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Chapter 626 The Path of the Great Sage
Although the aura of the Lord of Slaughter was well concealed, it could not be hidden from the Heavenly Dao 0.81, which immediately saw through the Lord of Slaughter's true nature.

Although Li Wei had anticipated this, he couldn't help but realize for a moment: "Has the Lord truly reached the Great Luo realm?"

The Heavenly Dao 0.81 has a somewhat uncertain path: [It seems He isn't walking the path of the Great Luo, but rather the path of the Great Sage!]

Every cultivator has their own limits; only by breaking through those limits can one achieve the realm of "greatness".

Therefore, the Three Pure Ones pioneered the Way of the Balance of Fortune and Destiny, gathering the fortune of all beings and borrowing their strength to elevate themselves, thus achieving the position of Great Luo.

The Taoist school, on the other hand, integrates the power of all living beings into its own through combined internal and external training, breaking through the limits of the human body, achieving ascension to immortality, and entering the Mahayana realm.

As for Buddhism, it relies on "enlightenment," seeking within one's own heart.
By emptying the external world of all phenomena through meditation and other means, and directly negating the limits of spiritual practice, one achieves great enlightenment, which is the state of Buddhahood!

As for the Great Sage, this path emphasizes skill over principle, directly following the path of "breaking the law with force," focusing on simplicity and brutality.

So how exactly does it work?
Very simple!
By relying on the law of loopholes, the power of all living beings is forcibly gathered, breaking the limits of cultivation!

The law of loopholes is still a law, and it can be connected to the public law network. As long as the loopholes are appropriate, it can stand on the same starting line as the paths of Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha, and so on!

So the key is whether you can find a suitable loophole, the kind that can gather the power of all things and forcibly break through the limits of cultivation.

For example, the Monkey King,
As the spirit of the Sky-Mending Stone, this being was born with the ability to repair the flaws in the Five-Colored Divine Stone, making herself perfect.

Thus He accomplished a terrifying feat rarely achieved by anyone in the Three Realms.
—Transcending the Three Realms and outside the Five Elements.

In this way, most of the constraints of reality are useless to Him, including the limitations on cultivation!
Therefore, He only needs to continuously expand the Law Base Station to enter the "Great" realm, without needing to find someone to lend extra power.

It’s that simple and crude!
Another example is [Magic Heaven Great Sage Mara], who originally emerged from the halo behind the Buddha's head at the time of the Buddha's Nirvana.

He was not born into the cultivation system, nor could he be defined by the existing cultivation system, so naturally he would not be bound by the upper limit of cultivation.

With the birth of Mara, all other inner demons were also liberated, completely breaking free from the shackles of the cultivation system!
Since then,

All inner demons can be awakened and become demon saints after completing the sequence of 108 inner demons and comprehending the true meaning of all afflictions!
However, no demon has ever been able to achieve this feat.

If we're talking about people like Qi Tian and Mo Tian, ​​it's something they were born with, something we can't envy.

That Great Sage Equaling Heaven is a classic example of "breaking the law with force"!
Although the loophole He possessed was a loophole in the laws of space that could be used to break the balance of the four levels of heaven and earth and affect the stability of spacetime.

However, living beings have their own universe within them, which can be regarded as a stable microcosm with its own internal "spacetime balance".

Therefore, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, with his great wisdom, introduced the concept of spacetime stability into the path of cultivation, and then supplemented it with various laws and loopholes.
After spending tens of thousands of years, he finally bound his [cultivation limit] to the Dao of Time and Space.

At this point, things start to go mad.

The saying goes, "No destruction, no construction."

The Great Sage Equaling Heaven actually broke through his own divine body as if it were a dimension of spacetime, thus forcibly breaking through the cultivation limit within his divine body as well.
He thus ascended to the position of Great Sage!
However, this also caused Him permanent damage, and even after several versions and tens of thousands of years of healing, He was not completely cured.

Even today, the Great Sage Equaling Heaven still has four constantly writhing wounds on his body, and continues to suffer immense pain!
In short

The key to the path to becoming a Great Sage is not to seek external help like the Chan and Jie sects or Taoism, nor is it to achieve self-enlightenment like Buddhism.
Instead, we should embrace this era of vulnerabilities, leveraging their power to directly break limits, using brute force to overcome all methods, or in other words, using vulnerabilities to overcome all methods! However, this approach is extremely difficult.

First of all, loopholes are hard to find, and suitable loopholes for breaking through cultivation limits are even rarer. Moreover, even if you find a suitable loophole, you still have to meet other conditions for achieving the "Great" realm.

For example, one must obtain supreme supernatural powers, obtain a Great Luo fortune position, and cultivate one's divine body to its limit!
So say it.

The path of using force to break the law is not so easy to take!

A whole host of prerequisites await you; only after you meet those conditions are you qualified to break limits and push your own boundaries.

According to the data compiled by the Nine Saints Heretical Path, this is the current situation.

If we exclude special beings like Qitian, Motian, and Juetian Dasheng.

From the era of Heavenly Dao 1.0 to the present, there have been approximately 2000 Golden Immortals, including those from the righteous and demonic paths, as well as the Buddhist sect.

Of these, fewer than 100 Golden Immortals meet all the requirements and are qualified to attempt the Great Sage realm, and only about 30 actually attempt it.

Of these thirty people who attempted to reach the Great Sage realm, only six succeeded!
The others either perished completely or were severely injured and fell from their original state, never to recover. In short, their fate was extremely tragic!

Heavenly Dao 0.81 sighed, "Reality is just so cruel!"

After all, every life has its own limits, and the Golden Immortal realm is the limit of limits allowed by the Heavenly Dao, as well as the limit of cultivation for all living beings.

[Even a broken vase is difficult to repair, let alone a cultivator? Especially since you're trying to increase your size and become "bigger"?]

Therefore, for the past seven versions, there have been very few cultivators who have successfully paved their way to sainthood on their own, but now there is finally one more.

Li Wei exclaimed with admiration, "The Great Sage Who Slays Heaven, huh? What a fitting name!"

[Master! Although I don't know how this guy entered the Great Sage realm, his aura seems unstable right now. He shouldn't be coming to the battlefield at this time, unless...]

Li Wei and Heavenly Dao 0.81 were in perfect sync, and at this moment they both realized the reason: [Unless He needs to actively accept the baptism of war in order to truly secure His position as the Great Sage?]

[That's right! He needs a great battle, and the Nine Saints of Heretics just happen to be in the midst of one. It's a perfect match!]

As the ruler continued to descend.

The few Great Sage bloodlines who truly held power on Liangshan Marsh, along with those Golden Immortals with real authority, all rushed out of the Hall of Gathering Righteousness to welcome this newly promoted Great Sage.

[Master, we have repeatedly thwarted the Lord's good deeds. If He discovers our actions next, the problem will be very serious!]

Li Wei withdrew his gaze and looked into the distance: [We'll deal with whatever comes our way, but our most urgent task right now is to find the corpse of the Heavenly Dao.]

[I'm very curious, if this thing isn't on the Nine Saints, nor on the nine heretical demons and monsters, nor in those forbidden areas,]

Where exactly will it be?

(End of this chapter)