Mysterious mirror hanging high

"The reason why immortals don't come to the First Heaven is very simple. It's simply because the First Heaven is poor in spiritual energy and there are very few spiritual resources that immortals can use."

Gu Mingyan said, "The first level of the Immortal Realm is sufficient for cultivation for cultivators below the level of Immortals. It's no problem for ordinary cultivators to reach the Mahayana realm here, but if they want to go further, they have to move up."

"Aside from the still-evolving [Fourth Heaven], the place with the most abundant spiritual energy right now is naturally the [Third Heaven]. However, in reality, the cultivation environment of the [Third Heaven] is only barely adequate for immortals. After all, this is still the early stages of the era."

"It is said that after billions of years, when the entire immortal world has evolved into dozens of heavens, that will be the true golden age of cultivation."

“But then again, those who were able to achieve Golden Immortal status at the beginning of the era were all gifted and blessed with incredible luck. There will always be one or two who achieve great success.”

The "great achievement" that Gu Ming mentioned was naturally the achievement of the Dao Fruit and the attainment of the Dao Lord status.

"As for why most lower-level cultivators are unwilling to go to the higher realms?"

Gu Ming said slowly, "Firstly, the resources of the first heaven are sufficient. No matter how rich the spiritual energy is, it can only speed up the cultivation speed... No matter how high the status is, it may not be useful for the lower cultivators."

"Besides, there are [Loose Immortals] above the Second Heaven."

"A wandering immortal?" Jing Yu asked doubtfully.

Gu Ming patiently explained, "Fellow Daoist Xuan Jing must know that when a cultivator opens up a cave heaven and reaches the great spiritual stage, he will enter the [Three Realms of Immortality], namely the [Heavenly Immortal], [True Immortal], and [Golden Immortal] realms."

"But in reality, many Mahayana cultivators who are trying to transform from mortals into immortals lack a sufficient foundation and a bit of luck...then they may achieve an incomplete immortal realm."

"This realm is called the [Land of the Scattered Immortals]."

Gu Ming sighed and said, "The immortal body transformed from this Loose Immortal Realm is incomplete and is not tolerated by the Heavenly Dao. Every thousand years, a thunder tribulation will descend to destroy it."

"Each thunder tribulation is stronger than the last. The first one was okay, and most of the immortals can survive it."

"A lone immortal who can survive a lone immortal thunder tribulation is called a [One Tribulation Lone Immortal]."

"When it comes to the calamity of the 2,000th year, it will be very powerful. Among the [One-Calm Loose Immortals], it would be good if half of them can survive it."

"But if you are lucky enough to survive, you will become a [Second Tribulation Loose Immortal]."

"Unfortunately, even if you survived two thunder tribulations, you still couldn't escape the fate of death. No one knows how many tribulations there are for a Loose Immortal."

"The highest record in the Immortal Realm right now is [Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal]."

"As for the Tenth Tribulation that comes ten thousand years after becoming a Loose Immortal? No one can overcome it... at least not yet."

"That is to say, no matter how hard you try, once you become a Loose Immortal, you can only linger for another ten thousand years at best."

Gu Ming shook his head and said, "Once a cultivator achieves the [Cave Heaven Realm], he will immediately enjoy a lifespan of 30,000 years."

"[Mahayana Realm] cultivators can enjoy a hundred thousand years of freedom."

"Once you achieve Celestial Immortal, you will transform from a mortal to an immortal, and your lifespan will be one million years."

"True Immortal? As long as you don't die in an accident and cultivate peacefully, you can enjoy a carefree and happy life for tens of millions of years."

"[Loose Immortals] can only live for another ten thousand years at most. However, a high-tribulation loose immortal has undergone repeated tempering and baptism by thunder tribulations, and has already attained the combat power of a true immortal... Having such powerful magical powers, they are reduced to a short-lived ghost. They can only watch helplessly as celestial immortals with less combat power than themselves enjoy the long years ahead. After a long time, it is inevitable that their mentality will become unbalanced."

"As a result, many [Loose Immortals] gradually develop inner demons and their temperaments become increasingly extreme."

"Especially those immortals who know they can't survive the next thunder tribulation—these immortals are the craziest and often have no bottom line. You have no idea what outrageous things they will do."

"A wandering immortal approaching a thunder tribulation is completely unpredictable. You claim to be a true descendant of the Immortal Court, a descendant of the Dao Lord? It's useless!"

"This status might intimidate ordinary people, but it's meaningless to a wandering immortal with a short lifespan... Some wandering immortals even go out of jealousy to specifically slaughter these high-ranking geniuses."

"About three hundred years ago, an Eight Tribulations Loose Immortal took advantage of a certain Golden Immortal's genius while he was out training and brutally murdered him. This caused quite a stir, and even we, the lower cultivators living in the First Heaven, heard about it."

"Therefore, the geniuses who travel and train above the Second Heaven must be wary of these kinds of independent immortals, especially those without any power and alone. These people are the most terrifying, as they don't even have any weaknesses."

"Do you think that scattered immortals will come to the First Heaven to slaughter people? Of course there are, but they are relatively few, so few that they can be completely ignored."

Gu Ming shook his head and said, "Of course, not all immortals will explode before they die, but compared to cultivators who reach the end of their lifespan normally, the probability of them going crazy before death increases significantly."

"It is said that the [Loose Immortal Thunder Tribulation] is too terrifying. It contains not only pure thunder tribulations, but also some [God-Destroying Thunder] that affects the soul and causes severe pain. Therefore, the loose immortals who are killed by the thunder tribulation often suffer extreme pain before their death."

"They don't want to experience this kind of pain, which is so deeply etched in their souls, again... Therefore, as their [sentence] draws near, they become increasingly moody."

"The Loose Immortals of the first to third tribulation are not as good as the Celestial Immortal realm, but are only slightly stronger than the Mahayana cultivators."

"A [Four Tribulations Loose Immortal] is already comparable to an [Early Stage Celestial Immortal], while [Five Tribulations] and [Six Tribulations] Loose Immortals correspond to [Middle Stage Celestial Immortal] and [Late Stage Celestial Immortal]."

"The [Seven Tribulations Loose Immortal] already has the magical powers of a True Immortal. The most terrifying [Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal] is comparable to a [Perfect True Immortal] cultivator. If a Golden Immortal doesn't show up, they can practically run rampant in the Immortal Realm."

"Furthermore, a Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal who could truly withstand nine Loose Immortal Thunder Tribulations must have been a legendary genius. They became Loose Immortals most likely because something unexpected happened during their breakthrough, leading to their downfall."

"People like this are deeply unwilling to give up, and when they go crazy, it's terrible."

Gu Ming's expression was filled with fear, and he subconsciously shrank his head. "Anyway, if you are unlucky enough to encounter a [Loose Immortal], then you'll just have to fend for yourself..."

"Loose Immortal Thunder Tribulation..."

Jing Yu was lost in thought, and he couldn't help but recall the thunder tribulation that he and Lu Ying had summoned when they were transforming into gods.

"The Daozun's dream mentioned that the Thunder Tribulation Immortal Monarch, who was in charge of thunder tribulations, died suddenly for some reason, leaving the power of thunder vacant to this day. So how do the various thunder tribulations come about? Could it be that without anyone to control them, they act according to the instincts of Heaven?"

Jing Yu's thoughts wandered: "Does that mean that if an unparalleled genius could achieve the status of Thunder Lord and condense the Dao Fruit related to thunder, he would be able to regain control of the power of thunder tribulations, and would have room to manipulate all kinds of thunder tribulations in the world?"