Please sit, have some tea, fellow Daoist (first update)

Cultivation realms were devised for ordinary people, to keep them from suffering cultivation deviation and straying from the proper path. They were not fixed.

"Realms arise from the Dao; the Dao does not prescribe realms."

"If the Dao prescribed realms, no one could ever defy the hierarchy and slay an immortal."

"When someone of a higher realm is slain by someone below them, the root cause is an insufficient understanding of the Dao."

"This is what it means to stand within the realm while the Dao lies beyond it."

Lin Xian spoke leisurely, each word a pearl of wisdom, every phrase a true insight. With wisdom at the level of the immortal Dao, he delivered a crushing blow from a higher dimension—not to show off, but to awe the Supreme Being.

The Black Tortoise Emperor might seem peaceful and be on the verge of Dao transformation, but that did not mean he was easy to bully.

The old patriarchs of the Shrouding the Heavens Universe were nothing like those of other immortal cultivation universes!

If the Black Tortoise Emperor wished, he could undergo ultimate sublimation at any moment and take another Supreme Being down with him. Such was the power of Dao transformation—even a Great Emperor would lose half his life to it, let alone those who had severed their own cultivation.

To earn the respect of a Supreme Being in Shrouding the Heavens, one had to say something astonishing, and the subject had to involve immortality, the Great Dao, or becoming an immortal.

"What a fine phrase: stand within the realm while the Dao lies beyond it."

"Your words hold profound meaning, young friend. Please, take a seat."

The Black Tortoise Emperor narrowed his eyes and savored those words. A faint smile emerged on his aged face. With a