15 Cultivation Cheats (1/2)
Saintess Yi Si displayed a couple of scrolls in front of Ye Jing as she said patiently, ”The current cultivation method has been in used for the past thousands of years. It has six celestial levels, Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Enlighten Celestial, Immortal Celestial, Golden Celestial and Sacred Saint. Each of the celestial levels has a lower, intermediate and upper tier denoting the mastery of the celestial level.”
Ye Jing nodded. This was common knowledge to all the cultivators and there was nothing new.
Saintess Yi Si said unhurriedly, ”Generally speaking, there are no major flaws in it. Mortals and Celestials are able to cultivate alike and they are only limited by their potential. If a mortal cultivates hard enough, they may have a breakthrough to the Practitioner level. This is the point where they will be officially attained as a celestial. Most of the celestials are born to have innate gift in cultivating and usually begins cultivating at the Practitioner level. When they have started to cultivate, the speed at which they can reach the Master Practitioner level is usually their latent potential.”
”The Practitioner level is also known as the Houtian Divinity which is a struggling goal for most of the mortals to attain. The Master Practitioner level is also known as the Xiantian Divinity. Some exceptional celestials are born Xiantian and the breakthrough to Enlighten Celestial is as easy as a celestial that is on the Practitioner level trying to breakthrough to the Master Practitioner level.”
”The first celestial level is usually the easiest to overcome and it gets doubly difficult at every new level. It will take a person hundreds of years to attain as a Golden Celestial and at least 500 years to be able to achieve to the Sacred Saint level.”
”However it is not always easy to overcome the life and death heavenly tribulation to become a Golden Celestial. Many have failed at peaked Immortal Celestials.”
Ye Jing knew that it was very difficult to attain as a Golden Celestial. Her father had perished in the failed life and death heavenly tribulation to become a Golden Celestial. The Eternal Lotus had helped her to ignore the life and death heavenly tribulation and elevated her as a Golden Celestial.
Saintess Yi Si heaved a soft sigh, ”Only about 4% of the celestials will be able to attain as a Golden Celestial and less than 4% can attain as a Sacred Saint. Out of these Sacred Saints, only about 1/5 of them will be able to overcome the Heavenly Wrath and ascend as immortals before their lifespan run out.”
Ye Jing nodded. That was why she was shocked when she had actually witnessed the ascension of the Celestial/ Saintess Yuehua.
She could not resist asking, ”It seems that my celestial teacher has abnormal long lifespan. If everyone could have your long lifespan maybe they would be able to ascend as well.”
Saintess Yi Si laughed softly, ”The cultivation method that I am practicing is actually not a unique cultivation method. It is an old cultivation method that is used by the majority of the celestials during my time. I just can't discard it halfway or it will be detrimental to my future attainment.”
Ye Jing sighed, ”It must be hard on celestial teacher to practice such a long and tedious cultivation method. The years of loneliness must be hard to bear.”
At this point the Ascension Goddess interrupted with a cold laugh, ”But she is a high prodigy. Less than 100 years after she had been elevated as a Golden Celestial, she could choose to ascend as an immortal if she wants to.”
Ye Jing was stunned, ”So fast? Why didn't celestial teacher?”
Saintess Yi Si growled softly, ”That has nothing to do with talent. It is only…only because I have some experiences in the Stellar Sanctuary that increases my pace of enlightenment.”
The Ascension Goddess smiled as she seemed to be recalling something distantly, ”Anyone that can reach the 100th level of the Stellar Sanctuary can breakthrough into the realm of the immortals with one eye closed.”
Ye Jing asked, ”What is this Stellar Sanctuary?”
Saintess Yi Si patted her head gently, ”Child, I am not surprised that you have never heard of it. It is very familiar to the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth where you go and try for a break in lucky occurrences in order to change your destiny.”
Ye Jing muttered, ”I have heard that the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth is very difficult to overcome. In fact, no one has ever even been to the most interior yet. I have heard that the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth is appearing soon. Why don't celestial teacher accompany me to go there before your ascension? Maybe we can find wondrous treasures that can increase the odds of your ascension.”
The reason why she had said that was because it was not a 100% chance that the Saintess Yi Si could ascend successfully. The more rare artefact treasures that they could find, the better. She really did not want to lose her new celestial teacher so soon and she felt that she got plenty to learn from her at the same time too.
Saintess Yi Si seemed to appreciate her thoughts, ”Don't worry. I will be alright. My destiny lies in the immortal realm. Moreover I have been to the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth a few times already. It is better for you to seek your own enlightenment.”
Ye Jing asked, ”Celestial teacher had been to the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth already?”
She felt that she was asking a silly question because the Saintess Yi Si had been around far longer than anyone.
The Ascension Goddess smiled wryly, ”The first time that the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth had descended, she had already reached to the highest level. This caused a huge upheaval in the heavens back then and the difficulty of the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth was thereby forced to adjust not once but several times…”
All of a sudden the Ascension Goddess stopped because she had a slip of tongue. It was because she noticed that Ye Jing was looking at her in a curious manner…
The Ascension Goddess quickly said, ”Anyway, she won't accompany you there. It is because there is someone that she wants to see in the immortal realm for the very last time.”
Ye Jing looked at the Saintess Yi Si and was curious who was that someone. ..
There was a sad countenance in the Saintess Yi Si's eyes. But she revealed nothing and she seemed to be in a distant place.
Ye Jing waited patiently, afraid to distract her thoughts.
After a while the Saintess Yi Si smiled faintly to her, ”Child, do you know that there is a mortal realm below this realm?”
Ye Jing nodded, ”I have heard of it and have heard that from time to time, there would be celestials from the mortal realm that ascend to here.”
Saintess Yi Si smiled as she pointed to a scroll that had diagrams and words, ”The cultivation method that they are practicing is the same as mine. The celestials here emphasised celestial energies as their celestial foundation but the mortals below actually started off with internal strength or you may refer to their vital life energies as foundation.”
Ye Jing listened with interest…
”Their internal strength and martial power are interchangeable. It is the same as our celestial energies and martial power. The difference lies in that celestial energies need rich spiritual veins to cultivate while internal energies can be strengthened through martial power skills and superior heart intricacies.”
Saintess Yi Si pointed to a section of the scroll, ”But no matter how hard the lower realm mortals can practice, there is a limit of 60 years of internal strength. Unless they can gain a major breakthrough, it is very difficult to have more than 60 years of internal strength. Even then they can be considered as super exponents, capable of doing many feats that only an Immortal Celestial can do.”
She pointed to another section, ”If they can achieve 80 years of internal strength then they can encounter the Divine Calamity which will turn them into celestials like us. However, their celestial practice is more tedious, they have to overcome seven levels of celestial divinity, Genesis, Enlighten, Emotion, Transverse, Seventh Sense, Crisis and Ascend. I won't go into the details. But you can read it here when you are free.”
”Their Ascend is actually our Golden Celestial level. At peaked Ascend, they will be able to transmigrate to the Celestial Realm. They are actually the ancestors of all the celestials here.”
Ye Jing muttered, ”They are the ancestors of all the celestials…”
She took a look at the scrolls carefully, ”These celestial divinities are all so profound. If they are able to transmigrate here, they will be very formidable celestials am I right?”
Saintess Yi Si smiled, ”Now you finally catch it.”
Ye Jing was perplexed, ”But why is that in recent times, we don't really see more of them?”