Although the phrase "working behind closed doors" is not exactly a compliment, it is perfectly suited to describe Li Xingkong at this moment.
Or rather, everyone who wants to become an immortal is engaging in what is known as "reinventing the wheel behind closed doors."
The immortals are there, but the methods to become an immortal are basically not universally applicable.
Because everyone's path to immortality is different, the methods to achieve immortality naturally differ as well.
Of course, aside from the " Immortal Seat " bestowed by the ancestor through special connections, those who become immortals through such methods are less likely to claim they have become immortals themselves, and more likely that immortals have come knocking on their door.
This kind of Immortal Seat basically means entrusting your life to others; whether you live or die is entirely up to someone else's word.
Li Xingkong didn't have such an ancestor, nor did he like this kind of being controlled by others.
If you're going to reinvent the wheel, then go ahead and do it. There are countless paths to success, and no matter which way you go, as long as you keep researching, you'll eventually reach your goal.
As his cultivation level improved, Li Xingkong's understanding of cultivation became increasingly profound.
When my cultivation level was low, I felt that this was an obstacle, that was an obstacle. There were obstacles everywhere on the path of cultivation. If I was not careful, I would end up with an unstable foundation or a dead end.
But when Li Xingkong looked back at his cultivation journey, he suddenly realized that there were far fewer bottlenecks on this path.
Making a mistake in cultivation? No problem, you can start over. Your Golden Core is ruined? No big deal, you can create External Core, or even directly create Golden Core. You suffer a cultivation mishap and become possessed by a demon? Even if you become possessed, you can still cultivate; what's the big deal?
Even if one is careless and dies, the soul can still cultivate as a ghost, which is a viable path.
The cultivation path that Li Xingkong was about to see was far more than the one he had walked before. It was a towering tree that started with a wisp of Spiritual Qi and extended outwards in all directions, like a huge maze. The intersecting paths stretched outwards in a dense network, and finally all the extensions ended at the edge of a circular wall.
This wall is what is known as the barrier between immortals and mortals.
Li Xingkong's computing power began to deduce, and a golden ray of light, starting from that tiny wisp of Spiritual Qi, spread outwards along all the branches.
That's right, he was deduce, using the perspective of a cultivator at the peak of Nascent Soul stage to conjure up countless versions of himself who had just obtained Spiritual Qi, and then simulating them from scratch along all the different cultivation paths he knew.
Orthodox cultivators, heretical cultivators, scientific research whizzes, ghost cultivators, those with ancestral bloodlines, and those who cultivate only one path: essence, qi, and spirit...
All the cultivation methods that Li Xingkong had heard of or seen began to operate synchronously in his mind.
The golden light, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, gradually turned the entire cultivation tree golden.
Looking back on his cultivation, what does that matter? He relied on himself all the way to get here, and no matter how much he looks back, those memories won't change anything.
It would be better to deduce all the known paths of cultivation, and draw upon what one has seen and learned from these myriad paths to aid oneself.
Once you understand one method, you understand all methods. Having already reached the Nascent Soul on the path of cultivation, taking other paths wouldn't be too difficult for Li Xingkong Li Xingkong once again.
When you truly reach this point, there's no longer any difference between those cultivation methods; he can use any method at will.
It took Li Xingkong nearly 2000 years to illuminate every branch in his mind.
This timeframe isn't long. For a Golden Core cultivator, advancing one level might take thousands of years. Li Xingkong was able to progress so quickly purely because his understanding of cultivation realms was far too thorough.
After this round of review, Li Xingkong also caught the tail end of the so-called conceptualization.
"I see!"
After pondering it for hundreds of years, Li Xingkong finally laughed out loud.
"What? What do you know?"
While Li Xing was in seclusion, the system was also in standby mode, remaining silent to avoid affecting Li Xingkong's cultivation. However, upon hearing Li Xingkong suddenly shout, the system immediately responded.
Hahahaha
Li Xingkong didn't reply to the system's message; instead, he laughed.
Then, without him making any move, Li Xingkong's entire body vanished into nothingness, starting from his feet.
It was as if he had vanished into thin air; where Li Xingkong foot had been, there was now nothing left.
Seeing Li Xingkong, who was missing a leg, still smiling, the system felt a little scared.
This guy, has he gone mad from practicing cultivation?
The system remained silent and quietly took a few steps back.
Li Xingkong was so happy that he didn't bother with it.
There's no other reason than that he has already figured out a method for conceptualizing transformation.
But Li Xingkong's missing foot was the first step he used in his experiment.
The foot is still there, but it no longer exists in the world in a material or spiritual form; it has now been transformed into a concept.
At this moment, Li Xingkong was experimenting with how to use this conceptual body.
Li Xingkong achieved the status of Human Immortal, and his conceptual body was strongly bound to himself.
He can appear anywhere in the world, whether it's the Cosmic Sea, the Primordial World, or unknown places he hasn't been to, as long as someone talks about matters related to him.
Whenever Li Xingkong is mentioned, whether it's as a praise, a metaphor, or simply as someone who has done something very similar to him, it means that the concept of Li Xingkong has emerged, and the emergence of this concept means that Li Xingkong has come into their lives.
Although the conceptualized Li Xingkong can still exist in physical form, it is clear that the physical entity is far from his true self.
Immortals cannot be killed, only forgotten.
But forgetting the existence of an immortal is by no means an easy task.
It's not that nobody remembers, it's just that they've forgotten.
Only by completely erasing everything he has seen, visited, walked through, and come into contact with in this world can one be said to have forgotten an immortal.
But as time goes by, forgetting an immortal will only become more and more difficult.
Matter can be recombined, and the soul can be reincarnated.
When someone who remembers him dies, his body decomposes naturally and floats into the world, reforming into new things. Although the newborn knows nothing, the memories of this immortal are indeed imprinted in his body.
All people on Earth Star are dust particles from a star billions of years ago.
This is not just empty talk.
As time goes by, to eliminate an immortal, one must be prepared to annihilate the entire universe, or even slaughter through half of the Primordial World world.
No one can bear this responsibility.