Only Immortal Emperor Changqing had experienced the Nine-Nine Heavy Tribulation. Although Black Snake Demon Saint, Immortal Chou, Zhao Qi, and the others had crossed the Immortal-Mortal Threshold and cultivated the Immortal Dao, they were nowhere near comparable to Immortal Emperor Changqing.
Their Immortal Paths had reached their end.
There was no further path forward.
But Immortal Emperor Changqing was different. He stood among the three great powers at the very pinnacle of the Immortal Realm, an unrivaled Immortal Emperor.
This was the difference wrought by one's choice of Dao Path. Take one wrong step in the mortal world, and once one attained the Dao, one's Dao Fruit would differ as vastly as heaven and earth. Black Snake Demon Saint and the others had only undergone the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, crossing fifty-four Heavenly Tribulations to become immortals.
It was not that they did not wish to pursue greater heights, but that they could not.
The Nine-Nine Heavy Tribulation was the Immortal Emperor Foundation.
Across the first seven realms, every single step had to be cultivated to the limit. Take one wrong step, and at the Tribulation Crossing Realm, one's cultivation could never reach perfection, nor could one trigger the Nine-Nine Heavy Tribulation.
"Eldest Brother?"
A shocked voice interrupted Chen Luo's thoughts. In the distance, a young man in a coarse cloth robe, carrying a basket of firewood on his back, hurried toward the doorway. A little girl followed behind him, her brows and features seventy percent similar to his.
"Why did you come out?!"
The young man's face was full of anxiety and worry. The little girl behind him wore an expression of utter disgust, the loathing in her eyes rising from the depths of her heart. Chen Luo recognized them. They were his younger brother Chen Lin and younger sister