My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 613 The Difficult Road
The origin of the soul
For cultivators, even a mere peak eighth-level Nascent Soul cultivator like Shen Changchuan is well aware of its importance.

Not to mention the significant negative impact that the missing part of one's divine soul essence would have on one's cultivation and when facing enemies.

The mere loss of the soul makes it extremely difficult to improve or break through one's cultivation level until it is fully restored, which is a huge disaster for cultivators!
The path to immortality

When one's cultivation level breaks through and improves, what is needed is the perfection and flawlessness of one's own essence, energy, and spirit.

Once the spirit is missing
Even if one's foundation is very solid, the success rate of breaking through and improving is still extremely low.

However, restoring the lost essence of the soul is not so simple.

at least,

For Shen Changchuan now...

The loss of one's spiritual essence can only be recovered slowly by oneself, requiring three to five decades of rest.

There was absolutely no way to get help from the outside world.

Such a price is completely unacceptable to Shen Changchuan!

And the reason for this is
The reason is also very simple,
That is, the rare treasures of heaven and earth in this world that can replenish and restore the original essence of the soul are truly too precious!

Among rare and precious materials

Natural treasures capable of restoring consciousness are extremely rare.

Able to restore the original essence of the soul,
That's something that almost only exists in legends!

because,

Able to restore the original essence of the soul,

It can also strengthen the origin of the divine soul!
The origin of the soul is closely related to the strength of one's divine consciousness.

The strength of one's spiritual consciousness is of paramount importance to a cultivator, as every cultivator knows.

but,

The effects of rare and precious materials that can restore the essence of the soul are not limited to this.
The strengthening of one's divine soul origin can even simultaneously and permanently enhance a cultivator's comprehension of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth!
Comprehension,
In particular, the ability to comprehend the great principles of heaven and earth is of self-evident value to cultivators!

That is what determines how high a cultivator can ultimately reach on this path!
It's not that people with weak spiritual essence can't go further on the path of cultivation.
Rather, it is those with a strong spiritual essence and a profound understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.
They can reach higher and higher places more easily than ordinary people!
Also because of this,

Unlike rare and precious materials that can alter a cultivator's aptitude,

Something that can enhance the essence of the soul and permanently improve one's comprehension is unimaginably precious!
As a cultivator's cultivation level increases and they consume various rare and precious herbs, their meridians are refined by spiritual energy, their physique is gradually nourished, and their cultivation aptitude improves accordingly.

But the growth of the divine soul's origin

Almost only through the cultivator's own continuous accumulation and strengthening of the foundation, while simultaneously enhancing the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit, can the origin of the soul be gradually improved under the nourishment of the strong foundation and the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit day and night!

This shows how precious those rare treasures of heaven and earth that can restore the original essence of the soul are!
Whenever such rare and precious treasures of nature appear in the outside world,

These treasures would attract a scramble from powerful cultivators. Even so, these rare and precious items would only be effective against cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage or even the Qi Induction stage; their effect on cultivators at the Profound Core stage would be negligible.
If a True Person of the Profound Core Realm were to encounter this, they would probably still act without hesitation!
Even the smallest amount, when combined with precious natural materials to refine into elixirs, can still enhance one's comprehension to some extent, which is of considerable benefit.

And even if it's completely useless

It can also be used to train younger generations.

To enable our descendants to achieve even greater success in the future!
"Therefore, this path is not one that ordinary people can take."

"Ordinary cultivators, even if they are lucky enough to reach a high level and send a portion of their divine soul essence to other worlds for reincarnation, will mostly end up wasting their time and losing everything."

"If one hasn't become an immortal, there's still a chance to make amends. But if one has become an immortal, the separated divine soul essence cannot return, and the price is almost unimaginable! The next thousands or tens of thousands of years may be spent in recovery!"

"That's why, even though I've been here for so long and seen countless geniuses, almost none of them have been able to gain my approval."

The puppet said with some emotion.

Fortunately, it was a puppet created by its owner many years ago, and it has no human emotions or desires. Otherwise, it might have been driven mad by the endless years.

"One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand."

Upon hearing the puppet's words, Shen Changchuan was momentarily lost in thought and sighed.

Without any cheat codes or memories of reincarnation, Shen Changchuan was acutely aware of the difficulty of reaching the pinnacle in a world.

He remembered a novel he had read in his previous life called Immortality.

The protagonist of that novel reincarnated countless times throughout endless years, finally rising against all odds in his life as Fang Han, and ultimately returning to his peak.

The protagonist, in essence, is the reincarnation of the spirit of a supreme being from that world, possessing an incomparably high status. However, after having all his memories and powerful characteristics erased and entering reincarnation, even returning to his peak is incredibly difficult.

It took countless years and countless lifetimes before they finally succeeded.

For example, the Jade Emperor in mythological novels of the past, who entered the cycle of reincarnation to cultivate, also had to go through countless years before he could return to the peak.
Even those unimaginably powerful figures who could recreate the world with a flick of their wrist were like this.
What can ordinary cultivators do?
not to mention,
Those great figures are able to reincarnate time and time, giving them countless opportunities to try and experiment, so they naturally have a high margin for error.

But ordinary cultivators...
How many times can one divide their own divine soul essence? How many times can one attempt reincarnation?
For cultivators who have not yet become immortals, how much time do they have to try?

On this road,

The corpses of those fallen heroes have probably already formed piles of white bones!
"One general's success is built on the bones of ten thousand soldiers? That saying is quite apt."

"That's right. Although the master's path of reincarnation involves constantly digesting and absorbing the peak Dao fruits of each world to condense unparalleled foundation, while others are still struggling on the rugged path of cultivation, those who cultivate this path can ascend almost unimpeded."

"But along this path to the heavens, countless peerless geniuses have fallen, leaving behind countless corpses. And any one of them would be considered a once-in-a-millennium prodigy in your world."

Between talking,

The puppets and dolls also expressed some感慨 (gǎnkǎi - mixed feelings/reflections).

(End of this chapter)