novelraw Chapter 863 863: World Ascension!
Chapter 863 863: World Ascension!
What is the Dao Foundation?
The Dao Foundation is the foundation of the Great Dao, and it forms the basis for a cultivator's future cultivation path!
Although the Foundation Establishment Stage is only the second stage initially, its impact on a cultivator's entire cultivation path is immense!
If one achieves only a low-grade Dao Foundation during the Foundation Establishment, unless later there are earth-shattering opportunities to reshape the Dao Foundation, one can never cultivate to the Nascent Soul Realm in a lifetime.
A middle-grade Dao Foundation, at best, will halt at the Returning to Empty stage, certainly not able to comprehend the Dao.
Only with a top-grade Dao Foundation can one hope to become an Earth Immortal and then step into the Crossing Tribulation realm, with the chance to transcend into immortality!
A divine-grade Dao Foundation, once forged, immediately elevates life essence to be equivalent to that of a Divine Monarch of the Divinity Transformation Stage. Whether it's the essence level of mana or the comprehension degree of Dao Law, will receive a colossal enhancement!
A saint-grade Dao Foundation is even more terrifying. As long as one achieves saint-grade during Foundation Establishment, even with only Foundation Establishment cultivation, life essence is equivalent to an ancient sage of Returning to Empty stage, and cultivators below Divinity Transformation Stage simply cannot kill it!
As for the benefits in cultivation, they are even greater. Cultivators who have forged a saint-grade Dao Foundation are akin to those with divine-grade Dao Foundation cultivating in the universe's finest caves and blessed lands, even if located in the Desert of Cultivation!
Such advantages are simply unparalleled!
Therefore, for cultivators of the human world, a saint-grade Dao Foundation is a dream endless people yearn for. However, the difficulty of forging a saint-grade Dao Foundation is enormously high, which is why many prodigies or starry sky masters' true inheritors, and descendants of powerful figures, can only target a divine-grade Dao Foundation.
But this doesn't mean a divine-grade Dao Foundation is easy to forge. In fact, even a divine-grade Dao Foundation still surpasses ordinary top-grade Dao Foundations, requiring conditions that, although easier than saint-grade Dao Foundations, are still extraordinarily difficult.
In his travels across human universe in a past life, Qin Heng only encountered a dozen cultivators with divine-grade Dao Foundations, and none with saint-grade Dao Foundations.
It is indeed extremely difficult.
Upon ascending to the Immortal realm, Qin Heng once whimsically used his divine eyes to observe the lower realm human universe to survey how many cultivators with divine and saint-grade Dao Foundations were there within the boundless Universe, trillions of heavenly realms.
The result startled Qin Heng, who was already a Daluo Golden Immortal at the time.
Even in the most powerful human universes, where cultivation civilization is most thriving, there are no more than a thousand divine-grade Dao Foundations, with only three saint-grade Dao Foundations!
More universes only possess hundreds or even tens of divine grades, and as for saint-grade Dao Foundations, not even one.
After all, the conditions for forging a saint-grade Dao Foundation are too many and stringent, with one of the crucial conditions being that the cultivator must be bathed in Heavenly Immortal's blood during Foundation Establishment!
This is almost impossible!
Not that Heavenly Immortal's blood is hard to obtain, but even a drop could annihilate an entire great universe. To have a cultivator at peak Qi Refinement bathe in Heavenly Immortal's blood during Foundation Establishment is immensely difficult!
Moreover, the Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation above saint-grade is a whole new Dao Foundation Qin Heng conceived after achieving eternity, when he felt his own Dao Foundation was imperfect.
Heavenly-grade!
This is the ultimate Dao Foundation, once forged, the cultivator's body automatically becomes immortal, with life essence equivalent to a True Immortal!
Even with only Foundation Establishment cultivation, they could be immune to all attacks below the Divinity Transformation Realm, and at the mere wave of a hand, could mobilize the power of the Heavenly Dao Law, strength far surpasses those who forged saint-grade Dao Foundations!
Simply put, before the Foundation Establishment, Qin Heng could at most rely on the power of the Chaotic Clock to contend with those at the initial Saint King level with all his might.
If encountering a peak Saint King, he would be helpless.
But once he forges a Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation, then even peak Saint King's attacks would not harm him, and without relying on the Chaotic Clock, he could tear Saint Kings apart by hand!
Even if an entity comparable to a Deity were to descend, just by summoning the Chaotic Clock, the opponent would pay dearly!
It could be said, the moment he achieves the Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation!
Qin Heng's strength will be amplified by billions of times than now, far beyond the normal enhancement from Qi Refinement to Foundation Establishment, enabling him to better comprehend the Supreme Law.
Moreover, the Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation has a more crucial advantage, which is enhancing Qin Heng's speed of comprehending the Supreme Law!
This is one of the key reasons Qin Heng is determined to achieve the Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation!
However, the difficulty in forging the Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation far surpasses that of divine and saint grades, and it could be said to be an entirely different level of difficulty.
The "Divine" in Divine-grade refers to Divinity Transformation, the "Saint" in Saint-grade refers to the ancient sage Returning to Empty.
Whereas the "Heaven" in Heavenly-grade that Qin Heng envisions refers to the Heavenly Dao!
To forge a Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation, the cultivator must be immersed within the origin of the Heavenly Dao of a universe and possess divine sense essence beyond the Heavenly Immortal level!
This isn't the entirety of the requirements.
Moreover, one must ascend along with this universe's heavenly dao origin, essentially upgrading the universe's Heavenly Dao origin concurrently as the cultivator breaks through their realm!
Equivalent to having a cultivator at peak Qi Refinement upgrade an entire universe, something impossible even for ordinary Golden Immortals.
Upgrading a universe's origin, enhancing its level isn't a mere upgrade.
Typically, it requires reweaving and harmonizing the timeline from the inception to the end of the universe, and adding Chaos Qi consumed at its creation.
This involves employing the power of both time and creation, usually needing at least Taiyi Golden Immortal or even Daluo Golden Immortal level to perform.
For a cultivator at peak Qi Refinement to accomplish this during their breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, is sheer lunacy, virtually impossible!!
Even Qin Heng, who undergoing re-cultivation amid tribulation, finds accomplishing such an affair agonizingly difficult; despite retaining the essence of his divine soul, lacking cultivation and mana, he finds it nearly impossible to bring life to a universe from thin air.
Nevertheless, the situation is different.
This parallel world's Earth is too special, as it is the Central Heavenly Domain, the origin of all laws and the Dao itself, its essence is akin to the Heavenly Dao of the entire universe!
Which means!
As long as the current Earth ascends a level, it's equivalent to the entire universe's Heavenly Dao further completing an ascension, without any difference!
Presently Earth's entering the End of Dharma Age, Spiritual Energy has begun to revive, mystical phenomena are awakening, essentially the degraded Central Heavenly Domain undergoing upgrade, only at an excruciatingly slow pace.
Now, what Qin Heng needs to do, is to catalyze Earth's Spiritual Energy revival, at minimum propel Earth's Spiritual Energy revival into the next phase!
In doing so, it is equivalent to completing the universe's Heavenly Dao ascension!!
Qin Heng can then proceed with the Heavenly Dao's ascension to break through, achieving the peak of Foundation Establishment, forging the Heavenly-grade Dao Foundation!!
Boom!!
A blinding golden light shone across the heavens and earth, as if tearing the sky open, leaving countless people stunned. In utter astonishment, Qin Heng rode this golden light, surging into the Heavenly Essence ocean!
This Heavenly Essence ocean is tantamount to the Central Heavenly Domain's origin of the Dao, Qin Heng entering it is equivalent to being within the Heavenly Dao.
Now, suspended in the heavens was the Chaotic Clock, suddenly vibrating, emitting resounding chimes throughout the cosmos, while rivers of golden light cascaded down like waterfalls from the Chaotic Clock, pouring into the Heavenly Essence ocean!!
Rumble!!
Earth began to tremble, the density of Heavenly Essence and clarity of Law skyrocketed!!
Spiritual Energy's revival hastened completely!!
Earth…world…even universe commenced its ascension!!