In the Xuan Yu Realm, the Path of Cultivation had strict hierarchical ranks. Cultivating techniques across ranks was a great taboo for cultivators; its danger was no less than a mortal climbing a sheer cliff ten thousand zhang high.
There was no other reason: demonic qi was everywhere.
Demonic qi was like a bone-attached sore, slipping through every crevice. It corroded the divine soul, twisted the mind, and polluted vital energy. If a cultivator forcibly cultivated a high-order technique, the vast spiritual mechanisms of heaven and earth stirred by the technique's operation would interact with their still-unstable vital energy and divine soul, making it all too easy to fall into demonic deviation. There were a hundred harms and not a single benefit.
Even those of the Immortal Realm, said to shine alongside the sun and moon, could not wholly escape demonic qi's erosion. The rule mysteries contained within high-order techniques were too vast and profound. When operating them, one's mind sank into their depths as though walking along the edge of an abyss. A single moment of carelessness, a lapse in mental defense, and the lurking demonic qi would seize its chance.
Therefore, even a supreme sect like the Illusionary Gate, despite possessing Sovereign Realm inheritances, would not teach them to Immortal Realm cultivators. It was not that they were unwilling—it was that they could not. The risks were too great, and the price too high!
Not to mention how unfathomable a Sovereign Realm inheritance was. Its complexity far surpassed imagination!
Many Immortal Realm cultivators exhausted the efforts of their entire lives yet failed to fully comprehend even the Fourteenth Order inheritances they cultivated. How could they possibly understand and control Sovereign Realm techniques that stood above immortality?
For that very reason, when Chen Fei heard Chang Xiwen claim that