Exiled Immortal Major Reveal 8: The Four Great Continents Are One of the Immortal Realm's Fragments (Heavenly Dao Xiao Hua)

The Four Great Continents were one of the Immortal Realm's fragments. The Immortal Realm Xiao Hua had now ascended to could only be considered a false Immortal Realm, or a crippled Immortal Realm. This was the most secret pitfall in Exiled Immortal, and also Tanhua's greatest foreshadowing, painstakingly laid to fool countless readers. If one could delve deeply into the origins of the Four Great Continents, one could lift a corner of the veil over Tanhua's Great Star Domain Investiture of Gods.

The Four Great Continents came from Buddhist legend. They were four vast lands surrounding the salty sea around Mount Sumeru: Eastern Victory Divine Continent, Western Ox Hezhou, Southern Jambudvipa, and Northern Kuru Continent. In Exiled Immortal, the Four Great Continents were enclosed within a Time Light Knot. According to Exiled Immortal, Chapter 2910: Time Light Knot: "Could it be... the Three Great Continents are inside this Time Light Knot??? The Three Great Continents are actually this mysterious." The Three Great Continents here were Hidden Immortal Continent, Thousand Demon Sacred Realm, and the Land of Ultimate Bliss—that is, what remained after the Four Great Continents had been sealed by an innate grand array. From this, we could infer that the Four Great Continents had an extraordinary origin. Yilin Continent, the incomplete Western Ox Hezhou, was called the "Dao Truth Realm" by the Demon Race sages of the slightly higher Myriad Monster Realm. Within the Four Great Continents, the Land of Ultimate Bliss belonged to Buddhist disciples; Hidden Immortal Continent belonged to Confucian Cultivation; Thousand Demon Sacred Realm belonged to Demon Cultivators; Dragon Island and the Four Seas were the dwelling places of the Dragon Race; and Xiaoyu Continent, the forsaken land, contained soul cultivators, Confucian cultivators, and Daoist cultivators whose destiny and inheritances had been suppressed. With so many cultivation systems and such extraordinary origins, the Four Great Continents could not help but invite speculation. This article would conduct an in-depth analysis and speculation based on Exiled Immortal and Earth's Sole Cultivator: what exactly were the origins of the Four Great Continents?

I. The Four Great Continents Were One of the Immortal Realm's Fragments

I speculate that the Four Great Continents were one of the Immortal Realm's fragments, for the following reasons:

1. A Reverse Passage of Realm Power

A reverse passage was a means by which ancient great experts protected all living beings. Just as the mortal world was the foundation of the Cultivation World, the Cultivation World was the foundation of the Immortal Realm, and the Immortal Realm was the foundation of the Divine Realm, without these foundations, the upper realms would become water without a source. Facts also proved that, under normal circumstances, people from lower realms could improve their cultivation through training and ascend to upper realms by passing heavenly tribulations. Yet people of the upper realms could not enter lower realms through a reverse passage. After all, upper-realm inhabitants were a mixed bag of good and bad; if all of them could smoothly enter the lower realms, those lower realms would be damaged as a result. But the innate divine restrictions of the Four Great Continents—whether the Dao Alliance's Five Elements Annihilation Grand Array, the Demon Race's Song of Years Array, or the Buddhist Sect's Mount Sumeru Mustard Seed spatial array—could only have been set up by experts from the Immortal Realm. In the words of the devil-possessed Book Immortal, even Earth Immortals of the Heavenly Court's Upper Clarity realm lacked the strength to arrange them. According to the laws of reverse passage, the great experts of the Monster Alliance, Immortal Realm, and Buddha Kingdom could not normally descend to lower realms to set up such arrays. But if the Four Great Continents had originally been part of the Immortal Realm, then everything fell into place.

2. Xiao Hua's Divine Weapons and Sharp Treasures

Xiao Hua's divine weapons and sharp treasures included the Myriad Extinction Heavenly Dipper, obtained from Imperial Thunder Sect, Star Moon Palace, and Fairy Falling Flowers; the Soaring Dragon Scissors, obtained from Liang Yu and True Person Soaring Dragon of Xiaoyu Continent; and the Immortal Slaying Platform, obtained from Imperial Thunder Sect. There were also the Sea-Subduing Seal, Sea-Overturning Seal, Kunlun Mirror, Five Elements Wish-Fulfilling Heaven-Piercing Staff, and so on, all obtained from the Four Great Continents. These divine weapons and sharp treasures were even more powerful than the Immortal Realm's spirit-communicating immortal artifacts, and could further advance into divine artifacts. Since all of them came from the Four Great Continents, only the fact that the Four Great Continents were one of the Immortal Realm's fragments could explain why they granted Xiao Hua so many opportunities.

3. Cultivation Techniques

Emperor Gou Chen's incarnation was Xie Xin, Hall Master of the Heavenly Secrets Hall, and Xie Xin himself could cultivate an incarnation to the ninth grade of Origin Power. This incarnation cultivation art far surpassed that of King Hua of the Myriad Monster Realm. Then there was Xiao Hua's Maitreya Buddha incarnation, which cultivated the Future Buddha Lord's Pattra Leaf Exquisite Scripture. All of this showed that the Four Great Continents were one of the Immortal Realm's fragments.

4. Black Ruins Mountain Heavenly Prison and Star Moon Palace

According to Xu Zhi, the Black Ruins Mountain Heavenly Prison was a spatial fragment from the Primordial Divine Realm that had fallen into a lower realm. The lower realms of the Divine Realm included the Immortal Realm, Monster Alliance, Demon Marsh, Buddha Kingdom, and so on. It was easy enough to explain things from the Divine Realm falling into the lower Immortal Realm, but if they fell into a realm below that lower realm, it became somewhat difficult to explain. Something similar was Star Moon Palace. Within Star Moon Palace were fragments of the ancient Myriad Monster Realm and fragments of Ye Qiong Heavenly Mansion. Xiao Hua obtained his greatest opportunity since beginning cultivation there. Star Moon Palace should likewise have been connected to the Divine Realm; it was difficult to imagine things from the Divine Realm falling into a lower realm beneath a lower realm.

5. The Four Great Continents Enclosed by the Time Light Knot

The Four Great Continents lay within the Time Light Knot's enclosure. Their mysterious origins were far beyond comparison with the Cultivation World of lower planes. This likewise proved that the Four Great Continents' original plane had been extraordinary—at the very least, it had been the Immortal Realm.

II. What Fragments Did the Immortal Realm Have?

The reason I concluded that the Immortal Realm was damaged also came from working backward from Xiao Hua. For the space behind Xiao Hua's head to become a real world, it needed the Immortal Realm, Demon Marsh, Dragon Domain, Monster Alliance, Buddha Kingdom, and so on. For those realms to grow, Xiao Hua had to obtain immense opportunities. Only with a crystalline divine spark could Xiao Hua obtain a divine position, while the growth of a crystalline divine spark required merit and the Power of Faith. For True Person Xiao to reap the faith of Immortal Realm immortals, the Immortal Realm must surely have suffered a world-destroying crisis. Either the Immortal Realm had been shattered, or the Daoist cultivation inheritance had been extinguished. In an Immortal Realm with complete laws, Xiao Hua could not possibly obtain the Power of Faith.

The Immortal Realm included the Immortal Realm Xiao Hua ascended to, the Four Great Continents, Mount Yao Immortal Mansion—Mount Yao Immortal Mansion should be a spatial treasure—Ye Qiong Heavenly Mansion, Xuanyuan Space, Earth, and so on.

1. Earth was one of the lost Immortal Realms. This could be seen from numerous conversations, such as the Great Investiture of Gods remnant array at Golden Treasure Ridge and the artifact spirit of the Heavenly Punishment Divine Spear seeing distant scenes.

2. Xuanyuan Space was one of the Immortal Realm's fragments. After Xiao Hua entered the Heavenly Prison, Huang Tong could sense Xiao Hua's feelings. With the Myriad Extinction Heavenly Dipper, Huang Tong could also use the lingering aura of magical treasures within Star Moon Palace to find another fragment. Xuanyuan Space and the Heavenly Prison should possess something similar. In other words, among the various cultivation systems of the Four Great Continents, only the path of spatial cultivation was absent. Furthermore, the name Xuanyuan Space itself carried profound meaning, deeply imbued with Dao resonance.

3. Mount Yao Immortal Mansion could be easily refined by Xiao Hua's nephew Zhang Jian. Combined with Zhang Jian's—Zhang Bairen's—identity and origins, Mount Yao Immortal Mansion might be the Jade Emperor's Lingxiao Treasure Hall.

III. What Plane Was the Undamaged Immortal Realm?

I speculate that the undamaged Immortal Realm was not actually called the Immortal Realm. This Immortal Realm should have been the Witch Realm. The Witch Realm was born before destiny itself and cultivated the power of souls. Later, the Daoist Sect emerged and brought cultivation methods to their ultimate height. The Dragon Race, Devil Race, Monster Alliance, and other cultivation systems all had upper realms, but only the Human Race had no way to ascend. Thus, Daoist-cultivating humans joined forces with the Buddha Kingdom, Demon Race, and others to suppress the destiny of soul cultivators and split apart the Witch Realm. The part that suppressed the destiny of soul cultivators became the Four Great Continents, while the ascended portion became the present Immortal Realm. That was why, when Xiao Hua underwent tribulation, it was the Witch Clan's Thirteen Great Gods who split open the Heavenly Gate.