One condition for advancing to Fortune: personally experiencing the existence of the Bitter Sea (✓)
"If I advance to Fortune and become a Great Divine Ability User, I'll still be within the Bitter Sea, but I'll have earned a measure of authority to wield some of its power."
Meng Chuan gazed at the Bitter Sea covering the heavens of Cang, thinking silently.
"Then I'll have another way to catch the enemies of the Shrouding the Heavens World off guard."
Every world had a Bitter Sea, but Cultivation in some systems did not involve it. Shrouding the Heavens was one of them.
Reaching Immortal Emperor did mean Transcendence from the Bitter Sea, but before that realm, its cultivators explored the Bitter Sea and such things far less than those of Lifetime did.
Once Meng Chuan advanced to Fortune, wielding some of the Bitter Sea's power would be enough to make his enemies suffer a nasty loss.
But when Meng Chuan went to Lifetime, everyone there could wield some of the Bitter Sea's power, so that advantage would disappear.
By then, though, Meng Chuan could bring his Immortal King advantage to bear and make his enemies in Lifetime suffer a nasty loss instead.
He could crush them on both sides!
For now, Meng Chuan still stood within the Bitter Sea, but its waves had calmed. It had acknowledged him and would no longer batter him.
He had gained a sliver of a Fortune-level Great Divine Ability User's authority.
"Two of the three conditions are met," Meng Chuan murmured. The third condition for advancing to Fortune was to bring all he had learned close to the level of an Illusory Great Dao.
Once he fulfilled that condition, he could condense an Illusory Great Dao, also called a Near-Dao Object. Then he would achieve