Mysterious mirror hanging high

Jing Yu thought to himself, "This [Juntian Temple] is really doing a good business. They don't monopolize the secret realm, but instead make things convenient for cultivators from all over the place, preventing Yuanying Zhenjun from entering to raid the place. They only charge spirit stones for an entrance ticket... This is the way to make a steady profit."

"The appearance of this [Mier Mountain Ruins] will last for more than a year. I don't know how many cultivators will come and go. I don't know how much spiritual stones will be earned in just this year!"

"But [Juntian Temple] is also arrogant. They only sent this young Taoist priest in the Foundation Establishment Realm to guard here..."

"If this can stop a Yuanying Zhenjun, then the power of [Juntian Temple] is too astonishing! It truly deserves to be ranked among the top three behemoths in the Zhongzhou region..."

Since the [Juntian Temple] had established the rules here, Jing Yu naturally wouldn't be the fool who challenged the authority. He obediently handed over a thousand spirit stones. After the foundation-building Taoist priest finished counting, he nodded and said, "Senior, the number is correct... The entrance to the [Mier Mountain Ruins] is inside the eye socket where the ancient Buddha's eye is missing... I wish you a fruitful return!"

"Oh, by the way, Senior, if you leave the secret realm and want to enter again, you have to pay one thousand spirit stones."

The Taoist priest smiled and said, "If you think it's not worth it, you can stay in the secret realm for a while longer..."

Jing Yu shook his head, set up a light and flew into the dark eye sockets of the ancient Buddha. The sky was spinning for a moment, and the next moment he arrived outside a dilapidated Buddhist temple.

Jing Yu transformed himself back to his original appearance and looked around.

This Buddhist temple seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, with only ruins left. The remaining walls were quite mottled, and it was obvious that they had been there for many years.

Jing Yu looked at the black vortex that appeared and disappeared in the sky, and understood in his heart: "The entrance and exit of this secret realm are also constantly moving, which eliminates the possibility of someone waiting at the exit."

He carefully examined the dilapidated Buddhist temple in front of him, his expression slightly cautious, and he walked in slowly. He found that the temple was even more dilapidated. A small temple inside housed a gilded Buddha statue, the gold paint of which had almost fallen off, revealing the clay inside. The offering plate in front of the Buddha platform was already empty, and there was nothing in front of the Buddha statue except a yellow cushion and a wooden fish.

Jing Yu walked forward, picked up the wooden hammer next to the wooden fish, and knocked it gently a few times.

Bang, bang, bang...

After these strikes of the wooden fish, the originally silent Buddha statue suddenly changed.

Rumbling--

Jing Yu suddenly looked up at the gilded Buddha statue. With a shake, the only bit of gold paint left on the statue actually fell off. One of the Buddha statue's eyes suddenly shattered and turned into mud powder, revealing a black eye socket with a line of blood and tears in it.

The next moment, the Buddha statue suddenly came to life, stretched its body, danced, and cried out loudly:

"The Dharma Ending has arrived! Who will save me?"

"The Dharma Ending has arrived! Who will save me?"

The one-eyed Buddha statue's only remaining eye suddenly turned towards Jing Yu, and said with a strange smile, "What a flesh boat! It's just right for ferrying me across!"

After saying that, the one-eyed Buddha statue jumped off the platform and grabbed Jing Yu.

A gray Dharma light swept across and smashed the Buddha statue into pieces. Jing Yu looked carefully and actually found a white relic in a pile of clay powder.

"Is this... a [white bone relic]?" Jing Yu picked up the relic and frowned.

The Buddha statue was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, so it naturally posed no threat to Jing Yu. A ray of Bitter Crossing Mysterious Light shattered it cleanly and efficiently, but he obtained the relic.

"This [White Bone Relic] is a demonic object, a necessary ingredient for crafting creatures like the [White Bone Demon], yet it's inside a Buddha statue. How bizarre!"

Jing Yu wondered, "What does the [End of Dharma Era] refer to?"

"Above the [Spiritual Transformation Realm] is the [Cave Heaven Realm]. Legend has it that cultivators who have reached the Cave Heaven Realm can cultivate space within their bodies and evolve into a cave heaven..."

"The cave in the body can accommodate living things, and even living beings can practice cultivation within the cave."

"And in the world of immortal cultivation, there's a saying that all the secret realms, blessed lands, and caves that roam the vast universe today...are all the inner worlds of high-level cultivators after their death!"

"Among them, the [Secret Realm] is the lowest level and should be left by a cultivator in the Cave Heaven Realm."

"The various objects within the [Blessed Lands] and [Cave Heavens] have evolved even more completely, especially the major [Cave Heavens]. Aside from the lack of many laws of heaven and earth, they are almost indistinguishable from the real world! These blessed lands and cave heavens could be above the cave heaven realm, or even evolved from the inner world of immortals after death..."

"According to this theory, this [Mier Mountain Secret Realm] might be the inner world of a Buddhist monk in the [Cave Heaven Realm]. And the so-called [End of the Dharma] that the one-eyed Buddha statue keeps talking about might very well be referring to the end of the Buddhist monk's lifespan."

Jing Yu sighed, "When cultivators from the lower realms reach the Cave Heaven Realm, they become repelled from the real world and inevitably ascend to the upper realms... This is the most orthodox way of ascension..."

"Unfortunately, many small realms have very thin spiritual energy, and one often cannot cultivate to the Cave Heaven Realm. One can only try to break through the space channel when in the Spiritual Transformation Stage, fighting for a glimmer of hope."

"But even if one cultivates to the [Dongtian Realm], one still cannot escape the sufferings of birth, old age, sickness, and death. After death, the inner world falls into the [End of Dharma]. Even the living beings in this secret realm cannot escape the calamity..."

"Humph!"

A cold snort came from Jing Yu's sea of ​​consciousness. It was the long-silent [Cloudtop Heavenly Monarch] who opened up his mouth:

"A cultivator in the late stage of the Spiritualization Realm who ventures into a space with a similar path has a 70% to 80% chance of survival, which is already extremely high. Take, for example, Xiao Buyi, the [Penglai Celestial Monarch] from 20,000 years ago. He would have a 100% chance of survival! Why would such a genius wait until he reaches the [Cave Heaven Realm] in the lower realms before ascending?"

"So it's Senior Yunding." Jing Yu said with a smile, "I wonder how confident those in the middle and early stages of the Spiritualization stage are in passing through the space passage?"

"A 20% to 30% chance of survival in the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm is already pretty good. As for the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm? Half a percent! That's the survival rate for a peerless genius! For an ordinary, mediocre cultivator in the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, the chance of survival might not even be half a percent."

"This is also why most of the Divine Transformation cultivators in the Immortal Continent are secluded from the world, or retreat behind the scenes to plan the world, and are busy practicing!"

Yunding Tianjun sneered and said, "Those in the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation stage seek opportunities to advance to the middle stage, while those in the middle stage aspire to the late stage. Only when their lifespan is almost over will they want to take a chance on that 20% to 30% chance."

"As for cultivators in the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm? They often have to hone their skills for hundreds or even thousands of years, trying to improve their fundamental combat power before they can even venture into the spatial channel. Otherwise, if they finally reach the late stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, only to encounter a setback and die on the way to ascension, wouldn't they become a laughing stock?"