The "Road to Immortality" Was a Scam, a Comparison of the Longevity Realm's Cultivation System

[The [Heavenly Emperor]'s words seemed reasonable and logically airtight, but you knew that when things defied the norm, something sinister lurked beneath.]

[He was surely hiding something. That was to be expected.]

[Meanwhile, you also worked out how the [Longevity Realm]'s cultivation system measured up against that of the [Supreme True Realm].]

[In the eyes of truly powerful beings, this realm's spiritual qi cultivation system seemed rather fragile and laughable:]

[[Spiritual Qi Qi Refining] through [Spiritual Qi Nascent Soul]: barely equivalent to the [embryonic breath realm].]

[[Spirit Qi Transformation]: equivalent only to [human-grade qi refining], and would even be crushed by the latter in actual combat.]

[After all, with incomplete laws, falling behind was the norm.]

[[Spiritual Qi Void Refining] through [Spiritual Qi Dao Unification]: barely touched the threshold of [earth-grade qi refining].]

[Two major realms corresponded to the same level because [earth-grade qi refining] was itself an enormous watershed.]

[[Spiritual Qi Tribulation Transcendence]: infinitely close to [heaven-grade qi refining].]

[As the pinnacle of combat power in this realm, they had all acquired a trace of the [Longevity Realm]'s source power, to varying degrees.]

[There was nothing unreasonable about any of this. Dress it up however you liked, it was still only "qi refining."]

[With your [foundation establishment perfection limit-breaking] cultivation, you already stood at the top of this realm's pyramid.]

[Yet the strange part was that legendary realm of the [Great Emperor]!]

[According to your deductions, those who attained the position of [Great Emperor] were actually equivalent to [Nascent Soul True Lords] of the [Supreme True Realm]?!]

[That leap was far too great!]

[Soon, you found the reason.]

[—the [Mark of the Heavenly Heart].]

[The so-called [Great Emperors] had, in truth, attained the Dao of the [Mark of the Heavenly Heart].]

[It was not merely a realm, but more