425: Earthly Immortal Realm

endless reincarnation, the biggest obstacle between the upper and lower planes.

After countless years of research, referencing ancient ruins, inherited bloodline memories of demonic beasts, and a few legends… the Four Profound Heavens is a fragment of the upper plane, shattered and dropped into the lower plane during a great war in ancient times.

It is precisely because of this that the cultivation system of the Four Profound Heavens originates from the upper plane, which is why it is stronger than any other small world.

At the same level or life stage, no other system is a match for the Four Profound Heavens.

It was created by the Earth Emperor, and later perfected and supplemented by strong individuals like the Human Emperor.

In legends, these figures were existences comparable to gods!

Moreover, this fragment of the upper plane is extremely powerful, far exceeding other small worlds.

The Four Profound Heavens, even if it is called the strongest and most massive small world of the lower plane, would not be an exaggeration.

In other small worlds of the lower plane, it is already quite remarkable if a strong individual at the Heavenly Imperial Realm level can emerge from their inception.

Those who can reach the peak of the Heavenly Imperial Realm are even rarer than rare.

But in the Four Profound Heavens, those at the peak of the Heavenly Imperial Realm are as numerous as the hairs on a cow.

Because there were too many people and their combat power was too great, they even created two major power levels: Venerable (Ruler) and Sacred Lord.

Given such a huge advantage, it should logically be that the Four Profound Heavens has a very high probability of ascension.

The reality, however, is that strong individuals who achieve immortality occasionally appear in these small worlds of the lower plane.

Yet, in the Four Profound Heavens, not a single person has successfully ascended throughout history, not one.

All who chose to attempt to break through to the Immortal Law Realm failed, just like Emperor Zhenwu.

They vanished into nothingness due to some unknown power, not even leaving a corpse behind.

Previously, Wang Teng saw Ji Hao choose to attempt to break through to the Immortal Law Realm, even successfully crossing the threshold.

But he already knew what would happen next, which is why he showed no panic from beginning to end.

Ji Hao naturally knew as well, but he had no choice.

In times of greatest peril, people often pin their hopes on unrealistic things.

At that time, Wang Teng was sure of victory, but the only thing he didn't expect was that Ji Hao could hold on for a few breaths.

Just a glance back at him almost cost Wang Teng his life.

This was something his ancestors, and indeed countless strong individuals who attempted breakthroughs before him, had failed to achieve.

A pseudo-immortal who had not yet undergone transformation possessed such immense power.

The gap between the mortal realm and the immortal realm is truly much greater than Wang Teng had imagined!

Later, after studying countless clues, he finally discovered endless reincarnation and gained a certain understanding of it.

endless reincarnation is the biggest checkpoint between the upper and lower planes; it is impossible to bypass it through any means.

It is located in the lower plane and is responsible for maintaining the power balance of the lower plane.

If someone in the lower plane successfully breaks through to the immortal realm and enters immortality, it will immediately transport him to the upper plane.

Its biggest characteristic is that it allows exit but not entry; those who go to the upper plane, including those originally from the upper plane, cannot come down, regardless of whether they are immortal or mortal.

Therefore, the first major mechanism of endless reincarnation is: there shall be no existence above the mortal realm in the lower plane.

And through Wang Teng's in-depth research, he also discovered a situation, which is its detection mechanism.

Because the purpose of endless reincarnation is to prevent people from above from coming down, it targets those above the mortal realm from the upper plane.

So its detection mechanism is divided into two steps: the first step is to see if the other party is above the mortal realm, and the second step is to see if they are a creature of the lower plane.

If the immortal in the lower plane is formed by a creature of the lower plane, endless reincarnation will send him up.

If the immortal in the lower plane is formed by a creature of the upper plane, endless reincarnation will send him away.

The power of endless reincarnation covers the entire lower plane, including the entire Four Profound Heavens.

And an immortal who breaks through in the Four Profound Heavens, because the Four Profound Heavens is essentially a part of the upper plane, can also be regarded as an immortal from the upper plane.

In this way, the creatures of the Four Profound Heavens do not satisfy the first step of the endless reincarnation mechanism.

It's fine if they don't break through; they remain stable and honest, and nothing happens.

But once they break through, it will attack them, leaving no trace.

After all, its purpose is to prevent you from coming down. If I find you down here, you must have come from above.

No matter how you came down, or for what reason, I will attack you.

Therefore, the strong individuals of the Four Profound Heavens are in a very frustrating situation; they also want to know how to come down.

They possess a unique advantage for achieving immortality that other small worlds in the lower plane do not.

Yet, the result is that not a single immortal can be born.

If one emerges, it will be attacked!

To study this, and to better research how to solve this problem,

Wang Teng decided to truly create a major force, similar to an alliance, an organization.

He has the method of the Ruler, which is a very good means of extending life.

He can gather all the strong individuals from various eras who have reached the bottleneck of becoming immortal.

Let these countless strong individuals accumulate together, and with the power of the multitude, collectively seek a method to become immortal.

Another five million years passed, and Wang Teng had already reached the level of a Great Accomplishment Sacred Lord, the former standard of Emperor Zhenwu.

He believed that his current strength was already invincible in the world; if that Myriad Gods were still alive, he would definitely beat him to a pulp.

Of course, he didn't just do this one thing in five million years.

The most crucial aspects were the development of the Ancient Hall and the establishment of its base camp.

He found an extremely powerful small world, where even a strong individual close to becoming immortal had appeared.

But as long as he had not yet become immortal, he would definitely not be Wang Teng's opponent.

In fact, the strong individuals in these small worlds are quite depressed; if they haven't become immortal and Wang Teng encounters them, they are instantly killed. If they become immortal, they are immediately taken away by endless reincarnation and can do nothing.

After effortlessly killing him, he slaughtered most of the creatures within to develop it.

And most of this time was spent on setting up a formation, a formation that covered the entire Four Profound Heavens.

The formation was extremely secretive, and its main functions were to gather spiritual energy and to teleport.

The spiritual energy concentration in the small world was not high, and its production rate was far inferior to that of the Four Profound Heavens.

However, the formation arranged by Wang Teng could channel 30% of the spiritual energy produced by the Four Profound Heavens into the small world.

Compared to the Four Profound Heavens, the small world was like the size of a grain of sand.

Even the spiritual energy produced in a single breath would be enough to fill it.

Under Wang Teng's deliberate control, the small world was not instantly overfilled.

Over these nearly five million years, the volume of the small world had been expanding at an extremely rapid rate.

By the time Wang Teng broke through to Great Accomplishment Sacred Lord, the small world's volume was already millions of times its original size.

Fortunately, Wang Teng had been looking after it, so it didn't collapse.

This also greatly hindered Wang Teng's cultivation progress; otherwise, he could have reached this level much earlier.

Up until today, Wang Teng found a way to suppress the expansion of the small world's volume.

It has stabilized and no longer needs to expand.

After all, the expansion of the small world would cause the spiritual energy concentration to decrease.

Although its own spiritual energy production continuously increased, the main source of the small world's spiritual energy was the Four Profound Heavens; its own contribution was almost negligible.

It can be seen as the total amount remaining constant, while the volume increases, so the concentration naturally decreases.

The main reason he allowed it to expand before was also to stabilize it; Wang Teng also didn't want the spiritual energy concentration to decrease.

Finally, after much thought, Wang Teng named the small world the Earth Immortal Realm.

After all, those who could gather here were the closest existences to immortality in the Four Profound Heavens.

Without immortals appearing, they were the true immortals of the lower plane!