Xu Changqing grew even more curious. "What about the final tribulation?"
Baili Hong glanced at him. "The ninth is called the Primordial Purple Qi Tribulation.
The Primordial Origin will condense a strand of Primordial Purple Qi. If one receives its recognition, the purple qi will merge into one's foundation and aid one's future Ascension to immortality.
If one is not recognized, the purple qi will dissolve one's foundation, and everything will return to the Void."
The bamboo hut fell silent for a moment.
"Become immortal?"
Xu Changqing raised his brows. "But hadn't immortals disappeared long ago?
Throughout All Heavens and Myriad Realms, not even a trace of them remains.
Since immortals are gone, where do cultivators go after transcending their tribulations?
Or rather, can they truly become immortals?"
At those words, Baili Hong spread his hands and shook his head. "I don't know either.
Not to mention that I haven't cultivated to Mahayana yet.
More importantly, cultivators capable of reaching the Tribulation Stage are already exceedingly rare throughout All Heavens and Myriad Realms."
Perhaps the Great Dao Venerable knew.
Xu Changqing had asked many times before, yet he had never received an answer.
It was as though this matter had become a taboo that no one could mention.
Xu Changqing could not help but speculate, "Could it be that the path ahead for cultivators has already been severed?"
After all, from the moment they began cultivating with Spiritual Roots until now,
they had always been absorbing the Divine Dao Legacy, with vast quantities of Divine Dao Fragments contained within their bodies.
The gods were dead.
The demons had perished.
The immortals had vanished.
Did that not mean that the cultivators who came after them had no path ahead?
That every step from now on would have to be explored by