"Qualifications!?" Li Xiaoya froze at those words, then collected himself and spoke, his expression growing grave. With such tremendous sacrifices and dangers involved, would he not be putting every living being in the Human Realm at risk? His cultivation was astonishing, but the Cultivation World and the path of cultivation were fraught with danger. No matter how great his Dao Fortune or how high his cultivation, he could not guarantee that he would never encounter danger and perish someday. Would that not drag the entire Human Realm down with him? His earlier enthusiasm faded. Hearing Daode Daoist Patriarch say this, he asked in surprise, "I need qualifications for this too?"
"Of course!" Daode Daoist Patriarch replied unequivocally. "This is a lesser star realm. Our Human Race possesses very few of them to begin with, and each can continuously strengthen our race. Naturally, not just anyone is allowed to refine one!" Seeing Li Xiaoya's surprise, he continued, "Generally speaking, as you already know, cultivators can create their own secret realms after reaching the heaven-and-earth realm. But secret realms are fundamentally different from lesser star realms! Do you know how?"
"Yes! Secret realms cannot give birth to living beings, whereas lesser star realms can!" Li Xiaoya replied confidently. He had visited quite a few secret realms and several lesser star realms. Although secret realms also contained many living beings, those creatures had actually been captured and brought inside to be raised there; they had not arisen naturally within the secret realms...
"Mm! Good, you know that much!" Daode Daoist Patriarch nodded. "Then do you know why secret realms cannot give birth to living beings?"
"Because the cultivator's cultivation is insufficient?" Li Xiaoya considered it for a moment. He had never really thought carefully about the matter before, and offered this tentative answer.