After breaking through the Barrier, they continued deeper inside.
The journey grew much quieter, with hardly any enemies along the way.
The Demon Emperor passed through layers of dense forest and reached a fortified city.
Only then did he finally understand why so many of them had tried to stop him from entering.
"Building a stone man within Stone City... so you intend to walk the Stone Body Path? After advancing to the Hongmeng Realm, you actually switched to cultivating a stone body. Are you trying to break through to become a Venerable?"
"You certainly have courage-and strength."
Above the Hongmeng Realm, there was at least one legendary realm, known as Venerable. Others said it was not a realm at all, merely an honorific for powerful Hongmeng Realm cultivators.
Opinions differed, for not a single Venerable had ever appeared in this battlefield world.
Countless Hongmeng Realm cultivators were all searching for ways to improve their strength.
The strongest to have appeared so far were the Super Overlords, who stood at the pinnacle of all Hongmeng Realm cultivators.
A Super Overlord was merely a Hongmeng Realm cultivator stronger than an Overlord. In essence, there was little difference between them.
A breakthrough had always been defined as a change in one's fundamental nature.
Just as a Sage's breakthrough to the Heavenly Dao Realm changed the fundamental nature of a Sage, breaking through from the Heavenly Dao Realm to the Hongmeng Realm changed the fundamental nature of a Heavenly Dao Realm cultivator.
But how could someone in the Hongmeng Realm change their fundamental nature and break through?
No one had managed it yet.
This stone man's stone body was a promising attempt.
His path differed from the Demon Emperor's.
The Demon Emperor followed Enshrine the World Within the Body, a cultivation method he