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Chapter 745 Dao Fruit and Sacrifice

emperor!
A forbidden realm that only exists in legends seems to have become a real existence before the eyes of the Stone Clan Immortal King and others.

The scene of meeting this Taoist fellow Heavenly Emperor not long ago emerged in his mind. Even though such a long time had passed, the Immortal King of the Stone Clan and the Second Best in the World and others could not help but tremble in their hearts.

That kind of transcendence of time and space, as if it did not belong to this ancient history at all, and the lofty aura that was above all time and space, gave the Immortal Kings the illusion of seeing the Great Dao.

If the other party did not restrain his aura and merely stood in front of him, he and others would have a feeling of being directly assimilated by the Dao, as if the Dao of the entire world was submitting to the other party.

It’s not that they haven’t seen giants and strong ones among the Immortal Kings, such as Wushang from the foreign land and their Willow God of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. They are all giants and strong ones among the Immortal Kings, and can be called invincible ones among the Immortal Kings.

However, in the eyes of the Stone Clan Immortal King and the Lord of the Forbidden Zone and others, those giants among the Immortal Kings are far inferior to this Taoist fellow Heavenly Emperor, and are not even on the same level.

That was a supreme realm that they could not even imagine!

If this isn’t the Emperor, then what is the Emperor?
Of course, this is mainly because the Stone Clan Immortal King and others have never seen a realm above the Immortal King, and they are not aware that there is a special realm above the Immortal King, or half a realm, which is the Quasi-Immortal Emperor, or the Taoist Ancestor.

The Taoist Ancestor is the Lord of One Path, which means he has created a new system of cultivation and reached an extremely profound realm on top of this system, condensing his own great path and being able to spread this great path throughout the heavens and all realms, thus becoming the Lord of One Path.

This is a special realm that far exceeds the Immortal King, but has not reached the level of the Immortal Emperor.

At this level, one has basically reached the pinnacle of the immortal path. One can travel in the long river of time and space, and go to the past and future of various time and space. One's strength is extremely powerful.

Of course, even if it is not a self-created path, if one follows a cultivation path to the extreme, one can also reach this realm, and can be called a quasi-immortal emperor.

Daozu and Quasi-Immortal Emperor are both in the same field, but they are just taking different paths. One is the founder of the system, and the other has followed the cultivation system of his predecessors to the extreme. There is no real difference between the two in terms of realm.

Like Shi Hao in the original novel, he blazed a trail forward on the path of using his body as a seed and became the most powerful being surpassing the Immortal King.

When he met the four dark quasi-immortal emperors of the Dark Heaven, he thought that his own realm was also that of a quasi-immortal emperor, but in fact, the correct name for his realm should be Daozu.

And when Shi Hao completely sublimates this path of using his body as a seed, and reaches it at the end, after the ultimate leap, he will reach a new realm, the Immortal Emperor, or it can be called another name, that is, the road-end level.

In this world, this is the limit, which can be called truly invincible, far beyond the reach of cultivators below the Immortal Emperor.

It is like achieving the great Dao in the world of the Supreme Being, condensing half a step of Dao fruit, breaking free from the will of heaven on the other side of the sea of ​​suffering, and becoming the master of the world, able to look down on the ups and downs of the world.

It can be said that there are two levels between the Immortal Emperor and the Immortal Emperor, and those below the Immortal Emperor are all ants.

When he reaches the end of the road level, that is, the Immortal Emperor, perhaps because of the different paths of cultivation and the different degree of control over the Great Dao, he does not have the ease of playing with time and space like the Will of the Other Shore, but in terms of pure combat power, he may even surpass the Will of the Other Shore by half a point.

In Jiang Yao's opinion, the Immortal Emperor and the Other Shore are in the same field, but one focuses on improving combat power, while the other is more inclined to the application of rules.

Perhaps this is also different from the structure of the two worlds.

The cultivation system of the One-Life Supreme World is from top to bottom. It is the product created by those Gods on the other side who are exploring the path to the fruit of the Tao in order to make further progress and continue to delve into the Tao.

Therefore, the most important thing in the cultivation system of the Supreme Being is the comprehension and control of the Great Dao, and it does not pay too much attention to pure combat power.

Because for ancient beings like the Three Pure Ones, Amitabha, the Taoist Master, and the Buddha, mere combat power is meaningless.

Anyone who can reach this level must be a powerful person who has mastered all the great principles of the heavens. Even if there is a difference in pure combat power, it will not be too big.

What they need is transcendence, the path to enlightenment, and a higher level of realm.

Therefore, every realm in the cultivation system of the Supreme Being is to lay the foundation for the next level, not simply for the sake of combat power.

But also because of this, every breakthrough in the cultivation system of the Supreme Being is a huge transformation, especially in the later stages, from celestial immortal to legend, from creation to the other shore, it is like ascending to a new dimension, the elevation of one realm is like heaven and earth.

Compared with the cultivation system of the Supreme World, the cultivation system of the Perfect World is bottom-up. Each path is slowly opened up by sages who learned from the heaven, earth and all things, and made mistakes step by step.

What's more, with the existence of darkness and turmoil, every realm upgrade of a cultivator is more for the purpose of improving combat power and for survival.

The most basic part of this cultivation system has been finalized. Even if some cultivators later become the strongest, when they begin to sort out their own cultivation systems, comprehend the great Dao, and create new cultivation systems, they will subconsciously create along this line of thought, with combat power first and frontal combat as the main focus. This is a style engraved in their bones.

It is precisely because one is from top to bottom, in order to seek the Tao, and the other is from bottom to top, in order to survive, that the cultivation system of the One-Life Supreme World and the cultivation system of the Perfect World appear to be completely different in style. Of course, the road to the Great Dao has different paths and the same destination. The other shore and the Immortal Emperor are basically at the same level.

In the realm of the other shore and the Immortal Emperor, the Supreme Lord and the Perfect World also embarked on different paths because of the differences in the world.

In the world of One-Life Supreme, after condensing the Half-Step Dao Fruit, breaking free from the sea of ​​suffering and reaching the other shore, one needs to control all the great ways of the heavens, control everything in the heavens, make one's Half-Step Dao Fruit completely perfect, and condense the prototype of the Dao Fruit. This realm is called the Ancient One, and one can trace back time to the earliest era.

This road is also perfect because it was created from top to bottom. You can see the way forward clearly, and every step is complete.

After ordinary cultivators reach the other side, they can follow this path and slowly master all the great ways of the heavens. As long as they do not die in the middle of the journey, it is not impossible for them to become ancient beings after several epochs.

In the Perfect World, after achieving the end of the road to becoming an Immortal Emperor, there is a realm above this that has not truly exceeded this realm, which is called the Dao of Sacrifice.

This is a special realm that far exceeds the Immortal Emperor, but has reached the next level.

For Mang, who continued the cultivation system of the Perfect World, breaking through to this realm was a life-or-death experience.

To achieve the realm of sacrifice, one needs to burn all the principles and order, sacrifice one's own supreme path, make the ultimate leap, reach the highest level, and become invincible.

This is a suicidal way of breakthrough. Once it fails, it will completely turn into nothingness, and fall into eternal silence, and everything will cease to exist.

Generally, even if a powerful person who has reached the level of Immortal Emperor dies and his body is destroyed, as long as there are still people in the world who touch or miss him, and as long as there are no powerful people of the same level to suppress him, he can come back and shine in the world again.

But once the sacrifice fails, one will die completely and will never be able to be resurrected.

It can be said that this is a very violent way of breakthrough, and if it fails, you will die.

Of course, the price of breakthrough is so high that once it is accomplished and one reaches the realm of sacrifice, it will be extremely terrifying.

This is equivalent to returning everything to its original origin, returning to the great path, and achieving complete sublimation and transformation.

When one reaches the realm of Ji Dao, all the great principles, rules, and order in the world can no longer affect oneself. One's every word and action seems to be the epitome of one's former supreme great principle, and the power is completely incomparable to that of the Immortal Emperor.

It can be said that the ancients and the sacrificial way are two completely opposite paths. One is from one to ten thousand, seeking perfection, and the other is from ten thousand to one, seeking purity.

There is no difference between the two. They can be regarded as different realms before the road to transcendence. They are just different paths formed because of the different structures of the two worlds.

As for the two paths above, Daoguo and Jidao, Jiang Yao is still unable to grasp them perfectly and can only have some vague understandings.

Those who have achieved the Tao Fruit need to complete the process of reducing and seeking emptiness, choose to take responsibility for all of their own causes and effects, and then absorb the power of the epoch cycle to allow the embryonic form of their Tao Fruit to fully mature, so that they can transcend.

This is a path of unity between heaven and man, and is closely connected with the great Dao of the entire universe of the Supreme Being. It requires the power of the great Dao to achieve success.

Moreover, on this road, there is the Dao Zun, a pioneer who shows the way forward for everyone, and there is the Buddha, a pitfall-taker, who helps everyone avoid the wrong path.

Coupled with the deductions and experiments of many ancients for several eras, it has almost reached an incomparable level of perfection, which is a complete path to Tao Fruit.

Compared with the path to the fruit of the Tao in the world of One-Life Supreme, in the Perfect World, if one wants to break through the realm of the Tao of Sacrifice and achieve something above the Tao of Sacrifice, one must sacrifice not only one's own supreme Tao, but also one's own cultivation system and everything in oneself, making everything become empty and returning to eternal silence.

At the same time, at the moment of sacrificing everything within oneself and returning to eternal silence, one must also have the strong belief that one will go forward even if thousands of people are against one another.

Only in this situation, after sacrificing everything within oneself, can one have the opportunity to revive in Nirvana, truly rise above everything, and become the supreme power above the way of sacrifice.

This is another completely idealistic, desperate, and suicidal way of breaking through.

It can be said that the road to a perfect world is one of groping from bottom to top, step by step, and because of the presence of a powerful enemy, the two breakthroughs from the Immortal Emperor to the Sacrifice Dao, and from the Sacrifice Dao to the one above the Sacrifice Dao, are completely a matter of life and death. If you succeed, you will climb to a new level, but if you fail, everything will be in vain and everything will be over.

In the original novel, apart from the three sons of destiny, Huang Yechu, the only other existence that achieved the state of sacrificing the Dao was the source of all weirdness, the red-haired monster who got "sick" because of his pursuit of the Dao.

Therefore, for Jiang Yao, the most reliable path is still the cultivation system of the Supreme Being.

This is a path that can make one become an ancient as long as one follows the steps. Even the path to the fruit of the Tao can be obtained step by step according to one's own plan. It is also the path that suits him best now.

(End of this chapter)