Shrouding the Heavens: The Ultimate Daoist Venerable

Chapter 788 The Road to Earthly Immortality
Wuji Daoren then had the six Earth Immortals take their seats in turn, and said to them, “There is no need for formalities. We are now fellow Daoists exploring the methods of Earth Immortals together. We should work together in the same boat and cooperate sincerely to deduce a path that suits us.”

The Celestial Venerable of Longevity and Liang Yu had a long-standing friendship. Although this Daoist Wuji was not the real person, he was still highly similar to the original in terms of memories and personality. Therefore, he did not stand on ceremony and said directly, "Fellow Daoist Wuji, then I will not stand on ceremony. My improvement is becoming slower and slower, and it is difficult to make any significant progress."

"May I ask, Fellow Daoist Wuji, do we have any methods to further improve?"

The Daoist Wuji said, "Before we get to that, let me ask you all a question: Is there anyone who wants to give up the path of the Earth Immortals? If so, I can help you escape the Earth Immortal Realm and regain your freedom. In that case, you can ascend to a strange world and resume your normal cultivation path."

Although the methods of Earth Immortals are far more refined and complex than those of Corpse-Dissolving Immortals, they are naturally not difficult for Daoist Wuji and Liang Yu. Therefore, Daoist Wuji certainly has a way to simply give up.

The simplest way is to have Liang Yu or Wuji Daoist directly help them escape the Earthly Immortal Realm. He has also already researched a method, like the Corpse-Dissolving Immortal, to absorb the essence of the Earthly Immortal Realm to gain sufficient power and then escape on their own.

Therefore, this is not a difficult task.

Upon hearing this, the Celestial Venerable of Immortality, the Underworld Emperor, the Black Tortoise Emperor, and the White Tiger Emperor showed no reaction. They had long since decided to continue on the path of Earthly Immortals and had never considered giving up.

As for the remaining two, Emperor Yuan glanced at Emperor Sun and found that he remained silent and did not say a word, so he did not speak either.

The two of them didn't have much attachment to the methods of the Earth Immortals; rather, they hoped to use it as a stepping stone to achieve greater advancement. Therefore, this method was actually the direction of their research.

But now that they know that Daoist Wuji has made further research into the methods of becoming an Earth Immortal, the decision to abandon the path of becoming an Earth Immortal should obviously be made after further understanding.

Seeing that none of the six Earth Immortals had expressed their opinions, Daoist Wuji said, "Perhaps you don't want to give up, perhaps you are reluctant to give up your sunk costs, or perhaps you are just having trouble making a decision for the time being. But since you haven't expressed your opinions directly, it means that you at least don't have the idea of ​​ending this method of becoming an immortal yet."

"Then I will continue. Of course, you can come to me at any time to obtain the secret technique to escape the path of the Earth Immortal. I guarantee that after you escape the Earth Immortal realm using this method, you will also make great progress. It is not a wrong path, just a different choice."

Seeing the six Earth Immortals listening attentively, Daoist Wuji paused only briefly before continuing, "The reason you are currently stuck in a bottleneck is largely because the human universe has reached its limit and can no longer continue to evolve. Therefore, your Earth Immortal realms can no longer expand."

"At this point, the most obvious way is to allow the human universe to evolve and achieve greater improvement, which will naturally give you more room for progress. But obviously, this is not something that can be accomplished easily."

"Therefore, there is only the second direction, which is to try to further evolve one's own Dao and Dharma, thereby enhancing the essence of the Earthly Immortal Realm, and ascending from mortal to immortal through continuous evolution and improvement, condensing the Immortal Dao Laws."

As he spoke, Daoist Wuji transmitted to the six of them all his deductions about how the Earthly Immortal Realm would evolve after reaching this stage.

Even the Yuan Emperor and the Sun Saint Emperor, who had no intention of expanding their own Immortal Realms, benefited greatly. After all, their Immortal Realms had remained at a relatively small scale, with almost no life within them, and had not evolved into a complete world. Instead, they had become increasingly solid and mystical, like the Boundless Immortal Mountain.

Under this approach, they needed methods that focused primarily on enhancing the essence of the Earthly Immortal Realm, even more than the other four. After digesting and absorbing these methods, they began to exchange ideas based on their own experiences.

They explored various methods such as the power of faith, field, source techniques, and nurturing native life to an extremely profound level. Therefore, this exchange can be considered a summary, which improved many details and methods of the Earth Immortal's Technique.

Although they had communicated many times before, this time they still benefited greatly.

After completing this stage of discussion, the Celestial Venerable of Longevity said, "Fellow Daoist Wuji, judging from this exchange, for a long period of cultivation in the Earth Immortal Method, we will still be accumulating quantitative changes. So, I wonder how we can usher in a qualitative change and enter a completely new realm in the later stages?"

The Daoist Wuji said, “This stage of quantitative transformation in cultivation will indeed be very long. This stage of the Earth Immortal Method encompasses a long cultivation path from the Dao Prover to at least the peak of True Immortal or even the Mortal Immortal. In other words, you must cultivate in this state until you reach the Quasi-Immortal King level before you can try to enter the next stage.”

This answer naturally left these Earth Immortals somewhat bewildered. Quasi-Immortal King? That sounded even higher than an Immortal, seemingly very distant.

The Underworld Emperor asked, "May I ask Fellow Daoist Wuji, how does this Quasi-Immortal King compare to a Mortal Immortal?"

The Taoist Master Wuji said, "He is similar to a mortal immortal."

This answer left these Earth Immortals somewhat hesitant and powerless. After all, they had some understanding of the Mortal Immortal realm and knew what kind of realm it was. The leap from a Dao Proving Person to a Quasi-Immortal King was indeed terrifying.

The Sun Emperor then asked, "So, how will we achieve a qualitative change in the future?"

Before becoming an Earth Immortal, the Sun Saint Emperor had traveled a long way on the path of the Mortal Immortal, so he was quite confident and took the lead in asking the question.

Wuji Daoist said, "At that time, the method of Earth Immortals will have two directions to continue to improve. One is to build a sixth secret realm based on one's own Earth Immortal Realm, thereby combining it with one's own five great secret realms and breaking into the Immortal King Realm."

"The other is to develop the methods of the Earth Immortals into a new system."

"I can say that I have done some research on the former, but I only have this one idea about the latter."

"Therefore, compared to other cultivators, your Earthly Immortal Realm is your greatest advantage. Although you will be much slower before becoming an Immortal King, you will be able to shorten the time considerably when you become an Immortal King."

"As for which direction you should go, that depends on your own choices in the future. Of course, you can also lay the groundwork now and make appropriate adjustments during your cultivation."

(End of this chapter)