Lu Qingyang's spirit retreated from the Milky Way, and he sighed inwardly.
"In the myriad of Heavenly Daos, my cultivation is likely among the weakest."
"After all, those naturally born Heavenly Daos have at least reached the ninth tier."
"Only those like me, who became Heavenly Dao agents after the fragmentation of the previous Heavenly Dao and the merging of its essence into living beings, can compare."
"Among these Heavenly Dao agents, there might be those stronger than me."
The power of the Heavenly Dao was too immense.
At this moment, Lu Qingyang was not confident in devouring other worlds.
Unless that world had undergone a catastrophe, significantly weakened, or its Heavenly Dao had been shattered, creating new Heavenly Dao agents.
In such a situation, Lu Qingyang might have a slim chance of victory.
Otherwise, he currently lacked the ability to devour other Heavenly Daos.
More importantly, Lu Qingyang needed to remain vigilant and guard against invasions by other Heavenly Daos.
Even dealing with the Uncelestial Realm alone was already exhausting the Qingyang Realm.
If another Heavenly Dao invaded, the Qingyang Realm would be besieged from both sides, likely leading to complete annihilation.
Lu Qingyang sighed again, "The struggles between Heavenly Daos are extremely perilous, requiring utmost caution at every step. A single misstep could result in the collapse of the world and the withering of all life."
"Even as a Heavenly Dao agent, I wouldn't perish with the destruction of the Qingyang Realm. But if the Qingyang Realm were truly destroyed, I wouldn't escape the onslaught of other Heavenly Daos."
The deeper he explored, the smaller he felt.
Before knowing about other worlds, Lu Qingyang had believed himself to be the strongest in the Qingyang Realm, untouchable and invincible.
However, after merging with the Heavenly Dao essence and transforming into the Celestial Wood of the Heavenly Dao, Lu Qingyang truly realized the vastness of the stars and the seas and understood the concept of there being always a greater power.
He could dominate within the Qingyang Realm, but outside, his strength seemed feeble.
Especially upon entering the Milky Way, Lu Qingyang witnessed the vastness of the stellar universe, feeling increasingly insignificant.
A strong sense of urgency compelled Lu Qingyang to hasten the improvement of his cultivation.
Yet he knew that cultivation improvement wasn't an overnight process.
Reaching the sixth tier in thirty years from nothing was already extremely rapid.
According to Xue Wei's memories, ancient wasteland cultivators with exceptional talent could reach the first tier within a month.
They could achieve perfection within a year.
Those with mediocre talent might take two to three years to perfect the first tier.
However, the refinement of the first tier was only the basic stage.
Entering the second tier of blood refinement was a decisive watershed.
Talented individuals might reach the second tier within two years.
Within a few years, they could hope to achieve the third tier of organ refinement.
Average talent might confine one to the blood refinement tier for life.
From the third to the fourth tier, even those with outstanding talent needed over a decade.
Reaching the fifth tier from the fourth required several decades, even for geniuses.
Achieving perfection in the fourth tier and aspiring to the fifth within fifty years marked one as a peerless talent.
As for the sixth tier, it required at least a century of accumulation.
In other words,
Even a top-notch talent would need about 160 years to go from zero to the sixth tier in ancient wasteland cultivation.
For ordinary cultivators, this process could take hundreds or even thousands of years.
Lu Qingyang had walked the path of over a hundred years of cultivation for a top-notch talent in just thirty years, showing the speed of his progress.
Such achievements were thanks to the support of the entire human race of the Qingyang Realm,
Additionally,
The residual power from the previous Heavenly Dao, inherited by Lu Qingyang.
Otherwise, stepping into the sixth tier would not have been easy for him.
"Compared to the cultivation speed of ancient wasteland cultivators, the progress of Qingyang Realm cultivators isn't slow either. Especially for a few fourth-tier cultivators like Gu Fang and Zhang Ming, their speed would be considered top-notch talents in the ancient wasteland."
"Since the advent of the Heavenly Court chat group, their cultivation has spanned only twenty years. Gu Fang has recently broken through bottlenecks repeatedly. In the ancient wasteland sects, he would be seen as a future sect master candidate!"
Lu Qingyang pondered deeply.
Currently, the population of the Qingyang Realm approached thirty million, with only over a hundred cultivators having reached the fourth tier.
After the North Territory battle, fourth-tier cultivators had plummeted to single digits.
Among them were true peerless talents and those with average talent.
They had come this far solely because of the existence of the Heavenly Court chat group.
It could be said,
The Heavenly Court chat group was the foundation of the Qingyang Realm, the basis of everyone's cultivation.
Lu Qingyang didn't know if other worlds had similar treasures to the Heavenly Court chat group.
But he speculated that as long as there was something that could capture incense offerings, it might also build a Heavenly Court chat group.
However—
The probability of this was extremely small.
For Lu Qingyang to create the Heavenly Court chat group required the guidance of the data system, which evolved step by step to form the Heavenly Court and further derive the chat group.
Without the system, even with incense offerings, others might not be able to use them properly.
Of course,
It couldn't be ruled out that some worlds had incense as their cultivation system, where everyone existed like gods, but in such worlds, the competition for incense would be particularly fierce.
"No matter what, the Heavenly Court chat group remains unique for now. Although this battle cost the Qingyang Realm many strong cultivators, many new ones have gained fortuitous opportunities."
"If they can fully absorb what they gained this time, the Qingyang Realm's strength will surely increase instead of decrease."
"But dealing with the Uncelestial Realm requires careful planning!"
Lu Qingyang calculated inwardly.
Everything else was illusory; the immediate threat of the Uncelestial Realm was the greatest.
However, since Gu Tiangang's defeat last time, Lu Qingyang believed the Uncelestial Realm wouldn't make any major moves in the short term.
After all, the strongest in the ancient wasteland on the surface was only the sixth tier.
When he descended upon the Qingyang Realm, he could use the power of the Heavenly Dao domain to suppress the sixth tier to the fifth tier.
But if multiple sixth-tier experts appeared in the Uncelestial Realm, the Heavenly Dao domain would also struggle to fully suppress them.
Regarding this,
Lu Qingyang was not afraid.
"Among the same tier, my foundation is profound, incomparable to ordinary beings. I can easily suppress ordinary sixth-tier cultivators."
"Gu Tiangang, with his unique physique, the Ancient Wasteland Sacred Body, had an extremely strong foundation, qualifying him to contend with me."
"But at the same level, even with the Ancient Wasteland Sacred Body, Gu Tiangang ultimately wasn't my match!"
Speaking of the Ancient Wasteland Sacred Body, countless thoughts surged in Lu Qingyang's mind.
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