Volume 4: The Other Shore Chapter 937 The Complete Fourth Ancient Realm!
Gu Xiaoxing looked at Gu Xiaochen's bright eyes full of hope, and couldn't help but recall his life and the path of cultivation he had taken!
He entered the Tao from the Soul Devouring Sect, used the Soul Devouring Insect as a false Dantian, and condensed the second Dantian by burning Taoist incense, then stepped into the Qi Condensing and Foundation Building stages, and then crushed the Soul Devouring Insect, transformed it into a real Dantian, and entered the Dan Forming stage!
When he was in the Jindan realm, he obtained the rootless water to reshape his bones and condensed the third dantian. Later, with the eleventh golden elixir, he stepped into the Yuanying realm and embarked on the road to being invincible in the same realm!
Later, he entered the barrier world of the Imperial Dao Furnace and obtained the infant of a true dragon. He transformed himself into a god with his twelve primordial infants at the bottom of the cage, broke the cage, and finally stepped into the fairyland!
At this point, Gu Xiaoxing finally completed the first ancient realm and entered the second ancient realm!
After breaking the cage, Gu Xiaoxing entered the ancient world, killing and fighting all the way, gathering life soil, stepping on the soil, condensing the life sky, ascending to the sky, and entering the knowledge of destiny!
At this point, you have completed the second ancient realm and entered the third ancient realm!
The so-called knowing one's destiny means knowing the destiny that one has created, so that the path of destiny is no longer shrouded in fog, and one begins to control cause and effect with destiny, which is the realm of Tao!
After the Dao cause, the source began to gather, and thus there were three steps in the source realm, namely the origin, the Dao source, and the cause source!
Once you complete the three steps of the Source Realm, it is equivalent to reaching the third ancient realm of great perfection!
Compared with the first two great realms, this third ancient realm is undoubtedly much more magical. It can be said to have great supernatural powers. It can know our destiny, control cause and effect, take on any form, and transform into anything!
Even a star field as vast as its trillions of stars can be destroyed with just a flip of the hand for a cultivator in the third ancient realm!
But even if a cultivator reaches this step, he still cannot be called "powerful"!
Those who practice Taoism seek immortality. What is the greatest power? It is to achieve immortality!
Those who live long and have long vision are the powerful ones!
Although after entering the third ancient realm, one can have an extremely long lifespan, living for billions of years is also easy!
But in front of an era of the big world, in front of a huge number of years, a mere billions of years is just a blink of an eye!
The cultivators in the third ancient realm will eventually come to an end under the constant erosion of time!
Only after breaking free of the shackles and entering the fourth ancient realm to become the master of life and death, controlling life and death and forming a small world of one’s own, can one enter immortality and truly be called a… powerful person!!
Although the Lord of Life and Death will also be affected by the laws of the universe and cannot be free, as long as there is no problem with the universe itself, he can at least live forever!
Gu Xiaoxing constantly looks back, deduces and analyzes the path of cultivation he has taken.
From the three steps of condensing Qi, building foundation, forming elixir, transforming into spirit, becoming immortal, destiny earth, stepping on earth, destiny heaven, ascending to heaven, knowing destiny, Tao cause, and source realm, all the way to becoming the master of life and death, there will be no problem at all!
But after becoming the master of life and death, Gu Xiaoxing felt an inexplicable sense of stagnation and discomfort when he was deducing and analyzing!
Compared with the previous three major realms, this fourth ancient realm seems too simple!
Although the great way is simple, is it too general to describe such a grand realm of cultivation in terms of birth and death and to summarize it as a small world of its own?
And this should be what Gu Xiaochen said, incomplete!
"Found it?"
Gu Xiaochen's sudden voice interrupted Gu Xiaoxing's thoughts.
Gu Xiaoxing took a deep breath to calm himself down before saying, "After my brother's advice, I gradually worked backwards. I found that there are indeed some problems with Huang Fuchen's path of cultivation, especially from the beginning of the Lord of Life and Death!"
Gu Xiaochen nodded, with a gleam of deduction in his eyes, and said slowly: "On the path of cultivation, it is often through repeated qualitative changes that there is the final sublimation."
“But here, the Lord of Life and Death controls the strength of life and death, accumulates them continuously, and finally changes them quantitatively, forcibly condenses the destiny of the true self, and incarnates into the great way of the world, to achieve qualitative change.”
"I guess that we, the monk Huang Fuchen, took a shortcut on the road to the Fourth Ancient Realm!"
"But there is no such thing as a shortcut on the path of cultivation. The so-called shortcut is actually a wrong path!"
"As the saying goes, one wrong step leads to all the wrong steps. It is precisely because we took the wrong path in the Fourth Ancient Realm that even if we force our way into the Fifth Ancient Realm, we will only go further and further away! "
“So the six great ancients have been in the fifth ancient realm for countless years. It seems that they have walked a long way, but in fact, they are only a few steps away!”
After hearing this, Gu Xiaoxing suddenly became enlightened and thought back to the fifth ancient realm cultivators he had met since he came to the wilderness.
Although there is a big gap between them, in Gu Xiaoxing's opinion, this gap is definitely not that big!
For example, the Eternal Empress, if she did not control the Eternal Heavenly Dao, she would actually be only one level stronger than Wei Lingxiao!
Of course, when one’s cultivation reaches the fifth ancient realm, even if it is only one level lower, there will be a considerable gap in strength between the two sides, and it may even be enough to kill them!
If the fifth ancient realm is divided into ten levels, then people like Daozhu, Tianzuizi, Tianshangzi, and Wei Lingxiao are probably only at the first level!
Di Kuizi, who controls the Heavenly Dao of Xingshu Daoyu, can be said to have entered the second level. After all, he controls the Heavenly Dao with the help of external forces due to the origin of the cave heaven!
As for Tiankuizi and Yonggu Empress, they should have been at the second level. After controlling the way of heaven, they have entered the third level!
But is controlling the way of heaven really the correct path of cultivation?
Actually, not entirely true!
Because in Gu Xiaoxing's view, controlling the way of heaven is actually a means of relying on external forces. Once you leave the Daoyu where you are and lose the power of the way of heaven that you control, your strength will drop significantly!
Even more, the Eternal Empress was bound by the common people, causing her own cultivation to be unable to make any further progress. This might not be the sequelae of controlling the way of heaven!
Gu Xiaoxing had fought with the Empress for many years in a closed world before, so he could naturally see that she had symptoms in this regard.
Although there is nothing bad or wrong in itself to care about the people, it can even be said to be a great kindness and the responsibility that a king should have!
But if these people become inner demons and obstacles to their path, then there will be big problems!
Everyone has something they want to protect, and Gu Xiaoxing is no exception, but this is not his inner demon, but rather the driving force that keeps him moving forward.
There is a world of difference between the two!
From this we can see that this path of cultivation, which the monks have explored over countless years in the wilderness, does have many flaws!
However, this inevitably made Gu Xiaoxing curious, and he asked, "Brother, why do you say that I am different?"
But when Gu Xiaochen heard this, he did not give a direct answer, but just looked at Gu Xiaoxing with a smile.
Gu Xiaoxing was stunned at first, then he suddenly realized and blurted out three words.
"The road of the gods!"
"good!"
Gu Xiaochen asserted, "According to what you said before, since the gods are so special, then the cultivation system of the gods must be different from ours!"
"Moreover, the gods have existed for countless epochs, and their cultivation systems must be far more perfect than ours!"
"You embarked on the path of the gods when you were the Lord of Life and Death. Even if you didn't finish the journey, you at least reached the half-step fifth ancient realm!"
“So, your fourth ancient realm may be…complete!!”
