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

Chapter 642 The Breakthrough Period is Redefined
This compromise, while not allowing Ye Yixian to immediately break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, can greatly shorten the time it takes for her to achieve this breakthrough.

Because if the integration is done step by step, the conflicts and backlash will become stronger as time goes on, and the integration will take longer and longer.

Even though standing in the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm requires constantly enduring backlash and being unable to fully focus on enlightenment and cultivation, thus mitigating the intense conflicts between the Sixth Secret Realm and the Five Great Secret Realms, as well as the physical body and primordial spirit, the cultivation efficiency is still far superior to that of the Immortal King realm.

As for Li Daoming, when he was able to forcefully break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, he deliberately suppressed his breakthrough until the time was right. Was he wasting his time?

of course not!

He didn't break through when he could have, and didn't perfect his Dao Fruit with a higher realm. This was mainly because he wanted both Dao Fruits to break through to Quasi-Immortal Emperor at the same time. He wanted to avoid the secret realm technique breaking through prematurely and suppressing the Chaos World technique, which would prevent them from breaking through and progressing in tandem. At the same time, he also wanted to be able to cultivate with Xia Qinghuang, Jiang Qianxi, and many other women and concubines, and help them cultivate...

Otherwise, he wouldn't be foolish enough to suppress his cultivation level and prevent it from breaking through.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the cost of his breakthrough to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and his brief establishment in the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm was not high.

When others attempt to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm and briefly establish themselves within that realm, if they fail to achieve a breakthrough, their physical body and primordial spirit will be injured by the power of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor. Without the power or treasures of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, it will take a considerable amount of time to recover from their injuries.

However, Li Daoming possessed a broken jade disc, which could easily suppress the quasi-immortal emperor's power within his body. He could then quickly refine and temper it during dual cultivation to restore his physical body and primordial spirit.

While this method of cultivation may not be as effective as consistently reaching the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, it won't be much slower.

Knowing that the success rate of forcibly fusing the sixth secret realm with the five great secret realms, as well as the physical body and primordial spirit, to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm was so low, and also understanding the compromise method deduced by Li Daoming.

Ye Yixian naturally wouldn't stubbornly choose to forcibly merge the Sixth Secret Realm with the Five Great Secret Realms, her physical body, and her primordial spirit with external forces to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level. Instead, she chose the compromise method deduced by Li Daoming.

Although she has only fused about one-tenth of the sixth secret realm with the five great secret realms, her physical body, and her primordial spirit, if she disregards the violent conflicts and backlashes that occur during the fusion and forcibly continues the fusion, she can fuse nearly half of the sixth secret realm with the five great secret realms, her physical body, and her primordial spirit before she finds it difficult to continue the fusion.

Even as time goes on, the conflicts and backlashes caused by fusing the sixth secret realm with the five major secret realms, as well as the physical body and primordial spirit, will become greater, making fusion more difficult.

However, she estimated that she could only merge the Sixth Secret Realm with the Five Great Secret Realms and the physical body and primordial spirit by a quarter before she could forcibly merge the Sixth Secret Realm with the Five Great Secret Realms and the physical body and primordial spirit completely.

She estimated that it would take less than 300,000 years to fuse the sixth secret realm with the five major secret realms, as well as the physical body and primordial spirit.

At that time, she will be able to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm. If all goes well, she can break through on the spot. Even if it doesn't go well, it will take her at most another one or two hundred thousand years to break through.

After the breakthrough, it will take at most a few hundred thousand years for her to eliminate all the conflicts between the Sixth Secret Realm and the Five Great Secret Realms, as well as the conflict between her physical body and primordial spirit. She will then cultivate her Dao Fruit and physical body and primordial spirit to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, truly breaking through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.

In other words, if nothing unexpected happens and things go smoothly, she could break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level in a few hundred thousand years at most.

Although hundreds of thousands of years is still a long time, compared to the millions of years required to break through, she was already very satisfied and knew that this was the best choice.

Moreover, this doesn't even take into account that after Li Daoming broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, she and he practiced Yin-Yang dual cultivation, their minds and spirits merged, her thinking and comprehension greatly improved, she could experience the perspective of a Quasi-Immortal Emperor, her cultivation progress would be further accelerated, and it is estimated that the time to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level would be even shorter.

She wasn't too far from reaching the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, and she was very curious and eager to learn more about this unknown realm. She wasn't worried that Li Daoming would refuse; given their relationship, he wouldn't hide anything from her.

As expected, Li Daoming did not refuse her question and answered her questions without reservation.

Li Daoming slowly began to speak: "Stepping into the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm means transcending the river of time, carrying with it a layer of mist that can obscure the secrets of heaven. With a single thought, one can destroy a world; with a single thought, one can create the heavens. One's words become law..."

Li Daoming elaborated on the common abilities of Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and after a brief pause, he explained his own classification of Quasi-Immortal Emperors.

However, his current classification of Quasi-Immortal Emperor is different from that when he first broke through to Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

When he first broke through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, his understanding of it was not deep enough. He divided the Quasi-Immortal Emperor into four levels: Pseudo-Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Peak Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and Half-Step Immortal Emperor.

However, after breaking through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, he cultivated for over ten thousand years and underwent another extreme transformation. He then felt that this division was somewhat inappropriate.

Quasi-Immortal Emperors should be divided into five levels: Half-Step Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Late-Stage Quasi-Immortal Emperor, Peak Quasi-Immortal Emperor, and Half-Step Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

A half-step Quasi-Immortal Emperor corresponds to a pseudo-Quasi-Immortal Emperor; an ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperor remains an ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperor, with no difference whatsoever.

The late stage of Quasi-Immortal Emperor corresponds to the previous peak of Quasi-Immortal Emperor. It means that one has taken a further step in the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, undergone a complete transformation, and can sense the bottleneck of Immortal Emperor. One can launch an attack on Immortal Emperor, but eight or nine out of ten times it is difficult to break through the bottleneck of Immortal Emperor.

The peak of Quasi-Immortal Emperor is a newly added level. It requires a further step beyond the late stage of Quasi-Immortal Emperor, undergoing another extreme transformation. Not only can one sense the bottleneck of Immortal Emperor, but one can also forcibly break through and enter the realm of Immortal Emperor. However, one is still far from being fully prepared, and forcibly breaking through has a high probability of resulting in death and the dissipation of one's Dao.

A half-step Immortal Emperor still corresponds to a half-step Immortal Emperor. One must undergo several extreme transformations in the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm to expand one's own Great Dao and create an invincible technique at the Immortal Emperor level based on one's own Great Dao. One must possess the aura of an Immortal Emperor, be able to briefly ascend to the Immortal Emperor realm, or even unleash an Immortal Emperor's attack.

Upon hearing Li Daoming's classification of quasi-Immortal Emperors, Xia Qinghuang thoughtfully said, "In that case, if we merge the Sixth Secret Realm with the Five Great Secret Realms, and our physical body and primordial spirit to a certain extent, and then forcibly merge the Sixth Secret Realm with the Five Great Secret Realms, and our physical body and primordial spirit into one despite the backlash, and successfully break through, we will be half-step Quasi-Immortal Emperors."

Only by completely eliminating the backlash from the conflict between the Sixth Secret Realm and the Five Great Secret Realms, as well as the conflict between the physical body and the primordial spirit, and by cultivating both the Dao Fruit and the physical body and primordial spirit to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level, can one be considered an ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperor?

"Not bad!" Li Daoming nodded slightly.

"So, after you broke through to Quasi-Immortal Emperor, what level were you at?" Ye Liuxian asked curiously.

As far as she knew, he had cultivated his Dao Fruit to the point where it could be transformed and sublimated with a single thought, and his physical body and primordial spirit had been cultivated to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level ahead of schedule before he began to break through to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level.

Given the depth of his accumulated knowledge, he is most likely not an ordinary Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

According to him, the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm is a series of hurdles, and achieving ultimate transformation is very difficult, so he is likely a late-stage Quasi-Immortal Emperor.

(End of this chapter)