[On average, only one Spring and Autumn Ruler appears in the Yuantian Realm every few hundred million years, and currently, no more than five remain in the world.]
The one who came to the Azure Domain was "Yuanming Zun," who condensed his Dao Fruit 2.6 billion years ago.
[Human King Xu Shuanghua wrote that scene into the memory crystal.]
At that time, a kind-faced, elderly fox-man appeared, and when he appeared, the entire Azure Domain resounded with joyful cheers.
"I even went there with special effects on."
[Yuan Mingzun did nothing else but summon the people of Qingyu and have a good talk with them, asking them to try and persuade you if they had any way to contact you.]
[Yuan Mingzun stated that he meant no harm, but was simply curious about your abilities.]
After saying a few words, he left without threatening anyone or using any other special methods.
[In that future, when your memory reached this point, an overwhelming sense of fear washed over you.]
[You fear that the ruler of the Spring and Autumn period possessed the kind of ability that allows one to "see me if one recites my name, and I know those who know me."]
The moment you learn of Yuan Mingzun's existence from your memories, he will instantly lock onto you from within the myriad realms of Yuan Tian.
[This is not a baseless conjecture. For example, in the ending of Yun Jiu's simulation (Chapter 182), Bei Chenguang advanced to the seventh realm, and all beings saw him, and he saw all beings.]
[So you suspect that Yuan Mingzun already knew that the Qingyu people would secretly contact you, and that as long as they contacted you, you would know of the existence of this Spring and Autumn Period Ruler, and then you would both notice each other... and get caught red-handed.]
Fortunately... you later discovered it was a false alarm.
At least for a very long time after you saw this scene from the future, you weren't confronted.
["It seems I had a false alarm. Perhaps there's a time-space barrier between the future and the present, and Yuanmingzun's 'All beings see me, I see all beings' hasn't taken effect yet."]
You were terrified for quite some time.
[Actually, what you don't understand is that the "all beings see me, I see all beings" ability is merely a special effect that comes with advancing to the seventh realm; it's a one-time privilege granted by this world, not an inherent ability.]
[For example, when breaking through to the Supreme Realm, one can exert "pressure over 100,000 miles," but a newly promoted Supreme Realm expert without the Holy Body's enhancement will initially only have a spiritual coverage range of 10,000 miles.]
Yun Shou: "You scared me to death!"
He almost didn't dare to choose to inherit.
"Wait, that's not right. The specific image of the Spring and Autumn Period ruler should be in the memory options, right? Choosing martial arts cultivation won't cause any problems."
Unless the other person has become the "embodiment of the Tao," seeing their appearance will bring an endless influx of knowledge.
Furthermore, Yuanmingzun truly had no malicious intent.
He believed that the blessing of essence was indeed an extraordinary and exceptional ability, but he did not consider it to be effective even for "immortals."
This is arrogance, an arrogance forged from absolute self-confidence accumulated over billions of years!
[Immortal is the absolute pinnacle!]
The most outstanding cultivators of each era, those who meticulously select their own path to enlightenment, might reach the forties or fifties of the Six Realms, and their lifespan, through various systems, could be increased to around a million years.
[Yuanmingzun lived for 2.6 billion years, meaning he witnessed more than two thousand such eras!]
Normally, mortals are replaced every twenty years, and at any given moment, four or five generations may exist.
Therefore, in the same instant, although there is usually only one genius at the sixth level of the forty or fifty heavens, when he dies of old age tens of thousands of years later, a new genius will upgrade from the thirty-ninth heaven to the fortieth heaven. In fact, there are dozens of geniuses of this level every million years, but some have reached their limit and some are still weak.
[But Yuan Mingzun doesn't even need to wait tens of thousands of years to see. He can simply wait for the most outstanding person of an era to die, and then watch the batch of children born at the same time as his death, until another outstanding person of an era grows up from that batch of children, and continue to wait from the newborns...]
Using this method alone, he could witness the lives of 2,600 top geniuses from different eras, who had no connection whatsoever.
Each one more extraordinary than the last, each more monstrous than the last, with behaviors beyond reason and lives of unparalleled brilliance… yet in the end, only a handful achieved immortality.
There are too many geniuses; becoming an immortal is just a pipe dream!
[Yuan Mingzun knew that understanding the essence could enhance combat power, prolong lifespan, and even increase comprehension.]
But none of those things compare to the elevation of becoming the supreme ruler of the Spring and Autumn Period!
[Unlimited power, endless lifespan, and boundless wisdom!]
[Advancing to the seventh realm, although there will be differences due to the different grades of the Dao Fruit, is still an achievement that surpasses countless times those below the seventh realm—a truly "perfect being"!]
No matter how miraculous your essential blessings may be, in the eyes of Yuanmingzun, they are merely minor paths!
Even with a thousand or ten thousand times the difference in essence, a sixth-realm emperor still couldn't defeat a seventh-realm true immortal!
Moreover, everyone has inherent limitations!
Even if Bei Chenguang and Xu Daolin surpassed the limits of the ordinary sixth realm as a result, making the tenth level of the Heavenly Realm comparable to the hundredth level, it still wouldn't be worth Yuan Mingzun's attention.
"At most, this is just a side path, a slight glimpse into the true nature of immortality. The infinite accumulation of essence might bring mortals closer and closer to immortality, but they can never truly reach the realm known as the Lord of Spring and Autumn!"
"The second generation of Xu Daolin has appeared."
However, Yuanmingzun still values "essential blessings": although it requires more resources, obtaining a bit of immortal essence in advance can give those who are not naturally gifted a better chance of advancement.
This also gives them a better chance of facing the newly emerging "Calamity Beasts" outside the Yuan Tian Realm.
Yun Shou: "...Is this the mission that Hajime was talking about?"
A powerful boss appeared outside the world, which led to the emergence of chosen ones like Bei Chenguang and Xiang Yang in the Cloud Heaven Realm.
"Was it because of the simulation at Lao Jiu that Bei Chenguang went to fight this boss called 'Jie Beast' and never returned?"
Yun Shou pondered. The name "Jie Beast" sounded rather strange, as if it were a special species, perhaps not a single boss, but a whole clan.
"Moreover, the word '劫' is quite unusual."
“There is talk of tribulations and calamities in the cultivation of immortality, which easily makes people think of powers like lightning... After all, lightning tribulations are too common and too convenient.”
"There's no need to rack your brains designing tribulations or love tribulations. It's so much more convenient to just pile up the values on the lightning tribulations. The low-level ones are just ordinary heavenly lightning, the high-level ones are nine-colored divine lightning, and you can even make a few chaotic divine lightning or something like that."
"But if we look at it from a purely intuitive perspective, '劫' (jie) means calamity, a manifestation of misfortune!"
…
(At dawn (|3[▓▓])
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