[Desperate competition isn't about being cheap; it's about the fact that in the Nine Realms of Heaven, breaking through each realm is accompanied by a "calamity of heaven and earth."]
"I understand, it's a tribulation of lightning."
That's a cosmic punishment mechanism for cultivators who consume the primordial energy of heaven and earth. After all, the absorbed energy is truly and completely consumed; there's no such thing as energy downgrading, as energy is not conserved.
"I understand. We seize the creation of heaven and earth, and incur the consequences of our actions."
[To prevent these primordial locusts from growing stronger, the calamities of heaven and earth will also become increasingly terrifying. In the early stages, there will be one calamity for every major realm breakthrough, but in the later stages, even every minor realm breakthrough will be accompanied by a calamity.]
This punishment mechanism includes lightning tribulations, heavenly fire, and melting water—it's varied and not fixed. Even within the same system and at the same level, one might face different calamities.
[Systems with a Dao Seal quality below 9 points... generally speaking, cannot withstand the calamities of heaven and earth faced in the second realm!]
"Aren't these a bit too much?"
Yun Shou remained silent.
Simply put, if he didn't have this inherent advantage, he would have been destined to be struck by lightning and die when he broke through to the Innate Realm.
The Dao Seal of the Zunyuan System has a quality of only 4 points!
[You've chosen a simpler cultivation system, that's fine!]
However, this also means you can forget about breaking through to a higher realm; you'll be annihilated by calamity in the first or even second realm!
The calamities of heaven and earth forced them to create systems that were both highly powerful and extremely difficult. After all, regardless of which system they cultivated, at the same level, the intensity of the calamities they faced was the same.
"This was unexpected. I thought that the novice would encounter the Tribulation of Three-Nine, while the protagonist would encounter the Tribulation of Nine-Nine."
[A system with a Dao Seal quality of 9 is considered superior within the Light Dust Source Soup; a Dao Seal quality of 10 or higher is simply "amazing"!]
But in the Nine-Nine Heavens?
[Just a miscellaneous and unorthodox path that couldn't even withstand the calamities of the second realm!]
[After practicing that kind of garbage system, you'll either remain a low-level, low-combat-power noob for life, or you'll be struck by lightning and killed as soon as you try to break through.]
[He doesn't even have the right to advance a realm using a trash cultivation system, nor does he have the ability to bully and crush geniuses with stronger systems, because he's not worthy of reaching a higher realm!]
The most disheartening part is that one must bear the brunt of natural disasters alone.
[Others can indeed shield you from harm, but being connected by auras will also bring down their next calamity prematurely. If the other party isn't strong enough, both of you will die!]
Even if the opponent's system is extremely strong, and they can withstand the calamity of the mid-stage of the fourth realm even though they are only at the early stage of the fourth realm... then, once their own realm truly reaches the mid-stage of the fourth realm in the future, they will skip the calamity they experienced last time and directly attract a calamity of the late stage of the fourth realm!
[This process continues until the peak of the fourth realm, at which point it will directly trigger the transcendental calamity that would normally be faced only at the fifth realm!]
[Unless one is a genius so rare that they are a once-in-a-lifetime talent in the entire universe, there is no hope of surviving.]
Therefore, in this universe, transcending tribulation is an extremely important matter. It is essential to give prior warnings and alert any outsiders not to approach, otherwise, there is a high probability that both will die.
"It would be great for making human bombs."
"Let a little Karami who is about to break through to the first or second realm go to the cave of a fifth-realm ancestor who is in seclusion to undergo tribulation."
"Trade directly to kill one of the opponent's super combatants."
[Moreover, this calamity has an even more terrifying aspect: it ignores the defenses of any inanimate object other than the original body.]
Even if one wanted to use some magical artifact or divine armor to defend against it, it must be an artifact intimately connected to one's life, blood, and soul, and it could not be transferred to another owner; it must be bound to one for life, and if the artifact were destroyed, one would lose half of their life.
"Wow, that's really curly."
[Even in the outermost realm, you could see a powerful early-stage expert unleash a full-force attack, sending hundreds of flying swords hurtling forward like a cluster of bombs.]
Hundreds of flying swords intertwined to form an impenetrable net, instantly cutting down trees within a radius of about two hundred meters in the grove of trees ahead. Clumps of trees eight or nine meters tall fell, raising clouds of dust and clearing the area.
Yun Shou: "Two hundred meters in radius...that's equivalent to the size of two school playgrounds."
"If the school were full of students, there would be about 20,000 people, not including the large number of gaps caused by class classification."
"It disappeared in a flash."
"Judging from his cultivation level, he's only just broken through to the Grandmaster realm, but his destructive power... would be difficult even for a mid-stage Innate Realm cultivator to deal with!"
"And his system, 'Myriad Paths of Heavenly Flow,' only has a Dao Seal quality of around 86."
You shook your head. The truly unorthodox paths and minor sects are those with slightly inferior Dao seals.
That system can also be cultivated, and one can reach the fifth realm of perfection, but ultimately it cannot condense into a Dao Seal.
However, in this godforsaken place, those with a Dao Seal quality below 3 have virtually no hope of passing the first tribulation of the First Realm, and those below 9 have no hope of breaking through to the second tribulation of the Second Realm.
Those whose Dao Seal quality is below 180 will almost certainly not be able to withstand the Sixth Realm Tribulation after condensing their Dao Seal.
[Not all systems with a Dao Seal quality of 180 can achieve Immortality at the First Heaven; they must spontaneously form a perfect whole.]
Of course, natural disasters might also happen by chance, and their type could be completely handled by this system, in which case the requirements would be much lower.
For example, possessing the ability to breathe through one's own body, one might face a suffocating catastrophe.
As for becoming an immortal?
[Breaking through to the seventh realm, surprisingly, brought no calamity.]
[Because those at the seventh realm no longer need to devour various resources to level up, but only need to comprehend the Dao, and their enormous physical functions do not require massive amounts of primordial energy to maintain, but can instead generate Dao sources from within their bodies.]
After you transformed into a mortal and began to cultivate again, you walked peacefully on this land.
[Actually, you have a chance of dying during this stage, the real kind of death.]
[Because you are not currently in the "first incarnation" state; the one walking within this universe is your true form, a mortal without any special abilities or Dao imprints.]
[If someone at the sixth level of the Heavenly Realm suddenly jumps out from some corner and attacks you, and you don't react in time, you could very well die.]
[Uh, no, the quality of the six realm Dao seals in this world is very high. Even at the fourth or fifth level, they can pose a threat to you, a mere mortal.]
But you did bring a swarm of celestial guards.
While they might not be constantly monitoring and protecting you, they certainly have a lot of methods at their disposal.
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