My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

Once cultivators reach the Divine Realm, they begin refining magical artifacts.

The method of refining artifacts is the Great Vehicle of Artifact Refining, followed by the Artifact of One's Destiny.

For example, Zhao Xuancheng's twelve-tiered exquisite pagoda was an important ritual object.

One can nurture a Dao-entrusting artifact for a lifetime. Dao-entrusting artifacts can be upgraded as cultivation progresses. They don't even need to incorporate new materials; the cultivator's luck after a breakthrough can upgrade the artifact.

The natal weapon can also be upgraded as the cultivator improves, but the materials themselves will not be upgraded; they need to be upgraded by breaking through and incorporating new materials.

The advantage is that the weapon of destiny does not need to be broken in and can exert its full power, and can even unleash ten or a hundred times the power. However, it will damage the weapon of destiny.

If one's natal artifact is damaged, the cultivator will also be injured.

Then there are weapons and magical artifacts.

Zhao Xuan's green bamboo staff is a weapon, and its level has reached the level of a divine weapon.

The so-called divine weapon is not about how powerful it is, but rather that it is so powerful that it can change according to the master's wishes.

The advantage of weapons and magical artifacts lies in their power, which comes from their materials and crafting techniques. The power of the master is merely a catalyst; what unleashes their power is the principle and law contained within the materials used in their crafting.

For example, someone like Chang Mao, who is at the lower-level Emperor Realm, can fight against opponents of higher levels as long as he possesses a decent magical artifact.

Because the destructive force is not Chang Mao's power, but the power of the magical artifact.

For someone like Chang Mao, who is at the Emperor Realm, to emerge, the Heavenly Court Lord of the Great Ming Dynasty might not bestow upon him any powerful magical artifacts, but his father, Chang Boren, must have given him a life-saving magical artifact.

After hearing Zhao Xuan's words, Chang Mao indeed had a spear and a suit of armor protruding from his body.

The spear is about ten feet long, and it is the style of a military spear. The spearhead is about two feet long and looks like gold and jade.

The gun body and the gun head are made of one piece of the Great Sun Divine Gold, and a pattern resembling a three-legged golden crow is faintly visible on the gun body.

A powerful aura made Zhao Xuan feel a great sense of crisis.

The Great Sun Divine Gold is formed from fragments of the Great Sun's core, containing the principles and laws of the Great Sun's power.

The power of the Great Sun is also one of the supreme powers of the Five Elements, representing the true supreme power within the Fire element.

The words "Golden Crow" are engraved on the gun barrel, so it should probably be called something like the Golden Crow Divine Gun.

The divine spear was engraved with countless arrays, the purpose of which was to transform the master's magical power into the power of the sun to enhance its destructive power.

That armor was a general's armor, with a phoenix-winged headband helmet, mountain-patterned fish scales, tiger-head shoulder guards, and tiger-head belly guards.

Zhao Xuan immediately recognized that the main material of the armor was also extraordinary, and it must have been made of Taiyin True Gold.

Taiyin is both extremely cold and extremely gentle; its extreme cold freezes all things, while its extreme gentleness encompasses all things.

This armor can freeze the pain; wearing this armor on the battlefield, the armor will not break and the person will not be injured.

Although it doesn't reach the level of the highest power of the Five Elements, it is still in the first tier under the highest power.

It can also provide some defense against attacks from the supreme power of the Five Elements.

These are two Dao weapons, or spiritual treasures, containing relatively simple principles of battlefield combat.

It's obvious that it wasn't made by Chang Mao, but by Chang Boren.

After all, their auras were somewhat incompatible, but since they shared the same lineage as Chang Mao's, it was likely that Chang Boren used his own bloodline within Chang Mao as a guide to gain the recognition of the spear and armor.

Although it cannot fully exert its power, the spiritual treasure's spirituality is no different from that of an ordinary person, and it can defend itself on its own.

Therefore, even if one's level is higher, it is not necessarily possible to defeat Chang Mao.

Seeing that Chang Mao was about to make a move, Zhao Xuan smiled slightly and waved his right hand, causing a dense array of imaginary spaces to envelop Chang Mao.

Before Chang Mao could react, a Dongfeng missile exploded around him, its tail flames spreading out.

The first step in banning magic is to ban spirit energy. Currently, the spiritual energy of the entire Earth is filled with inertia and is extremely difficult to mobilize.

Even if they are not affected by the forbidden magic domain, they can only use their own magic power to fight the enemy.

This makes it difficult for cultivators to unleash their true power.

This would disrupt the rhythm of the battle. Chang Mao was caught off guard and was hit by Dongfeng's powerful attack, which was capable of threatening the Emperor Realm. The power of Dongfeng was also restricted to a certain area by the imaginary space.

It can be said that he took a solid hit. When the light faded, Chang Mao stood in the void in a disheveled state, his spear and armor gone.

Although the injury was minor, it was extremely humiliating. Chang Mao's expression changed several times, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Upon seeing Chang Mao vomit blood, the nine Emperor Realm experts rushed forward to check on him, but Chang Mao stopped them with a gesture.

"Humanity struggles to survive among the three paths, with humanity providing protection but requiring faith from humanity."

Heaven, in its governing principles, views the human race as a destabilizing factor.

The underground tunnels appear to be run by the Duke, but they secretly covet the souls of the human race.

Therefore, the human race should strive to become stronger.

However, since humanity was chosen by the path of humankind, it has become overly reliant on it, deepening its connection with humankind. The day humanity triumphs over heaven may very well be the day humanity destroys its own laws.

Zhao Xuan looked at Chang Mao, whose expression was complicated, and said.

"Chang Mao, what is your purpose in cultivating?"

Chang Mao did not answer.

"Go, seal your cultivation, transform into a mortal, and experience the life of those mortals."

Zhao Xuan waved his hand, and the void shifted. Chang Mao and the other ten were teleported out of Zhongdu without resistance.

Humanity detests the rule of Heaven, for Heaven is ruthless and treats all things as straw dogs.

Humans have too many emotions, so they pursue perfection.

Once lost, one will feel resentment and hatred.

But is governing the world with humanity really a good thing?

Heaven values ​​life, and humanity values ​​honor.

From a cruel perspective, the idea that nature values ​​life is a hope that the world is full of vitality.

This vitality can be found in humans, beastmen, or insectoids, as long as the world is full of life.

Humanity's honor and prosperity, on the other hand, is the hope that living beings will multiply and flourish, maintaining a prosperous scene.

But if all living beings are immortal, they don't need to pass on their lineage or have successors competing for their resources, so why would they reproduce?

How can prosperity be maintained without procreation?

Therefore, the first step in governing the world with human principles is to prohibit magic, so that the world enters the Dharma-ending Age, where there are no immortals.

In this way, living beings will reproduce in order to ensure the continuation of their lineage.

Wars will break out in order to seize food.

The depletion of life in war, in turn, encourages the reproduction of life.

Therefore, humane governance is even more cruel to the human race.

The ideal state is for the three realms to govern the world together, checking and balancing each other, and forming rules that they all abide by.

But where there is a spirit, there is selfishness; where there is selfishness, there is desire.

All three paths desired to seize power and control over the world, which led to the war between the human and immortal realms that lasted for tens of millions of years.

To give an analogy, the whole world can be seen as an amusement park.

The only tourist is the Great Dao, and gaining the Great Dao's approval is the sole objective of the Three Paths.

The way of Heaven is to govern is through natural ecological reserves, allowing all things in the world to develop on their own.

However, it is necessary to control the existence of things that damage the natural ecosystem and prevent certain things from disrupting the ecological balance.

Therefore, we will regularly maintain and harvest any areas that may damage the ecosystem.

The authentic way to manage a zoo is through animal husbandry.

The park will be responsible for feeding the animals, but due to cost and revenue considerations, the animals will be kept to a minimum. The park does not want the animals to be too active and cause losses, nor does it want the animals to be too quiet and lack visual appeal.

The most humane form of governance is the circus.

Humanity is responsible for feeding the animals and meeting all their needs, but you must be obedient and perform acts to please them.

Otherwise, it will be replaced, and of course, this replacement will also recoup the costs.

What choice should the human race make?

This was a very sad thing in Zhao Xuan's eyes.

In other worlds, cultivation aims to either transcend the Great Dao, control the Great Dao, remain equal to the Great Dao, or be in harmony with the Great Dao.

Even if we don't aim to emulate the Great Dao, we should still take the Heavenly Dao as our goal.

However, in the realm of immortals and humans, there is no rule for humans to be enemies of the Dao. They can only try to navigate among the three paths and secure a place for themselves.

Therefore, human cultivators are half lying flat and half sitting on the wall.

This has resulted in the descendants of the Heavenly Court only reaching certain realms with the help of their ancestors, leaving their foundations extremely weak.

On Earth, those who go out are mostly from the Heavenly Court, and they are also the people on the front line of battle.

This is still due to the numerous restrictions imposed at the divine realm level.

Zhao Xuan felt truly saddened by the existence of someone like Chang Mao.

They are just pitiful children abandoned by their parents after they lost their goals and became disheartened.

Don't assume that Chang Boren provided Chang Mao with a very powerful magical artifact to protect him. But what would a person who is already immortal and so powerful want for his descendants?

The answer is that there is no desire.

The development of civilizations in the past has already proven this point. In ancient times, productivity was low and social welfare systems were imperfect, so the idea of ​​raising children to support the elderly was prevalent.

Children have the responsibility to support their elderly parents, and the elderly do everything they can to protect their children when they are young.

In modern times, with increased productivity and improved social welfare systems, some people have adopted the DINK (Double Income No Kids) lifestyle, choosing not to marry or have children.

Of course, the elderly receive moral and self-satisfaction when raising their children and the children take care of their elderly parents, which is conducive to the stability of the grassroots order and is also the reason for the existence of various virtues.

In the realm of immortals, the strong are revered, and there is no need to consider the lower-level order.

Once cultivators reach the divine realm, they achieve immortality and do not need descendants to care for them in their old age.

That leaves virtually no need for future generations.

Without demand, there is no obligation.

Protecting safety is a matter of a relatively high moral standard.

As for education?

It practically doesn't exist.

Therefore, the higher the level of a cultivator, the more powerful they are, and the less personal emotions they have.

The only factor that can restrain a practitioner who is emotionally detached is self-satisfaction.

For example, the Heavenly Court protecting the Earth's human race is a form of self-satisfaction.

To demonstrate one's kindness.

This is why many powerful beings often go into a deep sleep.

Firstly, to maintain their own combat strength.

Secondly, they use sleep to regulate their own emotions.

After these people fall into a deep sleep, the remaining people must then follow their rules.

After a long period of compromising with the rules, they gradually tend to adopt the attitude of being mere tools.

Just like intentional homicide, manslaughter, legitimate self-defense, and excessive self-defense in today's society.

The original rule was that a life for a life.

Such a judgment would be the easiest and would have the least impact on oneself.

Even if the latter three should not be punished with death, if you sentence them this way, even if someone discovers a mistake, it will only be described as an excessive punishment.

However, if you are convicted of intentional homicide but judged to be acting in self-defense without fault, then once this is discovered, you can easily be accused of favoritism, abuse of power, disregard for human life, and so on.

Therefore, after the first generation of the Heavenly Court fell into slumber, the second generation that took charge of the Heavenly Court rarely thought about the meaning of a certain rule, and only followed the rules rigidly.

Chang Xu was that kind of person; all he knew was that the fortune that should have belonged to him in Heaven had been stolen.

But they forgot that the original purpose of sharing the fortune was to cultivate strong individuals for the human race.

This wasn't Chang Xu's fault, but rather because no one taught him.

Zhao Xuan hoped that this time he could wake up Chang Xu, and at the same time wake up the other Heavenly Courts.

Clearly, Zhao Xuan had overestimated human nature again. Two hundred years had passed, and Zhao Mingcheng had already refined all seven Divine Dragons of Fortune. Shouyang Mountain was still stalled.

Zhao Xuan was somewhat angry; it seemed that the Eight Heavenly Courts had decided to disregard the rules.

Three months later, hundreds of pillars of light, reaching to the heavens and earth, emerged above Earth and gathered in the sky.

Stimulated by the beam of light, hundreds of imaginary spaces appeared in the sky.

Although it is an imaginary space, these hundreds of imaginary spaces are different from normal imaginary spaces.

Normal imaginary space only shows various kinds of energy flashing, but in these hundreds of imaginary spaces, there are huge puppets standing, some holding weapons, some driving chariots, some riding horses, and so on.

Upon seeing the imaginary space open, these puppets simultaneously opened their eyes, their bodies trembling slightly stiffly, and the weapons in their hands emitted beams of golden light.

Above Earth, it coalesced into hundreds of orbs of light.

These hundreds of light spheres revolve around the seven light spheres.

The moment the sphere of light appeared, Zhao Xuan's forbidden domain vanished. Before the people on Shouyang Mountain could even rejoice, their expressions changed drastically, becoming even uglier than before.

Zhao Xuan's figure grew to the size of a planet, and his gaze turned towards Shouyang Mountain.

"By the decree of the Emperor Qin, all people of Shouyang Mountain, heed this truth: the Seven Stars have appeared, and the Nine Dragons are about to return. The Seven Stars have been in their positions for over two hundred years, but the Two Dragons have been trapped by the Imperial Court, making it difficult for all Nine Dragons to be complete."

The imperial court has lost its virtue, and today I will execute a first-rank official as punishment.

Release the two dragons within three days, or it will be considered a betrayal of humanity, punishable by the annihilation of their souls.

Zhao Xuan's voice was like the voice of the Great Dao, causing the people of Shouyang Mountain to be filled with shock and anger.

Someone tried to explain, but one of the seven orbs of light in the sky transformed into a large sword shaped like a Qin bronze sword.

The greatsword slashed towards Shouyang Mountain, and hundreds of puppets in the imaginary space swung their weapons in unison, uttering the sound of "wind, wind, great wind."

A moment later, the people of Shouyang Mountain felt as if a scream came from their dantian.

One of the azure dragons in the Qi Sea of ​​a Saint Realm cultivator vanished into thin air.

A portion of the authority within the Qi Sea of ​​a cultivator at the Royal Realm vanished into thin air.

The Heavenly Court built in the Qi Sea of ​​an Emperor Realm cultivator also collapsed by one layer.

Some unlucky ones, who had just broken through to a higher realm but whose realm was unstable, fell back to their previous level.

"You brat, how dare you!" A furious roar came from a man dressed in black official robes, and twelve beams of light flew toward Zhao Xuan's figure in the sky.

The twelve figures merged together during flight, becoming a figure the same size as Zhao Xuan's, standing opposite him.