in the human race's luck over the past few years, and she was puzzled.

During the golden age of the Hundred Schools of Thought, the changes in human luck had been the most intense; the surge in luck was truly shocking.

Of course, during that period, several Quasi-Saints and many Great Luo Golden Immortals had emerged.

It was comparable to the golden age of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

This current change in human luck was not as great as that of the Hundred Schools of Thought, but as a Quasi-Saint powerhouse who was very familiar with human luck, she could sense that this increase in human luck would likely be enough to elevate one Great Luo Golden Immortal.

A Great Luo Golden Immortal—the Ethereal Sacred Land she founded had only produced three Golden Immortals to this day, and that was the result of her careful guidance.

Of course, one of them possessed the bloodline of the Demon Race—a very high-level bloodline, the bloodline of the ancient Nine Heavens Spirit Snake.

However, that disciple had now gone to undergo reincarnation.

In the current world, Golden Immortals were almost at the peak; wanting to reach the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm was extremely difficult.

After her disciple underwent reincarnation, it was partly to accumulate merit and partly to experience several more lifetimes to improve her realm.

Wasn't that disciple of the Tathagata in the West the one who became the Scripture Seeker after ten lifetimes of reincarnation?

Mother of Lishan naturally hoped that her own disciple could break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, or even the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

In the current Earth Immortal World, it was almost impossible to give birth to powerhouses at the Great Luo realm. After all, the Primordial World had shattered, and the Earth Immortal World was merely a plane of that shattered world, lacking much of the original Law.

Even though they relied on the Heavenly Court to conquer other worlds and plunder original Laws,

it still could not compare to the Primordial World of the past.

With Laws lacking, it was almost impossible for Taiyi Golden Immortals to cultivate, comprehend the origin of Laws, condense the Three Flowers, and gather the Dao Fruit, unless one had heaven-defying comprehension.

Of course, there was also the method of Heaven and Earth bestowing merit; merit contained the power of the Heavenly Dao and could naturally easily elevate a person's cultivation realm.

She was naturally envious of the human race; as the co-rulers of Heaven and Earth, only the human race could receive such an elevation.

As for other races or those with innate foundations, they could only do so if they reincarnated into the human race.

Among the Hundred Schools of Thought, there were several with innate foundations who reincarnated into the human race, then, with the help of the human race, became sages of the Hundred Schools, eventually breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm or even the Quasi-Saint realm in one fell swoop.

Their original realms were not low, and even if merit elevation made their foundations unstable, as long as they went into seclusion to settle for a period of time, they would become true Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Since the Investiture of the Gods, almost no one other than the human race had broken through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Even that person from the Chan Sect, the number one person of the Three Teachings, possessed a half-human bloodline—half-human, half-god—which made his talent even more powerful.

Of course, the stronger the human race was, the more beneficial it was for her and the Ethereal Sacred Land. Over these years, by utilizing the luck offered by the hundreds of millions of mortals below, her cultivation speed had not been slower than it was back then.

Her realm had improved quite rapidly over these years, comparable to the mid-to-late Quasi-Saint stage.

Once she severed her Good Corpse, she would be able to rush to the late Quasi-Saint stage in one go.

In the current world, there were really not many late-stage Quasi-Saints; those who could reach this realm were only a few of the Zixiao Guests from back then.

When the Dao Ancestor preached in the Zixiao Palace back then, those who could enter were all of extraordinary foundation. However, after experiencing many Calamities, not many of those people had truly survived.

Therefore, the late Quasi-Saint stage now stood at the peak of the Earth Immortal World. Moreover, she was a disciple of the Tongtian Saint, far from what ordinary Quasi-Saints could compare to.

Especially with the blessing of several Innate Spiritual Treasures in her hands, her combat power was even more powerful.

Of course, after reaching the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, what one competed with was not just spiritual treasures, but also the degree of comprehension of multiple Laws.

Some cultivators with powerful talents could comprehend Laws at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm and use them to display some divine abilities that were even more powerful than those Innate Spiritual Treasures.

After all, the Innate Divine Prohibitions contained within those Innate Spiritual Treasures were, in reality, just solidified Laws.

This was also why many Acquired Spiritual Treasures refined by powerhouses were no less powerful than Innate Spiritual Treasures—for example, the Immortal-Slaughtering Sword Array, which was refined by Luohou.

Its power was even more terrifying than the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Pangu Banner.

At the same time, Guang Chengzi's Fantian Seal was also an Acquired Spiritual Treasure, but its power was comparable to a superior Innate Spiritual Treasure.

There were only seventy-two superior Innate Spiritual Treasures born in the entire Primordial World.

Some had even disappeared along with time.

Even she only had one, which was bestowed upon her by her teacher after she broke through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Because of this Innate Spiritual Treasure, she later broke through to the Quasi-Saint realm.

As for what came next, wanting to reach the late Quasi-Saint stage and sever the Good Corpse, it would depend on opportunity.

It was truly too difficult to find Innate Spiritual Treasures in the Primordial World, unless one snatched them from the hands of others.

However, that was even more difficult. Which of those who possessed Innate Spiritual Treasures was not a powerhouse, or someone with a backer?

Therefore, wanting to snatch Innate Spiritual Treasures for no reason was already very difficult.

After all, once karma was generated, it would certainly have to be repaid.

Back then, the two Saints of the West owed that Great Supernatural Being Hongyun karma, and it was karma that was almost impossible to repay. As a result, the two had no choice but to scheme to kill him.

But even so, the two did not have an easy time.

Because that good friend of Hongyun had now become a stumbling block for the Western Buddhist Sect's advancement.

In the Western Continent, the Buddhist Sect could only shrink back into Lingshan precisely because the Five Villages Temple was stuck in their throat.