Longevity, starting from being a chicken raising servant Chapter 2245: 150: The Nest

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Wang Ba enters the Tribulation-Transcending Realm, leading him to reassess the utility of the Divine Corpse Six Fingers. To cultivate the corpse further without resorting to a massacre, he pressures Jiu Futu into finding an alternative source of Death Qi: hunting World Eaters. While Wang Ba stays behind to consolidate his new cultivation level and the power of the Black Immortal Pill, various faction leaders gather outside the Yin Ruins Dao Domain to address the rising demonic threat of the Supreme True Buddha. As the leaders struggle to find a way to unite their fractured forces, Zhang Bokai of the Cloud Sky Sect arrives to seek an audience.

“Within these Domains scattered across the Realm Sea, it seems I can truly no longer perceive even the faintest hint of Dao Intention.”

Wang Ba sat cross-legged atop the jagged peak of an abandoned Domain’s Realm Membrane. He shifted his focus away from a distant, flickering crimson light, a trace of disappointment visible in his expression.

Throughout the Realm Sea, the various Domains have perpetually radiated different forms and intensities of Dao Intention.

For Inner World Cultivators, catching a glimpse of a Domain’s authentic form allows them to grasp the corresponding Dao Intention, which in turn fosters the expansion and refinement of their personal Dao Domain.

However, excessive exposure carries risks; the unnaturally fast growth of a Dao Domain can trigger a backlash known as ‘Daoization’.

Yet, these influences have their boundaries. Upon reaching a Seventh Tier Dao Domain, such Domains cease to have any meaningful impact on Wang Ba.

Currently, Wang Ba has already consolidated an Eighth Tier Dao Domain, successfully stepping into the Tribulation-Transcending Realm.

The Dao Intention emanating from these surrounding Domains can no longer sway him in the slightest.

Consequently, there is only one path left to advance his Dao Domain—profound, internal self-enlightenment.

By meditating on the rules, a Cultivator gains a more thorough comprehension; as mastery deepens, they can manifest something from nothing. This allows them to inversely derive new Dao Intentions to weave into the Dao Domain while simultaneously embedding the relevant rules within its fabric.

This process continues until the Dao Domain and the rules become increasingly intertwined, using the rules as the structural beams and the Dao Intention as the bricks to build a more sophisticated Dao Domain.

This constitutes the core of daily cultivation for most ordinary Tribulation-Transcending Cultivators.

The difficulty of this endeavor is easily equal to Wang Ba’s fusion of Incarnations, and perhaps it is even more taxing.

It demands immense patience, sharp intuition, and vast stretches of time to slowly polish and refine.

The challenge is magnified if the rules a Cultivator understands do not align with their Dao Domain, necessitating long periods of adjustment.

The help predecessors can provide is quite restricted, typically offering only a general path; most of the time, Cultivators must navigate the darkness alone.

His circumstances, however, are vastly different from those of his peers.

Long before he entered the Tribulation-Transcending Realm, he had already achieved a profound level of mastery regarding the rules.

Once he finally reached the Tribulation-Transcending Realm and established his Dao Domain, he simply utilized his existing knowledge of the rules as a blueprint to grow a new Dao Domain that was perfectly synchronized with those rules from the start.

While the cultivation method of ordinary Cultivators is akin to constructing a house—requiring the firing of bricks and the cutting of wood to be stacked piece by piece—his method is more like nurturing a plant.

He only needs to consistently provide water and fertilizer, allowing the seed to grow naturally into the most optimal Dao Domain. In this state, the Dao Domain and the rules remain in a state of flawless harmony at all times.

He has entirely skipped the tedious process others must endure to integrate rules into their Dao Domain step by step.

For him, ‘watering and fertilizing’ is a straightforward task: comprehending rules.

He seeks more rules—more intricate, more ancient, and more complex.

As a follower of the Dharma Lineage, no rule is considered worthless to him.

Every rule serves as raw material for the construction of his Dao Domain.

“I might find it useful to study the internal evolution of rules within different Domains… I suspect there is more to be learned there than in the open Realm Sea.”

“If I follow this path to its conclusion, could I perhaps manifest an entire Domain myself?”

This thought suddenly sparked in Wang Ba’s mind.

This wasn't baseless dreaming, as the creation of a Domain naturally requires the simultaneous evolution of rules and Chaos Origin Substance.

Provided there was enough Chaos Origin Substance and his Dao Domain reached a sufficiently high level, evolving a Domain might actually be possible.

Naturally, at his current stage—despite having stabilized his foundation and successfully crafting several top-grade Dao Treasures—he was still a long way from being able to create a Domain.

Just then, the voice of Jiu Futu drifted from afar, reaching his ears:

“Senior! Senior, I have returned!”

Wang Ba turned toward the sound and saw Jiu Futu flying toward him with haste, trailed by a dense, gray cloud of vigorous death qi.

He looked down at the Divine Corpse below and gave a small nod of approval.

Lately, Jiu Futu’s efforts had yielded little, and he frequently came back with nothing to show for his travels.

However, he had suggested several tweaks to the traditional Corpse-folding Corpse Refining Technique, which had notably accelerated the development of the Divine Corpse’s six fingers.

The Corpse Immortal Technique is essentially the process of refining oneself into something akin to a Divine Corpse. However, unlike a mindless Divine Corpse, Jiu Futu retains his intellect, allowing him to understand exactly how to speed up the nurturing process.

Yet, because of this acceleration, the death qi within the Death Qi Pit below had started to fade significantly.

If they failed to replenish the death qi soon, the pit would eventually be unable to satisfy the Divine Corpse’s hunger.

In response to the feeding, the black hair on the Divine Corpse’s six fingers was growing thicker. Its frame was becoming increasingly hunched, losing its human shape as its hands and feet began to resemble the hooves of a beast.

It was quickly approaching the final form of the Corpse-folding as outlined in the Corpse Refining Technique.

Once the transformation is complete, it will bring catastrophe and chaos wherever it goes; even those in the Tribulation-Transcending Realm would struggle to oppose it.

Jiu Futu landed and immediately pulled a Dao Treasure from his belt. He aimed it at the Death Qi Pit and emptied the spoils of his journey into it.

Wang Ba observed the influx and asked with some surprise:

“How did you manage such a large harvest this time?”

Hearing the question, Jiu Futu did not dare hold back and quickly explained:

“I ventured a bit further out this time and ran into some World Eaters causing trouble. I took the opportunity to cull a few of them. I suspect there is a World Eater nest in that area, but since I was on my own and didn't want to neglect your orders, I simply slaughtered a group and hurried back.”