ccnovels #431 - Dewenxian [Important Worldview Chapter]
#431 - Dewenxian [Important Worldview Chapter]
“Land of Immortal Prohibition?”
The white bones seemed to sink into a long memory.
“As for the specifics, I… I don’t know.
“It’s possible that the so-called Land of Immortal Prohibition was named after we passed away.
“It probably means that cultivation is forbidden in this area.
“However, you were indeed implicated by this starfield. Otherwise, after six thousand years of hard cultivation, you would have been qualified… to become a small soldier in some faction in the Immortal Realm.”
The white bones' words were full of jest.
Wang Jixuan frowned tightly, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.
There was a sense of shattered dreams.
The white bones sighed softly, its voice becoming much gentler. Although it was impossible to tell its gender, the voice was pleasant, carrying a certain Dao rhythm.
It said:
“Your aptitude and comprehension are rare. If you were born in the Immortal Realm, you might have become a prominent figure.
“However, it’s best not to think too much about it now.
“If you ascend, you will go to the Ascension Platform… This is a rough map of the Immortal Realm.”
The white bones raised its hand and pointed, and countless twinkling stars immediately appeared before Wang Jixuan's eyes.
Each twinkling star seemed to be a huge elliptical galaxy, or an astronomical unit one or two levels higher than the Milky Way.
The picture turned, and a giant land appeared in the center of the stars.
The voice of the white bones accompanied the unfolding of the Immortal Realm map, constantly floating in Wang Jixuan's ears and heart.
The white bones said:
“The so-called Immortal Realm does not have boundless land or endless treasures, but it is the origin of the Three Thousand Great Daos, the meeting point of ten thousand worlds. Heaven, Earth, Xuan, Huang, Universe, and Honghuang all begin here. Therefore, we call it the Origin Land.
“What you are in now is just a remote corner of this sea of stars.”
Wang Jixuan looked enlightened: “Are you saying that the Immortal Realm is not in a higher dimension, but in the center of the universe?”
The white bones carefully considered Wang Jixuan's words.
It nodded slowly and said gently: “You can understand it that way, but without the guidance of the Ascension Platform, even if you can cultivate into an immortal in a remote starfield, you will never be able to fly there directly in your lifetime.”
Wang Jixuan looked enlightened: “The speed of the universe's expansion is greater than the speed of light!”
The white bones lowered its head and thought for a long time again.
Wang Jixuan sighed inwardly.
He could only use a little common sense of physics to regain his composure.
The white bones smiled and said: “Your words are strange, but upon closer inspection, they are indeed the same principle. It's just a different interpretation of the same 'Dao'.”
“Senior, please continue.”
Wang Jixuan quickly cupped his hands.
The white bones nodded slightly and continued to tell Wang Daoren about the Immortal Realm.
Wang Jixuan used his intermediate mechanic-level physics knowledge to sort it out a bit. It was roughly like this—
The Immortal Realm is located in the center of the universe, between the three-dimensional world and the four-dimensional world, but not a purely four-dimensional world.
The Immortal Realm is a link in the development of the entire universe's space-time, and it is also a material world independent of the universe's evolution. It is closest to the Sea of Dao Principles. Cultivating here for one day is equivalent to cultivating for ten days in other places with the same spiritual energy concentration.
The spiritual energy in the Immortal Realm is inexhaustible. Because it is close to the Land of Chaos, the spiritual energy will also experience a tidal ebb and flow. Each spiritual energy tide will bring a large number of treasures into the world.
The forces in the Immortal Realm are even more complex.
A large number of immortal kingdoms, sects, and religions, as long as they can develop and grow in the Immortal Realm, can control a starfield.
Over time, the Immortal Realm has also developed a complete 'newcomer system'.
There are 360 Ascension Platforms coexisting in the Immortal Realm. These Ascension Platforms correspond to the Three Thousand Worlds. Many of the Three Thousand Worlds are 'Xu Worlds' opened up by great powers, and many are 'True Worlds' formed from fragments separated from the Immortal Realm since ancient times.
Both Xu Worlds and True Worlds are places with a round sky and a square earth, scattered around the periphery of the Immortal Realm.
Outside the Three Thousand Worlds is this endless sea of stars.
After Wang Jixuan failed his first tribulation, his remnant soul was 'recruited' by the Yina civilization to a remote corner of the endless sea of stars, and then began his second life of cultivation.
The endless sea of stars can also correspond to different Ascension Platforms according to their orientation.
Cultivation in the True World is often easier than in the Xu World;
And because the spiritual energy in the endless sea of stars is broken and unevenly distributed, cultivation is more difficult than in the Xu World.
Cultivation from easy to difficult is respectively:
Immortal Realm, True World, Xu World, Endless Sea of Stars.
Wang Jixuan's hometown cultivation world is a Xu World.
Therefore, the white bones was quite surprised that Wang Jixuan was able to successfully ascend after a hundred years of tribulation in the Xu World and six thousand years of hard work in the endless sea of stars.
The white bones sighed: “With your talent, if you could be born and cultivate in the Immortal Realm, you might have been able to cultivate the Dao fruit of longevity. It's a pity.”
Wang Jixuan was a little puzzled, so he asked directly:
“Senior, you have said 'pity' several times, but I really don't understand.
“The place of origin is just a lower starting point. As long as I can successfully ascend and arrive in the Immortal Realm, can't I still create my own world? Why do you always say 'pity'?
“I think it is precisely because of this kind of hardship that my heart towards the Dao is more firm.”
The white bones shook its head: “I don't want to discourage your Dao heart, but the Immortal Realm has immortal spiritual energy. In the Immortal Realm, cultivators will absorb immortal spiritual energy to replenish their innate deficiencies every time they advance. When they enter the realm of immortals, they can obtain 90,000 years of life. Both the upper limit and the speed of self-cultivation are several times that of cultivators who ascend to the Immortal Realm.”
Wang Jixuan:…
Grass, is a plant.
The white bones continued: “There is also some immortal spiritual energy remaining in the True World. Therefore, each True World is a place that immortal forces must compete for.”
Wang Jixuan nodded slowly and smiled: “I can understand. After all, for immortal cultivation forces, population is the biggest resource. As long as there is a population, cultivators can be born in proportion. As long as there are enough cultivators, there will always be people with extraordinary qualifications.”
In the hollow skull eyes of the white bones, a few appreciations were revealed.
“Not bad, that's the principle. It's really interesting to chat with you.”
Then, the white bones sighed lightly and continued to tell Wang Jixuan about the great forces in the Immortal Realm.
These forces have not declined for tens of thousands of years, and some great forces have existed since ancient times.
And in the Immortal Realm, although there are many people, most of the blessed lands and rare treasures are controlled by innate beings.
The so-called innate beings are even more outrageous.
Just like cultivators born in the Immortal Realm are much easier to cultivate than cultivators born in other worlds.
Most innate beings are born with the Dao. Many innate beings are Dao treasures that have gained spirituality and have great supernatural powers from birth.
As Wang Jixuan listened, a few longings grew in his eyes.
Raising his hand to destroy the sun and the moon, destroying the stars with a finger.
Seeking longevity and asking about the Dao, the world can be peaceful.
What a grand world that would be.
If he could ascend and enter this Immortal Realm, even if he started as a small soldier, it would be a wonderful thing.
The white bones spoke for seven or eight hours.
Wang Jixuan stubbornly remembered the names and strengths of more than a hundred immortal forces in the Immortal Realm, as well as the names and supernatural powers of forty-nine so-called 'great power' experts.
However, Wang Jixuan was already dizzy and a little unable to accept it.
“Senior, why are you telling me this?”
Wang Jixuan asked tentatively:
“I haven't even been able to ascend yet. It's unlikely that I can help you avenge your hatred.”
The white bones was stunned, and then laughed loudly.
The white jade bones kept clapping, making a creaking sound.
The white bones smiled and said: “Avenge hatred? Do you know who our enemies are? They are the so-called God Kings, the Eight Great Immortal Monarchs! They are already the top existences in the Immortal Realm, all of them are Da Luo Golden Immortals! Hahaha! Avenge us? Hahahaha!”
Wang Jixuan smiled awkwardly beside him.
“Alas,” the white bones sighed, “Actually, I am not the remnant soul of some great power. I am just a wisp of spiritual thought born from this white bone, equivalent to a goblin formed by white bones.”
Wang Jixuan asked smoothly: “Then senior, why are you in a remote corner of the endless sea of stars?”
“Lost the fight.”
“Lost?”
“Yes,” the white bones said calmly, “When the calamity began, the world changed drastically. It was dangerous, but it was also an opportunity. Our force is called Moon God Palace. In the past, we rose from the endless sea of stars, and then occupied a Xu World. After tens of thousands of years of development, we gathered 6,000 immortals, 60 heavenly immortals, and several Taiyi Golden Immortals to seize the True World and establish a foothold in the Immortal Realm.”
Wang Jixuan:…
The white bones' voice was a little more vicissitudes.
“It's a pity that when I was attacking the Da Luo realm, I was plotted against by the God King.
“The Immortal Realm is too crowded, and we rushed forward rashly without enough accumulation.
“If you want to gain a foothold in the Immortal Realm, you must have the strength and determination to destroy a great force. What you can't get with supernatural powers, you can't get with words and compromise.
“And the threshold for a great force in the Immortal Realm is to have a Da Luo Golden Immortal to protect it.
“It's a pity that although I have the power to fight Da Luo, I don't have the supernatural power to kill Da Luo. Da Luo Golden Immortals are almost immortal and indestructible, unique in time and coexisting with heaven and earth.
“So we lost in the end. The other party shamelessly ambushed all of our Taiyi and Heavenly Immortals. In the end, I could only protect the families of my comrades and escape from the Immortal Realm.
“The Land of Immortal Prohibition you mentioned may be related to us.
“Probably, the powerful enemy knew our final destination and designated this starfield as a place where cultivation is forbidden.
“It's just a word from those big figures in the Immortal Realm, and the small forces below will fight to do it.”
Wang Jixuan listened carefully.
He vaguely felt that Tianluo and Anjiao did not seem to be small forces.
“Senior, how long ago were these things you mentioned?”
“Let me think… according to the scale of years you can understand, it was about 3.9 million years ago.”
“Will the structure of the Immortal Realm change?”
“If there weren't a great calamity, there probably wouldn't be much change.”
White Bone shook his head:
“Moreover, the greater the power and the more experts, the greater the ability to resist risks, and the longer they can exist in the Immortal Realm.
“The strong are always strong, and the weak are always weak. How easy is it to defeat the strong with the weak?”
White Bone paused, looking at Wang Ji Xuan with a smile: “I've almost fulfilled your wish. Do you have any other questions?”
Wang Ji Xuan had a faint feeling.
He was enjoying the conversation with White Bone. If he just obediently called him 'Senior' a few times, he should be able to get some benefits.
However, there were two questions that he really wanted to ask!
“Yes.”
“Speak freely.”
“It's just,” Wang Ji Xuan carefully considered his words, “according to the records of the Ina civilization, they once obtained some advanced technology from a civilization that had collectively ascended, and the space teleportation gates in these star fields were restricted to this area, as if higher civilizations were imposing restrictions on lower civilizations from a higher dimension.”
White Bone sighed: “Here, we must mention the enemies of the Immortal Realm.”
“The enemies of the Immortal Realm?”
“That's right,” White Bone said slowly, “In the endless star fields, starting about billions of years ago, there appeared a powerful existence that was neither cultivation-based nor spiritual energy-based.”
“Technology?”
“The names are varied, but these powerful existences have a commonality: they are born from the spiritual resonance of countless living beings, like a collective of the will of an entire race.”
White Bone said solemnly:
“These entities of will themselves control quite a bit of energy, but they are only active in the Chaos Sea, while the Immortal Realm is on the edge of the Chaos Sea.
“The cultivators of the Immortal Realm have had some conflicts with them.
“This involves the agreements made by those God-Kings with these entities of will. I don't know the specifics.
“In short, these entities of will propagate in some areas of the endless star fields.
“And this is not the propagation of individuals, but the propagation of this entity of will. It is difficult for me to explain clearly. I have not yet reached the highest level of the Immortal Realm, and I do not know the details of these secrets. What I say is just speculation.
“Roughly speaking, it refers to civilizations.”
“Civilizations?”
“Yes, for example, the civilization on this Earth that you saved.”
White Bone smiled:
“When they develop to a very strong stage, spread throughout this star field, control nearly endless energy and resources, and then complete the so-called collective sublimation, they can probably give birth to such an entity of will, existing in the Chaos Sea.
“This is just a simple speculation based on the information I obtained from the Moonstone.
“Like the Ina civilization, it was once very close to collective sublimation, but ultimately failed.”
Wang Ji Xuan had a sudden idea: “Could the so-called Forbidden Lands of Immortals be related to this?”
“Well, now that you mention it, there is some truth to it. Perhaps those Da Luo experts in the Immortal Realm reached some agreements with the entities of will in the Chaos, and they cannot preach in this area.”
White Bone said slowly:
“To some extent, collective sublimation is extremely cruel. All individuals will be deprived of their own ability to think and become the basic units of the collective will.
“This is to obliterate the individual's nature.”
Wang Ji Xuan quite agreed with this.
“Alright,” White Bone sighed again, “It was quite pleasant to chat with you. Choose a treasure from this place to take away. This is just a cemetery. It wouldn't hurt for your remnant soul to hide here, but don't easily disturb the peace here.”
“Yes, this junior understands.”
Wang Ji Xuan was a little embarrassed.
What he did was indeed not ethical.
This was someone else's cemetery, and he insisted on causing trouble, disturbing the spirits here.
The gains here were already huge. He was a little embarrassed to take any more treasures, so he said:
“This junior only came to seek answers, not to covet the treasures here. The foundation of cultivation is to comprehend the Dao. Senior, your explanation has helped me understand so much, allowing me to know the whole picture of the world, which is already a great help to comprehending the Dao. I dare not ask for more, dare not ask for more.”
After saying that, Wang Ji Xuan got up and gave a solemn Dao salute, and then turned to leave.
White Bone tilted his head and looked at Wang Ji Xuan a few times, then suddenly pointed a finger.
Wang Ji Xuan only felt the light and shadow in front of him quickly transform. When he reappeared, his primordial spirit was outside the Stone of the Past.
And his right hand sank, and the hilt of a precious sword fell into his palm.
“Since that's the case, I'll give you an Immortal Technique. This was also my unique skill back then. If you cultivate it to great success, you can enter the gate of Sword Dao.”
White Bone's voice turned into a sigh from a distant age, gradually disappearing.
Wang Ji Xuan looked down, with a bit more joy between his brows.