The ceiling of Ancestral Return Realm Stage Nine could no longer be broken through by talent, bloodline, Blood Binding Stones, and the like.
After careful consideration, Li Qingyun sat down with Houtu for an equal discussion of the Dao. Master and disciple ultimately concluded that to enter Ancestral Return Realm Stage Nine, one had to merge with a "fundamental thing."
Put simply, one needed to fuse with some kind of remnant shell from Ancestor Binding Heaven, using it as the "foundation" supporting Ancestral Return Realm Stage Nine.
Of course, fusing with some essence of Wei Zu Heaven would also work, but that would amount to placing oneself directly upon Its dinner plate as a sacrifice.
For natives to reach this stage of Ancestral Return, they likewise had to obtain a sliver of opportunity akin to Innate Qi before they could continue onward.
This was perhaps one reason Wei Zu Heaven sealed off the Awakened Vein path and suppressed it beneath the three realms of Ancestral Return. How could It bear to waste innate or quasi-innate things to create existences at Ancestral Return Realm Stage Nine?
To It, that would be putting the cart before the horse!
After all, the Awakened Vein path was a remnant of the Ancestor Binding Heaven era, not the bizarre Dao Path under Its control.
"What opportunities could serve as vessels for the foundation of Ancestral Return Realm Stage Nine?"
The first things Li Qingyun thought of were the Qionghua hairpin in his hand and the Qionghua female corpse that had appeared in the Blood River of the True Face.
But he still had great use for the Qionghua hairpin. He could not possibly let the Merfolk clone or Houtu fuse with it now.
On second thought, he felt that the ancient stone book in the