The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

Chapter 818: Chapter 768 Consecutive Appearances of Supreme Strong

Time passed, and twenty years flew by in the blink of an eye.

For ordinary mortals, twenty years might be nearly a third of a lifetime, long enough for a staggering child to grow up, marry, and have children.

But for cultivators, even just those who had broken through mundane boundaries, undergone spiritualization, connected their qi with heaven and earth, and transformed their divine soul into a Yin Spirit at the first level of the Spirit Realm, twenty years was no more than a somewhat lengthy period of seclusion.

What cultivators in the world were most looking forward to was the merging of the two realms, preparing for the Energy of Creation after the Heavenly and Earth Ascension to enhance their power.

However, after Pei Xuanjing further perfected the Golden Core Dao and then promoted it, it immediately attracted countless cultivators from heaven and earth to try and switch to the Golden Core Dao.

In these twenty years, an innumerable number of cultivators stepped onto the Golden Core Dao. Some succeeded, some failed. Some naturally gifted individuals switched to the Golden Core Dao and didn’t succeed, wasting their cultivaion time and becoming indistinguishable from others; yet some originally ordinary cultivators serendipitously succeeded in switching, forged a Golden Core, survived the Thunder Tribulation, and took a step further with the help of the Energy of Creation after transforming their bodies.

This is cultivation; no one knows what will happen next. A genius may fade away, or an ordinary cultivator might surprisingly rise up.

Even though the Golden Core Dao had begun to gain popularity and quite a few people had switched successfully within those twenty years, making it one of the mainstream cultivation systems of heaven and earth, this wasn’t the most shocking thing.

What was truly astonishing was that in these twenty years, cultivators at the eightfold level of the Spirit Realm were able to break through the shackles of the eightfold level, and then cross the Heavenly Chasm, ascending to the ninth level of the Spirit Realm and becoming supreme strong, securing their position at the very pinnacle of the world.

The first among these Spirit Realm Eightfold Cultivators to break through hailed from the Xuantian Sect, leading everyone to acknowledge that indeed, as the leader of the Righteous Path, the sect had profound depth.

Then, following closely, a supreme strong was born within the Sword Sect, leading some cultivators to sigh that the Sword Sect was indeed capable of contending with the Xuantian Sect for the position of the leading force on the Righteous Path, and was in no way inferior.

Dragon Tiger Mountain, Xuan Du Guan, Taisu Sect, Buddhism School, Taoist School…

When the news came one after another that supreme strong had been born within these top forces, all the cultivators became excited and incredibly shocked.

The ascension of a supreme strong is extremely difficult; sometimes, not one would emerge for thousands of years. Apart from Pei Xuanjing, the last one to ascend as a supreme strong was initially the Taixu Venerable. After his breakthrough, he elevated the Taixu Sect from a first-rate force to a top-tier one.

For many ordinary cultivators, the rise of a supreme strong was a rare event; some ordinary cultivators might live their entire lives without ever witnessing such an ascension.

But now, since Pei Xuanjing broke through to the supreme strong of the Nine Realms of Spirit just dozens of years ago, the continuous emergence of supreme strong in heaven and earth surpassed more than ten individuals. This was truly bizarre.

With such a strange situation arising, many cultivators, even without any source of news, were amazed and speculated that something significant might be about to happen in heaven and earth.

If the ascension of only one or two supreme strong could be accepted as a fortuitous coincidence, the birth of supreme strong from all top forces couldn’t be so simply explained by chance.

As a result, the gaze of many cultivators began to fall on the first-rate forces. They understood that among these forces, the existence of Spiritual Realm Eightfold Cultivators had a great chance of breaking through. They wondered whether these individuals would also ascend during this time.

As expected, while doubts and curiosity swirled around, Wu Shijiu, a guest official of the Great Ming Divine Dynasty, the former rebel of the Witch Deity Teaching, and a once-dominating Witchcraft powerhouse of the Sky Wasteland, also broke through the Heavenly Chasm of the ninth level of the Spirit Realm to ascend as a supreme strong.

If Wu Shijiu’s reconciliation with the Witch Deity Teaching, suggesting ascent from a top force could be disregarded, then the news that the king of the Da Jiang Ancient Country and the old ancestor of the Big Xue Ancient Country had broken through to become supreme strong made the cultivators of heaven and earth dare not harbor the slightest bit of luck anymore. They were confident that something beyond their knowledge must be occurring in heaven and earth.

And they realized it wasn’t just that. Many well-informed cultivators discovered that not only the human race but also the Demon Race experienced the birth of several supreme strong within these twenty years.

Each of these messages might seem insignificant on their own, but their simultaneous appearance made things very intriguing.

Many cultivators, especially Independent Practitioners, paid a huge price to seek out the Sky Mechanism Pavilion to uncover this secret; they were desperate to know what had happened.

For Independent Practitioners, the challenges they face in their cultivation journey are already much greater than those from large Sects. Without a backing or support, many situations that disciples from large Sects could easily handle would be life-threatening for them.

In such an environment, nearly all Independent Practitioners became extremely cautious, and those who lacked this cautious nature have all fallen and did not survive for long.

Moreover, this time it was not just the Independent Practitioners but also many cultivators from third-rate forces who were very fearful because their forces, despite being protected by Great Cultivators of the Seventh Level of the Spiritual Realm, were still unclear about the situation, increasing their concern.

There are no absolute secrets in the world, especially when the secret is known to more than one person, it is impossible to keep it completely confidential.

However, after the news of the advantages and disadvantages of supreme strong ascension spread, it was meaningless for many cultivators to know about it, for the stronger the power, the greater the enhancement would be before and after the Heavenly and Earth Ascension. Even if they knew it wouldn’t help, it wouldn’t be too useful.

While it was useless for most Independent Practitioners and forces, it was quite awkward for some cultivators and forces stuck in an intermediate state.

They realized that with effort, they could qualify, but they lacked the necessary foundation, ultimately leaving them helpless, adding only to their worries.

Of course, where there is success, there is failure. For those top forces, even if they failed to ascend, it meant only that they would get less benefit after the Heavenly and Earth Ascension, which would not affect their status.

But for those first-rate forces, this was an all-in gamble. Should they succeed, it would be like ascending to heaven in a single step, but failure meant that thousands of years of accumulation would be wasted.