Five Swords Lord
As for reaching the Heavenly Gang realm, cultivators' methods became even more wondrous. They could fly into the vault of heaven, gather the power of stars from the void, as well as all manner of Nine Heavens Gang qi. Their magical power would transcend the mortal and rise into the sublime.
In truth, anyone who could cultivate to the Earthly Baleful realm was already a supreme figure on Sky Star Continent. Even counting together the leaders and grandmasters of the seven great sects and the various unorthodox schools, their number did not exceed ten.
As for the Heavenly Gang level, those were figures on the level of a sect's founding patriarch. Such extraordinarily gifted people had a chance of catching the eye of the Celestial Court Beyond the Realm, receiving an immortal decree and being granted an immortal position—uplifted into immortality and ascending beyond the heavens.
The Heavenly Gang realm could be called a realm of legend; one might not see a single practitioner in a thousand years. As for ascending beyond the heavens, that was a legend among legends.
"This is spiritual essence qi. Put bluntly, it is a kind of foundational vital energy forcibly created through Void-Refining Creation. It is far thinner than pure heaven-and-earth vital energy..."
Huddled within Puppet Demon City, He Ping wound a stream of clear-colored qi around his hand. This current was the spiritual essence qi upon which every cultivator in this world depended for their magical power and cultivation—a substance also known as "spiritual qi."
The most important function of "spiritual qi" was that it could nourish the seven spiritual roots. Everyone's spiritual roots possessed different attributes. Whatever spiritual root a cultivator of Sky Star Continent had within their body determined which single path they had to specialize in, pursuing