Blood rain poured down relentlessly, but Lu Qingyang remained undeterred.
He allowed the spiritual power within him to refine the celestial blood's force while immersing himself in comprehending and integrating the essence of the Heavenly Dao.
"In the primordial chaos, this world was called Yan Realm by ancient cultivators. However, today, it seems inappropriate to call it by this name."
"In that case, from now on, this realm shall be called Qingyang Realm!"
"My name is Qingyang Heavenly Dao!"
As the current agent of the Heavenly Dao in Qingyang Realm, it was only fitting for Lu Qingyang to name it thus.
"According to the information left by the essence of the Heavenly Dao, all the realms have different levels, with the lowest being the so-called first-tier Heavenly Dao."
"The invading alien Heavenly Dao and the world I reside in both belong to the first tier."
The maximum limit that a first-tier Heavenly Dao can accommodate is cultivators of the ninth level.
In other words, before the world advances, the native beings cannot surpass the ninth level.
To break through, there are only two ways.
One is for the world to advance on its own.
The other is for the cultivator to sever their connection with the world, leave their world, and seek a way to break through outside.
However, the latter weakens the world's power.
Just like how a cultivator absorbs the essence of heaven and earth in their early years to practice, and upon achieving success, leaves without giving back to the world. How can the Heavenly Dao tolerate this?
Therefore, whenever a cultivator ascends, they must undergo the tribulation, and this is the root cause.
Rather than letting them leave, it's better to kill them with the tribulation and let their essence blood return to the earth to nourish future generations.
"As for the limit, there is no need to worry for now. The highest cultivation level in this realm is only at the fourth level, far from the ninth level limit."
"And as an embodiment of the Heavenly Dao, my cultivation is not limited by the world's cap, which is my unique advantage."
"No need to worry that the cultivators we painstakingly cultivate will eventually abandon us, as the ninth level is not easily attainable."
"Even if there are ingrates who achieve the ninth level, by then I would have progressed further, and it's hard to predict my situation."
"If such a traitor appears, I would not hesitate to bring down the tribulation and kill them on the spot."
As for the conditions required for the world's Heavenly Dao to advance, to upgrade from a first-tier to a second-tier, a heavenly spiritual vein, three earth spiritual veins, nine ninth-level cultivators, and one hundred eighth-level cultivators are needed.
In the past, this realm did have a heavenly spiritual vein, but due to a great war among human cultivators in ancient times, it was shattered.
This is the fundamental reason why the Heavenly Dao imposed a terrifying punishment. The destruction of the heavenly spiritual vein means the path to second-tier Heavenly Dao advancement is cut off, how could the Heavenly Dao not be furious!
According to the essence of the Heavenly Dao, condensing a heavenly spiritual vein requires consuming 100,000 Heavenly Dao origins.
100,000 origins are an astronomical number for him now.
"If I truly had 100,000 origins, I would undoubtedly upgrade my realm and then face the alien Heavenly Dao, using their methods against them."
"After all, the strength of a first-tier Heavenly Dao is generally at the ninth level. If I had 100,000 origins, I believe I could surpass the ninth level."
But now,
He only has a mere 100 Heavenly Dao origins, condensing a heavenly spiritual vein is nothing but a pipe dream.
However, the current fourth-tier Heavenly Court can evolve into a miniature spiritual vein.
If the rank of the Heavenly Court can be improved, it remains to be seen if it can evolve into a heavenly spiritual vein.
At the very least, there is a glimmer of hope!
Before the Heavenly Court reaches the fourth tier, the evolved spiritual veins are not true spiritual veins.
Once it breaks through to the fourth tier, it can evolve a true miniature spiritual vein.
However, evolving a spiritual vein requires far more incense points than evolving other things.
Even a miniature spiritual vein requires a billion incense points to succeed.
At his current stage, a billion incense points is a considerable number.
Apart from this, there is the option of seizing spiritual veins from other worlds.
Any world that has not entered the end of the Dharma era has spiritual veins, only differing in quantity. If those spiritual veins can be transferred to this world, it will surely enhance this realm's foundation.
There are indeed spiritual veins hidden in the secret realms, most of them being miniature spiritual veins, with a few having small spiritual veins, but for the current world, small spiritual veins are already extremely precious...
Now, as the representative of the Heavenly Dao, Lu Qingyang knows everything about the world. All secret realms and ancient relics are within his perception.
Before merging with the essence of the Heavenly Dao, the secret realms were mysterious to him;
But after merging, the veil of mystery was slowly lifted.
Through the perspective of the Heavenly Dao, Lu Qingyang detected six secret realms within the realm.
However, with the decline of the Heavenly Dao, the power sealing the secret realms has dissipated, causing the six secret realms to shatter.
With the secret realms shattered, the beasts within were set free.
Originally, these beasts were not very powerful, at most around the third level.
But after this baptism of heavenly blood, many beasts have broken through to the fourth level.
However, the Human Alliance has long since transformed, significantly boosting their strength and being well-prepared.
As soon as the beasts broke free, strong fighters swiftly arrived at the scene to slaughter the beasts.
At this moment,
Lu Qingyang suddenly sensed someone guiding his power through some means, and in a moment of distraction, he understood.
Someone was using the blessing of the celestial gods to borrow his power!
The blessing of the celestial gods is a mechanism he specially set up to help his followers survive better.
They only need to offer the corresponding sacrifice to temporarily borrow his power.
As the giver of power, Lu Qingyang can interrupt the transmission at any time.
However, now that someone was borrowing his power through the celestial blessing, Lu Qingyang chose not to interrupt.
Instead, he followed the flow of power to see the receiver.
...
In the vast mountains, a fourth-level initial beast exuded immense aura.
It was sweeping through the alliance cultivators while its aura surged, seemingly about to step into the mid-fourth level.
Yang You's face was pale, staring coldly at the beast before him.
A power from the supreme Heavenly Dao arrived quietly, shattering the bottleneck that had kept him at the peak of the third level.
'Boom!'
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