The Heaven-shattering: I and Wu Shi compete for the throne

Chapter 422 Current Status of Cultivation Progress
Suddenly, Wu Shi, who was standing with Li Daoming at the edge of the universe, trembled slightly and almost fell down.

"Wu Shi, are you alright?" Di Lisi, who had been waiting by the side after attaining the Dao and becoming an emperor, was shocked and rushed over to support Wu Shi.

At that moment, Xia Qinghuang, Jiang Qianxi, and the others also surrounded Li Daoming, their eyes filled with worry.

"I'm fine! These minor injuries are nothing; they'll heal easily," Li Daoming said with a light laugh.

"I am fine too! My Dao injury doesn't affect me much. I can recover in a hundred or two hundred years. Moreover, this may not be a bad opportunity for me," Wushi replied.

Previously, what they fought against was not only the myriad paths of heaven and earth, but also their own paths, the paths of many who had attained enlightenment, and the myriad paths of heaven and earth.

Fortunately, they were able to easily suppress their Dao. Otherwise, with the Dao of more than twenty Great Emperors and the myriad Daos of Heaven and Earth, they probably wouldn't have been able to withstand it.

However, he has now survived. Many Dao principles are imprinted on him, causing Dao injuries, but also making it easier for him to comprehend these Dao principles.

Once he has healed the Dao injuries within his body and restored his depleted essence, he will surely reach a higher level.

Then, without saying much, they chatted for a few minutes, agreed to hold a Dao Debate on the Myriad Dao Stars two hundred years later, and then went their separate ways.

Li Daoming and Wushi were both seriously injured. Xia Qinghuang, Dongfang Taiyi and others, as well as Di Lisi, although not seriously injured, had also consumed a lot of energy in the process of proving their Dao. Moreover, they had just achieved their Dao and needed to stabilize their cultivation level and comprehend the Heavenly Heart Imprint, so they were naturally not in the mood to chat for too long.

After exchanging a few words with the others, they parted ways. The Soul Emperor sighed softly, a hint of loneliness flashing in his eyes as he left.

He discovered that having attained enlightenment and become an emperor made little difference compared to not having done so.

In the past, those who attained the Dao and became emperors could reign supreme for an entire era, but in this era, what does an emperor even mean?
Facing the Heavenly Emperor Wuji and the Beginningless One, he felt that the so-called Great Emperors were utterly insignificant.

Moreover, besides them, there are more than twenty other emperors in this world, and he felt that each of them was no weaker than him, and there were even several that he could not defeat.

This life is truly an anomaly!
Twenty years later, deep within the Boundless Holy Court, in a palace on the Immortal Mountain!
With a resounding "hum," Li Daoming's aura flashed by, causing the universe and spacetime here to seem about to collapse.

He opened his eyes, which were as deep as the sea, as if they contained a boundless chaotic ocean, within which countless worlds existed, and the three thousand laws were evolving, limitless and immeasurable.

In the blink of an eye, Li Daoming concealed his aura, and everything returned to calm.

"As expected? After breaking through the myriad paths of heaven and earth and standing above them, it will be much easier to comprehend the great laws hidden deep within the origin of the universe." At this moment, a hint of joy flashed in Li Daoming's eyes.

He once had access to many overt Dao laws that he could comprehend. He was extremely efficient at perfecting the three thousand laws, able to perfect and elevate one law to the ultimate level approximately every thirty years.

However, later on, without the many outwardly revealed laws of the universe to comprehend, he could only delve into the laws of the universe hidden deep within its origin. This greatly reduced his efficiency, and it would take him about a hundred years to perfect and elevate a single law to the ultimate level.

Even with the assistance of numerous cultivators and the Wuji Dao Disc, a celestial artifact, it would still take seventy or eighty years to perfect and elevate a single law to the ultimate level.

It is precisely because of this that he has now perfected and sublimated more than two hundred laws to the ultimate level.

At the current rate, it would probably take him more than 200,000 years to perfect and elevate all three thousand laws to the ultimate level.

Two hundred thousand years isn't exactly a long time, but for him, the shorter the time, the better. Now that he stands above all paths, even without the help of numerous cultivators and immortal artifacts, it would probably only take him about eighty years to perfect and elevate a law to the ultimate level. With the help of numerous cultivators and immortal artifacts, the time required would be even shorter, saving him a considerable amount of time.

After a moment of joy, Li Daoming immersed himself in enlightenment and left the secluded room.

Actually, he rarely goes into seclusion anymore!
Because immersing most of one's mind in enlightenment is enough; although this will reduce the efficiency of cultivation to some extent, it won't reduce it by much.

Moreover, he was not so engrossed in enlightenment that he was idle; he also studied the mysteries of various physiques, as well as scriptures and secret techniques, and created his own scriptures and secret techniques.

With the mutual illumination of the Great Dao Laws he comprehended, his mastery of the Three Thousand Laws accelerated, and his cultivation progressed even faster.

Stepping out of the secluded cultivation room, Li Daoming scanned the area with his divine sense, communicating with his avatar and instantly gaining a complete understanding of everything in the Boundless Holy Court.

The Wuji Holy Court of today is no longer as bustling and prosperous as it once was; instead, it appears majestic and desolate.

Because over the past two or three thousand years, the number of cultivators in the Wuji Holy Court has been decreasing.

Since the beginning of time, the threshold for recruiting people in the Wuji Holy Court has become increasingly high. In more than nine thousand years, the Wuji Holy Court has only recruited a little over one hundred people.

These hundred-plus people are all exceptionally talented and have the potential to break through to the Quasi-Emperor level.

Under the tutelage of the Boundless Holy Court, nearly 40% of them broke through to the Quasi-Emperor realm. Even those who did not break through to the Quasi-Emperor realm, except for those who had just joined the Boundless Holy Court, had a cultivation level that was at least at the peak of the Great Saint realm.

As for those recruited before the beginning of enlightenment?

Aside from those who broke through to achieve the Dao through alternative means, only a total of over 140 people attained the Dao and became emperors twenty years ago. They broke through to the Quasi-Emperor realm and were gradually sealed away by him in the Divine Ruins and the Undying Mountain a thousand or two years ago.

Yes, more than fifty people were sealed in the Divine Ruins, and more than eighty people were sealed in the Undying Mountain.

As for the other three thousand or so people, they all broke through to the Great Sage realm, and more than 40% of them reached the peak of the Great Sage realm.

Originally, Li Daoming intended for them to pass away peacefully on Wandao Star or Wuji Starfield when they reached the end of their lives.

However, he couldn't bear to do that later, so he let them choose for themselves whether to pass away in the Boundless Star Domain or the Myriad Paths Star, or to seal themselves with the Divine Source Liquid, leaving them for him to unseal when he conquers the Immortal Realm in the future.

Of them, more than 95% chose to seal themselves away, and he sealed them into the Yin-Yang Twin Stars in the Boundless Star Domain.

Therefore, in the present-day Wuji Holy Court, apart from twenty-four Great Emperors, sixty or seventy Quasi-Emperors, eighty or ninety Great Saints, and less than ten Great Saints, there are no other people.

Of course, he didn't interfere with the fact that they recruited people from their families or former forces to help them manage the many resource areas of the Wuji Holy Court.

However, those people are not considered to be from the Boundless Holy Court. Moreover, the majority of these similar people come from forces such as the Li family, the Great Xia Dynasty, the Ancient Emperor Dynasty, and the Divine Race.

(End of this chapter)