Of course, no matter which path one takes, there is no way to guarantee that a cultivator can advance with one hundred percent certainty.
The difficulty of advancing through the World Dao lies in the fact that every advancement of the world counts as a significant barrier.
From the Great World to the Lesser Thousand World, from the Lesser Thousand World to the Middle Thousand World, and from the Middle Thousand World to the Great Thousand World.
Each step in this advancement was a hurdle, just like the cultivation bottlenecks faced by ordinary Cultivators.
The fundamental structure of the world was a tremendous test. If one wanted to ensure that the world could steadily improve,
one had to constantly adjust the world's basic framework during cultivation and perfect its core rule.
This was to prevent the Living Beings within the world from influencing it, causing it to deviate from the world creator's original intentions and corrupting the core rule.
In short, successfully proving one's Dao had never been a simple matter.
It was like thousands upon thousands of soldiers and horses crossing a single-plank bridge. There were very few successful ones, while the rest would become stepping stones on the road to proving the Dao.
The Dao Proving Methods created by Styx were advantageous precisely because they could be interconnected. No matter when, they could always leave all Living Beings a sliver of hope for proving the Dao.
Even if, one day, the Great Wilderness no longer had enough Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to refine Lifebound Spiritual Treasures or supply the advancement of worlds,
there were still the two paths of Martial Dao and Literary Dao to serve as a safety net. Their lower limits were extremely low, but their upper limits were high enough.
This would prevent the