Magical Power

Merely cultivating magical power without divine abilities meant that no matter how abundant one's magical power was, one could still be killed by an ordinary person. But with divine abilities and immortal arts in hand, one could immediately toy with ordinary people at will, deciding life and death with great power in one's grasp.

The path to longevity was not merely about accumulating magical power and cultivating divine abilities. In this world, once cultivators reached a certain level, they had to undergo three tribulations. Survive them, and the immortal path would be within reach; fail, and they would turn to ashes.

Cultivators seized the creations of heaven and earth, infringed upon the mysteries of sun and moon, and sought Heaven and Earth Longevity. Though they could preserve their looks and extend their lives, after five hundred years, heavenly lightning would descend to strike them. If they evaded it, their lifespan would match the heavens; if not, they would die on the spot. Five hundred years later, heavenly fire would descend to burn them. This fire was neither heavenly fire nor mortal fire, but was called Yin Fire. It burned upward from beneath one's Yongquan Acupoint, piercing straight through the Ni Heng Palace. The five viscera turned to ash, the limbs decayed, and a thousand years of arduous cultivation became an illusion. Another five hundred years later, a wind tribulation would descend. This wind was not an east, south, west, or north wind; nor was it the gentle fragrant wind, the wind that molded gold, or the wind through flowers, willows, bamboo, and pines. It was the Bifeng Wind, blowing in through the fontanelle and into the six bowels, passing through the dantian and piercing the nine orifices. Flesh and bone wasted away, and the body dissolved on its own. These