Though the Xuan World was vast, it should not have contained so many Great Vehicle Heavenly Venerates!
Especially now, the situation had almost become grotesquely distorted.
Smaller continents had three to five Great Vehicle cultivators.
Larger ones, like the Youxuan Continent, had more than a dozen Great Vehicle Heavenly Venerates crammed together.
Great Vehicle cultivators were beings who had cultivated a Law True Intent to the utmost Great Accomplishment!
Within a world, such beings were practically incarnations of the corresponding laws.
They would be instinctively rejected and expelled by the world itself, or even lifted up and sent soaring away from this world.
It was much the same as Spirit Transformation Cultivators in Small Worlds being forced to ascend.
The principle was more or less identical.
Yet after countless years, the Great Vehicle cultivators of the Xuan World had only increased, never decreased.
The reason came down to one thing alone.
The immortal path had been severed!
Without the guiding immortal light, even Great Vehicle Heavenly Venerates did not dare ascend directly.
Even if they remained in the Xuan World and had to endure a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation once every ten thousand years, they could only cling to this place and survive.
As time passed, some ancient records even added a special realm classification—the Tribulation Crossing Stage.
In truth, this realm was no different from the Great Vehicle Realm. The only difference was how many Heavenly Tribulations one had endured.
Those who had passed one Heavenly Tribulation were in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, and those who had passed seven or eight were also in the Tribulation Crossing Stage.
The legendary Nine Tribulations Heavenly Venerate, who had swept across the Xuan World, had endured a full nine Great Vehicle Heavenly Tribulations.
Measured by the number of tribulations crossed, the more one