Mysterious mirror hanging high

Jing Yu looked up and saw misty clouds all around. Although there were no waves, they felt like they were in a sea of ​​clouds. Floating islands were hanging in the air, and they were now standing on one of them.

Looking at the rolling clouds below the floating island, Jing Yu's heart trembled. "Isn't it true that I called the name correctly? Could it be that this cave is really above the clouds?"

He looked at the floating islands in the distance again. These floating islands were large and small, and were irregularly distributed above the sea of ​​clouds. Due to the obstruction of the light mist, Jing Yu could only see five or six floating islands around him with his amazing eyesight. The ones farther away were vague and unclear.

"Is this the [Cloudtop Fairy Palace]?"

Yuwen Baoge looked up at the sky. Since these floating islands were originally above the sea of ​​clouds, the sky above their heads was actually clear blue. The man in golden armor tried to fly upwards, but found that a powerful restrictive force pinned him to the ground. Even the powerful flying ability of the Nascent Soul cultivator was helpless.

"There's a no-fly restriction here!"

"Wow, it really is..."

Yuanji tried to control the escape light, but found that his once proud escape technique had also failed. He stood at the edge of the floating island and looked down, his expression twitching. "You can't fly here. If I accidentally fall off the floating island, won't I be dead? I don't know what the situation is like under this sea of ​​clouds."

A pair of wings sprouted from Jing Yu's back. He tried flapping them a few times, but found he could only move horizontally in all directions, but couldn't fly upwards. Confirming that not only was escape techniques suppressed in this place, even physical flight was infeasible. He couldn't help but sigh:

"It's rumored that this [Cloudtop Fairy Palace] is a relic of the Incarnation God. The forbidden air restrictions here are so strong that even a Yuanying Zhenjun can lock it down. It's worthy of the Incarnation God's methods!"

"What kind of incarnation method is that...it's just a fake incarnation." Yuwen Baoge rarely showed a bitter smile on his face. His tone was three parts sarcastic, but it seemed that there were seven parts of self-mockery.

"Is there a question of authenticity in the transformation of the spirit?" Jing Yu said in astonishment.

“There shouldn’t be any!”

Yuwen Baoge's face darkened. "Boy, think about this carefully. Ever since the giant star descended from the sky, the medieval era of the Shending Immortal Dynasty has also come to an end. It's been a full 100,000 years since the demise of this behemoth that once unified the nine provinces! Why do we still hear news of the descendants of the Shending from time to time?"

"Have you ever thought about where the 'remnants of the Divine Cauldron' mentioned by great figures like me or Yuwen Baoding of Xianzhou are hiding and practicing?"

Jing Yu asked in a serious tone, "Could it be... a cave?"

"Not bad!"

Yuwen Baoge said proudly, "The Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty has never been destroyed... In fact, we are not in the real world at all, but live in a cave paradise roaming in the void!"

"The largest of these is called [Shen Ding Tian], and the universe contained within it is even as vast as the land of your Penglai Immortal Continent!"

"There, the Ying family is still the supreme royal family of the Immortal Dynasty, and the entire cave heaven still maintains the Immortal Dynasty system that cannot be tolerated in the modern world..."

"As a family descended from the emperor, the Ying family has an unknown number of Divine Transformation cultivators cultivating in the imperial palace alone, not to mention the various aristocratic families under the rule of the Immortal Dynasty..."

Yuwen Baoge smiled and said, "Even my Yuwen family has a God-transforming ancestor sitting in charge. This is why we have the confidence to break away from the control of the Shending Immortal Dynasty."

“I don’t know how many Divine Transformation cultivators there are in the Immortal Continent right now, but if we talk about numbers, the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty may not be far behind the entire Immortal Continent!”

Jing Yu frowned, his heart still somewhat skeptical of Yuwen Baoge's words. If the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty had so many Divine Transformation cultivators, why were they still holed up in the Cave Heaven? With the Immortal Dynasty's organizational prowess and the top-level combat power not much inferior, wouldn't it be easy to deal with the scattered worldly cultivators?

"Sir, if that's the case, why doesn't the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty try to counterattack the present world..."

The smile on Yuwen Baoge's face disappeared: "That's because the Divine Transformation Realm achieved in the Cave Heaven Realm is not the true Divine Transformation Realm at all!"

"You must know that the further a cultivator advances on the path, the more they focus on the integrity of the laws of heaven and earth. Qi training and foundation building are relatively easy. The Immortal Jade Liquid gifted by heaven and earth during foundation building is just a body-tempering jade liquid composed of pure spiritual energy. There is not much difference between breaking through in the present world or in the cave heaven."

"But when it comes to forming a pill, things are completely different. If you form a pill in a secret cave realm that's isolated from the real world, even if you meet the conditions for the pill to become golden and purple, there won't be any Heavenly Dao Purple Qi to congratulate you!"

"This means that no matter how good your aptitude is or how strong your foundation is, if you form a golden elixir in the cave heaven, the quality of the golden elixir will only be of the highest quality at best..."

"When it comes to forming a Nascent Soul, the assistance of the laws of heaven and earth in this world is even more necessary. Otherwise, the opening of the orifice is likely to be a [false orifice]... and it will be inherently weaker than a true Nascent Soul."

"As for the Divine Transformation? It already involves the level of combining a trace of the Heavenly Dao rhyme. Hehe... If you can't achieve Divine Transformation in this world, then you will not only be inferior to the true Divine Transformation cultivators!"

Meeting the three people's slightly strange looks, Yuwen Baoge immediately knew what they were thinking and sneered, "No need to guess blindly. Yuwen Baoding and I both formed our Nascent Souls in this world. We are completely different from those useless Nascent Souls that broke through in the Cave Heaven."

"In the final analysis, whether it's Danjie or Yingying, there are many formations, secret techniques, or treasures that can speed up the condensation process. Not to mention the secret vaults of the Shending Immortal Dynasty, even the clan vaults of my Yuwen family can provide several methods to speed up Yingying."

"How vast is the Immortal Continent? Even if Yuanying Zhenjun and Huashen Tianjun can travel through the void, it is impossible for them to monitor every corner of the world around the clock. Although the momentum of the Infant Formation is great, the cultivators of the Shending Immortal Dynasty use various secret techniques and treasures to accelerate the formation of the Infant, and it can be achieved in a short time. Naturally, the cultivators of the present world are helpless."

"Therefore, the Shending Immortal Dynasty is not far behind in the Nascent Soul stage. The key is the Divine Transformation stage."

"If you wish to achieve the Divine Transformation Realm, you must find a place in the mortal world where spiritual energy is abundant, refine the rhythm of the Heavenly Dao, and transform your Nascent Soul into a Divine Body, thus reaching the state of [Divine Enlightenment]."

"This process cannot be disturbed, and it takes anywhere from 49 days to 81 days. Even if it's just the shortest 49 days, it's long enough for any Nascent Soul True Lord in this world to travel back and forth across the entire Immortal Continent four or five times!"

"The most fatal thing is that refining the rhythm of the Heavenly Dao is the most crucial step in reaching the Divine Transformation stage. Time cannot be saved at all, and any secret techniques and treasures are useless. As a result, the Nascent Soul cultivators of our Shending Immortal Dynasty are simply unable to achieve Divine Transformation in the present world. Otherwise, they would have just broken through for a few days, and before they could even sit down, all the Divine Transformation cultivators in the present world would come to kill them.