Fang Qianyuan's cultivation was profound, and he was gradually approaching the root of all things. His understanding of his place in this age and across the universe of the heavenly realms had also grown far deeper than that of ordinary people.
The first thing he understood was that he did not exist in isolation in this world. When his cultivation stagnated, his first consideration had to be what was restricting him, and only then how to break that restriction.
Otherwise, he would remain forever at a standstill, just like the Heaven-Tier Powerhouses who had thronged history like carp crossing a river, and the Dao Realm cultivators of the old age.
The answer he reached was that he was subject to two restrictions: the Age of Dharma Decline and the limits of the Spirit Command Dao itself.
The former, in particular, was more crucial.
Perhaps the latter could still be resolved by blazing a new trail through unparalleled talent for the Dao Path, but the latter offered almost no possibility of a solution through personal cultivation or individual effort.
Under the Age of Dharma Decline, there was always a ceiling beyond which one could rise no higher and break through no further.
He had now touched that ceiling. What he needed to do next was not make an ordinary breakthrough, but shatter the shackles of this world and this age.
In truth, this achieved the same end by a different means as the "Profound Realm Ascension to Immortality" pursued by the Supreme Heaven and Heavenly Realms Two Sects!
As Fang Qianyuan reflected on it now, he recognized the importance of "a rising tide lifting all boats," just as the sages of the Two Sects had.
He needed not only to cultivate and grow stronger himself, but also to lead his sect,