Chapter 1177 - 1277: Dancing on the Knife's Edge

At this thought, the Primal True Man shivered suddenly.

Because the Primal True Man realized that if things were as he suspected, then they had been living under the surveillance of the Power of Heaven and Earth for many years.

Perhaps the cultivators within the Wall weren't unable to ascend to the Primal realm; there might be suppression exerted by the Power of Heaven and Earth within the Wall.

After all, if they ascended to the Primal realm, it might be possible that during their ascension to the Immortal realm, the Immortals of the Immortal realm would discover that this cultivator realm has a Power of Heaven and Earth with its own consciousness.

Although the Primal True Man did not know what kind of consequences would result from the Immortal realm discovering that the Power of Heaven and Earth has consciousness.

However, the Primal True Man knew it would certainly not be a good outcome, because the Power of Heaven and Earth inherently operates fairly and impartially in a programmed manner, without any consciousness. Once it develops consciousness, it would cultivate its own forces, potentially rebelling against the Immortal realm, inevitably affecting it.

Moreover, such a scenario would prevent the Immortal realm from receiving fresh blood replenishment over time, potentially leading to its demise, although this would take a very, very, very long time, since Immortals are practically immortal, requiring vast amounts of time for an Immortal to die, clearly exceeding ten thousand years.

And this is merely the lifespan of ordinary Immortals; for higher-level Immortals, their lifespan would exceed a million years, and even higher ones would have lifespans in the tens of millions of years.

Thus, trying to wait out and exhaust the Immortals in the Immortal realm through time is quite difficult, as once the Immortal realm realizes that those in the cultivator realm aren't ascending for a long time, they will eventually find a way, though such a way is currently unknown, there will surely be Immortals who conceive a method.

Furthermore, if the Immortal realm fails to receive fresh blood for an extended period, it correspondingly won't receive new fortune infusions.

Without new fortune, the entire Immortal realm would stagnate just like the current cultivator realm, making it impossible for people to progress further, leaving them to plunder fortune from outside the Wall.

And because of this plundering of external fortune, it triggered the resistance of the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the Wall, resulting in the current situation.

In other words, it's highly likely that the Power of Heaven and Earth inside the Wall and outside the Wall have reached a collaboration, inverting the situation for creatures beyond the Wall, preventing them from ascending to the Immortal realm, whereas only the cultivators within the Wall can ascend.

Perhaps the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the Wall collaborated with the Power of Heaven and Earth inside the Wall, intentionally restricting the cultivators within, preventing them from ascending to the Immortal realm, thus stopping fresh blood from entering the Immortal realm.

Also, the Power of Heaven and Earth inside the Wall has prepared to sacrifice all the cultivators within the Wall, for without long-term ascent to the Immortal realm, only death awaits the cultivators, and as lineage gradually ceases, the cultivators will slowly cease to exist. In this way, even if from the Immortal realm came down to investigate, there would be no way to blame the Power of Heaven and Earth because, after all, what it provides is merely resources. Whether you can ascend to the Immortal realm or not doesn't depend on what the Power of Heaven and Earth says; it's up to your own efforts. If truly someone from the Immortal realm comes down to examine, then the Power of Heaven and Earth merely does nothing.

After all, upon investigation by those from the Immortal realm, they would only find that the cultivators of the realm are not ambitious, with the highest capability merely reaching the Ten Directions realm, not even the Primal realm, fundamentally unable to blame the Power of Heaven and Earth.

Because the fundamental issue is that everyone's cultivation technique at present isn't capable of safely and rapidly ascending to the Primal realm; even reaching the Ten Directions realm is extremely difficult for some, similar to those Demon Cultivators whose cultivation techniques are all exceedingly dangerous. The crucial point is that despite their cultivation techniques being powerful, they cannot ascend to the Immortal realm, attributed to the aspect of their mindset being unchangeable.

Yet the mindset is precisely one of the only two standards for ascending to the Immortal realm, so whether it's creatures outside the Wall or Demon Cultivators within, any affiliation with Demonic Qi or Evil Qi dooms their chance of ascending to the Immortal realm.

Even if their cultivation is tremendous and their power vast, they still cannot ascend to the Immortal realm, and may even be forced to transform into external creatures due to insufficient mindset suppression of their power.

In fact, the Primal True Man has gradually glimpsed a bit of truth about this world, yet it's merely a shallow glimmer.

Moreover, the Primal True Man will never be able to touch the truth of this world again, as his foundation is already damaged, preventing him from ascending to the Primal realm, and without ascending to the Primal realm, he doesn't even qualify to know about this matter, and should he ascend to the Primal realm, he would reluctantly have the qualification to understand this matter. Only when one's capability reaches the threshold for ascending to the Immortal realm can they slowly grasp the truth of this world, and even have the qualification to endure the kind of pain following the acquisition of truth, as this matter is in fact far crueler than one might imagine.

Of course, the Primal True Man doesn't presently have the time to ponder this matter. At the moment, he only thought that the Power of Heaven and Earth within the Wall very likely has already developed its own emotions, but he remains uncertain of the specific situation.

After all, presently what he faces is precisely the lightning split by the Power of Heaven and Earth outside the Wall.

No matter how the Primal True Man entices, even pausing couldn't convert the external Power of Heaven and Earth's lightning into human-shaped lightning, leaving the Primal True Man feeling odd, as previously this lightning swiftly transformed into human-shaped after striking two or three times.

But now, the Primal True Man has already dodged over ten strikes of lightning, yet the Thunder Eye above hasn't unleashed human-shaped lightning.

While evading the lightning, the Primal True Man is contemplating. He seems to have thought of something, but almost immediately, it's as if a thought obscures his mind, and in an instant, what he seemingly remembered is forgotten, leaving the Primal True Man with a disturbing and frightening feeling.

This invoked a long-absent fear in the Primal True Man's heart, for there's no one else capable of affecting his thoughts except, perhaps, even beings of the Primal realm can't change or influence the Primal True Man's thoughts, indicating that now only the ultimate Power of Heaven and Earth could alter his contemplation.

Thus the fear returned to the Primal True Man's heart.