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Chapter 346 Ascension to Sainthood [Seeking Monthly Tickets]

Fang Ge knew that Chu Xuan was secretly busy with the Human Instrumentality Project.

He simply didn't know the exact scale. The Central Continent Team's mass production of near-Saints indeed required a large number of fragmented spiritual lights, necessitating numerous sacrifices.

And... for the current Central Continent team, this is actually a minor issue.

Being deprived of one's inner light does not mean that one's soul is scattered.

Once someone in the Central Continent team achieves the status of a Primordial Saint, they will have complete control over the transformation of spacetime and energy, and may even be able to control and erase concepts. With their authority, they can create things from nothingness, from the smallest life form to the largest universe.

Once you reach this level of understanding, most things in this world can be reversed.

It only takes a short time to help these souls, whose spirits have withered, rebuild their bodies and successfully revive them.

Even mending the innate deficiency of their spiritual light was done casually.

To put it even more simply and directly, we could even reverse their time, taking them back to the period before the sacrifice and healing the underlying problems.

In any case, the time of a sage cannot be interfered with, so it is entirely possible to reverse cause and effect.

Fang Ge, who was well-versed in the setting, understood this point best. The entire infinitely diverse ancient history was full of reversing cause and effect.

Therefore, while others only need to focus on overcoming their respective bottlenecks, Fang Ge, Chu Xuan, and Zheng Zha have much more to consider.

They are responsible for [creating the Way].

But before that, Fang Ge wanted to conduct an experiment. An experiment that was half-done on Yang Jian.

When the Jade Disc of Creation seized the position of the Three-Phase Saint, Fang Ge was simply following Chu Xuan's instructions without thinking too much about it.

However, after the matter succeeded, Fang Ge quickly realized the true value of it.

The positions of sainthood themselves are not differentiated. The only difference lies in the individuals who attain sainthood.

Therefore, it can be concluded that the Jade Disc of Creation can theoretically seize the holy position of any saint.

Thus, through Yang Jian, Fang Ge once again saw the [process] in a direct way.

This process is very strange. The saint's true form is actually suspended above the saint's throne. His life form is a quantum state, and what walks in the world is just a projection.

The process of stripping the saint from the position using the Jade Disc of Creation was like a strange force that domineeringly seized the position, downgrading the original saint's life form and finally kicking it to the position of the projection...

—It feels like an information black box… I don’t know where this strange power comes from. Its level is at least [Ultimate], after all, even a royal saint cannot do such a thing.

Before being stripped of his sainthood, Yang Jian was a high-ranking saint who wielded [power].

Therefore, even after being stripped of his sainthood, he remained a near-saint level two wielding [authority]. Furthermore, aside from the inability to become a saint again, he indeed possessed the characteristics of rapid growth typical of near-saint levels.

Based on this, Fang Ge made a conjecture.

Upon successfully completing the final leap to sainthood, one will experience a [sublimation]. Thus, those who have reached the second stage of sainthood and have accumulated enough experience will inevitably directly comprehend a trace of the origin and attain the status of a primordial saint.

Even with insufficient accumulation, it only takes some time to comprehend a trace of the origin and become a primordial sage.

As is widely known, the threshold for reaching the third stage of the Approaching Saint realm is comprehending the [Origin]. Does this mean... that once a Primordial Saint falls from their Saintly position, they will directly become a third-stage Approaching Saint?
This is extremely crucial information. Because the progress rate of a third-stage Saint is far greater than that of a Primordial Saint.

Throughout the entirety of ancient history, there were only a few dozen innate saints. And in the current multiverse, those with emperor-level combat power are even fewer.

However, even a primordial sage would need countless years, billions of years, to complete the process of returning the four elements to their original state, achieving emptiness of the four elements...

For someone at the third stage of the Saintly Realm, it is indeed much slower than when someone at the second stage of the Saintly Realm comprehends authority... but it still only takes about tens of thousands of years.

At that time, if we retrieve the Saintly position from the Jade Tablet of Creation, wouldn't we be able to achieve Emperor-level combat power?

At the same time, is it permissible to repeatedly jump around?

That is, the first stage of the Saintly Realm is the Great Perfection, which accumulates enough to directly attain the higher-level Sainthood, and then sublimates into the second stage of the Saintly Realm.

After consuming the benefits of the second-stage Approaching Saint, regaining his Sainthood and becoming a Perfect High Saint, he sought a trace of his original essence, then abandoned his Sainthood once more, becoming a third-stage Approaching Saint...

However, this possibility is very small... because the ascension to sainthood happens only once. If one were to proceed in this way, that trace of origin would have to rely on one's own talent!
The Central Continent Team already had a method to reach the peak of the second stage of the Saint Realm by force-feeding, so there was no need to make it so complicated.

Once the theory is established, it needs to be put into practice. The most suitable person to conduct this experiment is naturally Fang Ge himself. He is the only one who has witnessed the changes in Yang Jian and is also the strongest person at the forefront.

Only he can replicate this miracle.

"But becoming a saint isn't all good, is it?"

Zhan Lan said worriedly, "What if something goes wrong?"

"Chu Xuan dared to try if he was 50% confident... Now that I am 90% confident, do you think I should back down?" Fang Ge laughed, indicating that they didn't need to worry.

There are no real "pitfalls" in the Innate Saint rank. If one had to point out a problem, it would be that the speed of progress is slower than that of the Approaching Saint, and that the difficulty of attaining the Great Luo realm increases after the leap in life level.

But none of these are major problems. If this gamble succeeds, it will pave a path to success for everyone!
Fang Ge sat in meditation for seven days and seven nights, dressed in white, his black hair flying, his skin radiant. He resembled a deity, peaceful and serene.

The gods were like real dragons, one after another, bursting out of his body like surging tides!
At the crown of his head, the Jade Disc of Creation floated, as if the three thousand Great Daos had materialized, transforming into a chaotic sky that enveloped him below, making him appear even more elusive.

"brush"

With a flash of light, Fang Ge floated up and sat cross-legged in the void, surrounded by a hazy mist, as if looking down upon all living beings.

At this moment, he looked solemn and dignified, like an eternal celestial king, making people want to bow down and worship him.

Everyone knew that he had adjusted his condition to its peak and was about to become a saint!

The divine sound within Fang Ge's body grew even more magnificent, almost imprinting himself onto the void, condensing into an immortal entity with the entire world. A chaotic miniature world emerged, so real that it astonished everyone.

This is Fang Ge's "Sacred Path".

When the sacred path condenses, it is like a vast and boundless spiritual world, a world composed purely of mental power, which is incredibly large.

It is larger than the entire universe, vast, dazzling, and contains an infinite amount of mystery, rules, and authority... All these adjectives can be used to describe this sacred condensation.

But all of these are superfluous; they are manifestations of the higher-level sacred path.

Fang Ge doesn't need these things. He is selfless and detached from worldly affairs, unmoved by the clamor of the outside world.

If a high-ranking saint wishes to become an innate saint, they must comprehend the origin, improve themselves, and then accumulate knowledge bit by bit, discarding more than 99.99% of the useless information and absorbing the useful information.

Gradually, one elevates the sacred path and its essence. When these insights reach a certain level, one comprehends creation, transforming the acquired into the innate, and ascends from a high-ranking saint to an innate saint.

This ultimate leap can save countless years of hard work, achieving everything in one fell swoop!

The small world transformed by the Holy Path is vivid and real. Fang Ge sits high in the sky, like a god who created the world, seemingly accepting the worship of all living beings.

Each of his heartbeats was like a divine drum beating, making people's eardrums buzz; it was truly terrifying.

Moreover, his heartbeat grew louder and louder, thump, thump, thump... echoing through the heavens and earth.

"Rumble"

Suddenly, a huge gash appeared in the sacred path!

Then came the second, the third...

"Did something go wrong?" Zheng Zha frowned, his fists clenched.

"No... it should be a success." Chu Xuan pushed up his glasses and announced the result.

"boom--"

The sound was like glass shattering.

The tiny world, as vast as the sky, has completely collapsed and vanished!

All the impurities were discarded, leaving only a single, fist-sized, brilliant point of light!
Looking directly at it is like looking directly at the origin of the universe; endless information emerges, yet it is as elusive as nothingness.

An indescribable sense of terror permeated the air, obscuring the entire world and chilling everyone to the bone.

In the sky, bursts of light rained down. The innate Dao patterns, born within the chaotic energy, caused a spectacular sight of heavenly flowers falling and blue lotuses blooming from the earth!
Ascend to sainthood!

(End of this chapter)