Indeed, Teacher Lan Qing's words made Ye Han feel certain that the Earth Realm faced some restriction on ascension, which was why they could not ascend.
This suddenly reminded him of Elder Liu!
He felt that Elder Liu's cultivation might be even higher than Teacher Lan Qing's, yet he, too, had remained in the Earth Realm for many years without ascending.
Teacher Lan Qing nodded and said, "With your former cultivation at the Golden Core Stage, knowing these things would have done you no good. Now you're a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, and your cultivation is so heaven-defying that you're certain to become a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator like me someday. I can tell you now."
He paused, then continued, "The human race of our Earth Realm is no ordinary human race. In fact, we are the ancient human race, one of the oldest races born in this world alongside the devil race and immortal race."
"Like the devil race and immortal race, we ancient humans are born with a heavenly dao body-what is now called the humanoid form. We enjoy uniquely favorable conditions for cultivating movement techniques. You could call us heaven's favored children. We advance in cultivation and comprehend the heaven and earth laws extremely quickly."
"But in the struggle of natural selection, the strong survive. The devil race and immortal race have stronger foundations and innate gifts than we do. They have an even greater advantage in the speed at which they cultivate immortal arts. But they have one weakness: their reproduction rate falls far short of ours."
Hearing this, Ye Han understood what he meant. Though the devil race and immortal race were powerful, their slow reproduction meant that as the population of their race grew,
the ancient human race would surpass the devil race and