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Chapter 330 - 191: The Most Common Ways Cultivators Die

Chapter 330: Chapter 191: The Most Common Ways Cultivators Die

The journey back was tranquil, as they encountered no further incidents. Midway, they even came across the support personnel of the Chengyun Sect, making the trip even safer.

Gu Shanhai now understood his own status, especially with the birth of the 36 Transformations, which was enough to cause a stir throughout the entire Xuanji Realm.

Lucky for him, he was in the Chengyun Sect, enjoying the shade under a great tree. All the problems were blocked by the Chengyun Sect, and he only needed to focus on developing further.

If he had been a Loose Cultivator or from a minor sect, the leak of such information would spell disaster. Hence, a good background was extremely important.

"I’m finally back, and it wasn’t easy," Gu Shanhai couldn’t help but express his feelings.

"I wonder how much the Sect Leader will be able to get from the Juxia Sect and Feather Transformation Sect this time."

"But these two sects probably won’t give up so easily."

Gu Shanhai muttered quietly to himself.

"They certainly won’t give up so easily. This is just the beginning," an aged voice transmitted.

This was a Supreme Elder tasked with protecting him, a cultivator at the Peeping Dao Stage, who usually stayed hidden around him.

It wasn’t just this Supreme Elder who protected him—there were many more, both overtly and covertly, ensuring a high level of security.

"Your 36 and 72 Transformations have changed the power dynamics of the entire Xuanji Realm. Once perfected, our Chengyun Sect will become a great force, and with even a bit of ambition, no sect or force could withstand us."

"Think about it, other sects suffer casualties among their mid and high-level ranks due to calamities, but we don’t. The cumulative effect over many years will be terrifying."

"Before this, the demise of cultivators in the Upper Three Realms of our Chengyun Sect was due to calamities, not duels, and the same went for other sects. Now, with the threat of calamities gone, just a few tens of thousands of years of lying low, we could wield a number of Upper Three Realms cultivators sufficient to render all forces in the Xuanji Realm powerless."

That Supreme Elder explained to Gu Shanhai the reasons behind the mortality of Upper Three Realms cultivators.

Duels didn’t necessarily lead to death, but calamities truly did kill people.

It was precisely for this reason that Gu Shanhai caused such a major stir, prompting the Juxia Sect and Feather Transformation Sect to join forces against him.

"Jeez, I’m just in the Qi Refinement Realm, is it really that dangerous?" Gu Shanhai found himself in a mix of laughter and tears at the thought.

He naturally considered the possible developments—if truly sought but unobtainable, it was very likely that these two sects would physically annihilate him.

If Gu Shanhai could create a method to avoid calamities and disasters at the Qi Refinement Realm, then if he continued to grow, he would undoubtedly turn the Chengyun Sect into a terrifying behemoth.

"It’s more dangerous than you imagine. Otherwise, guess how many protectors are around you?" another Supreme Elder chimed in teasingly.

"I’m not guessing, no time," Gu Shanhai rolled his eyes in response, not bothering with such speculations.

With Gu Shanhai’s perception, although he couldn’t detect the Elder and Hall Master protectors at the Peeping Dao Stage and Magic Awakening Stage, he could vaguely sense the great array around him and all sorts of magical treasures and talismans lurking below the surface.

Should anyone dare to attack him, all the Mountain Gate Arrays of the Chengyun Sect and their sect-defining magical treasures would activate immediately.

This was the appropriate level of protection for talent, not like treating him as a regular protagonist who, despite possessing a transformative talent for the sect, is treated as a normal disciple—forcing him to go through all sorts of dangers without protection, all under the guise of "experience."

Such was not the case for Gu Shanhai. Short on combat experience? He could practice with a Supreme Elder. Lacking magical treasures and talismans for safety? No issue, he had plenty. Short on world knowledge? What for, when he had a top-tier bodyguard team at his disposal, and whatever he wanted was just a request away, handled by his fellow sect members.

State of mind? That was even more ridiculous. A bunch of cultivators, who snatch nature’s essence and pry into the mysteries of the sun and the moon, coming ever so close to locusts to the heavens and earth, talking about state of mind?

Gu Shanhai soon threw himself intensely into the research of the subsequent 35 Transformations.

The assembly of Supreme Elders did not disturb him, but then Gu Shanhai suddenly remembered something.

"Now that ascension isn’t an option, do we have any ancestral masters in the higher realms?" he asked out of curiosity.

"Of course, we do, but the connection has been severed. If that weren’t the case, the situation in the Xuanji Realm would be even more complicated," a certain Supreme Elder responded to Gu Shanhai’s query.

"Would there be any benefit in contacting an ancestral master from the higher realms?" Gu Shanhai followed up with another question.

Indeed, he had a way. He still held the karmic ties with the Xuanwei Sect, and if he could transplant those ties into the Chengyun Sect and reforge them, all the ancestral masters in the higher realms would be unable to elude this karma.

It’s easy to join a sect, but repaying karma is far more difficult.

Especially as these higher realm ancestral masters had ascended through the Chengyun Sect, even if he wanted to repay what was owed, it might not be entirely possible to clear it.

"Why would you contact ancestral masters for no reason, planning on heaping a father on your own head?" another voice asked with a hint of bewilderment.

"..." Gu Shanhai suddenly realized something; if he truly made contact, he really would be adding a ’father’ above him.

Given Gu Shanhai’s position within the Chengyun Sect, basically, nobody could control him—he was of the kind whose power and influence reached the skies.

Might makes right in this world, sure, but Gu Shanhai was one of their own, and these Supreme Elders were neither pedantic nor pretentious. Those who lived long enough and possessed sufficient strength and status had the vision and breadth of understanding. They were of the same master-disciple lineage; Gu Shanhai was essentially their progeny and descendant, and with such natural talent, he was naturally cherished.

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