"Burning your heart and will? What kind of path to godhood is this? It's far too risky, leaving you no room for maneuver whatsoever."
"It's all or nothing."
Everyone was startled and quickly suppressed the urge to emulate the Great Wilderness God.
They felt that if they embarked on this path, success was out of the question; death and the annihilation of their souls were the most likely outcomes.
"Let's proceed step by step, follow the clan's traditions, and cultivate slowly," the group said. They were all of extraordinary origin, with ancestors who had been deities, and some of their forces even had intricate connections with the ancient lineages of the upper realm.
Cao Ya agrees with their attitude, and looking back over the past few years, he also feels a sense of lingering fear.
Without the system space, I would truly be dead...
Cao Ya thought to himself that his success was entirely due to his own extraordinary abilities; others probably wouldn't have had this opportunity.
Then, Shi Hao described the current situation in the outside world, and Cao Ya listened without commenting.
When Cao Ya heard that Tian Shen Mountain was researching ancient magic arrays and preparing to flee with the entire sect, escaping from the eight regions of the lower realm, he simply smiled.
"Great Wilderness God, could you please offer some guidance?" Huo Ling'er humbly inquired. Faced with a living god who had always existed only in legends, everyone was filled with a mixture of curiosity and awe.
“Some things are better left unknown than known. You are still too weak; knowing too much will affect your minds,” Cao Ya said, shaking his head.
The group exchanged glances, all feeling frustrated. They had received the same answer when they had asked the spirit of the Willow God in Stone Village earlier.
Even when they asked their elders in the clan, they mostly received the same answer.
“We’re not weak anymore.” Yunxi pursed her lips.
“Yes, we’re not children anymore,” Huo Ling’er said.
"Sanren, what is the truth about the Eight Realms of the Lower Realm? Why would a forbidden being from the Upper Realm come to the Lower Realm?" Shi Hao asked.
He glanced at everyone, all staring at him with questioning looks in their eyes.
Cao Ya smiled slightly and pondered for a moment, which made everyone's faces light up with joy, feeling that there was hope.
"Actually, what the truth is doesn't matter." However, Cao Ya didn't seem to be prepared to tell them the truth.
Everyone looked dejected and sighed.
"I've heard people say that the Eight Realms of the Lower Realm are a prison. I wonder who is imprisoned there, and who set up this prison," Shi Hao sighed, a hint of resentment in his voice.
Anyone who knew they had lived in a cage from childhood would feel this way.
Moreover, the super beings of the upper realm occasionally descend to the lower realm to slaughter indiscriminately, which is extremely unfair to the beings of the lower realm.
“Even if our ancestors were guilty, millions of years have passed. Such a long period of imprisonment, no matter what the sin was, should have been atoned by now.” The crowd was indignant.
How can people today know what their ancestors did millions of years ago?
Millions of years of imprisonment and massacres—is this not enough to atone for our sins?
If not out of despair, why would an ancient divine mountain like Tian Shen Mountain think of abandoning its old nest that it had cultivated in the desolate region for countless millennia, fleeing this world, and settling down in the upper realm?
I was really forced into this situation and had no other choice.
Ancient sacred mountains and ancient great sects, with their profound foundations, have the ability and opportunity to escape the lower realm, but the vast majority of ordinary people in the world, and even some cultivators, have no hope of escaping.
"Whether someone is guilty or not, you have to look at and listen to them from multiple perspectives, rather than just listening to one person's opinion," Cao Ya said calmly. He didn't think much of many people in the Upper Realm.
In the ancient times of immortals, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths fought a great war against the alien realm, but were defeated and countless lives perished.
Now, many lineages are trying every means to escape the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and seek refuge in the Immortal Realm, while those who are single-mindedly devoted to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and racking their brains to deal with foreign lands are actually a minority.
The former choice is human nature and there is nothing wrong with it.
But it is clear that the latter's perseverance is more touching and more respectable.
As for those traitors who betray the heavens and earth and seek refuge in foreign lands, they are despised and utterly contemptible by everyone.
The prisons in the eight lower realms were merely set up by certain individuals; whether they were truly guilty...
Nobody cares.
"Whether it's a cage or anything else, as long as you're strong enough, you can just fight your way out. There's no point in dwelling on it," Cao Ya said.
Imprisoning the eight regions of the lower realm are some important figures from the upper realm. Many of them are people even Cao Ya avoids speaking to, and dare not say too much about. Telling Shi Hao would only add to his fear, and would be meaningless otherwise.
After the Immortal Era, the world underwent a great change. Although no true immortals were born in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, supreme beings emerged one after another.
The Supreme Realm is a five-star level, while the Realm of Severing Myself and the Realm of Escape are four-star levels. Cao Ya is currently roughly equivalent to a cultivator in the Realm of Severing Myself.
Above the Celestial Gods, beyond the Void Dao Realm, lies the Realm of Self-Severance.
"Strength, huh..." the crowd murmured.
"Sanren, will you leave?" Shi Hao asked. He believed that with Sanren's abilities, he could definitely leave the Lower Realm Eight Domains if he wanted to.
"Yes, I will," Cao Ya nodded.
Everyone's bodies trembled slightly. Could it be that the Great Wilderness God Cao Ya has another passage to leave the lower realm?
"This world is ultimately too small. After becoming a god, one still has to go to the upper realm, otherwise it will be difficult to improve one's cultivation." Cao Ya sighed. Since it is a cage, it certainly does not allow for beings that are too strong. Someone like him is already quite special.
"I plan to go through the no-man's-land and see what it's really like there," Cao Ya said with a smile.
Everyone was startled.
"No man's land? Isn't that too risky for a lone wolf?" Shi Hao hurriedly asked. No man's land, as the name suggests, is a place where it is extremely difficult for living beings to survive. Even gods will face calamities.
"With my strength, and if I'm careful, I should still be able to get out and reach the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths," Cao Ya said. It would be difficult to safely reach the Upper Realm through normal means, so he had to think of another way. Going up through the Primordial Formation, like at Heavenly God Mountain, would be too conspicuous and not an option for Cao Ya.
After much thought, the no-man's-land is still the most suitable. I can train myself along the way, and if I can improve my cultivation, that would be even better.
"If you're going to the no-man's-land, you can't be careless." The willow branches swayed, making a sound. In the depths of that no-man's-land, there were some places that even she had to treat with utmost seriousness.
Cao Ya nodded in agreement, knowing that the dangers of the no-man's-land were not to be underestimated.
Throughout history, there have been powerful figures who died in no man's lands, not to mention gods, even supreme beings or true immortals.
Unlike Cao Ya, Liu Shen will not leave the Eight Realms of the Lower Realm for the time being; she came here specifically to descend upon this realm.
Unless she completes her transformation, regains her immortality, and reclaims the power of the ancient immortals, or even reaches a higher level.
In the ancient times of immortality, Liu Shen was an ancestral sacrificial spirit, a powerful giant among immortal kings.
Her enemies are also scattered throughout the heavens and the earth, in the immortal realm and other realms, and there are quite a few of them.
When the Willow God descended to this world, he also wanted to find a secluded place to avoid the gaze of those powerful beings and evolve peacefully.
Since Cao Ya is not a strong cultivator who has undergone a complete transformation, he cannot be like Liu Shen.
Shi Hao, who was slightly younger than him, was naturally the same.
"By the way, Sanren, I want to ask you for a favor." Suddenly, Shi Hao hesitated for a moment before finally saying.
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