After entering the Longevity Realm, Pan Long discovered that he really did seem rather different from everyone else in the Nine Provinces World.
Before attaining Longevity, whether he had been at the Innate stage or in the True Person Realm, every breakthrough had required a period of secluded cultivation to stabilize his realm.
That was how things usually worked in the Nine Provinces World. Most other people went through the same process.
But once he entered the Longevity Realm, everything changed.
Whether it was becoming a Demon God last time or an Immortal or Buddha this time, he had never needed to stabilize his realm. He felt a little unaccustomed to it at first, but adapted quickly. Every divine ability came readily to hand, as though he had cultivated in that realm for years, without the slightest hitch.
That was strange...
Still, transmigration had happened—and at least twice. What else was there to find strange?
Compared with Wen Chao and Zhao Sheng, who had arrived with the immensely powerful Classic of Mountains and Seas and Nine Provinces Cauldron at their disposal, Pan Long felt his own advantage was nothing much. He would treat it as a belated perk of transmigration.
Having taken Natural Science as his path and entered the realm of Immortals and Buddhas, the first ability he gained was "Command of Myriad Paths." As long as a path belonged to the system of natural science, he could influence and control it to some extent, whether or not he occupied it himself.
For instance, he could temporarily shut off that path's energy output, depriving an Immortal or Buddha who had attained Longevity through it of their inexhaustible power and knocking them back to the True Person Realm for a time.
He could even temporarily sever the path and turn