Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 1068 The Feast of Peace, Lingxu Invites a Battle

But that's the problem.

Strength and realm... are completely different concepts from opportunities to advance further.

In fact, Yang Jian had some guesses about why he couldn't reach Da Luo.

Yang Jian's own physical abilities are cultivated both internally and externally, making him indestructible.

Over countless millennia of refinement, Yang Jian had long since erased all his weaknesses and flaws.

In other words, Yang Jian, although not yet a Daluo, can be considered an extremely 'perfect' existence below Daluo.

Normally speaking, only Ronaldo can be considered perfect...

But Yang Jian was not yet a Great Luo Immortal, yet he had already become perfect.

But how can something perfect withstand change?

How can we move forward if we can't withstand change?

Therefore, in Yang Jian's estimation, it wasn't actually difficult for him to obtain the opportunity to reach the Great Luo.

—All you need to do is create a weakness for yourself, and then, before that weakness is filled, let a strength pierce through that weakness, thereby breaking your own perfection, breaking that flawless 'circle'...

At that time, Yang Jian would have had the opportunity to achieve the Great Luo realm.

In other words, what Yang Jian needs now is a defeat.

No matter what kind of failure it is, or what level it is on... as long as there is a failure that breaks Yang Jian's current perfect and complete state, then Yang Jian will immediately be able to touch the opportunity to become a Great Luo Immortal, or even directly become a Great Luo Immortal!

However… Yang Jian's response to this speculation was, no!
He was unwilling to face any defeat.

In Yang Jian's eyes, all those things—such as retreating to advance, or turning defeat into victory—were illusory!
Yang Jian was unwilling to do something like creating a weakness to experience a failure in order to seize the opportunity of becoming a Great Luo Immortal.

Moreover, in Yang Jian's eyes, Da Luo is actually 'nothing special'.

In the realm of Pantian, the more powerful a person is, the greater the restrictions they face—those Great Luo Immortals have various concerns when they act.

Even on the battlefields beyond the realm, the Great Luo Immortals still had to be mindful of each other and were not free.

Among these five great realms, the truly freest group of people are actually those at Yang Jian's level.

He is not a Great Luo, but he is below the Great Luo, and no one can rival him.

Any Taiyi below the Great Luo level, or even many Taiyi working together, would find it difficult to defeat them.

People like Yang Jian, who are considered "minor saints," and the "great saints" of the demon race, are all people who can be called "saints" at the Taiyi level. Their existence is equivalent to an incomplete Da Luo.

They can suppress Taiyi as easily as Da Luo, and can suppress countless Taiyi with a single strike. In their presence, the number of ordinary Taiyi is meaningless.

Their only enemy is each other.

Similarly, even for someone like Da Luo, it takes a serious approach to deal with these people.

If any Grand Luo Immortal thinks he is a Grand Luo Immortal and looks down on them, and tries to deal with them casually, then the ones who will suffer will definitely be those Grand Luo Immortals who act casually.

Yang Jian himself is an extremely troublesome person at this level.

That perfect indestructible Vajra, achieved in the most orthodox way, symbolizes the defensive power at the Great Luo level.

Even on battlefields outside the realm, the Great Luo Immortals can act freely... but to deal with Yang Jian and break his indestructible body, it would definitely require a Great Luo Immortal to go all out and attack without any distractions...

However, on that battlefield outside the realm, a Great Luo cultivator single-mindedly attacked a Taiyi cultivator... which was tantamount to sending a signal to the other Great Luo cultivators, instructing them to hunt him down!
In fact, during Yang Jian's limited trips to the far north battlefield for training, the Grand Marshal Tianpeng there simply used him as bait, letting him roam freely on the battlefield... waiting to see which foreign Grand Luo Immortal would lose patience and try to attack him...

That was also the time when the powerful figures of Pantian made their move.

After several such incidents, those powerful beings from beyond the realm naturally learned the tricks of the trade.

Even if Yang Jian were to set foot in the outer realms again, those Great Luo Immortals wouldn't bother with him. At most, they would simply find an opportunity to suddenly throw him into the chaos outside the battlefield, waiting for Pan Tian's Great Luo Immortals to enter the chaos and rescue him...

After several such incidents, even Yang Jian himself lost the desire to hone his skills on the battlefields beyond the realm.

On the battlefields beyond the realm, Pan Tian's soldiers were also extremely incompatible with fighting alongside Yang Jian.

The reason is quite simple.

Yang Jian's existence is, to a certain extent, unsolvable.

Once the enemy on the extraterritorial battlefield has located Yang Jian, they will only send an equally powerful opponent to confront him, and neither side will make a move...

This means that the soldiers who fought alongside Yang Jian received no credit for their service.

Imagine, under such circumstances, which soldiers would be willing to team up with Yang Jian?

As for safety when with Yang Jian...

Are you kidding me?
If it's for safety, then who would go to the battlefield outside the region?
"The era of the Great Luo is untouchable, so be it."

"I refuse to believe that if I keep taking things one step at a time, until the water overflows when it's full, until I reach the 'perfection' of the present moment, when it can no longer hold me back, then that 'perfection' will continue to exist and continue to bind me!"

Yang Jian calmed himself down.

No one had told him about this road to the Great Luo—but he was absolutely certain that he was on the right path.

"Qin Zhuguo, is that wine really that mysterious?" At this moment, a subtle voice rang out at the banquet.

The voice was extremely low, but everyone at the banquet heard it clearly.

—Because the one speaking was not an ordinary deity, but a mortal.

Li Chengqian, the crown prince of the Tang emperor!
Sitting next to Li Chengqian was also an ordinary person.

Qin Qiong, a general who stands at the pinnacle of military prowess.

He was also a prominent figure among the five immortals of the celestial realm.

He is the most powerful person among the immortals in this era!

There was a person sitting next to Li Chengqian. Even though Li Chengqian's demeanor at this moment was somewhat 'unworldly and petty', no immortal or god dared to mock the 'ignorance' of the human emperor's crown prince.

"Your Highness, this 'Supreme Sacred Wine Among Demons' cannot be described by ordinary words alone," Qin Qiong said directly, speaking of the mysteries of this 'Supreme Sacred Wine Among Demons' at the banquet.

"These people present are all rare powerhouses in the world. Each of them is only one step away from the unfathomable Great Luo realm." "And this 'Supreme Saint Wine among Demons' is what makes the distance between them and the Great Luo realm shrink from one step to half a step."

"It's just like His Majesty overcame the calamity at Xuanwu Gate back then." Qin Qiong said, and as if worried that Li Chengqian might not understand, he immediately made another very simple analogy.

"Those present have all reached some kind of end."

"If, at this moment, someone other than one of the guests present were to drink this 'Supreme Sacred Wine Among Demons,' it would be enough for them to ascend to the heavens in one step, directly condense the Dao Seed, and achieve the Taiyi realm with just this one sip of wine."

As Qin Qiong spoke, a strange look appeared in his eyes when he looked at the Bull Demon King.

What is luxury?

This is true luxury!
Even in the current state of the world, a Taiyi who has condensed the Dao Seed is enough to hold down a position, whether human or demon, Taoist or Buddhist.

If the wine these guests are drinking were distributed to ordinary lesser demons—who knows how many of them would transform into demon gods, greatly enriching the demon race's resources.

But the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, the Bull Demon King, just like that, without hesitation or heartache, 'waste' this thing right in front of him.

Indeed, in Qin Qiong's eyes, this "supreme holy wine among demons" was a waste!

Although the distance between these people and Da Luo had decreased from one step to half a step, in Qin Qiong's eyes, this half step was no different from a step.

What does it matter if we get closer to Ronaldo?

As long as they are not yet at the Great Luo level, they can be killed.

To put it bluntly, if Qin Qiong were to go berserk, he would kill more than half of the guests at the banquet in front of Moyun Cave.

Among the five immortal paths of Heaven, Earth, Gods, Humans, and Ghosts, the Human Immortal path, which specializes in killing and conquest, is so domineering that it abandons everything else and exists solely for killing!

However, no matter how wasteful it was, in Qin Qiong's eyes, this banquet was still worthy of being called the "Feast for Pacifying Heaven" in the truest sense.

The two characters 'Ping Tian' are no longer the title of the Bull Demon King—but rather the era in which this banquet takes place.

The distance between the Great Luo and the Great Luo is like the distance between the earth and the sky.

It was incredibly hopeless, and at the same time incredibly despairing, making it impossible to find the path or direction to 'ascend to heaven'.

And this banquet hosted by the Great Sage Equaling Heaven led countless people at the banquet to take their first step toward heaven—how could this not be worthy of the name "Equaling Heaven"?

The Great Luo is Heaven—and what this banquet has leveled is the insurmountable chasm between and below the Great Luo.

"The Feast for Pacifying Heaven truly lives up to its reputation," Qin Qiong exclaimed.

Just as they were reflecting on this, someone stood up at the banquet.

To be precise, a demon god stood up.

Qin Qiong was not unfamiliar with this demon god—it could be said to be one of the few demon gods that Qin Qiong knew among the many guests at the banquet.

That was none other than one of the demon gods who had previously gone to the Blood Maple Forest and even ventured into the human realm.

That wolf spirit, Lingxuzi.

His name actually reveals his origins.

The void is the emptiness between the five directions of the great universe!

Ling Xuzi means that he is someone who has crossed over from the void.

"Ling Xuzi greets the White Tiger Supervisor God." Ling Xuzi bowed directly to the White Tiger Supervisor God.

Ling Xuzi's attitude towards the White Tiger Supervisor God was extremely complicated.

At first, as the incarnation of a Great Luo from beyond the realm, he naturally looked down on those in Pantian who had not yet achieved the Great Luo status.

In particular, the White Tiger Supervisor God before them clearly wields immense power, and achieving the Great Luo realm would be effortless for him.

But she seemed to value her Daoist partner more than herself—she stayed in the East Sea for as long as Cheng Tian was in seclusion, which delayed her own cultivation and made it difficult for her to reach the Great Luo realm.

After taking a trip to that humane place and seeing it for a while, Ling Xuzi suddenly had a completely new understanding of the White Tiger Supervisor God before him.

That was completely, in every aspect, surpassing Ling Xuzi and suppressing his existence.

In terms of his original form, Ling Xuzi was the one who attained enlightenment as a wolf, thus becoming one of the beasts.

The White Tiger Supervisor God is a deity who ascended to godhood and became the leader of all beasts—after the disappearance of the Qilin, the White Tiger directly became the ruler of all beasts.

Regarding cultivation techniques... he still clearly remembered that when he stepped into the Human Path Gate, one of the killing lights emanating from the Human Path Gate originated from this White Tiger Supervisor God.

At that time, if the Great Sage Lion Camel King hadn't shielded them, he would have died before that gate of humanity.

And the power of killing and conquest that he, and even more demons, held was precisely what fell from the hands of this White Tiger Supervisor God at that time.

Therefore, from any perspective, Ling Xuzi did not believe that he would be a match for this White Tiger Supervisor God.

Unfortunately, he was just an incarnation.

Normally, this avatar of his can do as he pleases.

But now that the original body has given the order, his avatar can only follow the original body's command.

His true form instructed him to find an opportunity to attack the White Tiger Supervisor God and drag him into the calamity, so he had no other choice.

"This banquet is the banquet of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven."

"As a member of the demon race, I challenge the White Tiger Supervisor God at this banquet, and once again wield that power of killing."

"In any case, we can drag this White Tiger Supervisor God into the calamity." Ling Xuzi thought to himself, and then continued to speak.

"Back in the Blood Maple Forest, I was careless and was struck by the Divine Lord's sword, which severed my head from my body. It was only thanks to the Great Sage Who Moved Mountains that I was able to save my life."

“Now, when I think about that sword strike again, I can’t help but feel resentful.” Ling Xuzi’s demeanor was completely composed.

"Today, Lingxuzi will dare to take advantage of the banquet hosted by the Great Sage Equaling Heaven to ask the Divine Lord for further guidance."

"Firstly, it is for amusement, to make people laugh."

"Secondly, it can also be seen as a way to show the Great Sage Equaling Heaven what I, Ling Xuzi, have learned, and let the Great Sage Equaling Heaven know that the 'Supreme Saint Wine Among Demons' is not a waste."

(End of this chapter)