Every three thousand years, Dao Ancestor Yuan would drop a drop of water into every Dao Domain within the Qingyuan Heaven.
That single drop of water will transform into a Dao Sea. On the other side of this Dao Sea lies a "Supreme Treasure for Attaining Dao," through which Foundation Establishment cultivators can establish their foundation in one step and transcend the universe.
Of course, besides the most essential treasure for achieving Dao, the Dao Sea also contains various other opportunities. Each of these opportunities is incredibly precious to a Foundation Establishment cultivator; acquiring and absorbing even one is comparable to cultivating for tens of thousands or even millions of years!
[However, this kind of struggle for the Dao is too terrifying. Those below the Foundation Establishment stage who have reached the Great Perfection stage, unless they possess a blessing of level seven or higher, are absolutely not qualified to step into the Sea of Dao. They would be blasted to pieces by the surrounding environment in the blink of an eye!]
Because every wave in the Dao Sea contains the full energy of a Qi Refining Grand Perfection cultivator!
"...It's clear which one it borrowed from."
You stand at the very top of the Miro Heavenly Palace, gazing into the distance.
A drop of water falls, an incredibly large drop of water falls.
It spreads out like an ocean, with a dike at its edge. Crossing the dike allows one to truly step into the ocean and reach the other shore.
Behind her, Jiang Rou whispered, "Xiao Shou, it's said that only cultivators with a perfected Yuanji stage and half a Dao Foundation stage can leave their mark on that dam, leaving a footprint."
"Okay, stop copying, that's enough."
You nodded slowly. Although the system for cultivating at the seventh realm in this world is extremely difficult, thanks to the various benefits distributed by the Dao Lord, their numbers are still quite large.
However, those who have reached the half-step Dao Foundation stage are extremely rare, because the ultimate treasure for achieving Dao allows one to ascend to immortality in one step, skipping intermediate steps; there is no such thing as the "half-step" realm.
[And those who reached the half-step Dao Foundation stage without relying on any supreme treasure... how could there be so few!]
[The battle for the Dao has officially begun! In the Mi Luo Dao Domain, trillions of pseudo-foundation cultivators will rush to the Dao Foundation Ocean, treading on the endless expanse, vying, vying, vying for the path to the Dao!]
This is an immense opportunity, and a blessing from the Supreme Lord.
[You thought of the 720 points of Dao Seal quality. Although it's still not as good as the previous support system, the support system was a difficulty you actively added for yourself. This Golden Core system is inherently that heaven-defying!]
[Having just broken through to the seventh realm, the number of Dao Principles has already reached 108!]
"Are you going to participate in the battle for supremacy?" you asked her, turning to her.
[Jiang Rou doesn't have such terrifying inherent requirements as you, and her leveling up is much faster. Thirty years ago, she just broke through to the eighth level of Qi Refining. Now, with her inherent strength exceeding ten thousand, her strength is equivalent to a mid-stage Yuanji cultivator.]
"Xiao Shou, aren't you going?"
You shook your head, recalling a future scenario where, the moment you stepped into the Dao Sea, all the supreme treasures and opportunities within flew straight towards you, while the trillions of other Foundation Establishment cultivators were treated like a joke.
"You don't need that kind of thing to condense a Dao Seal," he said, "That's too damn unfair, I'm not going."
She shook you: "You're the one bullying me... There should only be me."
You chuckled: "Then let's do it one more time before you go, just for you."
[In the 4100th year since you arrived in Qingyuan Heaven, you have advanced to the seventh level of Qi Refining.]
In the previous competition for the Dao, Jiang Rou's strength was relatively weak. Although others dared not truly attack her, the gap in strength was undeniable.
[In the end, she only obtained some other ordinary treasures, but even after the effects of their essence were reduced by tens of thousands of times, she still broke through from the eighth level to the Yuanji cultivator.]
[It wasn't until hundreds of years ago, in the previous session, that she managed to outcompete a group of past students who were millions or even tens of millions of years old, successfully seizing the Dao and becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator.]
[This year, one of your guards, a True Immortal, informed you that Qingyuan Heaven had been invaded.]
The invading force was the Devouring Spirits.
The Devouring Spirits are less of a race and more of a collective term for a group that engages in a certain behavior.
Just like the gay community, the cat-loving community, and the Taoist temple community.
The Devouring Universe Spirit Race is a group of bandits who roam the boundless void. They often travel in large groups, sometimes numbering in the tens of thousands. Because they frequently appear in groups, they have been given the name "race."
They are of different races, but what they have in common is that they are all lords of the universe.
However, unlike other universe lords, the Devouring Universe Spirits' universe lords expel a large amount of matter from their own universes, causing a sharp reduction in the universe's size and making it easier to move.
They travel in large groups, piloting tiny universes that are often less than a hundred million light-years in size. Their primary targets are the powerful, settled universe lords residing in the boundless void.
[A "settling-in" type of cosmic ruler refers to someone who frantically stuffs matter into the universe, pushing its volume to its limit. This ensures the universe's immense prosperity, but the drawback is that the universe is so vast that even with the power of a cosmic ruler, it's difficult to move; hence the name "settling-in" type.]
The Devouring Universe Spirits pilot their own microcosms, like mosquitoes swarming across vast, settled universes, sucking the Dao principles from their counterparts.
Due to their sheer number and the different Dao parameters across universes, even a powerful, homeless universe lord with extremely high strength would find it difficult to harm them in a short time. They would often separate upon contact, absorbing their energy and then fleeing.
[Perhaps a few unlucky ones will be killed by the homeless cosmic lords, but the others will definitely benefit.]
[As an aside, many members of the Devouring Universe Spirit Clan, after accumulating a certain number of cosmic laws through this method of plunder, choose to retire and settle down to focus on development.]
"Then, after the number of settled Dao principles is reduced, they will transform into the Devouring Spirit Race, right?"
"What do you mean by 'enemy and friend share the same origin'? You keep jumping back and forth."
You had originally asked Dao Zu Yuan if he needed any help, and his answer was no.
Even without the thousands of times more essence you've added to them over the years, they still possess absolute suppressive power against those Devouring Spirits!
[A universe ruler with 26.976 billion cycles and their fully fed universe... this is no joke!]
[The diameter of Qingyuan Heaven is only nine times that of Guangchen Yuantang, and its volume is less than a thousand times that of Guangchen Yuantang, but in fact, this universe has long been filled by the three Dao Ancestors and is in a state of satiation.]
[However, the density of matter and energy within it has been compressed to the extreme; it's all concentrated essence!]
The invading Devouring Spirits numbered as many as 190,000, but after only six months, they fled like stray dogs, leaving behind three thousand destroyed miniature cosmic remains.
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