Chapter 442 - 413: This Is True Talent
General Believers!
True Believers!
Fanatic Believers!
In just a moment.
The belief level of Demon Venerable Xuan Yin jumped from being a non-believer directly to the level of a Saint Apprentice.
This kind of transformation.
Even Gu Qingyang was somewhat shocked.
He knew about the means by which powerful beings could change their mindset, akin to self-hypnosis to generate faith.
However.
To self-hypnotize to the level of a Saint Apprentice in just a moment, like Demon Venerable Xuan Yin, is not something everyone can achieve.
Looking again at Demon Venerable Xuan Yin, only two words flashed in Gu Qingyang’s mind.
Genius!
This is a true genius!
After all, to self-hypnotize to the level of a Saint Apprentice in just a moment is not a skill ordinary people can possess.
A twelfth-level powerhouse.
With each belief settlement, it can provide one trillion Faith Power.
At the level of a Saint Apprentice, it can be settled once a day.
That is to say.
Just one Demon Venerable Xuan Yin can provide Gu Qingyang with 365 trillion Faith Power a year.
Bear in mind.
Gu Qingyang’s entire belief income is only two to three hundred trillion a year, and this encompasses countless beings to achieve such a yield.
Now, a single Demon Venerable Xuan Yin can match countless beings, further making Gu Qingyang realize the importance of top-tier powerhouses.
The twelfth-level Demon Venerable Xuan Yin is already so terrifying, if he breaks through to the thirteenth level, the Faith Power he can provide will be even greater.
At this moment.
Gu Qingyang’s gaze towards Demon Venerable Xuan Yin held a hint of appreciation.
"How long will it take you to break through to the thirteenth level?"
"The current Starry Sky does not possess the conditions to break through to the thirteenth level, it can’t even support any powerhouse above the tenth level to cultivate. However, my Ancient Celestial Demon clan is different, as long as I refine the blood and energy of living beings, I can recover my former fallen cultivation.
But even so, being able to restore to the twelfth level is the limit.
To break through to the thirteenth level, relying solely on the power of the blood and energy of living beings is not possible.
Ultimately, it’s because the current Starry Sky lacks the most important thing."
After hypnotizing himself as a Saint Apprentice, Demon Venerable Xuan Yin became much more respectful to Gu Qingyang, mostly responding to queries and sometimes even answering unasked questions.
Gu Qingyang said, "Could what you’re referring to be Immortal Qi?"
"Indeed!"
Demon Venerable Xuan Yin nodded.
"Immortal Qi is something essential for powerhouses at the tenth level and above to cultivate. In the past, the Upper Realm communicated with the Starry Sky, allowing powerhouses to autonomously connect with the Upper Realm, drawing down Immortal Power for their own cultivation.
But now that the Path to Immortality is broken, the only bridge between the Starry Sky and the Upper Realm has vanished. Even if there are Immortals in existence, it’s impossible to draw down Immortal Power."
So that’s it!
Gu Qingyang nodded almost imperceptibly.
In short.
The Path to Immortality was the bridge between the Starry Sky and the Upper Realm.
But now that the bridge is broken, everything no longer exists.
That is to say.
Without the existence of Immortal Power, in the Starry Sky, powerhouses above the ninth level are impossible to appear, and the limit is Quasi-Immortal, with so-called longevity being just a dream.
If this news gets out, it might drive quite a few cultivators insane.
This is no joke.
The Immortal Path is broken.
Even Quasi-Immortal powerhouses can only sit and die, showing what a desperate thing this is.
Subsequently.
Gu Qingyang thought of the Immortal Path of the Immortal Extinction Realm.
According to Demon Venerable Xuan Yin, the Immortal Path has long been broken, so when Great Emperors of the Immortal Extinction Realm step onto the Immortal Path, it’s akin to stepping into a dead end.
If a Great Emperor discovers that Ascension to Immortality on the Immortal Path is false, one wonders if they can withstand such a blow.
"Is there danger in entering the Immortal Path?"
"Naturally, there is. The Immortal Path ascends with each step, hence on the Heaven-Ascending Road, there are nine layers of Celestial Tribulations. Only by passing through the nine layers can one reach the end of the Immortal Path and finally achieve Ascension to Immortality.
Moreover, once you’ve set foot on the Immortal Path, there’s no turning back. Only by reaching the end can you truly break free from the shackles of the Immortal Path.
But that was the Immortal Path of old. The battle back then shattered the Heaven-Ascending Road, and now the Immortal Path is incomplete, not to mention potentially harboring numerous indescribable dangers.
Rashly entering it, even at my full strength, I wouldn’t dare claim I could come out unscathed!"
Demon Venerable Xuan Yin said, his face full of apprehension.
Blood was spilled on the Immortal Path, and countless top-tier powerhouses fell.
The twelfth-level True Immortals were mere cannon fodder in that battle.
Thirteenth-level Golden Immortals!
Fourteenth-level Taiyi Golden Immortals!
Fifteenth-level Daluo Golden Immortals!
Sixteenth-level Primordial Daluo Golden Immortals!
Such terrifying existences all shed blood there.
At that level, a single drop of blood holds miraculous prowess, and now, bloodstained on the Immortal Path, it can alter the very steps leading to the Upper Realm in unforeseen ways.
Hearing this.
Gu Qingyang understood.
The matter of the Immortal Path is not something he should contemplate at the moment.
Only when his strength is sufficient in the future will it be time to reach for the Immortal Path.
After all.
The Starry Sky is merely the Lower Realm and naturally cannot compare to the Upper Realm.
Gu Qingyang had a premonition that perhaps one day in the future, the vanished powerhouses of the Upper Realm will descend again. Although the Immortal Path is broken, unless it is reforged, Upper Realm powerhouses should have no way of entering the Starry Sky.
But nothing is absolute.
As long as the strength is sufficient, all problems become non-issues.
Who can guarantee that there won’t be unknown powerhouses in the Upper Realm capable of opening a passage between the Two Realms?
Once Upper Realm powerhouses descend again, what awaits the Starry Sky is an apocalypse.
As Demon Venerable Xuan Yin said, in normal circumstances, the Upper Realm wouldn’t completely annihilate the beings of the Starry Sky, but the powerhouses in the Starry Sky are destined to be the targets of the Upper Realm.
Is he a powerhouse?
Gu Qingyang asked himself, he should be.
Therefore.
If the Upper Realm powerhouses descend, he will undoubtedly be the first to bear the brunt.
Regardless of any reason, Gu Qingyang understood that his strength must be raised significantly, and it’s definitely not as simple as just advancing one or two levels.
Back then, the founder of the Taichu Immortal Court was a sixteenth-level Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, but even he ended in failure. This suggests that, to contend against the Upper Realm, one must be even more powerful than the sixteenth level.
With this thought, Gu Qingyang looked at Demon Venerable Xuan Yin and asked, "Do you know what level the strongest beings in the Upper Realm are?"
"In the records of my Ancient Celestial Demon clan, the strongest in the Upper Realm are seventeenth-level Harmonization powerhouses."
"Harmonization? Are you talking about Body and Heavenly Dao harmonization?"
Gu Qingyang’s expression was slightly stunned.
Demon Venerable Xuan Yin first nodded, and then shook his head: "Harmonization is indeed akin to the Divine Emperor becoming one with the Heavenly Dao, but Harmonization powerhouses merge not with the Heavenly Dao of one world, but with the Heavenly Dao of a universe.
Every Harmonization powerhouse can be considered the ruler of a universe, the true supreme existence!"