Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 1097: Chapter 666: The Grand Wedding

“Wind and sail will meet the waves, a time when I steer across the vast ocean with high sails!”

Years later, Endless Sea.

A lone boat floats atop the sea, not only undisturbed by surges but also capable of spatial shifting, instantly traversing hundreds of miles.

Such a sight, if witnessed by others, especially cultivators who have long dwelt in the deep sea, would undoubtedly cause a great alarm.

The arrival of the Demon Star and the sinking of Divine Land have rendered the Endless Sea extraordinary—its time-space is fragile and chaotic, and the risk of performing spatial shifts is extremely high. A single mistake could result in being caught in a time-space turbulence or even a storm, at best losing direction, at worst reduced to ash.

Ordinary cultivators, even Tribulation Realm Void Immortals, dare not to employ void teleportation here, but must sail cautiously and steadily.

Yet, this little boat defies the norm, compressing land to inches, shifting frequently without being affected by the chaotic time-space.

Atop the lone boat, Xu Yang’s gaze is deep and his thoughts slightly adrift.

Over the years, he has finally calmed the Northern Domain, subdued major forces including the Central Plains Immortal Sect, Eastern Abyss Monster Race, and Western Barbarians Devil Race, diffused the flames of war, and established dominion over all, ushering the Northern Domain fully into the era of management by Scholar’s Palace.

Compared to other worlds, this progress is much slower.

But there’s no helping it, after all, this involves the presence of the true self; actions need to be prudent.

Now the development of all realms is advancing in parallel, each with its strengths and each with its challenges.

No need to mention the Mystic Yellow Realm, still waging wars at the Sky-reaching Tower, intending to advance to Ninth Order or even Tenth Order—it cannot be done in less than tens of thousands of years.

The Blue Star Realm, connected to the Mystic Yellow Realm, must be vigilant of the Golden Immortal Demonic Fruit falsified by Boxun, as well as suspect beings corrupted by this fruit among major divine system leaders and various Heavenly Immortals and Earth Immortals. Unless the Mystic Yellow Realm creates an opening, draining the Desire Realm and Boxun’s true body, breaking through the deadlock is difficult.

The Earth Immortal Realm and World of Dao and Law face the Taihuang Emperor trapped in the Demon Catastrophe and the inscrutable Primordial Heavenly Demon, and they also must reckon with the potentially desperate actions of the two Demon Races. For now, the situation is at a stalemate, focusing on securing the Taihuang Emperor’s seal and exploring the Heavenly Secret Realm; significant changes are unlikely before the achievement of Earth Immortal status.

As for the Divine Martial World, all is calm and stable, without formidable enemies threatening it. Heavenly Martial Xu Qingyang has long overcome the ninefold Heavenly Tribulation, ascended to True Immortal status, successfully taken control of the Temple of War God, completed the Ninth Order martial arts systems, and is now exploring the world beyond the Shattered Void.

A side note, the rank of the War God Temple artifact has been affirmed; it is not the previously supposed Eighth Order Supreme Immortal Artifact, nor a Ninth Order Immortal Treasure, but a damaged Tenth Order Heavy Weapon. By an unknown cause, it fell to the Mortal Realm and created the Divine Martial World.

Now “Xu Qingyang” is using this Heavy Weapon to explore the laws of Tenth Order martial arts and the world beyond the Shattered Void, trying to ensure that Immortal and Martial cultivation corroborate and complement each other.

Besides the Divine Martial World’s Xu Qingyang, the four streaming giants of the Blue Star Realm and Zhen Yuanzi Li Liuxian of the Earth Immortal Realm and World of Dao and Law have also achieved perfect merit and been crowned True Immortals, plus the recent addition of the current incarnate self, Xu Yang, he now possesses a fivefold True Immortal essence.

Therefore, it comes as no surprise that he suppresses the Tongtian Saint of Eight Calamity Cultivation with a single Sword Map; it is only expected and nothing astonishing.

A fivefold True Immortal essence is precisely five Taoist Results, each having endured tribulations and been polished to perfection to achieve merit completion.

His Cultivation, foundation, realm, Taoist Cultivation, mana, Divine Power, Martial Arts, Heavenly Mechanics Methods, and various skills have all refined to perfection during the cultivation of these five lifetimes, truly at the peak, achieving Divine Transformation.

Not to mention that Tongtian Saint with merely Eight Calamity Cultivation, even if he completed Nine Tribulations and were a True Immortal, Xu Yang could easily suppress him.

Unless there is some Supreme Immortal Artifact or Heavenly Immortal or Earth Immortal that lowers its rank, he, with several lifetimes of cultivation and special traits, is virtually peerless within the True Immortal Realm.

This was proven in the Seventh Rank battle of the Mystic Yellow Realm, where even the incarnation of the Great Brahma Demon King was defeated by him; needless to say for others, as long as they do not step into the Earth Immortal Realm, they stand no chance against him.

With such capability, the unification of the Northern Domain is effortlessly achieved.

And why unify the Northern Domain, bringing under the fold even the Demon Races and the Four Wilds Frontier?

To assemble forces and propagate cultivation is only one aspect.

Although for him, who possesses the Taoist Scripture and Martial Scripture along with various traits, the larger the capacity of the Scholar’s Palace, the more cultivators under its reign, the faster the advancement in Cultivation. Yet, he is well-aware of one thing: unchecked growth leads to exhaustion of resources, inevitably culminating in self-destruction.

After all, the world’s resources are finite, while the development and demands of the population are endless. Finite resources cannot support infinite development, and once the threshold is exceeded, collapse is inevitable.

Therefore, planned cultivation is unavoidable; the most stably developing Divine Martial World and Blue Star World have even started to control their populations. Blue Star Realm, while preparing for war against the Heavenly Demon, is not easy to control, but also strives to choose the finest over the many, with quality over quantity, to avoid excessive cultivators causing harm.

The current world is the same; Xu Yang uniquely does not fully open the gates, taking into the Scholar’s Palace all cultivators of the Northern Domain, but rather selects the best of the best, striving for continuous improvement. He filters for elites under the premise of not closing the general channel for rising ranks.

Yet this does not hinder his unification of the Northern Domain because only through unification can resources be integrated to the fullest extent, facilitate cultivation and production, and avoid pointless internal strife and conflict.

Without planning for the future, worries will ensue. Each world faces its own challenges, and the current world is no exception.

Now, Xu Yang is invincible within the Northern Domain, but this Northern Domain is only a corner of the world. Beyond the Northern Domain lies Divine Land, and atop that, a True Immortal Upper Realm whose foundation is unknown.

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