Only longevity could grant the endless lifespan and time needed to slowly perform fusion refinement on the heavenly heart and combined refinement on the heavenly dao. This was painstaking work, like water dripping through stone; ordinarily, there were no shortcuts.
Only imperishability could allow someone opposing the heavenly dao in a human body to withstand, however slightly, the instinctive counterattack and erosion of the Will of Heaven and Earth, rather than lose themselves and be assimilated by the world instead.
Fang Qianyuan had been born in the Dharma-Ending Age and yet possessed the aptitude to cultivate. That was his good fortune, but also his sorrow.
In this era, the Great Dao remained hidden and the heavenly dao was incomplete. It was already an age of declining dharma, so naturally there was no dao fruit of immortality and imperishability to pluck. Yet he had, by chance, succeeded in cultivating the Demon God Nine Transformations and glimpsed the hope of immortality and imperishability.
He had already cultivated to the heaven tier peak, a realm comparable to the late stage of the ancient cultivators' dao realm. Yet he had never managed to attain immortality and imperishability. Instead, he discovered in despair that the road ahead had long since been severed.
He was now like a climber ascending the Ladder to Heaven, only to discover that the path ahead had broken off, leaving him suspended in empty air. However high he stood, it meant nothing.
Unwilling to accept this, he had prepared to leap over the stretch of road beyond the late dao realm devoted to seeking the laws of immortality and imperishability, advancing instead through a leap into the void.
The target of that leap was naturally the ultimate Great Dao itself!
If he succeeded, he might be able to derive laws from