"Establish Heavenly Court"
This text, titled Establish Heavenly Court, was neither a cultivation technique like the Great Yang Divine Skill nor an auxiliary technique like the Heavenly Devil Body Tempering Great Technique. In fact, it was not a cultivation technique at all, yet it surpassed every cultivation technique under Heaven.
Immortals lived forever, but who in all the world could become an immortal? There were countless cultivation methods, yet only a handful of people across the entire world could become immortals. Even throughout history, from ancient times to the present, those who had managed to become immortals could be counted on one hand.
Becoming an immortal was difficult, and living forever was difficult. Without becoming an immortal, one remained a mortal in the end, and mortals were bound by the limits of their lifespans. Everyone eventually faced the arrival of their final limit.
To cultivate into an immortal within a finite lifespan was far too difficult. Unless one possessed extraordinary comprehension and an exceptionally gifted Root Bone, it was nearly impossible to break through before one's final limit arrived. During the course of cultivation, a person's lifespan was simply too short. The Innate Stage granted a lifespan of two hundred years, while the Golden Core Stage granted only four hundred. If one failed to break through to the Nascent Soul Stage by the age of four hundred, death was the only outcome.
With Root Bone like Zhong Shan's, there was no need to say more—sooner or later, he would become nothing more than a handful of yellow earth.
That was because everyone carried many forms of karma, such as poor Root Bone, low comprehension, disturbances from external objects, or entanglements with worldly affairs. All of these were karmic obstacles. The more karmic obstacles one had, the harder it was to