My Mythical Path to Immortality in Another World

As for why the Great Emperor, having reached the end of his cultivation, led his generals into slumber, it was naturally due to the matter of his power being divided into multiple entities.

An emperor's authority can manifest in anywhere from a hundred thousand to a million different techniques.

If so many avatars of authority were to be condensed into physical form using their own power, the consumption would be enormous.

Therefore, the authority is usually delegated to a subordinate general to carry out military operations and deployments.

Condensing a power clone with one's own power consumes one's own power, while attaching a power clone to a subordinate consumes the subordinate's own power.

The power of hundreds of thousands or even millions of generals, under the integration of the emperor's authority and the vision of the emperor, can be mobilized and exerted ten times or even a hundred times the strength.

When the power of an emperor and hundreds of thousands or even millions of people are combined into one, and these powers are controlled by the avatars of authority, the power they can unleash is unimaginable.

With the addition of the Dao-enhancing artifacts they forged themselves and the supernatural powers they mastered, a fully formed Human Emperor could fight beyond his level. With his pseudo-Human Emperor cultivation, he could even fight and kill a peak Ninth Realm Demon Ancestor, who was two realms above him and at the eighteenth rank.

The remaining five emperors of the Great Qin Heavenly Court were the Western Emperor and the four regional emperors of the Southeast, Northeast, Southwest, and Northwest.

The Western Emperor is the leader, with the four other emperors assisting him.

Among the Five Great Emperors, the Northwest and Northeast Great Emperors have the shallowest foundations.

The reason for this is that the Northern Emperor of the Qin Heavenly Court was Bai Wu'an, and according to historical records, this Bai Wu'an was actually Bai Qi.

Whether it is the Five Emperors or the Nine Emperors, each emperor has his own responsibilities.

The Central Emperor commands the overall situation, the Eastern Emperor governs the people's livelihood, the Southern Emperor governs education, the Western Emperor governs military affairs, and the Northern Emperor governs sacrifices.

As for the four great emperors of the southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest, if they don't exist, they don't exist; if they do exist, they assist the four great emperors of the southeast, southwest, and northwest.

Logically speaking, it's just that Bai Wu'an was in charge of the sacrificial rites, using the endless corpses of alien races for the purpose of sacrifice, and killing far too many alien races.

This resulted in the Western Emperor, who was originally in charge of military affairs, having no war to fight for a long time, thus falling behind the other three emperors.

Although Zhao Xuancheng acted like a mischievous child in front of Zhao Xuan, he was naturally proud and unyielding because he had cultivated the Boundless Sacred Body.

Therefore, after joining the Qin Heavenly Court, he did not follow the strongest Western Emperor, but instead followed the weakest Northwest Emperor.

Of course, this weakest emperor wasn't that weak either; his name was Zhang Shaorong, who, in historical terms, was Zhang Han.

It wasn't that the Great Emperor of the Northwest was too weak, but rather that he was born too late.

By the time the Great Emperor of the Northwest rose to power, the talents of the Qin Dynasty had already been largely divided up by the previous emperors.

Therefore, it would take too much time for the Northwest Emperor to retrain talent.

The Great Emperor of the Northwest lacked talent, so he naturally valued talent even more.

Therefore, after Zhao Xuancheng joined the Northwest Emperor's forces, in addition to demonstrating his talent for cultivation, he also demonstrated a strong talent for leading troops.

Having followed Zhao Xuan for so long, Zhao Xuan had shared a lot of military strategy theories from Zhao Xuan's previous life with him.

Zhao Xuancheng's talent for military strategy far surpassed that of ordinary people. After accepting Zhao Xuan's military theories from his previous life, he innovated and developed his understanding of military strategy to an unimaginable depth.

Therefore, he was quickly valued by the Great Emperor of the Northwest, who appointed him, with his Saint Realm Ninth Rank, to command the Heavenly Generals.

All the emperors used the Saint Realm as heavenly soldiers, the Sovereign Realm as heavenly generals, the Emperor Realm as great generals, the Supreme Emperor Realm as heavenly kings, and the Three Supreme Realms as great saints.

One Great Emperor governs eleven Great Sages, one Great Sage governs eleven Heavenly Kings, one Heavenly King governs eleven Great Generals, one Great General governs eleven Heavenly Generals, and one Heavenly General governs eleven Heavenly Soldiers.

The reason for this is to be able to set up the Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Array.

A Heavenly General of the Imperial Realm, accompanied by eleven Heavenly Soldiers of the Saint Realm, set up the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation, which could unleash the combat power of someone newly entering the Emperor Realm.

A general at the Emperor Realm and eleven generals at the Sovereign Realm set up the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation, which can unleash the combat power of a superior Emperor Realm expert.

Furthermore, after having eleven Emperor-level Heavenly Generals and their Heavenly Soldiers set up the Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Array, one can then use oneself in conjunction with eleven miniature Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Arrays to set up a smaller Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Array, thus unleashing the combat power of a dual-level superior Emperor-level being.

As it grows stronger, it will eventually be able to fight the Demon Ancestor after the Great Emperor sets up the ultimate Twelve Yuan Chen Formation.

Although Zhao Xuancheng's cultivation level was not high, military formations and array formations are from the same lineage. Zhao Xuancheng's understanding of military formations was deep enough that it was only natural for him to comprehend the Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Array.

Therefore, the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation set up by Zhao Xuancheng and his generals was no weaker than the formations set up by other Emperor Realm generals.

Zhao Xuancheng has been in the Heavenly Court for four thousand years. During these four thousand years, he has killed many alien races and gained a lot of fortune.

However, influenced by Zhao Xuan, Zhao Xuancheng did not care much about cultivation level, but was very interested in the application of supernatural powers and techniques.

Do not think that cultivation is the foundation and supernatural powers are the application; studying supernatural powers and techniques is putting the cart before the horse.

These two approaches are equally important and should be pursued in tandem.

It's simply that after one's realm is elevated, one can accommodate more principles and laws.

However, the enhancement of supernatural powers makes it easier to integrate reason, law, and Taoist practice.

In the cultivation of the Holy Realm, the ratio of principles and the power of the Three Treasures is one to one, that is, 50% principles and 50% power of the Three Treasures.

For each grade that a Sacred Realm advances, the proportion of principles and laws increases by one point, with the proportion of principles and laws at the Sacred Realm level being 50% to 60%.

In the power system of cultivators, it is composed of three elements: Dao cultivation, magical power, and spiritual power.

Starting with 50%, one can refine ten times the magical power and mobilize ten times the spiritual power of someone of equal cultivation level.

After reaching 50%, for every additional 10% increase, the amount of magical power that can be mobilized increases tenfold, and naturally, the amount of spiritual power that can be mobilized also increases tenfold.

Zhao Xuan refined a wisp of power as a seed, and now he has mastered hundreds of different powers.

These forces absorbed the principles of heaven and earth and the power of the Three Treasures, merging to form Zhao Xuan's Three Treasures Golden Flower.

If these Three Treasures Golden Flowers are considered part of Zhao Xuan's cultivation, then these powers belong to a separate system outside of the Human Emperor's Path. They are used by Zhao Xuan to build the foundation of the Mythical Great Luo, so they cannot improve Zhao Xuan's realm of the Human Emperor's Path.

However, it can elevate Zhao Xuan's combat power to an unimaginable level.

In fact, the higher the proportion of reason and law, the higher the level of cultivation.

The Sacred Realm consists of five realms, so the cultivation level is composed of five levels of spiritual power, and the proportion of principles and laws is 50%.

Next comes the sixth realm, the Emperor Realm, which is composed of six levels of spiritual energy, so the principle and law account for 60%.

The spiritual energy of the seven realms and seven levels is composed of principles and laws, accounting for 70%.

The eighth level of spiritual energy in the Eight Mirror Realm is composed of principles and laws, accounting for 80%.

However, cultivators are not incapable of transcending realms and mastering advanced powers.

For example, Zhao Xuan's supreme power of the Five Elements is level ten spiritual energy, and the principles and laws have been condensed into rules.

The Five Elements system, constructed from the highest spiritual power of the Five Elements, can reach the level of eleventh-level spiritual energy, with an even more concentrated power of rules.

The power of fortune and the power of time are level twelve spiritual energy, and the rules have begun to transform into authority.

Only spiritual energy of the same level can be compared in terms of quantity. Once the level difference between spiritual energy is too large, quantity becomes meaningless.

Influenced by Zhao Xuan, Zhao Xuancheng also enjoys pursuing higher levels of power.

For example, Zhao Xuancheng's cultivation level in the Emperor Dao was at the ninth rank of the Saint Realm, but Zhao Xuancheng also cultivated the Immortal Dao as a secondary practice, rather than focusing solely on the Immortal Dao.

His principles and laws in the Human Emperor's Way are mainly based on thunder, but in the Immortal Way, he cultivates the power of water.

Moreover, influenced by Zhao Xuan, Zhao Xuancheng has been using Primordial Heavy Water as the foundation of his immortal path, and has been working on condensing materials with strong interaction forces.

Four thousand years have passed, and Zhao Xuancheng has condensed the Primordial Heavy Water to the level of seventh-grade spiritual energy.

The foundation of the Human Emperor's Path, based on the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, has also been elevated to the level of seventh-grade spiritual energy.

Therefore, Zhao Xuancheng was able to wield the combat power of an Emperor Realm cultivator despite being at the Saint Realm level.

Zhao Xuan, with his level eleven and twelfth power, could only wield the power of the Human Emperor's throne because most of his power was used to condense the Thirty-Sixth Grade Creation Green Lotus of the Mythical Great Luo Foundation.

The power mobilized is only a very small part of one's own power.

There is a logic to this: if Zhao Xuan does not use most of his power to condense the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus of the Mythical Great Luo Foundation, without the suppression of the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus, this power will harm him.

He would then be unable to mobilize such a high level of power.

Therefore, Zhao Xuan's own state of mind was insufficient to fully control such a high level of power.

Zhao Xuan's situation is completely different from Zhao Xuan's.

Zhao Xuan's mental state is not high enough. Even if his cultivation level is high, the power he can control will not exceed that of the Human Emperor Realm.

Zhao Xuancheng, on the other hand, had a sufficient mental state and a sufficient level of power, but his cultivation level was insufficient.

If Zhao Xuancheng were to contribute enough luck, he could directly advance to the Emperor Realm.

However, such a foundation for the Emperor Realm is too weak, and it is not what Zhao Xuancheng is pursuing.

Clearly, the effort required to repair one's foundation in the future will be far greater than the effort required to lay a solid foundation at a lower level.

Compared to the major celestial courts, Earth is a small, insignificant entity, or even a bunch of poor relatives.

This is why cultivators on Earth always strive to obtain the greatest benefits with the least amount of resources.

Therefore, after obtaining fortune, cultivators in the Heavenly Court first use it to improve their own realm. Even if their foundation is unstable, they can simply use more fortune in the future to make up for it.

Those who cultivate on Earth, after obtaining fortune, often think of first seeking enlightenment and improving their understanding.

As for why Zhao Xuancheng was sealed away...

It can only be said that Zhao Xuancheng was too eager to prove himself, always wanting to be at the forefront of every battle.

Zhao Xuancheng possesses the Boundless Holy Body. After activating the Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Array, even if he bears 80% of the array's pressure, he can recover instantly.

However, even if his eleven heavenly soldiers shared the remaining 20% ​​of the formation's pressure, they would still need some time to recuperate.

It is a realm elevated by luck, but the foundation is far too shallow. Once injured, it will take a long time to recover.

The realm one cultivates is like a young person, full of vitality, able to recover quickly even if they suffer a broken bone.

A realm elevated by luck is like an eighty-year-old man; once a bone is broken, it is almost impossible to recover.

Zhao Xuan was a Heavenly General, but the Heavenly Soldiers under his command were all at a higher level than him.

To subdue these heavenly soldiers in this situation, one must prove that one can lead them to victory on the battlefield and save one's life.

Although the Great Qin Heavenly Court has the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation, it is not necessary to set up the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation for every battle.

Often, tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers and generals are dispatched at the drop of a hat, but most of the time they are used to control the battlefield situation, and it is the generals or heavenly kings who actually do the fighting.

To put it simply, it serves as a deterrent, prevents the enemy from escaping, and is used for cleaning up the battlefield after the battle.

In the event of a battle, the leader will go first; only when they are truly unable to win will they set up the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation.

After all, the Twelve Yuan Chen Grand Formation can enhance combat power by one or even two realms, which will naturally have a backlash on the person who sets up the formation.

Those who elevate their realm through luck have shallow foundations and recover slowly.

However, Zhao Xuancheng's own realm was too low. Although he had mastered the seventh level of spiritual energy, his cultivation level was insufficient, even though he possessed the Boundless Sacred Body and Boundless Cultivation.

However, this "limitless" quality is due to recovery and does not provide any bonus to the instantaneous output volume, speed, or mental capacity.

Zhao Xuancheng's strength is sufficient to defend against attacks from Emperor Realm experts, but his speed and control over the rhythm of battle are still at the Saint Realm level.

Therefore, when battles occur, Zhao Xuancheng needs to set up the Twelve Yuan Chen Formation to protect his heavenly soldiers.

After several major battles, Zhao Xuancheng's squad was discovered by his superior general to participate in battles far more frequently than other squads.

After all, even if other teams use their luck to recover, they won't gain much luck in a single battle.

Their squad leader, Tianjiang, doesn't bear 80% of the formation's pressure like Zhao Xuan does; he's lucky if he can handle 50% of the formation's backlash.

Some unscrupulous heavenly generals even treated their heavenly soldiers as expendable resources, making them bear all the backlash from the formations.

In other words, after a great battle, the damage suffered by Zhao Xuancheng's squad of heavenly soldiers was only one-third to one-fifth of that suffered by other heavenly soldiers.

Even though Zhao Xuancheng and his Heavenly Soldiers always fought against the enemy with the Twelve Yuan Chen, his Heavenly Soldiers could quickly recover and be ready to engage in the next battle.

After investigation, the general discovered that Zhao Xuancheng was not injured after each battle, and his Heavenly Soldiers only suffered minor injuries.

Then the general concluded that Zhao Xuancheng's understanding of the Twelve Zodiac Battle was far beyond that of ordinary people.

After all, the deeper one's understanding of formations, the less severe the backlash they will cause.

Therefore, Zhao Xuancheng was separated from the squad and became his personal guard, whose duty was to gather the defeated troops on the battlefield.

This inevitably leads to deep penetration into enemy territory.

After several major battles, even though Zhao Xuancheng was able to defend against attacks from Emperor Realm experts, he couldn't always react in time to defend against them.

Therefore, it was inevitable that I suffered several injuries.

If it's about besieging and annihilating a foreign race, that's one thing; usually, it's about besieging and annihilating different enemies.

However, for nearly a thousand years, the Great Emperor of the Northwest has been fighting against a demon race called the Six-Eared Heart Ape, whose bloodline originates from the Six-Eared Macaque.

Therefore, this demon was very intelligent and quickly noticed Zhao Xuancheng's abnormality.

Therefore, adhering to the principle of "better to kill the innocent than let the guilty go free," they sealed and captured Zhao Xuancheng.