Man is in the heavens, parasitic on the way

Chapter 113 Future Direction

He also had a plan for how to upgrade his Cave Heaven. First, find enough treasures for the Cave Heaven World, refine them, absorb their contained principles, and use them as nourishment for the Cave Heaven World to grow. The growth of a Cave Heaven requires external assistance! Second, comprehend the Dao himself, gain insight into more Heavenly Dao laws, and then gradually strengthen the world's origin, thus allowing the world to grow. These two methods do not conflict and can be carried out simultaneously.

It is foreseeable that as long as there are enough resources, the upgrade of the Cave Heaven World will inevitably drive the rapid increase in the speed of his cultivation, only slowing down after reaching the ceiling of the current world. In the future, with the blessing of the Heavenly Dao origin of the Great Chiliocosm Universe, as long as the profound principles contained in the refined treasures do not exceed the Heaven and Earth itself, he will be able to quickly digest them.

With a thought, the ten real Cave Heavens suspended in the sky whistled down, rapidly rushing towards the finger-joint-sized seed in mid-air. As the ten great Cave Heavens sped along, their forms continuously shrank, finally turning into tiny specks of light the size of rice grains that merged into the finger-joint-sized seed, disappearing from view.

The Cave Heavens in this world's system are opened within or outside living beings. Fang Ming's Cave Heavens were deduced from the true meaning of the Cave Heaven Dao that emerged when the tenth Cave Heaven was opened in this world's system, possessing the same abilities. They can be taken into the body or released externally.

In the inner world, Fang Ming's figure materialized. Ten fist-sized clusters of hazy light appeared around him, which were the ten Cave Heavens he had opened. With a thought, the scenes inside the ten Cave Heavens appeared in his mind. The scale of these Cave Heaven Worlds was not too large, only tens of thousands of li in circumference. Even the Starry Sky Cave Heaven World wasn't particularly vast.

It wasn't even as good as the small world he had previously nurtured on Old Devil's side using the Immortal Vine body, gathering the Heavenly Dao laws of the Spirit Realm's origin, and adding the effect of the green liquid. However, although they were just Cave Heavens, these Cave Heavens possessed infinite potential and growth. In essence, they were the 'realm' he had cultivated, different from the world conceived within the Immortal Vine fruit before.

With the successful opening of the ten Cave Heavens, his strength rose to another great level. Theoretically, it was equivalent to the 'Self-Severing' realm in this world's cultivation system. Of course, because he had opened ten real Cave Heavens and had a profound foundation, his strength was far beyond what ordinary Self-Severing realm cultivators could achieve.

Looking at the Cave Heaven World suspended before him, a thought stirred in Fang Ming's mind. The many rare materials obtained from sweeping the foundation of the Immortal Palace in the Lower Realm flew over, turning into a torrent of treasures that flowed into one of the Cave Heaven Worlds. Instantly, that Cave Heaven trembled slightly. The treasures that had fallen into it shattered one after another, transforming into various essences that merged into that world.

These Cave Heaven Worlds were the external manifestation of Fang Ming's own Dao, naturally possessing the various abilities of his own Great Dao. The ability to devour all things and grow was an ability that only took shape after he founded the Spirit Devouring Method as a basis and then integrated it with the Devouring Sparrow's Precious Technique.

Although there were many rare materials obtained from the Immortal Palace's foundation in the Lower Realm, they were somewhat insufficient compared to a huge real Cave Heaven. Moreover, those materials were not truly divine materials and did not contain many principles. The only thing that could truly be called a divine material was a piece of Sunstone, which was formed after the Sun Star was cut down, containing Sun principles and boundless Sun energy.

With a thought, a fist-sized dark stone appeared. It was the Sunstone Fang Ming had obtained from Yi Mountain. With a flash of light, this dark Sunstone entered one of the Cave Heavens. The moment it entered the Cave Heaven World, the pitch-black Sunstone burst into brilliant light, instantly expanding and transforming into a huge blazing sun.

Countless golden Great Dao runes, accompanied by golden Sun energy, rose up and merged into the void of the Cave Heaven World, being absorbed and refined by it. "Rumble!" As the Sunstone and the contained Great Dao laws were continuously absorbed, the world's origin strengthened, and the entire Cave Heaven World internally shook, constantly growing.

In just under a quarter of an hour, the sun formed by the Sunstone disappeared, completely devoured. At the same time, the volume of this Cave Heaven World also increased slightly, becoming a circle larger than the other nine Cave Heavens. Fang Ming could clearly feel his cultivation improve by a sliver!

"As expected!" Fang Ming nodded, his face full of smiles. "My deduction was correct. The path of evolving my own realm into real Cave Heavens is the right one. When the Cave Heaven World strengthens, it is equivalent to my realm improving!"

Possessing the Myriad Realm Gate, he didn't have the idea of absolutely not relying on external resources. For him, how to utilize abundant external resources was what he needed to consider.

With a flick of his finger, space fluctuations appeared in the void of the inner world, and the two Heavenly Gods he had captured materialized. With a flash of light, the two Heavenly Gods were thrown by him into the Cave Heaven World that had just absorbed the Sunstone.

Within the Cave Heaven, divine essence transformed into divine light that soared into the sky. Principles continuously析出 from the two Heavenly Gods, and their figures gradually became transparent until they completely disappeared. After devouring and refining these two Heavenly Gods, the volume of this Cave Heaven increased by a small amount.

"Heavenly Gods are still not enough. Two Heavenly Gods are not comparable to one Sunstone!" Fang Ming shook his head. The Sunstone was ultimately formed from the Sun Star; in terms of the Heavenly God realm, it was still far inferior.

"Then, I cannot miss some treasures that will appear in the Lower Realm next, or those that already exist in the Lower Realm." As Fang Ming's thoughts turned, he already had a plan.

The path was already clear. What he needed to do next was find ways to obtain resources and grow as quickly as possible to reach the limit of the Great Thousand World he was currently in. With the existence of the two characteristics, Innate Affinity to Dao and Environmental Dependence, once the path ahead was clear, he possessed the conditions for rapid and normal growth.

Of course, achieving this would also be constrained by it. As his own strength approached the limit of the Great Thousand World he was in, the speed of his growth would inevitably slow down.

Outside, the finger-joint-sized seed above the sky remained, showing no signs of sprouting. As a Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Root, the Mystic Heaven Immortal Vine naturally grew extremely slowly without external acceleration.

Moreover, now that his cultivation strength had reached this level, sprouting and branching would naturally be better, but not branching was also harmless. However, Fang Ming already felt that the Immortal Vine body of this life would soon sprout.

If his cultivation continued to improve, the time for sprouting would also be brought forward significantly.

Seeing Fang Ming descend from the sky, Liu Shen and Little Pagoda's voices sounded: "Congratulations, Fellow Daoist, on successfully taking a crucial step on your own path."

"Speaking of which, the Cave Heavens that Fellow Daoist has re-interpreted truly opened my eyes," Little Pagoda transmitted, saying flatteringly. Real Cave Heavens—perhaps some people had also considered such a path, but in history, no one had ultimately walked such a path. Fang Ming was the first cultivator to successfully walk this path!

"The Cave Heavens created by Fellow Daoist have infinite potential and seem not to require the so-called Dao Seed, being somewhat more profound than the current system," Liu Shen sighed.

After the Heavenly God realm, to advance further, one needs a Dao Seed. The quality of the Dao Seed is related to future achievements. With a high-quality Dao Seed, one can merge with the Heavenly Dao, become a darling of Heaven and Earth, and comprehend the Dao as if aided by a deity.

But without a Dao Seed, no matter how powerful one was before, they would fade into obscurity among the masses. Moreover, even if a Dao Seed is not needed, other similar things are required for baptism; this is an unavoidable threshold.

Liu Shen had already seen the depth of Fang Ming's strength. The system he created did not require the so-called Dao Seed.

"If Fellow Daoist's system can be promoted in the future, I believe the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths will gain many supreme experts!" Liu Shen said.

"Fellow Daoist is too kind," Fang Ming shook his head in the inner world, saying, "Putting aside whether it can be popularized, even if it could be, I'm afraid few people could reach the peak relying on this method. My system consumes too many resources, and the current environment of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is not suitable for popularization."

In his Cave Heaven World system, if external resources were sufficient and his own comprehension could keep up, the speed of improvement would naturally be incomparably fast. But the drawback was its heavy reliance on external objects. The resources needed for a world's advancement were unimaginable.

It was not easy to raise the level of a world. Once popularized, where would a normal Great Chiliocosm Universe find so many resources to supply? Only in a super great world like the Immortal Domain would there be some possibility.

Of course, the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths in the Immortal Ancient Era might also have had a slight possibility. At that time, there were many Immortal Kings in the world. With the means of Immortal Kings, they could naturally create things out of nothing and recreate the Great Thousand World. The resources must have been sufficient.

As for the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, don't even think about popularizing it. That's impossible!

Liu Shen was silent for a moment, then sighed: "Indeed, the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is not suitable."

Given the current situation of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, even if it could be popularized, Fang Ming would not spread it. That would be entirely assisting the enemy. The Other Realm and Immortal Domain are incomparably rich in resources. If they had such a system, what would happen then!

"What the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths needs is a system that seeks within oneself and reduces reliance on external resources," Fang Ming said.

In the current system, after reaching the Heavenly God realm, one heavily relies on high-quality Dao Seeds. Without a high-quality Dao Seed, no matter how unparalleled your talent, you will fade into obscurity among the masses later on. In the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, the number of high-quality Dao Seeds is limited. There are too many monks and too little porridge, so it is destined that not all prodigies will be able to obtain a perfect seed.

It is true that some perfect seeds can be cultivated later, but even in the Immortal Domain, cultivating a perfect Dao Seed is not easy and requires a long waiting period. As for the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, no one possesses that ability at all. They can only hope for ancient inheritances and those naturally formed by Heaven and Earth.

Of course, the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths has already developed the 'Present Life Method' which does not require a perfect Dao Seed. The Present Life Method requires breaking the limit in each realm, surpassing the past, taking another step forward after reaching the pinnacle, and achieving what ordinary people cannot.

However, even the Present Life Method requires various supreme true bloods to baptize the physical body and spirit, thereby breaking the limit. It also relies on external objects, and these are external objects that are severely lacking in the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

In the current Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, there is simply no True Immortal, so it is naturally impossible to continuously provide those supreme true bloods. This is also one of the reasons why true experts in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths are dwindling.

"That's too astonishing. Seeking within oneself means using one's body as the seed. I once heard that someone in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths tried the method of 'using one's body as the seed,' but that person still failed and did not achieve complete success," Liu Shen said.

Fang Ming understood that it was referring to Meng Tianzheng. Using one's body as the seed was proposed in the era before the last one, but no one was able to realize it.

In this era, there was a Meng Tianzheng who originally saw hope, but ultimately did not achieve complete success. It wasn't until Shi Hao was born that this path was truly walked through.

Based on using his body as the seed, Shi Hao opened up a brand new Secret Realm cultivation system. From then on, the reliance on external objects was greatly reduced!

Thus, several supreme beings were born in later generations.

"Using one's body as the seed, I have also heard of it, but this seems to be a dead end," Little Pagoda's voice came, somewhat surprised.

"It's not necessarily a dead end. Haven't some people already walked through a part of it and verified its feasibility?" Fang Ming said, very calmly.

"That's true. It can't be called a dead end. This path will be walked through sooner or later. The current cultivation system does have some issues," Liu Shen said.

"This Bear Child seems very suitable for cultivating the 'Present Life Method' that has been developed. What do the two Fellow Daoists think?" Little Pagoda's voice came, and it changed the subject.

"It's too early to say these things now. How far this child can go still depends on himself," Liu Shen said, seemingly unwilling to say more, and then fell silent.

Soon, the place became completely silent, restoring true tranquility.

In the inner world, Fang Ming sat cross-legged at the center of the world, without sorrow or joy. In his hand was a beast skin, which was precisely the beast skin that recorded the Six Paths of Reincarnation Heavenly Technique.

This Heavenly Technique was profound and intricate. Up to now, he had only just entered the入门 stage. Now that he had nothing to do, he continued to study it.

As for the Original True Understanding, he had already comprehended most of it. The remaining part was a matter of realm, and comprehension was only a matter of Time.

Time flowed by, and several months passed in a flash. Shi Hao had just stepped into the Transforming Spirit realm. As he entered the Transforming Spirit realm, calculating the Time, it was also time to enter the North Sea to search for the Kun Peng Precious Technique inheritance.

"Liu Shen, aren't you coming with me?" Shi Hao looked at Liu Shen expectantly, full of anticipation. What he most looked forward to was naturally entering the North Sea with Liu Shen and obtaining the Kun Peng inheritance.

"I won't go," Liu Shen said. "I am at a critical juncture in my recovery. For the next period of Time, I will be silent for a while to undergo a transformation."

In fact, having obtained the Pumo King's immortal king body for so long, it had already refined most of it, and its strength had recovered to a terrifying degree.

Next, it needed to be silent for a period of Time to complete a crucial transformation. It had a premonition that as long as the transformation was completed smoothly, its strength would rise to a terrifying level, and its own memories might recover by more than half by then.

Although the Kun Peng Precious Technique was important, its own current state was critical, so it would not get involved.

"Alright," Shi Hao nodded, feeling a bit helpless. Then he looked in a certain direction. "Xuantian Senior, let's go then. Don't let others snatch the Kun Peng inheritance."

Not far away, the finger-joint-sized seed hung in the air like a miniature world.

"Don't worry, I'm keeping track. The Kun Peng Dojo is just about to open now, it won't be late!" Fang Ming's voice came out, very quickly.

Of course, he had to go. Not to mention the Kun Peng Law, but he was very interested in some things in the Kun Peng Dojo.

He remembered that there was a section of kun wood in the Kun Peng Dojo, which seemed to still have some vitality. Kun wood, that was the world tree, the supreme divine tree that supported the Great Chiliocosm Universe and created the Great Thousand World.