As Wu Shang sought guidance from Shi, and Shi willingly answered and explained, the Kings listened too. They were not idle, seeming deaf to all outside affairs, their hearts set only on "attaining the Dao."
Regarding this Special Land and the suspected, legendary Reincarnation Road, their previous deductions and guesses had undoubtedly marked it as a place of great opportunity. Perhaps in some outward aspects it resembled the Netherworld of mortal imagination, but in their eyes, that was merely appearance, not reality.
In other words, its formation involved breaking beyond the King realm. Just as they could alter the destinies of weaker beings, perhaps this road was an "alms" bestowed upon the weak by someone stronger.
Yet, as hope stirred in the Kings' hearts and they wished for their deductions and guesses to become reality, they heard Shi say that the Reincarnation Road had nothing to do with breaking the King realm and becoming Emperor. They were all taken aback.
"If one could break the King realm and become Emperor by taking a shortcut like this, it would be the greatest joke under heaven," Shi explained further. "Think about it. If it truly involved breaking the King realm and becoming Emperor, or had anything to do with becoming Emperor, how many living beings would pursue it? Yet you should know that from ancient times to the present, it has never manifested in the world."
"Then it..." Wu Shang's thoughts surged. He very much wanted to ask whether the Reincarnation Road's failure to manifest in the world, and the absence of any accounts of widespread pursuit, might be because it was simply too transcendent. After all, it involved breaking the King realm and becoming Emperor. Like the great secret at the other end of the Boundary Sea, it could be heard