Ning Xiaochuan was stunned as well.
He deeply understood the importance of a martial scripture. It could be said that if a martial artist did not possess a martial scripture, they would absolutely be unable to comprehend the realm of the Five-Step Heavenly Ladder.
Before the Earth Venerable Realm Ninth Level, one only needed to cultivate techniques and absorb profound qi to raise one's martial cultivation.
However, once one reached the Earth Venerable Realm Ninth Level, one had to begin comprehending a martial scripture and cultivate one's own "martial path."
The "path" comprehended by every person was different. Only martial artists who cultivated their own martial path could be considered to have comprehended the "Heavenly Ladder."
In other words, the "Heavenly Ladder" was actually the "martial path."
Because every martial artist's degree of comprehension of the martial path differed, the "Heavenly Ladder" was divided into five steps.
Thus, an additional realm, the "Five-Step Heavenly Ladder," existed between the Earth Venerable Realm Ninth Level and the Heaven-Man Realm.
Only when one had comprehended the martial path to a certain degree and condensed a "Dao Origin" could one truly reach the Heaven-Man Realm.
Cultivation from the Earth Venerable Realm Ninth Level to the Heaven-Man Realm was the cultivation of the martial path.
Although Ning Xiaochuan's martial cultivation had already entered the Earth Venerable Realm Seventh Level, what he cultivated was merely "qi" and "strength." He had not formed his own "path" at all.
Even with the World Extinction Path he cultivated, what he had cultivated so far were only World Extinction Qi and World Extinction Swordplay. He still had not comprehended the path of World Extinction.
Just the single word "path" crushed many people beneath the Earth Venerable Realm, leaving them unable to comprehend the "Heavenly Ladder," unable to reach the realm