There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

Wang Ping also had this in mind, but after all, he was his own ancestor, so he showed a thoughtful look at the right time, and then replied: "Then do as you say."

Yu Lian looked at Wang Ping and patted his back gently with her tail.

Lieyang watched Wang Ping's performance quietly. When Wang Ping made a decision, he took out a magic array token from his storage bag and handed it to him, saying, "This is the monitoring token for the Zhongzhou Star magic array. From now on, the supervision of the Zhongzhou Star magic array will be handed over to you."

Wang Ping's eyes fell on the magic array token, which was a small white token with an exquisite five-element pattern carved on it. The magic array patterns inside it had some resonance with the five-element magic array under the starry sky. With the vision of the "Tian Tong Fu", one could see a dense network of five-element yin and yang interwoven together, connecting to the giant net of heaven and earth.

"I'll arrange a puppet to watch over it."

Wang Ping took the token and made a promise.

Lieyang smiled and said, "It is more convenient for Monk Taiyan. This token was originally in Huishan's hands. After Huishan's consciousness was polluted, it fell into Tiangong's hands. When I recovered, Tiangong couldn't wait to give it to me. It was very troublesome for me to hold it in my hand, so it is more suitable for Monk Taiyan."

Wang Ping just nodded when he heard this, and had no intention of continuing the topic.

Lieyang added, "The communication devices for the meetings of the various departments of the Dao Palace are all on Jupiter. You can find the specific location with a little exploration. I won't take you to find it. After you find it, remember to check if there are any problems. Various data are also stored on Jupiter. They have not been updated in the years since Huishan went crazy. You have to arrange someone to do this. Recording history is also an important part of our work. The core issue is best replaced by a puppet."

Wang Ping had thought about where the projection space for the meetings of the Taoist Palace was before, but he never expected that it would be in his hands in the end. It was really a dreamlike feeling where imagination and reality overlapped.

"I'll check it out as soon as possible."

he responded.

Lieyang nodded and asked, "If you have any questions, you can ask now."

Wang Ping thought for a while and said, "When I was promoted to the third realm, I was told that Xuanmen and Tianmen had a limit on the number of promotions. I found it very strange at the time, because cultivation is up to the individual, and it is against the will of heaven for mortals to cultivate. If it is against the will of heaven, why are there so many rules?"

"When I was promoted to the third realm, I used the spiritual veins in my body to sense the changes in the world and thought that the quota was allocated by the top-level wood spirit life. This view was recognized by most of the third realm cultivators. However, when I cultivated to the fourth realm, I found that the wood spirit life form existed independently and could not be split."

"Now that I have reached the fifth realm, I have become one of the rules of the wood spirits of this universe. Although I am working hard to master this rule, I know that the quota will not be split from the wood spirit life. However, I can clearly feel the existence of the quota. Because there are too many wood spirit lives, the wood spirit energy of this universe will overflow, and the spirituality and spiritual energy will become extremely chaotic."

"What I want to ask is, are the promotion quotas controlled by us or by something else?"

Lieyan listened to Wang Ping's story quietly, with a look of nostalgia on his face. After Wang Ping stopped talking for more than ten breaths, he responded: "Your words remind me of something that happened a long, long time ago. Time flies so fast. In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of years have passed. I haven't even observed this starry sky carefully."

"I originally thought that I would fight to the death against the Yuqing Sect and the Taiyin Sect, but the foggy sea suddenly descended and caught us off guard. Our battlefield with the Yuqing Sect and the Taiyin Sect shifted to the foggy sea, and we eventually discovered the inheritance of the Five Sects of Xuanmen in the Heavenly Palace."

"Unfortunately, after the battle, the Heavenly Palace was reduced to ruins. Although we later used our great magical powers to repair most of it, it is impossible to restore it to its original state."

"You should know what happened later. We switched to practicing Xuanmen secrets, but the fighting didn't stop. One time when we were fighting in outer space, maybe it was a coincidence, maybe it was fate, but when the seven of us were fighting, we saw a giant black stone tablet together. It appeared because of the resonance generated by our spells."

"It was a magical feeling. When the seven of us looked at the stone tablet at the same time, we suddenly understood the significance of its existence. It is the rule of this starry sky. It is because of its existence that this starry sky can survive the destruction of the universe."

When Wang Ping heard this, the scene of watching the formation of Zhongzhou Star and the energy fluctuations that merged into the starry sky when the universe was destroyed suddenly appeared in his mind.

"He used this starry sky as a support to construct a giant magic circle, which protected us and also trapped us in this magic circle..."

When Lieyang said this, he stretched out his right hand and flicked it lightly. A flash of light with the breath of fire spirit flashed by, blocking out all the ears and eyes within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, including the life of those plants. His eyes swept over Yu Lian again, and Yu Lian's head immediately pressed against Wang Ping's cheek.

"You can use the black stone tablet as the core of the formation. Let me tell you this. We can even use it to directly raise a person's cultivation from the third realm to the fourth realm. However, this kind of promotion will make the practitioner's consciousness unable to adapt. Later in the testing process, we discovered the impact of spiritual chaos on the rules of the starry sky. After many attempts, we used the stone tablet to set the current promotion quota limit."

Wang Ping raised his eyebrows and asked, "You mean to say that Xuanmen and Tianmen didn't have quota restrictions before, and you used that stone tablet to set up the conditions artificially?"

Lieyang responded helplessly: "This is a necessary choice. The quota limit is not a simple limit. There is also spiritual balance that needs to be considered. We use the power of the stone tablet to become unprecedentedly powerful, and this starry sky is more stable. However, the internal stability leads to the relaxation of external barriers, allowing more extraterritorial life forms to pass through the starry sky barrier and enter our world."

He stopped here, because anyone who wasn’t too stupid could figure out what was going to happen next.

Wang Ping was silent for a long time, trying to digest this matter and combine it with some previous things. Then he asked: "Can we use the stone tablet to assimilate the starry sky outside the domain?"

According to what Lieyang just said, this stone tablet can be regarded as the way of heaven in this starry sky. Its existence allows this starry sky to be preserved and allows people to continue to practice.

Xinghai's voice echoed in Wang Ping's ears at this time: "When I was wandering in the universe, I could sense that many existing starry skies had their own special rules. I think this was the self-rescue behavior of some powerful cultivators when the universe was destroyed. It cannot be regarded as the way of heaven. It is just using the rules of the way of heaven. A universe cannot have multiple ways of heaven."

Wang Ping understood, looked at Lieyang and asked, "Does the stone tablet have self-awareness?"

Lieyang shook his head: "We have thought of various possibilities early on. First, we explored the inside of the stone tablet and found no consciousness, only complex runes connected to the starry sky. Of course, it is also possible that our cultivation is not enough, so we are very careful every time we use or study it."

Wang Ping asked again: "First, the fog sea descended from outside the domain, and then you summoned the stone tablet by chance. Have you ever thought about the involvement here?"

"I've thought about it, but there's nothing we can do. We can only leave it to fate!"

Lieyang's words revealed helplessness and reluctance, "The knowledge of our ancestors has not been left behind. We now have to slowly explore every step on our own, and this is the simplest thing. The real difficulty lies in human nature. You see, we can't even summon the stone tablet now. This is human nature."

These words also made Wang Ping silent. Facing the powerful force of the stone tablet, everyone had different ideas, otherwise the starry sky would not be so withered now.

"I can more or less guess what you're thinking. A prosperous civilization can indeed bring about a more powerful spirituality and help this starry sky assimilate outward, but you have to proceed step by step. To take the last step you have to have the strength to convince everyone, and you're not strong enough now." Lieyang said this with a warning.

Wang Ping cupped his hands to indicate that he would take note of what he said, and then asked, "Can you tell me more about that stone tablet?"

Lieyang returned the greeting and bowed, then fell into recollection. After a long while, he said, "Sometimes my memory is hazy. After all, my current consciousness has been reintegrated. Let me tell you this, our five realms are directly transferred by the five elements of life, rather than obtained through step-by-step practice. The current secret method of the five sects of Xuanmen was revealed on the stone tablet after we summoned it."

After he finished speaking, he added in a low voice: "As for the magic arts we practice, except for Yuanwu, all others are deduced according to the stone tablet."

Wang Ping was startled, and his thoughts almost became confused. After trying hard to maintain his composure, he asked, "Before the Xuanmen secret method was invented, did you ever let your disciples practice?"

"Yes, but no one has cultivated to the third realm. At the beginning, we all used the spirit veins to infuse directly, and then absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to evolve. Moreover, before infusing the spirit veins, we need to cultivate to at least the second realm. In the end, only the human cultivators had the highest success rate, but it was very troublesome because they had to cultivate to the second realm with the secret method of demon cultivation first."

Lieyang speaks frankly.

Wang Ping didn't show any extra expression after hearing this. He looked at Lieyang and said, "Isn't this the key to the prosperity of humanity?"

"That's right, humane cultivators can indeed stabilize their spirituality, and so can mortals. Moreover, when one reaches a high level of cultivation, one's humanity will not be lost in a short period of time. This is completely designed for the Xuanmen."

Lieyang responded as a matter of course.

Wang Ping walked to the top of the cliff, looked out at the endless forest and said, "With the existence of the stone tablet, is there any meaning in personal strength? We are like our destiny is set."

As he spoke, he gently stroked Yu Lian's head.

Lieyang raised his eyebrows and said in a relaxed tone: "It is precisely because of the existence of the stone tablet that we know that there is a higher level of power above the True Lord. Why do you doubt yourself? When you first started practicing Qi, did you ever think that you would be able to reach the fifth level in more than a thousand years?"

Wang Ping turned his head and looked at Lieyang, "Is the secret method of the sixth realm recorded on the stone tablet?"

Lieyang also walked to the edge of the cliff, and looked out at the endless forest on the planet like Wang Ping just did, and replied: "There is no secret record, but the rules we set, Xuanmen and Tianmen have successfully set a quota for the Six Realms."

"What about above the Six Realms?"

"It is impossible to deduce or set. Perhaps we can only assimilate more stars, or perhaps our path of cultivation is only the sixth mirror. No matter what path it is, it is not the problem we are thinking about now. The most taboo on the path of cultivation is to be too ambitious. Huishan is a lesson for you. Don't make the same mistake again."

Lieyang stretched out his right hand and drew a circle of light in front of him. When the circle of light spread out, it cleared away a large area of ​​forest. He looked at the disappearing forest and said to Wang Ping: "Just like this planet, too much wood spirit energy is as bad as too little."

Wang Ping also stretched out his hand and tapped lightly at the spreading circle of light to stop it from continuing to clear the forest, but he did not respond to Lieyang. He could hear that Lieyang did not want to continue this topic, perhaps even he sometimes couldn't help but think too much.

"Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Lieyang put his hands behind his back.

Many questions in Wang Ping's mind were answered because of Lieyang's words. He thought for a while and asked, "What is the current level of cultivation of all the True Lords?"

"good question!"

Lieyang laughed and replied, "Let's talk about me first. I have just completely mastered the Fire Spirit, and the next step of cultivation has not yet been deduced. Tiangong has not yet completely mastered the Gold Spirit. He has too many thoughts in his mind, but it is precisely because of this that his humanity can be maintained so well."

"I guess Xuanqing hasn't practiced much in these years. Tianmen's practice method needs time to evolve. I guess his cultivation level is about the same as Tiangong. Baiyan is second. Daoist Diwen's cultivation level before he fell asleep is about the same as Xuanqing's now. I guess he has made some progress in these years by relying on the earth veins of Zhongzhou Star."

"As for the Dragon Lord, his bloodline is extremely compatible with the Hundred Water Secrets. He has always been ahead of us in terms of cultivation. He had already mastered the water spirit during the great war with the demon clan. During the battle, he always suppressed us with his true dragon spirit, and his casting was completely impossible to detect. It was as if his spirit consciousness was perfectly compatible with the water spirit energy under the starry sky, making it impossible to defend against him."

Yu Lian stared at Lie Yang with her golden vertical pupils and asked, "So, you really can't beat the Dragon King?"

Lieyang admitted generously, "That's right, but his strength is not enough to completely overwhelm us, and he is particularly sleepy, otherwise we would not be able to be so scattered."

Yu Lian suddenly said, "Human nature is unpredictable. Is it true that only force can bring out the truth?"

"This is true for the True Lords, but for mortals, our power is too great, and they have no scruples, so we can only use both kindness and force."

Lieyang was reminding Wang Ping by saying this.

Wang Ping understood the meaning of this sentence. The True Lord is very different from mortals. Mortals cannot understand the True Lord's thoughts, and the True Lord's anger towards mortals is somewhat ridiculous. It will not have any effect except increasing unnecessary killings.

"Is there anything else you want to ask?"

"That's all for now."

Wang Ping did not ask any more questions, because sometimes asking a question is also answering a question, which will allow the other party to guess your own thoughts.

Lieyang bowed and said, "Let's talk about this first. If you need anything, you can contact me using the communication token." (End of this chapter)