In the end, this new path of cultivation replaced the cultivation system that had been passed down through the Primordial and Ancient eras.
Its creator, the Primordial Dao Ancestor, foremost among the seventy-two sages of the Human Race, had also successfully attained the realm of Chaos through boundless merits.
Thus, among the three thousand Immortal Domains, there were seven beings in the realm of Chaos.
All of them were supremely exalted existences, revered by countless immortals and gods as Divine Emperors, Heavenly Emperors, and Immortal Saints.
Yet the only one who could be called a Dao Ancestor was the Primordial Dao Ancestor.
Even today, the ancient cultivation system was still practiced, but compared to the overwhelmingly advantageous path of opening heaven and earth, few still cultivated it.
Of course, some still walked this path, such as the Ink Qilin Chen Nianzhi had subdued, and the utterly mindless Western-Geng Grand Tiger.
Yet such beings could only be called eighth-rank World-Opening cultivators and could not be revered as Earth Immortal Patriarchs.
That was because their ability to cultivate to this realm relied more on their own potential. Without needing World-Opening Qi to unlock their shackles, they could cultivate to the Earth Immortal or even Heavenly Immortal realm.
Even so, since they had not opened heaven and earth, their mana was not even a third of that possessed by cultivators of the modern method. It would also be far more difficult for them to break through major bottlenecks in the future.
Though these eighth- and even ninth-rank powerhouses stood at the same realm as Earth Immortals and Heavenly Immortals, and their combat power and methods differed little, their mana was vastly insufficient. More often than not, they fought using their extraordinarily gifted physical bodies.
For the Ink Qilin and the Western-Geng White Tiger