Venerable Jiaye explained:
"Besides Otherworldly Heavenly Demons, which can descend upon the Shangqing Realm through that special method of projection when cultivators break through, those terrifying beings beyond the domain likely have another way to enter the Shangqing Realm."
"That is to enter the Shangqing Realm through passages like Vulture Peak, which connect to beyond the domain."
Xu Taiping frowned at this.
"If Vulture Peak really is that dangerous, wouldn't the living beings in the Shangqing Realm have ceased to exist long ago?"
Venerable Jiaye shook his head.
"First, passages like Vulture Peak must be established by cultivators within the Shangqing Realm. It is impossible for those outside to establish such a passage to enter the Shangqing Realm."
"Moreover, throughout the Shangqing Realm's River of Time, things like Vulture Peak have appeared no more than three times."
"In addition, it is a passage directly connected to the Buddhist Kingdom, containing immense Buddhist Dharma power transmitted from the Beyond the Domain Buddhist Kingdom. Even those powerful beings beyond the domain must give it a wide berth."
"Finally, even if a terrifying being from beyond the domain breaks into it, he can exist only on Vulture Peak."
"Once he leaves Vulture Peak, the power of the Shangqing Realm's Heavenly Dao Laws will erase him."
Although this resolved Xu Taiping's confusion, what he heard also made his heart inexplicably tighten.
For according to Venerable Jiaye, he would very likely encounter those unknown, terrifying beings from beyond the domain while climbing Vulture Peak.
Beside him, Venerable Jiaye continued:
"Just as your Daoist sects' Heaven-Ascending Platform connects to the Immortal Realm, the Buddhist Kingdom's Vulture Peak once connected to Glazed Heaven, a Buddhist Pure Land."
"But after the Beyond the Domain Buddhist Kingdom suffered that unknown great calamity, Buddhism entered the Age of the Decline