Chapter 208 Difference
Chapter 208 Difference
It should be understood that for Lingbao Daojun, who had already reached the realm of Hunyuan Taiji Jiluo Jinxian, such severe injuries were undoubtedly a huge disaster.
However, for Qingping Daozun, who was stronger and at the level of a Primordial Taiji Golden Immortal, it was nothing more than a minor injury.
So why did Qingping Daozun choose to share Lingbao Daojun's pain in this way? The reason is actually not complicated.
Although cultivating to the level of Lingbao Daojun, healing injuries is not difficult, even if it requires the price of rebirth, the injuries will naturally be fully healed after being reborn from the ashes.
But as the saying goes, "Where there's life, there's hope," it's best to avoid rebirth if possible.
After all, for cultivators, the invincible aura they cultivate is of paramount importance, and the more magnificent and vast this aura is, the easier it will be to break through bottlenecks and shackles in the future.
Conversely, if one experiences death each time, one's cultivated spirit will diminish, and consequently, the difficulty of seeking breakthroughs in the future will increase dramatically.
Therefore, if death can be avoided, then try your best not to die.
Getting injured isn't all bad; at least it can help you recognize your own shortcomings and flaws.
The period of recuperation is also a good time to hone one's skills and improve one's strength.
This is Zhao Xuan's speculation about the damage to the Lingbao Dao Sect's origin. He believes that if it were not so, the Lingbao Dao Sect would never have transferred the injury to Qingping Daozun.
However, there is another possibility: the so-called "luring the snake out of its hole" strategy. It should be noted that Qingping Daozun, residing in the Divine Realm of Creation, possesses an extremely formidable reputation and immense power.
If she had not shown the slightest sign of weakness, no one would have dared to rashly invade the Lingbao Dao Sect.
Perhaps in the eyes of Lingbao Daojun and Qingpin Daozun, the situation was exactly the same as what Zhao Xuan had observed—the Lingbao Divine Realm was too peaceful and stable now, so peaceful that many disciples gradually lost their sense of crisis.
For this reason, after the four true disciples, the four outer disciples, and the seven attendant immortals successfully broke through, over a long period of hundreds of millions of years, no other disciple was able to break through to the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
This overly comfortable and stable environment caused the Lingbao Dao Sect disciples, who were Hunyuan Golden Immortals, to gradually lose their sense of urgency. As a result, they always pursued absolute certainty and hesitated to take the crucial step of breakthrough.
Therefore, the second objective of Lingbao Dao Sect and Qingping Daozun is obvious: their plan is that after Qingping Daozun successfully transfers her injuries, it will inevitably trigger a series of chain reactions, the most crucial of which is that the Golden Turtle Boundless Divine Array will encounter unpredictable situations.
It should be noted that the Golden Turtle Boundless Divine Array is a renowned protective array of the Lingbao Dao Sect, whose main function is to safeguard the sect's important mountain gate.
However, everyone knew that the true power of this formation was far greater than that. The entire Lingbao Divine Realm was under the protection of the Golden Turtle Boundless Divine Formation, resembling an impregnable fortress.
Take the Golden Turtle Covering the Earth Formation as an example. Although it is mainly responsible for protecting the Fire Crow Sect's divine domain, the Fire Crow Sect's divine domain is only a mere ten thousand miles in circumference.
However, once Zhao Xuan exerts his full power and unleashes it completely, the area covered by this great formation can expand to a radius of 100,000 li, or even a radius of 1 million li.
Similarly, the Golden Turtle Boundless Divine Array is also like this, and its influence range far exceeds that of the Golden Turtle Covering the Earth Array. Once this array is fully activated, its energy waves can reach a radius of hundreds of millions of miles, which is astonishing.
It is precisely because of this that the Lingbao Divine Realm has been able to maintain a relatively peaceful state for a long time.
After all, with such a powerful divine array guarding the area, it would be virtually impossible for foreign enemies to easily invade.
However, things have changed now.
Because Qingping Daozun transferred Lingbao Daojun's injuries, and he himself was the main spirit of the Golden Turtle Boundless Divine Array, when he himself was injured, the entire Golden Turtle Boundless Divine Array was naturally affected and could no longer operate normally as before. Its potential threat was self-evident.
The Golden Turtle Boundless Divine Array is extremely complex and ingenious in its design. Even for the four true disciples and the experts in array formations among the four outer sects, it would be no easy task to fully comprehend all its mysteries.
However, it might not be possible to completely hide it from those powerful cultivators who have been secretly coveting the Spirit Treasure Divine Realm.
The Lingbao Dao Sect faces many enemies. In the open, there are undoubtedly forces led by the Destruction of the Divine Realm, which frequently clash and fight with the Lingbao Dao Sect.
However, compared to enemies lurking in the shadows, the destruction of the divine realm is not a significant threat.
Throughout history, countless powerful individuals, unable to find a suitable divine realm to provide sufficient spiritual nourishment for their cultivation, have had to turn to underground water veins to seek opportunities.
However, if the lord of the divine realm on earth encounters a problem, such as being seriously injured and unable to effectively suppress the divine realm, then these lurking guys will never let go of this excellent opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and invade the weak.
However, in reality, Lingbao Daojun and Qingping Daozun did not suffer serious injuries. Although Lingbao Divine Realm may fall into temporary chaos, it is not enough to shake its foundation.
The reason why Daoist Qingping bestowed the incomparably precious Heaven-Mending Divine Pill upon Zhao Xuan was precisely to create a false impression—to make people mistakenly believe that their injuries were so severe that even the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill with its miraculous effects could not heal them.
In this way, those who are secretly eyeing the opportunity will be misled, preventing them from making a rash move.
They are meticulously calculating people's hearts.
If the Heaven-Mending Elixir had never been bestowed, those who secretly harbored ill intentions towards them might not have easily believed their intentions.
After all, people's hearts are hard to fathom. Without solid evidence or tempting benefits in front of them, who would easily take the bait?
After successfully breaking through, Zhao Xuan's thoughts naturally turned to how to further improve the grade of the Fire Crow Sect's divine domain.
It should be noted that, given the current quality of the medium-sized divine domain possessed by the Fire Crow Sect, it is truly difficult to support the coveted Golden Turtle Covering the Earth Formation in evolving into more profound and unpredictable mysteries.
In this way, it would be nothing short of a pipe dream for this formation to advance to the powerful state of the seventh realm.
It is important to understand that the advancement of an array is not something that can be achieved overnight simply by accumulating the number of arrays and cultivating array spirits.
The most crucial point is that the entire formation must continuously evolve into a sufficient number of ingenious variations and mysteries in order to achieve a qualitative leap.
Take the Golden Turtle Covering the Earth Formation as an example. Although the mysteries it contains are not unfathomable, they are only at the Primordial Chaos level, which is the peak state it can reach.
It was Zhao Xuan who added many unprecedented and mysterious elements to it, which enabled the formation to condense a powerful formation spirit.
Similarly, Luo Jin's ability to reach the array seal level was also inseparable from Zhao Xuan's generous imparting of a vast amount of array knowledge to him, which helped him comprehend more array mysteries that ordinary people could hardly imagine.
In conclusion, both the profound mystery of the formation and the energy it contains are intricately connected, interdependent, and mutually reinforcing.
Only when they all reach a certain height simultaneously can the entire formation successfully complete its advancement.
That is why Zhao Xuan spared no effort in elevating the Fire Crow Sect's divine domain to the level of a medium-sized divine domain.
Zhao Xuan's understanding of formations has reached the sublime level of the seventh realm.
Therefore, given enough time to study and refine it, the Golden Turtle Covering the Earth Formation will be able to reveal the profound mysteries and wondrous changes of the seventh realm.
However, the reality is quite tricky—the energy contained in a medium-sized divine realm is really limited, far from being able to support the operation of such a profound and mysterious array.
To some extent, it is relatively easy for a small divine realm to advance to a medium-sized divine realm, but once it comes to advancing from a medium-sized divine realm to a large divine realm, it becomes extremely difficult.
Small divine realms only need to be fed resources sparingly, and it is not difficult for them to advance to medium-sized divine realms.
Although there is a difference between the two divine river channels and the ten divine river channels, the difference is not too great.
But when the number rises to ten or one hundred divine river channels, the difference is like heaven and earth.
Moreover, the difference is not only reflected in the number of divine rivers. The rivers in medium-sized divine realms are far more powerful than those in small divine realms.
If the divine rivers of small divine realms are likened to gently flowing streams, then the divine rivers of medium-sized divine realms are like small, rushing rivers, while the divine rivers of large divine realms are like the mighty and surging Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.
As for the divine river channels within that super divine realm, their scale is simply beyond imagination.
The outflow of water from each of the sacred rivers is as magnificent as that of the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins, and can even be compared with that of the Amazon River basin.
It refers to a river basin, not a single river channel. The water volume of a river basin is several times or even dozens of times that of a single river.
Take their own Fire Crow Sect Divine Realm and Three Immortal Island Divine Realm as examples. Although they are currently both medium-sized divine realms, the single river in the Three Immortal Island Divine Realm already exceeds the total sum of all the divine rivers in the Fire Crow Sect Divine Realm.
The Fire Crow Sect's divine domain now has a total of ten divine rivers. Nine of them were personally guided out by Zhao Xuan, while the remaining one was created when Zhao Xuan used an array to detonate the original two river channels, causing them to merge and converge into the single divine river we see today.
The advantage of the Fire Raven Sect's divine realm lies in its purity, not its quantity.
However, before Zhao Xuan could come up with a proper solution to further improve the divine river, Zhao Gongming and the Three Immortals of Sanxiao came to visit him together.
Zhao Xuan naturally dared not be negligent and hurriedly and warmly welcomed the five people to their seats.
After everyone was seated, fine wines and delicacies were served one after another. Guests and hosts toasted each other, and the atmosphere was extremely harmonious. After several rounds of wine and dishes, Zhao Gongming finally revealed the purpose of his visit.
Actually, it wasn't anything earth-shattering. It was just that with Zhao Xuan's rapid rise in the cultivation world, coupled with the appearance of Daoist Qingping, the atmosphere within the entire Lingbao Dao Sect had undergone a huge change.
However, not everyone's heart is drawn to that endless path. Some have never experienced any fierce battle, and their hearts are filled with fear and cowardice.
Therefore, when faced with unknown challenges, these people are eager to find a strong support and hope to use the power of others to protect themselves.
As powerful figures in the eyes of many, Zhao Gongming and the Three Immortals of Sanxiao naturally became the targets of many people's requests for help.
Every day, a large number of people come to visit, seeking their protection or guidance.
At first, Zhao Gongming and the Three Immortals would respond patiently, but as time went on, the endless requests became increasingly annoying to them.
After all, what they hoped for was for the Lingbao Dao Sect to flourish with a hundred flowers blooming and a wealth of talent emerging, rather than to become a den of iniquity.
For those disciples who lack ambition and only know how to rely on others, they know that this will not only fail to promote the development of the sect, but will also become a heavy burden.
After careful consideration, Zhao Gongming, the Three Immortals of Sanxiao, and another person decided to close off their divine realms, temporarily distance themselves from these disturbances, and pursue their own opportunities.
They made this decision partly to get rid of those endless entanglements, and partly to further improve their own cultivation.
Before setting off, they thought of Zhao Xuan, who possessed the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill.
Considering the immense effects that the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill might bring, they guessed that Zhao Xuan might have already broken through to the Grand Luo Golden Immortal realm. With a try-it-and-see attitude, they extended an invitation to Zhao Xuan.
After a moment's thought, Zhao Xuan readily accepted the invitation.
He understood that, given his current cultivation progress, he indeed urgently needed a large amount of resources.
One of the greatest opportunities in the world is the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill. Zhao Xuan has taken the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill and knows more about it.
So after discussing it, the five decided to go to the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect to seize the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill.
And so, the five of them formed a team and prepared to set off for the Heaven-Mending Divine Pill.
The Creation God Realm is the core of the nine super god realms, bordering the other eight. On this vast land, apart from the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect, the other eight forces each shoulder the heavy responsibility of confronting super god realms in different directions.
The reasons why the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect did not participate in the conflict are indeed complicated and difficult to explain in a few words.
This story begins with the origins of the Heavenly Witch Demon Sect.
The "shamans" of this sect are quite different from the shamans in the prehistoric world.
After all, in that divine realm, there was never a story of the Great God Pangu transforming into all things, and only his essence and blood transforming into the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
The so-called "shamans" in the divine realm are essentially still human.
People like Luo Xuan, Lü Yue, Wen Zhong, and Huo Ling'er.
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