However, Li Yun was delighted as well.
With a little maneuvering, being able to keep that old thing Bai Fantian around as the Mountain Guardian was a good thing. That had been his goal from the start.
After becoming the Lord of Tiangu King Mountain, he had learned that Tiangu King Mountain actually had a Mountain Guardian—and one who had once been a peerless expert of the Ninth Realm of Heaven-Piercing.
Although this expert had long since lost his physical body and only had a wisp of remnant soul left, a starved camel was still bigger than a horse. He was absolutely no laughing matter.
The Nine Heavens Reaching Realms.
The Heavenly Human Realm was merely the starting point. Only after choosing a Divine Ability and evolving a Dharma Aspect could one be said to have truly taken a small step onto the road to Heaven-Piercing.
After that came condensing a Dao Seed, then achieving a Dao Embryo, and forging an Origin Dao. Only then could one be considered to have truly opened up one's own path.
Then, using one's own Dao to evolve an innate Divine Ability, one attained Divine Martial.
At that point, ordinary martial artists had essentially reached the end of the road.
Only those truly gifted and dazzling talents could draw upon the marvels of heaven and earth they had comprehended, use themselves as the foundation, and open up a Cave Heaven within their bodies. That was the Void Comprehension Realm.
A Cave Heaven was a world.
By opening a Cave Heaven and commanding a world of one's own, even if that world was tiny and could carry only one's own Dao, one was still a true lord of that world.
In terms of level and essence, this directly left the first six of the Nine