Born with immortal seed

Chapter 595 Late Nascent Soul
"A fifth-tier spiritual land, I wonder what it will be like... When I break through to the Nascent Soul stage, I'll probably have to ask the Moral Sect to lend me a spiritual land."

There are many fifth-order spiritual lands in the cultivation world, but Bai Zichen was unsure whether to lend them out as an outsider, regardless of whether the other party agreed or not.

When someone is undergoing a tribulation and advancing in another's territory, it's easy for them to sabotage the process if someone has even the slightest ulterior motive.

Comparatively speaking, the Tao Te Ching is the most credible, as long as it agrees.

If the demonic threat had not been eliminated by then, the chances of success would have been even greater.

However, the best option is to find your own spiritual place, without being restricted by others.

After much deliberation, Bai Zichen decided to advance in the Star Palace Secret Realm, which was more reliable than finding any spiritual land in the outside world.

Even though all the Star Lords had already exchanged identities, he still subconsciously put on the mask of the Ziwei Star Lord when entering the Star Palace Secret Realm.

Strolling through the Star Palace, one feels a sense of ease, as if detached from the mortal world and a person beyond it.

It seems that all the troubles in the real world, the threat of the Nascent Soul demon race hanging overhead, the fear of not being able to protect oneself and implicating one's sect if defeated, and so on, have all vanished.

If he so chooses, he can live in seclusion here, cultivate in peace, and then emerge into the world again after several hundred years when his Nascent Soul is fully formed.

By then, Ao Laolong will either ascend to the Heavenly Demon Realm or die of old age. Even if there are other Nascent Soul Demon Lords, as long as they don't possess the Heaven-Opening Spiritual Treasure, what is there for him to fear?

But is it really possible to do so?
Due to its unique nature, the Star Palace Secret Realm can be entered from anywhere in the cultivation world, unlike other secret realms which have fixed entrances.

Therefore, for ten thousand years after the destruction of the Taibai Sword Sect, so many people with good intentions failed to discover the Star Palace Secret Realm, and in doing so, they also covered up the even more important Sword Washing Cave.

But the situation is different when the demon race enters the arena.

As fellow human beings, we must always have certain bottom lines to consider. We cannot perform forbidden spells that violate humanity, such as draining the spiritual veins of a place, causing rivers to dry up, and cracking the earth. Not to mention cultivators practicing there, even ordinary people's normal lives become a luxury.

The power gained in exchange can unleash a forbidden spell, capable of searching the heavens and the earth, leaving no place to hide.

From the earth's core mineral veins to the clouds in the heavens, and even void nodes and blessed lands, none could escape it.

Going back to ancient times, this spell was still used on a large scale, and no one felt there was anything wrong with it.

Later, when the human race came to power and the population exploded, they realized that suitable habitats were limited and that they could not exploit resources to the point of exhaustion. This is why they decreed it as a forbidden spell.

Unless they are cultivators who have completely turned to the Heavenly Demon Realm, both righteous and demonic paths consciously abide by this rule.

In addition, Bai Zichen is not the only one who knows how to enter and exit the Star Palace Secret Realm.

If the other star lords fall into the hands of the demon race, how can we ensure that they will not reveal their methods of entry and exit?

When one's life hangs in the balance, who cares about vows or oaths?

Even if we take a step back and assume that someone survives in the Star Palace Secret Realm, when they emerge from the mountains, everything will have changed, the humans of the Five Regions will have been enslaved, and the cultivators close to them will surely have suffered endless torment and died.

Given this outcome, would he still have enough courage to challenge the inner demon tribulation of the God Transformation Realm?

Before even drawing his sword, he was already thinking about escaping the world; that was not his way.

Upon entering the main hall of the statues, the photo stone was empty, indicating that the other star deities had not visited recently.

Stroll along the building until you reach a familiar building. Gently blow on the door, and it will open. Go up to the top floor and sit down.

"At the late Nascent Soul stage, less than three hundred years old, I don't know if there were any such examples in ancient times, but judging from the records, no one from the Middle Ages to the present should be faster than me..."

Bai Zichen lightly dusted off his sleeves, examining the path he had taken.

Despite minor setbacks, he never lingered at a bottleneck in his cultivation level, exceeding the comprehension of everyone in the cultivation world.

One can imagine how many cultivators will lose sleep when he appears with his late-stage Nascent Soul cultivation.

Just like Daoist Baoxuan, even though they had met face to face, he admitted that Bai Zichen's talent was unprecedented and rivaled that of those who had ascended to greatness.

However, given the bottleneck of the late Nascent Soul stage, he still gave an estimate of sixty years, which he considered very bold.

Reaching the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm in an instant is something that could only happen to innate geniuses in ancient times.

Naturally gifted individuals do not need to cultivate; they can increase their strength through instinct, such as breathing exercises, reaching levels ranging from the early Nascent Soul stage to the Nascent Soul perfection stage.

Further up, the gap will appear, and even the most naturally gifted people will fall before this insurmountable barrier.

A recent example is the Huayin Patriarch of the Moral Sect, who, having reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, tore open a void node and forcibly ascended to the upper realm.

Within a century, the spirit lamps remaining in the Daode Sect have not been extinguished.

It wasn't until a century later that it came to an abrupt end.

This means that he did not die in the initial void turbulence like other ascended cultivators, but survived until much later.

However, unlike the Taibai Sword Lord, who, hundreds of years after his ascension, sent down an edict through his natal flying sword left in the sect to prove his successful ascension.

No one knows whether the Ancestor Huayin successfully ascended but was unable to transmit information across realms, or whether he persisted in the void for a hundred years but still failed.

Such a figure is recorded as having achieved the Nascent Soul stage at the age of 620.

Going back further, one would have reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm after the age of four hundred.

With a clear mind and empty thoughts, after adjusting oneself to the best state, one takes a deep breath and actually emits a sharp whistle, causing the spiritual energy within a hundred miles to violently rub against each other, forming a ring-shaped vacuum.

The domineering nature of the Dongxuan Slaughtering God Sword Scripture becomes increasingly apparent as one's cultivation level improves, and its requirements for spiritual energy concentration also increase.

Other techniques could never have produced such a remarkable impact at this stage.

Sword light pulsed through all 365 acupoints on his body, and a realm appeared behind him, rising to its highest point, causing his aura to continuously increase.

After circulating true essence through three cycles, reaching an unprecedented peak and reaching a point where further progress was impossible, the technique was upgraded to the fifth level of the Cave Profound God-Slaying Sword Scripture.

The true energy within the body opens up a completely new pathway, surging freely.

With each rotation, his strength increases by one level.

In just a few hours, Bai Zichen's true essence limit nearly doubled before it began to gradually stop.

The little white nascent soul had grown a size larger, and as if it had eaten too much, it collapsed to the ground and let out a burp without any regard for its image.

At the same time, the original range of divine sense, which was 140 miles, directly doubled to 280 miles.

No wonder there are no secrets within a thousand miles for a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The late stage of Nascent Soul is regarded as the most important step before Deity Transformation. It is even specially divided into the title of Great True Monarch. However, it is not that simple and is different from the previous breakthroughs and advancements.

Even within the Star Palace Secret Realm, one could feel the sky darken, as if dark clouds were pressing down overhead, and the buildings began to sway.

At the four corners of the sky, stars twinkled, and a mysterious power connected to the upper realm, allowing one to see their own realm expanding into the void and extending its area at a visible speed.

Moreover, the newly created territory was not a desolate wasteland like the territory he had painstakingly developed before.

The surface is either covered with spiritual ore, exposed to the elements, and its spiritual light soars into the sky.

Or a mountain spring gushes forth, its gurgling waters releasing a vibrant, life-giving energy into the air.

Or perhaps the spiritual herbs are so lush that they grow from the first sprout to maturity in just a few breaths.

"The power of the grotto-heaven, the wonders of creation!"

Bai Zichen and Xiao Bai's nascent soul opened their eyes at the same time and said with sudden realization.

This is where late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators differ from ordinary Nascent Soul True Monarchs, and why they are said to have a substantial half-level difference.

The realm began to take shape as a nascent cave heaven, no longer a desperate measure at the last moment, but under normal circumstances, it could also borrow a trace of the cave heaven's power.

Without equivalent means, one will be trapped and unable to even escape with their nascent soul.

Once the boundaries of the realm were fully explored, the entire realm trembled violently, and countless large cracks appeared in the ground. Low hills and steep peaks seemed to have been forcibly pulled up from the ground by an invisible hand and appeared in the world.

The already existing lake expanded several times over, and the backflowing lake water flowed into those hollow caves, becoming countless underground rivers.

In the center of the lake, where golden and silver waves splash, there is already a level of fourth-grade top-quality spiritual energy.

In the bamboo forest to the east, Gun Gun rubbed his eyes and woke up groggily from his dream.

Having consumed many pieces of flesh and blood from a fourth-tier high-grade demon in one go, it has been dormant until now, and its strength has advanced further, growing to the third-tier mid-grade.

Just as it was about to show off to its owner, it woke up to find its home almost destroyed.

In the middle of the bamboo forest, a rugged peak rose up, dividing the bamboo into two halves. Startled, Gun Gun grabbed the thickest bamboo stalk next to him and quickly climbed to the top.

This serves as the boundary, where two completely different bamboo forests grow.

The spiritual energy on the left is clear, and the bamboo on the left has a normal shape, mostly the slender and long type.

The right side has a scarlet aura and an ugly, thick bamboo body, clearly indicating that it has absorbed too much of the blood of a powerful demon, resulting in a mutation.

Both bamboo groves now meet the standard of mid-grade fourth-order spiritual energy concentration.

These changes lasted for seven days and seven nights before finally stopping.

With a tremendous tremor, the realm landed, feeling a thousand times heavier than before, as if carrying the weight of an entire world.

"There are already mountains, rivers, lakes, bamboo forests, spiritual plants, mineral veins, and even spiritual lands that can supply themselves... It is truly worthy of the power of the grotto heaven that can create the world, creating such a miracle."

Bai Zichen was filled with emotion. If he had built it himself, he didn't know how many resources and how much time he would have had to invest to achieve the same effect.

By advancing to the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm and attracting the power of the grotto-heaven, one can achieve even better results with minimal effort.

At the same time, his own Great Dao began to manifest in the realm, no, to be precise, in the nascent form of a grotto-heaven.

The nascent stage of the grotto-heaven has already aligned with the real world, progressing in sync.

This is something that other Great True Lords' nascent grotto-heavens cannot do; it is usually several times faster than the real world.

One day in the nascent cave heaven is equivalent to three days in the real world.

Only by transforming into a true grotto-heaven can a one-to-one ratio be achieved.

At this rate, once Bai Zichen advances to the Nascent Soul stage and creates his own grotto-heaven, the time ratio will become two to one, or even three to one.

This is similar to the Mysterious Realm of Time he just experienced, which has a different speed of time flow.

Of course, a normal cave heaven cannot have a ratio of 100 to 1; 5 to 1 is the limit.

The Mysterious Realm of Cosmic Light is a concentrated point formed after a cultivator's death and the collapse of their grotto-heaven, which is why such an exaggerated situation has occurred.

(End of this chapter)