Chapter 901 - 851: Life Simulation - Mystical Land of Blessings = Ecosystem
Chapter 901: Chapter 851: Life Simulation – Mystical Land of Blessings = Ecosystem
Every matter has its advantages and disadvantages; there is no such thing as an absolute benefit without harm. As such, the Path of Qi Refinement also has its limitations. One of them is the extremely demanding requirement for talent in the later stages. To achieve something on this path, one must have an exceptionally high demand for one’s own understanding and wisdom. Understanding is understanding, realization is realization, but if one does not comprehend, even if someone explains it word by word, enlightenment cannot be attained.
The final Path of Spirit Refinement, in Pei Xuanjing’s view, is both mysterious and a path that opens the door wide to cultivation, allowing countless people to enter.
The Path of Spirit Refinement focuses on refining the divine soul and not the physical body, emphasizing that the physical body is merely external while the divine true spirit is the essence of a living being. Even without the existence of a physical body, as long as there’s the existence of a divine soul, one can be immortal between Heaven and Earth.
This includes the widely spread Incense God Path of the Taoist School, the Talismanic Skill, the Buddhism School’s sudden enlightenment method, the Demonic Gate’s Dark Spirit Dao, the Witch Deity Teaching’s Ghost God methods, and Pei Xuanjing’s own practice of the Spirit Divine Tao, all of which can be classified as belonging to the Path of Spirit Refinement.
However, the saying “cultivate one’s nature without cultivating destiny, and dark spirits struggle to achieve holiness through countless calamities” implies that paths that only cultivate the soul and not the body are extremely difficult in the journey towards becoming immortal. Achieving something in such a path would inevitably require one to go through severe trials and tribulations, and the successful ones are one in ten thousand.
The three basic paths of Essence, Qi, and Spirit – the Way of Essence Refinement leads to the Path of Human Immortal upon reaching the sixth level; one can choose to unveil what’s deeply hidden to ascend to the realm of True Immortals, or take on the Divine Spirit Authority to ascend to the Divine Immortal Path.
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The Path of Qi Refinement at the sixth level offers three paths for ascension: whether it is the self-contained Heavenly Immortal Way, the Earth Immortal Path that merges with a Small Thousand World, or taking the Divine Immortal Path through a talisman, all are fine choices.
As for the Path of Spirit Refinement, it corresponds to the Divine Immortal Path and the Ghost Immortal Path. However, the Divine Immortal Path for spirit refiners can only be the Dark God Earthly Deity. To become true deities of the Spirit Divine Tao, the divine soul must be extremely drawn toward life and transform into a Yang Spirit; this path is fraught with difficulty and danger.
Therefore, the mainstream path in the world is the Path of Qi Refinement. Whether it is the Way of Essence Refinement or the Path of Spirit Refinement, most cultivators choose to practice them in conjunction with others, but few decide to specialize primarily in such paths.
“Although theoretically, Cultivating Three Ways Simultaneously is the best choice, providing the most options for ascending to immortality at the peak of the sixth level, this path is also the most difficult. Cultivators have limited energy, and the deeper they delve into each path, the harder it becomes to manage them all. Even though they know that being able to certify the Way of the Five Immortals of Heaven, Earth, Man, God, and Ghost simultaneously is the most powerful, for most cultivators, they eventually have to prioritize and specialize in one path while practicing the others on the side,” Pei Xuanjing shook his head slightly as he thought to himself.
Everyone knows that the more solid the foundation, the more options one has when ascending to True Immortality, and the stronger one will be afterward. But not everyone has a Life Simulator like him at hand to save a great deal of time and advance simultaneously on multiple paths. In reality, it is likely that only after truly ascending to the True Immortal Realm will they have the lengthened lifespan to choose other paths.