Hearing this, Chen Nianzhi finally understood. Six Luminaries Immortal had been waiting here for him all along.
There were two formidable hurdles in an immortal's cultivation within the Ascension Immortal realm. One was breaking through to the late stage of Ascension Immortal, and the other was reaching the ninth level of Ascension Immortal.
Of these two great barriers, breaking through to the late stage of Ascension Immortal required cultivating an all-reaching foundation.
Yet whether it was bringing the physical body to great completion, raising one's laws to towering heights, or elevating one's Dao Fruit, none of these was easy.
Those who could generally cultivate to this realm were, aside from a handful of peerless geniuses and immortals from great sects, mostly old cultivators who had lived for hundreds of thousands of years.
Even so, as long as immortals cultivated painstakingly for several hundred thousand, perhaps nearly a million years, most could still break through to the late stage of Ascension Immortal through the slow grind of water wearing through stone.
By comparison, the second barrier was far more difficult.
For one to break through to the ninth level of Ascension Immortal, one not only needed an exceedingly profound foundation, but also had to cultivate one's Dao Fruit to the realm of perfection.
This perfection referred to laws pushed to their utmost limit, an immortal body brought to perfection, and a flawless Dao Fruit.
Such a flawless Dao Fruit at the utmost limit already stood at the very pinnacle of the Ascension Immortal realm.
If laws pushed to their utmost limit advanced another step, one could glimpse the legendary realm of Rules. If an immortal body at perfection could break through again, it would become a Heaven-Opening True Body. If a flawless Dao Fruit ascended another level, it would transcend even