Star Alliance inheritance encompassed six major orthodoxes: Heaven Immortal, Earth Immortal, Human Immortal, Immortal, Ghost Immortal, and Qi Refiner. Among them, the Earth Immortal Orthodox had yet to be perfected, and the Heaven Immortal Orthodox was considered orthodox. The remaining four major orthodoxes were regarded as outer dao because they could only be cultivated up to the third rank with no further path forward.
Even so, among the hundreds of billions of people across the thirty-three star regions, hundreds of star systems, and thousands of stars of the Star Alliance, those who successfully cultivated these four major outer daos all the way to the realm of the Third Rank Immortal were exceedingly rare, literally one in ten thousand.
After all, the path of cultivation demanded too much in terms of wealth, companions, methods, locations, personal comprehension, and serendipity, with higher realms demanding even more.
Even though the Star Alliance possessed thirty-three star regions and numerous life stars in the outer domain to provide cultivation resources, inheritances, dao companions, cultivation grounds, and so forth for these practices—along with the massive amounts of lesser spiritual materials cultivated within the natal stars of numerous Star Lord cultivators—it basically allowed outer dao cultivators to enjoy the finest cultivation conditions.
Yet the path of cultivation was, after all, a path of ascending to the heavens. Merely having resources and ladders present did not mean everyone could succeed in cultivation and ascend to the position of an immortal.
Especially between the intermediate and high ranks, crossing from the fourth rank to the third rank, even outer dao cultivators who wished to advance to the high ranks needed to personally comprehend and grasp the power of origin and the power of Great Dao Laws in order to successfully advance.
As for this step, cultivators basically had to