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"If the Devil Race can truly break open the Cave Heaven gates, it will be no different from digging out the roots of our foundation," Chu Hongming said in a deep voice.

"Could it be that Heaven itself wishes to raise up the Devil Race?" Chu Hongfeng lifted his head to the sky.

He could not understand how the Devil Race had found such a Divine Artifact, one capable of opening the gates to a Cave Heaven.

This move would almost sever the foundations of humanity.

Cave Heavens were the reason humanity's outstanding talents could advance by leaps and bounds. Without Cave Heavens, relying on bitter cultivation alone, it was difficult to become a Spirit Venerable.

Advancing to Venerable was difficult; advancing to Spirit Venerable was even harder. More often than not, one was held back by the limits of one's lifespan.

To advance from the Intent Transformation Realm into the Nascent Soul Stage required sufficient aptitude and enough time for comprehension.

For those in the Nascent Soul Stage to enter the Spirit Transformation Realm, they needed even greater aptitude and time, as well as opportunity.

In theory, the younger, the better.

Breaking through these realms required a particular state of mind and mentality.

As time passed and the years wore on, one's state of mind and mentality changed with them, and the stale air of old age inevitably seeped in.

Such changes in one's state of mind were almost irreversible. No one could erase the erosion of time.

And this erosion affected one's state of mind most deeply, thereby affecting one's comprehension of the Nascent Soul Stage and Spirit Transformation Realm.

Thus, the greater the prodigy, the earlier they reached perfection in the Intent Transformation Realm, and the easier it was for them to enter the Nascent Soul Stage.