Hearing this, Mei Terumi's heart stirred, and she asked curiously, "Those who can be called Celestial Venerables should no longer be ordinary mortals, right?"
Chen Feng did not answer directly. Instead, he asked, "Do you know what those of us in the Dao Sect seek through painstaking cultivation?"
"Everyone cultivates to become stronger, don't they?"
Mei Terumi replied.
Chen Feng smiled. "That is not entirely wrong, but what cultivators truly seek is to transcend the mortal realm and attain the Righteous Fruit of Immortality."
Mei Terumi's beautiful eyes flickered. "Are there really immortals in this world?"
Chen Feng wore a faint smile. "Within the Dao Sect, immortals are divided into five kinds: Heaven, Earth, Human, Divine, and Ghost."
Hearing this, Mei Terumi grew interested and pressed, "What is the difference between these Five Immortals?"
Chen Feng replied, "A cultivator who fails to comprehend the Great Dao but obtains a method within the Dao and a technique within that method, persevering with faith and determination throughout his life, whose Five Elements Qi mingle by chance, whose form remains solid, whom the plagues of the Eight Evils cannot harm, and who enjoys much peace and little sickness, is called a Human Immortal.
If one's cultivation bears fruit but has yet to be refined into pure yang, and after death one remains calm in a single thought, entering the netherworld and emerging from darkness, transcending within yin, with an indistinct divine visage, no name at the Ghost Gate, and no record on the Three Mountains, then one may be called a Ghost Immortal. Among the Five Immortals, these two are somewhat weaker. Though they possess mystical power, they find it difficult to escape the limits of life and death."
Mei Terumi's eyes lit up. Though she did not truly understand the meaning behind