Chapter 1146: Extreme Limits

Ten years is infancy, twenty years is adulthood, ten thousand years is greater adulthood, fifty thousand years is grand adulthood...

Xu Zhi couldn't help but chuckle, sitting on the side and sipping tea. "Are these the ancient primordial gods and demons of the Primordial Universe? With such growth stages, one truly can grow stronger just by eating and drinking."

However, these were uncivilized barbarian tribes with no cultural heritage, so crude and simple naming was to be expected. Moreover, for them, these were indeed just natural stages of physical growth.

"In this era, the so-called cultivation realms, from stages 1 to 10, aren't true realms; they are merely natural stages of physical growth and development for these beings!"

"But reaching the first stage after ten thousand years, even through natural growth, is incredibly long and unimaginable...." Xu Zhi pondered, beginning to calculate data with his demonic core. "In a more developed universe of later generations, if one didn't cultivate, natural accumulation would likely allow one to reach the first stage in a few hundred years...."

The first stage was truly not some miraculous realm.

The fact that it took ten thousand years to reach it here was likely due to the imperfections of this universe.

In later generations, sages attained enlightenment, benefiting the universe and integrating with the Heavenly Dao. Only after they used perfected cosmic rules to fill the gaps did the cultivation progress of living beings accelerate, making cultivation so swift.

As the saying goes, "One generation plants the trees, another enjoys the shade."

"This means that the cultivation speed of beings in the universe was extremely slow at first.... This was the natural state. The perfected universes of our later generations are all a result of the great vows made by enlightened sages."

Xu Zhi felt he had gained new insight.

The era had fully transitioned into one of cultivation.

The Yi Mang tribe began to deliberately summarize cultivation patterns to increase their speed and accelerate their growth.

The era of cosmic sculpture art had not passed; instead, it became even more prosperous. They began to carve sculptures, exercising their bodies while focusing on the sculptures to temper their minds.

This formed an alternative meditation method through sculpture.

They had ample time.

A millennium quickly passed, and the beings closest to their ten-thousand-year lifespan had already entered the first stage.

How vast was the population of the Yi Mang tribe?

There was only longevity; no one died of old age.

After more than ten thousand years of reproduction, their numbers, calculating in the hundreds of billions, spread across a small portion of the entire universe. These tribesmen collectively deduced cultivation techniques, identifying and rectifying flaws, and their widespread communication and shared wisdom were not to be underestimated.

Another millennium passed.

Their cultivation methods were completely perfected.

They discovered that using special cultivation methods could increase their cultivation speed by thousands of times.

"This also means we only need eighty to two hundred years to reach the first stage."

"In such a short time, we can enter the life stage that previously took ten thousand years to reach grand adulthood."

They cheered wildly, having found a new purpose in life.

Soon after, the second stage appeared.

Four thousand years later, the third stage emerged.

Everything developed in an orderly fashion.

Xu Zhi also clearly saw that the two fundamental bloodline-less cultivation techniques in the universe, Soul Dao and Martial Dao, had now fully taken shape.

They were almost identical to the Soul Dao and Martial Dao cultivation techniques of later generations.

Witnessing this, Xu Zhi finally confirmed that the widely circulated and universally known Soul Dao and Martial Dao cultivation techniques in the universe originated from the primordial ancient gods' pioneering efforts at the dawn of the chaotic, boundless universe.

"But how could they be exactly the same? As the universe matured and perfected, were there no changes or version updates to Soul Dao and Martial Dao?"

Suddenly, Xu Zhi discovered a significant contradiction.

Every version of a cultivation technique should undergo updates and iterations!

What's more, the universe's rules were incomplete at present, and the cosmos had just begun. As future laws were continually supplemented, cultivation techniques would surely need to adapt to the changing cosmic laws to avoid being rendered obsolete...

"And there's only one possibility for these two cultivation techniques to remain unchanged despite the shifts in eras."

Xu Zhi looked at the Yi Mang natives who were cheering wildly, proudly clutching their two cultivation techniques. They had no idea they were laying the groundwork for a historic moment in later generations.

"The only way is if these natives, in later generations, completed the cosmic laws based on these two original versions of Soul Dao and Martial Dao cultivation techniques.... Therefore, the cultivation techniques themselves didn't need to change; instead, the universe was altered, using these techniques as templates!"

Xu Zhi's mind reeled.

If word of this got out and reached the powerful figures of this era, it would surely cause a cataclysm!

How incredible was this?

Countless enlightened beings would go mad!

Yet, this perfectly explained why the cultivation techniques of the Soul Dao and Martial Dao systems were referred to by all cosmic civilizations as the two Great Heavenly Dao cultivation techniques.