Chapter 490 Recalling the earlier question
The gap widens further between a cultivator at the eighth stage of the domain realm with someone at the ninth stage even if they seem to be just one level apart. That gap was wider than a first-stage domain expert and a sixth-stage domain expert.
Ten eighth-stage domain experts would likely have half of them die before they forced an injury from the ninth-stage domain expert. Of course, Yang Qing did hear there were exceptions, there were specific individuals who could bridge that gap because of their domain, but even then all they could do was force a draw or perish along with the cultivator.
However, such an advantage was completely absent in the soul formation realm. There was nothing like exceptions within that realm. No special physique, or cultivation art mastery advantage could help one bridge the gap between a soul beginner and a soul adept. Every minor improvement was likely breaking through to a new realm which was why it was the only realm that triggered tribulation lightning with every minor realm break through unlike the others, and the gap in strength was evidence.
A soul beginner soul formation expert could massacre a hundred peak domain experts in ten breaths, however, someone that powerful would not survive a single breath beneath the casual strike of a soul adept expert, and from what they were told, soul adept experts could easily kill ten soul beginner experts with the same ease and time, and that gap grew more absurd till you reached the soul supreme level.
At that level, there was a saying," All are dust beneath the supreme".
It did not matter whether you were a seasoned soul master or a mortal with no cultivation base, in front of a soul supreme cultivator, you both had the same level of resistance and the same chance of survival, which was none.
Cultivation art mastery, saint grade treasures, numbers, foundation, distance; all of them were obsolete when it was a soul supreme expert you were facing. A whole continent could be singlehandedly slaughtered by them within a day if all it had were cultivators beneath the soul supreme level.
They could kill with a single thought.
Yang Qing and other students were horrified when they heard that, and Yang Qing had another reason to never leave the confines of the Order, but then another bombshell got dropped, which was there was a realm above them, and those who reached it, terrifying couldn't even begin to describe them.
They were beneath none, and above all. They could pluck stars from the skies if they so wished, which earned them the moniker, 'Emperors'.
There was little information about it, other than what was recorded in ancient scrolls, so other than the name Emperor, Yang Qing and the rest were not told anything else.
The large populace had no idea such a realm even existed even among rank 2 organizations not unless their history matched that of the Spirit jade turtle Li family, which spanned a million years, and even among the rank 1 organizations, the same thing applied, only those with deep and long-standing foundations had that information.
Yang Qing at the time, wondered how the Order that was only 1,000 years old even had such information, not unless they were acquainted with those whose history dated back millions of years.
After he had interacted with Green Cocoon who the Blue Universe said had existed for at least 500,000 years, he could now see how the Order could have such information and there was something he suspected, which was more hope than suspect, he felt there was a chance, maybe the Order had someone who had reached that level.
Maybe the enigmatic president, and maybe just maybe even the Chancellor of the institute. Of course that was just wishful thinking on his part, since with how hard it was to progress the higher one up moved through the cultivation realm, especially when it came to the lightning tribulations, how hard would it be to reach that realm?
He felt aptitude and other things that mattered lost relevance as a measure of reaching that realm, otherwise it would not be as unheard of as it was, and now he suspected the ancients could very well have reached it, and that guess had a high chance of being true, which terrified him.
If a soul supreme expert could do the things they could do, what about someone above that? Maybe they could even know if you so much as thought of them.
Yang Qing's pupils froze when his thoughts reached this far, which only spiraled from there to other scary scenarios that fueled his fears.
He soon lost himself to his imaginations and the ensuing fears that came out of it, that he didn't realize when he reached his abode, alone. Dai Chen and Zhang Qinggee had left at some point.
"This world is scarier than I thought it to be.." he muttered to himself as he slowly made his way to the nest of the celestial nesting weaver to meditate.
He could still feel the spirit-calming effects of the brook of clarity, so he decided to capitalize on it and meditate. Recent events highlighted how weak he was, and the interaction with Meng Chao further intensified it, which fueled his drive to try and improve.
"Even if I'm an ant, I want to be a stronger ant with the ability to cheat death.." he fiercely thought to himself.
"I wonder if it's possible to get their absurd lifespans. At the time I didn't think much about it but Green Cocoon's question at the time was odd.
What is vitality? There was also that strange thing she said at the beginning.." Yang Qing ruminated on his interaction that day before he shook his head in defeat.
"Such thoughts are too far ahead of me when I still have the peerless jade physique to deal with. Mmh, maybe I can check in on Grandpa and the rest tomorrow.." Yang Qing mused as he proceeded to empty his mind and begun meditating on the profundities of the Universal duality indulgent of the myriad worlds cultivation art.
He managed to meditate on it for almost three hours before he stopped. The effects of the brook of clarity had worn out one hour earlier, and he had been able to concentrate for almost an hour before his mind started getting distracted from the popping images of the Ice Emerald Sect.
When he felt those intrusive thoughts sneak in, he cut short his meditation and decided to try and get some sleep, though that plan was interfered with by the celestial nesting weaver which like always had a gifted skill of pushing his buttons. A small fight like always ensued between the two, though the celestial nesting weaver was mostly at the receiving end of the beating, while it fought back with venomous words.
Ironically after the short bout, Yang Qing ended up having the same peaceful sleep he always had before the events of the Ice Emerald Sect.
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