Within the cave abode, the fragrance of wine curled through the air, lingering long afterward.
Gu Changqing lay sprawled crookedly on the bluestone, cradling the Wine God Gourd against his chest, his face flushed and his eyes hazy with drink.
His earlier mutterings about the ranks of fortune dynasties had been very, very quiet, so faint that a passing breeze seemed capable of scattering them.
Even the Interception Sect disciples outside the cave abode, still immersed in fervor, had not heard a single word.
He was not being arrogant or complacent.
Nor had he grown content and abandoned all ambition simply because the Interception Sect had entered the initial Kingdom rank.
Quite the opposite: Gu Changqing understood better than anyone just how astonishingly difficult it was to establish a fortune dynasty.
The path of fortune dynasties differed from individual cultivation.
In individual cultivation, sufficient aptitude, opportunities, and comprehension allowed one to climb upward step by step, break through bottlenecks, and transcend oneself.
Though that road was arduous and fraught with danger, there were still tracks to follow and methods to rely on.
Fortune dynasties were different.
A fortune dynasty gathered the fortune of an entire power, an entire Dao lineage, an entire world. What it involved was not one person's karma, but the destinies of countless living beings.
With each rise in rank, the fortune required increased exponentially, while the resistance encountered became all the more unimaginable.
More importantly, the more complete and powerful a world's laws and order were, and the closer they stood to the origin of the Great Dao, the harder it became to establish a fortune dynasty.
After all, the more complete a world was, the more firmly its laws were rooted, and the harder they were to shake.
Gathering fortune and establishing a fortune dynasty