Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal-Chapter 1170 - 892: Thirty-Three Heavens

"Redefine the cultivation system!?"

The Creation Immortal Emperor, Yuanyi, Emperor Xi, Xu Mo, and other Great Powers quickly understood Gu Jinlai’s true goal as soon as they heard this.

Redefining the cultivation system was mere pretense. He aimed to alter and distort the Three Thousand Great Dao by having cultivators of this world practice and perfect his own cultivation system step by step.

As more cultivators reach the Immortal Realm and beyond, they can continuously acquire and seize the authority that belongs to the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors.

When the number of Immortals in the world often reaches the millions, it becomes easier to provoke the purification of the Dao Ancestors.

A million!

It sounds like a lot, but there are three thousand Dao Ancestors!

On average, each Dao Ancestor is matched with fewer than ten thousand Immortals.

And why would the Dao Ancestors purify the Immortals?

Isn’t it because the increasing number of Immortals dilutes their authority?

In other words, the more Immortals there are, the weaker the Dao Ancestors become.

With over ten thousand Immortals, the difference might not be visible.

When the number of Immortals reaches hundreds of thousands, or even millions, the Dao Ancestors’ authority will be affected, reducing their full power to ninety percent, or even eighty percent.

And in battles at the highest level, even a small difference can expand to its extreme through endless ages, let alone a ten percent discrepancy!?

Just like the zero-point-one percent failure rate in machinery, it seems insignificant, but if it keeps running ten thousand, hundred thousand, or million times...

Chance will turn into certainty.

By then, the Dao Ancestors will be crushed by Gu Jinlai.

Once the Dao Ancestors, who maintain the cosmic operating mechanism, are defeated, the balance in the war between Gu Jinlai and the Dao Ancestors will break, and at that time...

The entire universe will fall into Gu Jinlai’s hands, and into the hands of the universe behind him, without a shred of doubt.

This is his true purpose.

"Dare I ask, Dominator, what are the standards for entering the Great Ro Celestial Realm?"

Soon a Great Power spoke up to inquire.

Gu Jinlai could contend with the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors, making it inappropriate to still call him a Great Power or Daoist Ancestor.

Dominator!

It was the default new title all the top forces used for him.

And this questioning Great Power was from the Feather Spirit Clan.

Despite being a distinguished clan in the cosmos, the Feather Spirit Clan had a small population, lacked competitiveness, and was often hunted by outsiders, making them somewhat vulnerable among the supreme races.

If he had a way to improve the situation, he would seize the opportunity without hesitation.

"Anyone who achieves immortality with merits can enter the Great Ro Celestial Realm, where they live as long as heaven and earth, shine as bright as sun and moon, and are not constrained by the Dao Ancestors, truly undying and undestroyed."

Gu Jinlai’s voice echoed throughout the Ten Thousand Clans Immortal Palace.

Upon hearing this, the Great Powers remained calm, but the Great Immortal Venerables’ spirits surged with excitement.

Not constrained by the Dao Ancestors!?

Not purified by the Dao Ancestors!?

Truly undying and undestroyed!?

Countless brilliant and sharp Merit Golden Immortals had perished under the purification of the Dao Ancestors simply because they did not understand what it meant to find life amidst death, to bow and yield, and thus failed to gain insight into the Silent Annihilation Realm.

Even the greatest source of chaos in the cosmos, the Evil Gods, and Divine Spirits were mistakes designed by Merit Golden Immortals seeking refuge from the Dao Ancestors’ purification.

If there truly was a way to become undying and undestroyed without switching to Divine Spirits or Evil Gods, paths that break the foundation of future prospects, cosmic conflicts would decrease by ninety percent.

"Dominator, what is merit?"

Another Great Power couldn’t help but ask.

"The cycle of worlds is endless. It cannot remain unchanged. Those who follow the Great Dao are part of the Righteous Sect, blessed with merits. As long as you benefit heaven and earth and fill its imperfections, you can become a Merit Golden Immortal, leveraging merits to cultivate, advancing by leaps and bounds, a thousand miles a day, and after becoming Immortal, enter the Great Ro Celestial Realm."

Gu Jinlai’s voice echoed in everyone’s spirit: "Life and death, order and reverse. Those who defy, slaughter all living beings against the Great Dao will be entangled by Karma, besieged by inner demons, making it difficult to maintain a clear Divine Sense and possibly attracting heavenly tribulations, thus being reduced to dust by them."

"Heavenly Tribulations!"

Many Great Powers felt their hearts constrict upon hearing this.

Slaughtering all living beings would bring about heavenly tribulations...

In the eyes of many Great Powers, not just the ordinary beings, but even the Immortal Golden Immortals and Immortal Venerables were not considered part of their kind.

Figures like Emperor Xi, for instance, wouldn’t hesitate to sacrifice everyone in the Fire Cloud Palace to achieve significant goals.

After all, within their long span of years, it’s no challenge to reestablish a Fire Cloud Palace within a few billion years.

As the leading power of the Human Clan, if offered the chance to reach the Three Saints Realm at the cost of annihilating all human lives, the Creation Immortal Emperor would agree without a second thought.

In their view, every piece of themselves is more important than the entire human clan.

But if Gu Jinlai’s words hold, the concept of "heavenly tribulations" now exists, and these top tier powers can no longer act as recklessly and freely as they used to.

"Dominator, does the presence of heavenly tribulations when slaughtering all living beings imply that those who peacefully cultivate without competing, seizing resources, slaughtering, or oppressing are considered Righteous? And the Merit Golden Immortals, who perfect cosmic rules as a foundation for cultivation, enhance the universe’s operations?"

The Great Power from the Feather Spirit Clan continued to inquire.

"Indeed, it is so."

Gu Jinlai said, "I was born into this world and have witnessed endless warfare in the universe, senseless slaughter, and chaos between people, sects, and clans. The endless internal strife has never ceased for a day, the strong prevail while the weak perish. Such a universe, clearly, lacks any semblance of order."

As he spoke, he glanced lightly at figures like Emperor Xi of the Fire Cloud Palace and the Creation Immortal Emperor: "Especially some of the top-tier powerhouses, whose manner of conduct lacks any baseline of morality, treating wanton killing and collateral damage as trivial acts. To them, such things are very normal, and other Great Powers haven’t seen anything wrong. However, to me, this is undoubtedly wrong and unacceptable."

Though it was just a glance, Emperor Xi, the Creation Immortal Emperor, and several other powerful figures of the Human Clan all trembled simultaneously.

Especially Emperor Xi, Primordial, and figures like Creation, who, though maintaining only a humanoid form of incarnation, inexplicably felt a great terror looming over them.

Emperor Xi, at the forefront, even felt that his incarnation could hardly sustain, continuously trembling, seemingly on the verge of dispersing.

"Dominator..."

After a while, Emperor Xi finally bowed and spoke: "Xi... acknowledges the mistake, willing to accept whatever punishment the Dominator deems fit."

But Gu Jinlai no longer spared Emperor Xi a glance, instead continuing to cast his gaze towards everyone in the Ten Thousand Clans Immortal Palace.

"Ability comes with responsibility. Anyone standing at the pinnacle of a power, enjoying its supreme rights, should also bear its corresponding responsibilities. If one dares not bear these responsibilities, they should not fill a position without due merit, hindering others. Let those with ability and a sense of responsibility step up!"

With his current status, his words were merciless: "The greater the capacity, the greater the power, the greater the responsibility. Those with capability should naturally ascend, reside at the pinnacle, and enjoy immense power. But to discuss power devoid of responsibility is blatant tyranny, and once one abuses power through capability, they are a tyrant, poisoning the world further."

The Supreme Race’s Great Powers, upon hearing Gu Jinlai’s words, felt a sense of fear individually.

Meanwhile, those Great Powers oppressed by the Supreme Race all this time showed expressions of delight.

Each looking at Gu Jinlai with eyes full of expectancy and yearning.

"The cultivation of a cultivator prioritizes cultivating the heart, with Enlightenment following. Before proving one’s path to become a Golden Immortal, there is no need to pour undue time and energy into the cultivation of Divine Skills or Immortal Techniques, especially with the existence of heavenly tribulation. Any reckless cultivator will ultimately pay the price for their actions..."

Gu Jinlai expounded on the concept of the Thirty-Three Heavens.

The more they listened, the more the Great Powers grew cold in their hearts.

Once Immortal Golden Immortals enter the Great Splendid Heaven, they would truly be undying and undestroyed, able to live for tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions, of years.

Compared to Immortal Golden Immortals, Great Powers’ biggest feature is their superior computation power and astounding repository of knowledge.

But if an Immortal Golden Immortal can truly exist for tens of billions or hundreds of billions of years, their knowledge repository would not be inferior.

Accumulated over so many years, their Divine Sense level would not be low either.

By then...

Couldn’t everyone possess near-Great Power combat strength?

What would remain rare or revered about being a Great Power?

While each of the Great Powers felt an immense pressure, beings from other species only grew more fervent in their gaze.

They could almost wish for Gu Jinlai to immediately bring the Thirty-Three Heavens into being.

This...

Was precisely what Gu Jinlai desired.

The battle against the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors had reached its most critical juncture.

Even though he held the upper hand, yet...

The universe behind him had perished.

Despite its deep resources, its power was akin to a rootless duckweed, diminishing with use.

On the contrary, this universe...

Though not as ancient as the universe behind him, it was home-ground, and moreover...

Vibrant and full of life.

Young translates to infinite potential.

If the war truly dragged on, the scales of victory could very well reverse within a billion years.

Therefore, Gu Jinlai needed enough strength to constrain the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors.

And his method to constrain the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors was to nurture a vast number of Immortal Golden Immortals.

A new cultivation system of Immortal Golden Immortals at that.

Once numerous Immortal Golden Immortals emerged, they could continuously divide the authority of the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors, plus reduce the universe’s resistance against him, laying the groundwork for a better future fusion and devouring of this universe.

As for the number of Immortal Golden Immortals...

Even the sum of the Six Strongest Races probably couldn’t compare to a tenth of the smaller and mid-sized races.

Maybe not even one-hundredth.

Therefore, Gu Jinlai aimed for the Immortal Golden Immortals outside of the Six Strongest Races.

As for the Six Strongest Races, if they cooperated honestly in executing and perfecting the Great Splendid Heaven plan, all the better. If they remained obstinately opposed, he would eradicate them to allocate more benefits towards perfecting the plan.

"Justice, order..."

Gu Jinlai knew, it was laughable.

What he did could not be said to be great or sacred in any way.

However...

For the vast majority of all living beings in the Cosmic Starry Sky, it was indispensable.