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Chapter 4: Five Immortals and Ten Realms – The Division of Realms in the Journey to the West World!
Life is tough, even a cat sighs.

Niu Jun offered no words of comfort in response to Klein's complaints.

Because his current situation is not much better than Klein's, and may even be worse.

He comforted Klein, but who would comfort him?

No matter how dangerous the world Klein lives in is, he is still the protagonist of the mysterious world, and he became the strongest ancient mysterious lord in three years.

And what about Niu Jun?
If one cannot break free from their destiny, they may become the mount of some Buddhist bodhisattva, and in the near future, they will be separated from their wives and children, and it will be difficult for them to recover.

Thinking of this, Niu Jun felt a surge of crisis and his consciousness involuntarily turned to his sea of ​​consciousness.

In the vast and boundless sea of ​​consciousness, a golden divine mirror hung high in the sky, radiating boundless divine light like an eternal sun, coloring the entire sea of ​​consciousness golden.

This divine mirror was the cheat code that allowed Niu Jun to travel through time, and he named it the Enlightenment Mirror.

The Enlightenment Mirror has a very simple function.

Its greatest function is to assist cultivators in comprehending the Great Dao.

Under the divine light of the Enlightenment Mirror, Niu Jun was constantly in the process of enlightenment, and all sorts of profound and mysterious things surged into his mind.

It is some kind of ineffable 'Tao' and 'principle', the great law of heaven and earth.

The moment Niu Jun's consciousness looked at the Enlightenment Mirror, all sorts of profound insights surfaced in his mind, and endless 'Tao' and 'principle' were forcibly instilled into his brain.

At this moment, he felt as if he were facing Yog-Sothoth, the omniscient and omnipotent god of the Cthulhu universe, sacrificing his own sanity for Yog-Sothoth's vast and boundless knowledge.

Therefore, for Niu Jun, the biggest problem in cultivation was never supernatural powers or methods, nor was it improving his cultivation level or comprehending the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Rather, it is about how to maintain one's rationality and humanity in one profound enlightenment after another, so as not to lose oneself in the process of enlightenment and cultivation, and ultimately become a puppet of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

Niu Jun's gaze swept across the Enlightenment Mirror and looked into the deepest part of the golden sea of ​​consciousness.

There, a dreamlike Dao Fruit is slowly taking shape.

Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, wind and thunder, time and space, destiny, life and death, creation, cause and effect, reincarnation... all kinds of great laws intertwine and entwine, as if to evolve a world.

The cultivation system in the Journey to the West world is mainly based on the path of immortality, with five immortals and ten realms.

The Five Immortals: namely, Heaven, Earth, Gods, Humans, and Ghosts, representing five systems of immortal cultivation.

The Ten Realms are: Refining Essence, Refining Qi, Refining Spirit, Transforming Spirit, Returning to Emptiness, Merging with the Dao, True Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, Golden Immortal, and Primordial Chaos.

The so-called Celestial Immortals, Earthly Immortals, Divine Immortals, Human Immortals, and Ghost Immortals are not classifications of realms, but rather five systems.

Celestial immortals cultivate both body and spirit, achieving a state of perfect harmony between the physical and mental realms in order to ascend to heaven in broad daylight. This requires extremely high aptitude for cultivation.

Earth Immortals also cultivate both body and spirit, but the only difference is that cultivators of the Earth Immortal path integrate their own Great Dao into a world, using blessed lands and grottoes to aid their cultivation. They find it difficult to ascend to the Heavenly Realm, hence the name Earth Immortal.

This spiritual practice system has relatively low requirements for spiritual aptitude and extremely high requirements for blessed lands.

When one cultivates to the highest level, one can transform a blessed land in the mortal world into a grotto-heaven, becoming the master of that grotto-heaven. Wherever the grotto-heaven exists, the earth immortal exists, immortal and indestructible.

Deities are the spirits worshipped through incense and can be divided into three types: righteous gods of the heavenly court, gods of the human realm, and wild gods of licentious shrines. They cultivate themselves by relying on the faith of sentient beings, but are also bound by the faith of sentient beings, unable to be free, and easily lose their true selves.

After the immortals, there are the human immortals.

The "human" in "human immortal" does not refer to the human race, but rather to the human way.

What is the way of humanity?

In the eyes of Heaven and Earth, humanity is all living beings, including immortals, demons, gods, devils, wild beasts, and humans.

The concepts of gods, immortals, demons, monsters, ghosts, devils, spirits, and humans are a further subdivision of the human realm among the three realms of heaven, earth, and humanity.

Therefore, the cultivation system of the human immortals among the Five Immortals is a cultivation method that focuses on the living being itself, without cultivating the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, but only cultivating oneself.

Through cultivation, one continuously explores the treasures within one's physical body, ultimately reaching a state where all power resides within oneself.

The original innate deities, the ancient dragon and phoenix clans, the witch and demon clans, and even the current human martial arts cultivation methods all belong to the path of human immortals.

Similarly, great demons like Niu Jun in the Journey to the West world cultivate the ancient demon race's methods and also belong to the human immortal system of cultivators.

Finally, there is the cultivation of the path of the Ghost Immortal.

The cultivation of the Ghost Immortal system does not simply refer to the cultivation methods of those who failed to attain enlightenment in their lifetime and then cultivate in the ghost realm after death.

Such practices as achieving immortality through corpse liberation or ascending to heaven as a feather are also considered part of the path of ghost immortals.

Therefore, strictly speaking, all methods of achieving immortality by abandoning the physical body are the path of ghost immortals.

Of course, the concept of deification through faith does not count, because the purpose of deification through faith is to become a god, not an immortal.

In the world of Journey to the West, although the gods are classified as one of the Five Immortals, there is still a fundamental difference between immortals and gods.

Therefore, ghost immortals are ghost immortals, and gods are gods; they cannot be confused. Niu Jun looked at the illusory Dao Fruit deep within his sea of ​​consciousness and sighed slightly, "I originally wanted to cultivate slowly and break through to the Primordial Chaos Realm in peace."

"The emergence of the All-Heavens Chat Group has forced me to change my original plans."

The Primordial Chaos Realm is the final stage of cultivation in the world of Journey to the West.

Of course, in Niu Jun's view, the Hunyuan Realm in the Journey to the West world is not the real Hunyuan Realm, but rather the Taiyi Realm in the Honghuang genre of novels.

Above the Taiyi realm, there should be two more realms: Daluo and Quasi-Saint, with the Hunyuan realm being the final one.

Therefore, sometimes he would change the Hunyuan Realm to the Taiyi Realm.

In fact.

In the Journey to the West world, Taiyi and Daluo are not names of strength or realm, but rather titles referring to the status and origin of immortals and gods.

Immortals who attain enlightenment through methods other than those of the Three Pure Ones are often regarded as Taiyi Immortals of unorthodox origin, while direct descendants of immortals who attain enlightenment through the orthodox methods of the Three Pure Ones are called Daluo Immortals.

Taiyi Immortals often cultivate on their own and are not officially employed by the Heavenly Court, so their resources are relatively scarce, and their cultivation methods and magical treasures may not be as complete as those of Daluo Immortals.

In terms of status, Taiyi Immortals are generally considered to be lower than Daluo Immortals. They often find it difficult to enter the circle of Daluo Immortals, and their status and influence in the cultivation world are relatively limited.

In the original novel "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong's ultimate realm is called "Primordial Golden Immortal of Hunyuan Yiqi".

Although the monkey's master was Subhuti, Subhuti forbade him to mention his sect. Many immortals, gods, and demons mistakenly believed that he was self-taught and called him Taiyi Sanshu.

This is also why Sun Wukong was once classified as a Taiyi Scattered Immortal by Zhenyuan Daxian.

Although Zhu Bajie was not as strong as Sun Wukong, he called himself a Daluo Jinxian because of his background and cultivation experience, and because his strength had reached the Golden Immortal level.

Even Sha Wujing claimed to be a celestial being.

Ultimately, the reason lies in the fact that the Journey to the West world is merely a medium-thousand universe, which is simply unable to contain true Great Luo Golden Immortals, let alone Quasi-Saints and Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortals.

Golden Immortal and Taiyi Golden Immortal.

What may seem like a difference of only one level is actually worlds apart.

Because of the cultivation laws of Golden Immortals.

Taiyi, also known as Taiyi, refers to the origin of all things in the universe, also called "Tao".

Taiyi Golden Immortal is a Golden Immortal who controls the Great Dao of the Universe.

In the world of Journey to the West, you can comprehend the power of laws and use it to forge an immortal body and soul, thus ascending to become an immortal and a true immortal.

By cultivating a law to perfection, one enters the realm of profound mystery and becomes a Mysterious Immortal.

If one can master two or more different laws and merge them into one, forging an immortal body and an indestructible immortal soul, one can become a Golden Immortal.

Gold is immortal!
When a cultivator breaks through to the Golden Immortal realm, it means that he has transcended the single law of Heaven and is no longer afraid of attacks from the power of a single law in the world. He no longer needs to worry about the three calamities and nine tribulations that Heaven will send down, and he will live as long as Heaven and as long as Earth.

But the Taiyi Golden Immortal is different.

Why are the Taiyi Golden Immortals of the primordial world called Hunyuan Realm in the Journey to the West world?

To break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, one needs to cultivate not the power of laws, but the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, and attain the Taiyi Dao Fruit, cultivating the Primordial Qi.

The Primordial Qi refers to the primordial ancestral Qi, or the innate primordial Qi.

As the saying goes: In the beginning there was nothingness, nothingness had no name. From the origin of one, there was one but no form, this was called the limitless. The Tao gave birth to one, one gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things.

If we consider chaos as the Dao, then the "one" born from chaos is the Wuji, which is the primordial Qi.

In other words, the Primordial Qi is not the chaotic Qi, but it is the primordial Qi that existed before the creation of the world, and it is the source of all laws and paths.

Therefore, if a person born after birth wants to cultivate the Primordial Qi and attain the Taiyi Dao Fruit, besides relying on external objects to transform from a born being into a pre-natal deity, the only other option is to follow the path of the unity of all laws.

Using himself as a furnace, he forged the myriad laws and great principles of heaven and earth, ultimately attaining the Taiyi Dao Fruit, and then reversing the innate state to become an innate saint.

Of course, there are shortcuts to this level.

For example, it is too difficult to fuse all the laws and principles of heaven and earth to cultivate the primordial ...

However, the more laws of heaven and earth and the Great Dao are fused together, the purer the quality of the Primordial Chaos Qi that is ultimately cultivated will be, and the more beneficial it will be for cultivation after reaching the Taiyi realm.

Therefore, the upper and lower limits of Taiyi Golden Immortals are both very high.

Some Taiyi Golden Immortals are not even as powerful as Golden Immortals; they can be killed by a wisp of Chaos Qi.

Some Taiyi Golden Immortals, however, can walk in the chaos, condense a true chaotic god-demon body, and destroy a vast universe.

Although both are Taiyi Golden Immortals, their strength and realm are incomparable.

(End of this chapter)