Inside the Cave Abode's cultivation chamber, a shield formed from the chaos law shut out every prying gaze from outside.
Zhao Hai sat cross-legged on a cushion, holding in his palm the Myriad-Insights Pavilion jade slip that had cost him several thousand low-grade immortal crystals. He drew a breath and threaded his divine sense into it. A vast torrent of information poured down like a waterfall.
The first thing that entered his mind was an account of the orthodox path of immortal cultivation.
[Human Immortal Path] was the orthodox cultivation method of the chaos great world. Its fundamental course involved tempering the body's innate essence, increasing magical power and immortal essence, and comprehending the three thousand laws. Most ascenders and native immortals followed this path, seeking to gather mighty power within themselves and transcend life and death.
Yet the account that followed made Zhao Hai's gaze sharpen.
[Earth Immortal Path] had actually evolved from the incense path of the otherworldly [Thousand Buddhas Great World]. Its practitioners received incense offerings to forge golden bodies, established divine stations, gathered believers, and drew upon the prayers of the masses to condense divinity, guarding a territory as an earth deity.
At this point, the jade slip's wording revealed a trace of cold-blooded cruelty:
"The Immortal Court openly forbids unauthorized gods, yet secretly grants divine mandates to the mountains. It permits convicted cultivators to switch to earth immortal cultivation, bestowing the empty title of 'Frontier-Opening Divine Lord' and sending them into savage wildernesses to establish shrines and clear the land, turning wild territory into divine soil..."
Zhao Hai's heart gave a heavy thump, and a chill seeped down his spine.
This was no shortcut to cultivation. It was an utterly undisguised scheme to drive tigers into devouring wolves!
The Immortal Realm was boundlessly vast, and