After Guiguzi finished advancing, he secluded himself from the world.
Upon advancing to the Nascent Soul Realm, cultivators could alter their appearance and physique, but Guiguzi made no changes. He still looked just as old and decrepit.
While Guiguzi was advancing, the Human Race's foremost cultivators-Confucius, Shakyamuni, Xiang Yu, the ten Chosen Ones, Ying Zheng, Bai Qi, Zhang Daoling, Zhang Jue, and the others-had all undergone their tribulations.
Amid the tribulation lightning, their auras kept growing stronger!
As the founders of the three major cultivation systems, Confucius, Shakyamuni, and Xiang Yu had all leaped across realms just as Guiguzi had, thanks to their merit and their own understanding of cultivation realms.
Confucius reached the Hanlin realm, equivalent to the Deity Transformation Realm!
Shakyamuni cultivated the Buddhist Way, while Xiang Yu had founded the Martial Path. Both had reached the equivalent of the Deity Transformation Realm.
The others all advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, though the minor stages they reached varied according to their accumulated insights.
The Mortal Realm was advancing, and so was the Earth Realm.
Over the long years, many Yin Deities had been constrained by heaven and earth, unable to break through to higher realms.
This was especially true of high-ranking Yin Deities, such as the mighty cultivators known as the Ten Yama Kings, who had accumulated immense merit through their great contributions to heaven and earth.
Combined with the difference in the flow of time between the Underworld and the Mortal Realm, the Underworld had long since caught up in strength.
The Yin Deities at the level of the Ten Yama Kings had all reached the late Deity Transformation Realm.
The Civil and Military Judges and the leaders of the various Yin Offices had all reached the early Deity Transformation Realm, while the Underworld's Ten Yin