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The artifact spirit was quite perceptive. Knowing that I had yet to stabilize my first tribulation in the True Immortal Realm, it hadn't dared wake me. Instead, it had gone elsewhere. Now that I had stabilized my True Immortal Crystal, I had become what was known as a First-Tribulation True Immortal.
The most difficult part of the True Immortal Realm was stabilizing one's Dao Body. If anything went wrong at this point, one might be knocked back to one's original state. After all, aside from stabilizing the Eighth Heaven oneself, one's former believers and the Heavenly One Dao disciples who had inherited one's Dao lineage all needed to receive feedback from one's Eighth-Heaven Dao lineage. The amount of Dao lineage consumed and fed back was simply unimaginable. That was why I had needed to spend nearly ten first-grade Immortal Qi Disks' worth.
Now, my Dao-lineage inheritors had presumably gained tremendous benefits, to one degree or another. For example, the channels for borrowing the Dao lineage had expanded, making it more convenient to borrow techniques. When they used Dao arts themselves, their power had also increased. All these obvious benefits had come from my stabilizing my Dao Body.
Thus, the first tribulation of the True Immortal Realm was also the most important foundation. If it wasn't stabilized in time, the believer channels below would drag one down, knocking one back to the Seventh Heaven. After all, the believers below only knew that their channels had become Eighth-Heaven channels, giving them sufficient convenience when borrowing techniques. They didn't know that those channels were still clogged in many places and couldn't provide such powerful feedback. Thus, once believers borrowed techniques excessively, the channels would instantly become overloaded and obstructed.
The peril I had faced this time had been caused by the Forbidden