"According to the information I’ve gathered, nine out of ten grand cultivators are stopped at the first barrier, that is, the process of collecting their own Dao Fruits from the Heavenly Path and concentrating them in one region," Lu Yuan analyzed the problem at hand.
The reason for failure at this first barrier is not that retrieving one’s own Dao Fruit from the Heavenly Path is exceedingly difficult.
In reality, it isn’t difficult at all.
How vast is the Heavenly Path?
Though the Dao Fruits refined by cultivators are recorded in the hands of the Heavenly Path, they are, after all, just recorded by na.
It’s like a farr planting a seed in the field and, co next year, harvesting the ripe grain.
To the Heavenly Path, each of these Earth Immortals is like a seed that it has sown. All it has to do is to harvest them regularly after the ten-thousand-year period.
To think the Heavenly Path would constantly monitor the growth of these seeds and stare at them, preventing them from escaping, is an overconcern.
A farr won’t pay special attention to the growth of a single stalk of rice. Even if one stalk goes missing at harvest ti, the farr mostly wouldn’t care.
They would simply think that this stalk of rice spoiled during growth or died on its own.
The sa principle applies to the Heavenly Path.
Therefore, for so grand cultivators who wish to secretly take back their own stalk of rice, it’s not very difficult.
Just be a little cautious, don’t be too showy as a thief, and basically, you won’t draw the attention of the Heavenly Path or be discovered.
The issue is that the realm of late-stage Earth Immortals, although they count as grand cultivators, still has limited capacity.
To a Dao Fruit, they are akin to ants.
Previously, by borrowing the power of the Heavenly Path, an ant could move this Dao Fruit, bringing out its might.
Now, if you don’t rely on the Heavenly Path and want to move a Dao Fruit with your own strength, it’s extrely difficult, nearly impossible.
To accomplish this, you have to chip away bit by bit, moving the Great Tao within your own capability.
To use an analogy, it’s like an ant not trying to move a whole stalk of rice at once but instead moving a single grain at a ti, breaking the entire stalk into countless pieces and moving it bit by bit.
Such small movents are less likely to catch the attention of the Heavenly Path.
They also remain within one’s capacity to endure, without the risk of bursting oneself.
Though convenient, this thod greatly lengthens the ti required.
Moving an entire stalk of rice at once might only take several decades.
But moving countless grains of rice, the total ti expended naturally multiplies by tens or hundreds of tis.
To the best of Lu Yuan’s knowledge, within the Donghua Continent and several surrounding regions, the record for the fastest grand cultivator to complete this step took one thousand and twenty-three years.
And that grand cultivator was a rare Chosen One of the continent, seen only once in a million years.
In the end, he achieved the status of Great True Person, but now a million years have passed, and that Heavenly Immortal has long since fallen.
Such cases, therefore, are bound to be exceptional and cannot be replicated.
"Excluding these once-in-a-million-years Chosen Ones, the remaining examples, the slightly faster ones, also take two thousand years.
The slower ones take three thousand years.
So never even complete this step before their lifespan is exhausted.
Because most grand cultivators are already seven or eight thousand years old by the late-stage Earth Immortal achievent.
At such an advanced age, they simply do not have enough lifespan to push through this first barrier.
The reason most grand cultivators are stopped is their breakthrough cos too late, and they lack the necessary remaining lifespan."
At this thought, Lu Yuan couldn’t help feeling fortunate.
"Luckily, all along my path of cultivation, I’ve followed the route of Qi Luck, and my progress has been extrely fast.
Now that I’ve broken through to grand cultivator, I’m just over three thousand years old, absolutely too youthful among my peers.
Even in the entire Immortal Realm, cases like mine are a rarity, let alone on the Donghua Continent where I’ve never heard of such.
So, even if my pace at this barrier is the slowest, taking three thousand years to collect Dao Fruits, that would only consu less than half of my remaining Heavenly Path lifespan.
Afterward, I still have four thousand years to continue breaking through the remaining two barriers."
It must be said that the longevity Dao Fruit and the Way of Control Pneuma have allowed Lu Yuan to exploit a loophole of the Heavenly Path.
The restriction of lifespan for Earth Immortals by the Heavenly Path doesn’t account for how many tis an Earth Immortal uses the Life-Burning Secret Art to advance consu their lifespan, depleting the ten-thousand-year cap and then taking their life early.
It simply sets a fixed quota; you can only live up to ten thousand years in the world. Exceed that limit, and your life will be taken.
And if it’s less than ten thousand years, no matter how many secret techniques you’ve used or how much actual lifespan you’ve consud, even if it surpasses the ten-thousand-year limit, it’s none of the Heavenly Path’s concern.
It’s just like planting a seed and then agreeing to harvest it regularly after ten thousand years.
How this seed grows during its life, how outstanding it becos, whether it matures and dies early—all of this is of no concern to the Heavenly Path.
So even if you use the Life-Burning Secret Art and your actual lifespan extends beyond ten thousand years, as long as you can replenish what you’ve lost, the Heavenly Path won’t interfere.
Just don’t exceed the run cycle of ten thousand years.
Lu Yuan refers to this predetermined lifespan as the Heavenly Path lifespan.
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