Terran Guardian - Chapter 3620

Chapter 3598 The Metamorphosis of the Heavenly Dao

The final heavenly tribulation descended.

In the void of the heavens, countless rays of light swirled, and a vast purple aura permeated everything. An aura several times stronger than that of a Celestial King spread out, seemingly sweeping away everything.

But this aura arrived quickly and disappeared just as fast.

Dongfang Zhao stood in the void, his eyes closed, seemingly trapped in some profound state.

After a long time,

he opened his eyes, only to see divine light bursting forth, shattering and collapsing the space before him.

“Ancient Immortal Realm…this is the power of the Ancient Immortal Realm!”

Dongfang Zhao clenched his fists tightly, a boundless power welling up within him, far stronger than before his breakthrough.

If it were his former self, Dongfang Zhao was even confident that he could suppress him directly in less than three rounds.

This was the difference between an Ancient Immortal and a Celestial King.

Such a difference.

So vast it was despair-inducing.

Now…

After breaking through to the Ancient Immortal Realm, Dongfang Zhao sensed a faint, yet powerful, resistance and suppression. The ethereal Path to Immortality had become clearly audible.

It seemed that with a mere thought, he could summon the Path to Immortality and ascend to the Upper Realm.

However,

Dongfang Zhao did not do so.

Now that he had broken through to the Ancient Immortal Realm, he naturally wanted to ascend to the Upper Realm, but it was not yet time.

Suppressing the urge to ascend, Dongfang Zhao took a step and returned to the Heavenly Sect.

He bowed to Shen Changqing, then sat down cross-legged in his original seat to continue listening to the lecture on the Great Dao.

As Dongfang Zhao returned, the immortal energy within the Dao Inquiry Mountain was drawn towards him.

After breaking through to the Ancient Immortal Realm, Dongfang Zhao’s speed of absorbing immortal energy was astonishing, far surpassing that of a Celestial King.

But— the immortal

energy on the Dao Inquiry Mountain was so abundant that an Ancient Immortal could not possibly plunder it all.

After all, a complete mid-grade immortal vein contains an abyss of immortal energy.

Let alone a single ancient immortal, even a hundred or a thousand ancient immortals cultivating could be supported by the power of a single mid-grade immortal vein.

Ultimately,

immortal veins and immortal mines are different.

The former is the source of immortal energy, while the latter is merely a mineral vein formed from the dissipation of immortal energy.

The immortal energy contained within an immortal vein is naturally incomparable to that of a mid-grade immortal mine.

In the Nine Heavens Immortal Realm

, the appearance of even a mid-grade immortal vein in many low-level immortal domains is enough to form the foundation of an immortal domain.

This demonstrates

the formidable power of mid-grade immortal veins.

Therefore, even if Dongfang Zhao were to break through to the Ancient Immortal Realm and inhale a large amount of immortal energy, it would have no impact on the other cultivators of the Dao Inquiry Mountain.

As a large amount of immortal energy surged into his body, the newly created Primordial Chaos World gradually stabilized.

…

A thousand years.

Not a long time.

As Shen Changqing finished speaking, all the strange phenomena of heaven and earth dissipated.

The Daoist rhyme subsided.

The cultivators who were comprehending the Dao seemed to sense something and all woke up simultaneously.

At this moment,

Shen Changqing spoke again: “The thousand-year period for lecturing has come to an end. How much you can comprehend depends entirely on your own opportunities.

Furthermore—”

As he spoke, he flipped his palm, and various immortal sources appeared out of thin air, terrifying immortal energy emanating from them, instantly attracting the attention of all the cultivators.

Most of the cultivators had never seen a true immortal source.

But with their sixth sense, they could understand the instant they saw the immortal source that such a thing was no ordinary thing.

“This is a low-grade immortal source, capable of nurturing a low-grade immortal vein. I was born of the human race, and the Changqing Realm should be able to obtain a piece of low-grade immortal source!”

As soon as he finished speaking,

Shen Changqing flicked his finger, and the void before him tore open, revealing the scene of the Changqing Realm.

Then, one of the low-grade immortal sources seemed to be summoned by some force and fell directly into the ground of the Changqing Realm.

In an instant,

the Changqing Realm trembled.

Then…

Shen Changqing stirred his divine sense again, and ten high-grade immortal stones appeared out of thin air. Under his divine sense, all the stones shattered instantly

.

The immense immortal energy contained within them was all transferred by Shen Changqing to the immortal source.

With such a massive amount of immortal energy as nourishment, the formation of the low-grade immortal vein was almost a natural progression.

In less than a moment,

the low-grade immortal vein was completely formed.

A surge of immense immortal energy erupted from the Changqing Realm, engulfing the Nine Provinces like a tide—

the other cultivators, witnessing this scene, were filled with fervent expressions.

A low-grade immortal source! A

complete immortal vein!

Such a heaven-defying opportunity was undeniably tempting.

However, the problem was that such an opportunity wasn’t something they could simply obtain at will.

Thinking of this,

many cultivators looked towards Shen Changqing’s hand, where a considerable amount of low-grade immortal source remained.

“On behalf of the human race, I thank Immortal Emperor Changqing!”

Gu Xiao said loudly, his words filled with gratitude.

As a king, he could naturally sense the changes in the human race’s fortune.

It could be said that

the appearance of that low-grade immortal vein greatly increased the human race’s foundation.

The imperial court’s fortune had become much more powerful.

To put it bluntly,

with this immortal vein, the human race had no possibility of decline.

Unless—

one day, another calamity like the Calamity of the Demons would appear, sweeping across the entire universe, then that would be a different story.

“…The Sword God Clan is destined to meet me and will receive a piece of low-grade immortal source!”

Shen Changqing spoke again, then tore through the void and directly sent a piece of low-grade immortal source to the Sword God Clan.

The same method.

In a short while, the Sword God Clan’s low-grade immortal source was able to nurture a complete immortal vein.

“The Sword God Clan thanks Immortal Emperor Changqing!”

The Sword Emperor bowed respectfully, his expression revealing a hint of excitement.

He hadn’t expected Shen Changqing to directly bestow a low-grade immortal vein upon the Sword God Clan. With such an opportunity, the Sword God Clan’s strength would naturally increase significantly.

“…The Zhongshan Divine Clan is destined to meet me and will receive a piece of low-grade immortal source!”

This time, Shen Changqing sent a piece of low-grade immortal source to the Zhongshan Divine Clan.

Zhongshan Dongxuan was naturally grateful for this.

…

“Tianluo Divine Clan!”

“Tianwu Divine Clan!”

“Ancient Holy Land…”

Shen Changqing took out piece after piece of immortal source, using supreme methods to directly tear apart the void, burying all the immortal sources into the worlds of the various forces.

Then, using the power of high-grade immortal stones, he directly induced the nurturing of immortal veins.

Compared to mid-grade immortal veins, the power required to nurture low-grade immortal veins is undoubtedly much lower.

Of course,

this reduction is relative.

If all the races of the heavens and myriad races were to cultivate a complete low-grade immortal vein, they could only rely on the gradual accumulation of time.

It was utterly impossible for someone like Shen Changqing to directly create an immortal vein using immortal stones.

Don’t underestimate ten high-grade immortal stones; when converted to low-grade immortal stones, that’s a staggering one billion.

This is an astronomical figure for any power.

Let alone one billion low-grade immortal stones

, even one million low-grade immortal stones would be a limited number of powers capable of producing them.

Only now

did the other cultivators understand.

The powers that received the immortal sources bestowed by Shen Changqing were all, to varying degrees, related to him.

More precisely,

only powers with good relations could receive this favor.

For other powers, obtaining a low-grade immortal source was absolutely impossible.

In one breath,

Shen Changqing bestowed twenty-four low-grade immortal sources, creating twenty-four low-grade immortal veins for the entire universe.

The moment the final immortal vein was formed, all the myriad races and beings in the heavens seemed to hear a deafening roar.

This sound did not originate from the void, but from the depths of their very souls.

The Heavenly Dao trembled!

Endless radiant light filled the void, and the vast, boundless river of the Great Dao flowed through everything, even the Netherworld was shrouded in this phenomenon.

“What has happened?”

“All three thousand Great Daos have appeared; this is the power of the Heavenly Dao—”

Many Immortal Kings sensed the change in the Heavenly Dao, their faces showing shock.

Even though Immortal Kings had reached the pinnacle of cultivation, facing the might of the Heavenly Dao still brought immense pressure.

Before such heavenly power, Immortal Kings were merely tiny ants.

Instantly,

the Sword Emperor couldn’t help but ask, “May I ask the Immortal Emperor, do you know why the Heavenly Dao has changed?” Upon

hearing this,

the other cultivators suppressed their shock and all looked towards the figure atop the auspicious cloud.

The initial fear had largely dissipated.

With this person present,

even if the sky were to fall, he would hold it up.

This

naturally reassured the other cultivators.

“This is a cosmic advancement, a transformation of the Heavenly Dao!”

Shen Changqing smiled faintly.

His words caused all the cultivators to pause in surprise.

“Cosmic advancement?”

This term was completely foreign to them.

Shen Changqing said, “In the chaotic upper realm, there are countless microcosms, and the Heavenly Universe is one of them.

However, these countless microcosms are also different, divided into nine ranks from low to high.

Most microcosms belong to the first rank.

The original Heavenly Universe was also at this level.”

“When a microcosm accumulates enough strength, it can advance to the second rank. At that time, the rank of beings that a universe can accommodate can also be increased accordingly.

The limit for a first-rank universe is to accommodate cultivators at the Immortal King level, while a second-rank universe can accommodate Ancient Immortals.

Currently, the Heavenly Universe is nurturing twenty-four low-grade Immortal Veins, and with the mid-grade Immortal Veins possessed by the Heavenly Sect, it can be considered to have barely met the standard for advancement.”

This statement

made all the cultivators’ expressions clear.

So that’s how it is!

If it weren’t for Shen Changqing’s words, no one would have known that the countless microcosms were also different.

They also never expected that a single universe could advance.

From his words, all the cultivators could understand that the advancement of a universe was only beneficial to other cultivators.

“However—”

Just then, Shen Changqing changed the subject and said,

“Cultivators need to undergo tribulations to break through, and the same is true for cosmic advancement. Every cosmic advancement requires facing a calamity.

Only by overcoming such a calamity can one be considered to have truly succeeded in the advancement!”