Chapter 1322 - 1422: Finally Out of the Shadows

Although those sects won't really do anything to you, some sect leaders might.

For the sake of their own sects, they'll do whatever it takes, and bury your sect in hardships, easily. After all, only when your sect becomes strong will you have more say in this world. If you have no voice at all, then even if your sect is incredibly strong, what does it matter? It serves no real purpose.

However, as long as your sect is powerful, you will have the right to speak, unquestionably.

In this world, strength is everything. Although morality counts for something, if there truly is a sect that can easily handle everyone in the world, morality means nothing before them.

Even the Taichu Sect can't achieve such a feat. To fight the whole world single-handedly, which includes the demonic sects, it's not just the orthodox sects.

If indeed there were such a sect, the world would likely need to be renamed after it.

After all, if an individual's strength is to grow, it requires heaps of resources. But if a sect wishes to become stronger, the resources needed are vast.

This vastness isn't merely about oceans; just the resources needed to train an alchemy master or an artifact refining expert are already enormous. Cultivating an entire sect to the point where it becomes the world's top sect requires resources that the entire world within the walls couldn't bear.

It is not incorrect to say that, given the current situation, to become the number one sect in the world—almost crushing all other sects—requires resources equal to the total resources known to all sects since ancient times, both orthodox and demonic.

In truth, to become such a sect, one needs to have about ten individuals of Taichu True Person caliber within the sect. That is, about ten people at the top must be there to dominate the world.

Even then, there is a possibility for slip-ups, but the safest bet is having ten individuals at the Taichu realm, enabling complete world domination.

Only then can they act as they please and avoid mishaps.

However, to achieve this, aside from preventing other sects from progressing, your sect must be flourishing with talents.

Moreover, in this world, wanting other sects not to progress is essentially impossible. If they occupy a considerable territory outside the walls this time, the rise in fortune will cause all cultivators within the walls to increase their strength, resulting in all sects within growing several tiers stronger.

There might even be some breaking through to the Taichu realm, and if a sect desires to have ten or more at the Taichu realm, it must eliminate those close to said realm from other sects.

Then, with the leftover fortune concentrated within one sect, it's possible to foster around ten individuals at the Taichu realm, but if ten or so individuals attain the Taichu realm, others from different sects will linger only around the Baihui realm.

Because those individuals have almost harvested all the fortunes, leaving insufficient fortune for others to reach the Shifang realm.

Even the Power of Heaven and Earth may restrict everyone's strength from reaching the Shifang realm, possibly even restraining the Baihui realm, as fortune isn't abundant. If the remaining fortune were distributed among others without limit, the cultivation world wouldn't produce new cultivators unless existing ones perish.

However, if existing cultivators die, their leftover fortune would be allocated to others. Besides, when other cultivators advance, they receive higher fortune, and since the fortune is now evenly shared, any excess fortune must wait for a cultivator's demise to allocate it to someone advancing.

If a Taichu Forbidden cultivator dies now, their excess fortune could stabilize everyone's position at the Baihui realm. Should several perish, the realms for all could stabilize at the Shifang realm.

Considering current conditions, the territories held outside the walls could convert fortune, enabling one to two people inside the walls to enter the Taichu realm. Certainly, one is definitely able, while the other faces uncertainty.

If the latter can't enter the Taichu realm, these fortunes could allow worldwide strength to advance significantly.

But if one miraculously enters the Taichu realm, global strength would remain unchanged, possibly regressing slightly, and further advancement becomes impossible unless one of those in the Taichu realm dies.

Or unless they occupy more territories outside the walls. Only by acquiring more fortune can they continue advancing.

But according to the allocation by the Power of Heaven and Earth, it won't let two individuals concurrently enter the Taichu realm, as such a situation would make fortune exceedingly tight, posing risks either to cultivators or to the Power of Heaven and Earth within the walls. So typically, one won't enter the Taichu realm; only one will.

Notably, it's not that others have no chance to enter the Taichu realm anymore; rather, the Power of Heaven and Earth must steadily nurture the territories to generate new fortune.

Which means capturing territories doesn't drain their fortune entirely; the regions need time to regenerate fortune.

Thus, others hoping to enter the Taichu realm again will need decades of fortune collection. Calculating with existing and occupied territories, the Power of Heaven and Earth might allow one person to enter the Taichu realm every three to four hundred years.

These cultivators that have entered the Taichu realm continue to accrue fortune by claiming territories outside the walls, leading to a gradual increase in Taichu realm numbers within the walls.

This forms a healthy cycle.