Chapter 618: Supreme Platform
"Supreme Platform... What exactly is this Supreme Platform?" Ye Xiao asked.
Queen replied, "Let me explain to you about the cultivation realm first. The first step of cultivation is the Seven Levels of Mortal Realms. You have already cultivated to the peak of Seventh Level of the Mortal Realm in the Azure Sky Continent and after breaking through, you arrived at the Upper Realm."
"After the Seven Levels of Mortal Realm comes the Five Levels of Immortal Realm and Dao Tribulation Realm."
Ye Xiao felt there was something wrong. He immediately said, "Wait a moment, isn"t it should be the Dao Manifestation Realm. And there are three stages of Dao Manifestation Realm named the Dao Body Stage, the Dao Soul Stage, and the Dao Tribulation Stage."
Queen shook her head and said, "What you said is the situation after the end of the Primordial Era."
"In the Primordial Era, there was no such cultivation realm like the Dao Manifestation Realm or its two stages like the Dao Body Stage and the Dao Soul Stage. There was only the Dao Tribulation Realm."
"In the Primordial Era, after a cultivator cultivated to the Late Stage of Ancient Immortal Realm, they had to first walk on the Supreme Platform."
"Every 10,000 years, the Supreme Platform descends to the land, and all the Ancient Immortal Realm martial artists have to walk on the Supreme Platform if they want to improve their cultivation further. Walking on the Supreme Platform helps cultivators transform their body into the Divine Body and their soul into the Divine Soul. Thus, there was simply no need to cultivate two extra major stages."
"After walking on the Supreme Platform, everyone has to cultivate the last cultivation realm, the Dao Tribulation Realm where they had to pa.s.s three tribulations to successfully transform into a Divine Being."
"Now, you"ll ask, there must be more than millions of Ancient Immortal Realm cultivators, how could all of them walk on the Supreme Platform at once, right?"
Without waiting for Ye Xiao to say anything, Queen continued, "Actually, in the Primordial Era, there were many domains. Every domain had many regions and every region had many empires and so on. At that time, the Supreme Platform would descend to each domain every 10,000 years but the period when it descend was different in every domain. So, not all the Ancient Immortal Realm cultivators walk on the Supreme Platform together."
"Also, even if the Supreme Platform descended in a particular domain, not all the Ancient Immortals choose to walk on the platform. Many of them choose not to walk on the Supreme Platform and consolidate and acc.u.mulate a lot to strengthen their foundations first."
"In the Primordial Era, walking on the Supreme Platform was the only true path to transcendent and become a Divine Being, but the Universe is vast and the possibilities are endless. Not all cultivators want to wait for 10,000 years to break through before advancing to the Divine Tribulation Realm. After years of research of experiments, cultivators finally developed another way to become advance to the Dao Tribulation Realm."
"That other way was to first cultivate their body into the Divine Body and then cultivate their soul into Divine Soul. After that, they could automatically advance to the Dao Tribulation Realm. When this method was developed, it was like a flood that swept the entire Heavens. Those, who didn"t want to wait for another 10,000 years would choose to cultivate like this."
"But no matter what, cultivating like this is not the true way of cultivation. Because of this, the people who walk on the second path developed by people would always be weaker than the people who walk on the Supreme Platform."
"The Great War of the Primordial Era continued for thousands of years. In the middle of the war, the Supreme Platform descended a few times and the war also affected it. It is said that the Supreme Platform was destroyed in the Great War of Primordial Era, disappearing from the surface of the universe forever."
"Not long after the Supreme Platform disappeared, the Great War ended and the Heavens shattered into three Realms, and the Primordial Era came to an end."
"After the disappearance of the Supreme Platform, cultivators were only left with the second method developed by them to walk on. So, cultivators were left with no choice to walk on this second path if they wanted to become a Divine Being!"
"This is also the path walked by every cultivator of today. And if it was not for encountering the Supreme Platform in the Well Of h.e.l.l, you would have also walked on this path, not the true path of cultivation!"
When Ye Xiao heard all these things, he could not help but exclaim in his heart. He was really shocked. And why can"t he be shocked? This matter was really something, upon being revealed, it could shock the entire Heavens.
Ye Xiao took a deep breath and thought about how the Supreme Platform descended in the Well of h.e.l.l and how his body transformed into the Divine Body, how his Divine Soul gave birth to the Nascent Soul and it evolved into the Divine Nascent Soul.
Taking a deep breath, Ye Xiao first digested all the information he just received from Queen. He could not help but think about the Primordial Era which should be the most prosperous era that has ever appeared.
He also come to know that the Great War of the Primordial Era was actually fought against the Heavens by the joining force of the Nine Ancestral Dragons, Queen, and the entire Primordial Race, and it was for the Second Universe.
Ye Xiao guessed after the war was over, the Nine Ancestral Dragons, Queen, and the entire Primordial Race must have disappeared. After all, only the disappearance of these people could end the Great War.
After calming his thumping heart, Ye Xiao thought about the Embryonic Form of the Dao Fruit, Divine Nascent Soul, and the Domineering G.o.d Crystal. He could not help but feel puzzled.
He asked, "Was the benefit of walking on the Supreme Platform was only the transformation of one"s body and soul into Divine Body and Divine Soul?"
"Yes!" Queen nodded her head and replied, "Supreme Platform was extremely powerful. It had its own spirit. It was also the manifestation of the great Daos of Heavens. It is said that the Supreme Platform could use the Heavenly Dao as it wishes. It was not under the control of Heavens even though the Heavens was the one who gave birth to the Supreme Platform and made the true path of cultivation where one has to walk on the Supreme Platform to become a Dao Tribulation Realm cultivator."
"But no matter how powerful the Supreme Platform was and how much it could use the Heavenly Dao, its only function was to let people walk on the path of transcendent and evolve their bodies and souls into Divine Bodies and Divine Souls!"
Ye Xiao took a deep breath. If what Queen was saying was the truth, then what was the reason for the appearance of Domineering G.o.d Crystal, Divine Nascent Soul, and the Embryonic Form of the Dao Fruit.
Now that he thought about it, according to Queen, only Late Stage Ancient Immortal Realm cultivators could walk on the Supreme Platform, but it was clear that he and even Lin Hao was only an Immortal Emperor when both of them ascended to the Supreme Platform and walked on it.
What was the reason behind this?
Also, after Lin Hao walked to the Tenth Supreme Platform, one of the three parts of G.o.d Slaying Sword appeared in front of Lin Hao, as if it was the reward from the Supreme Platform for the first person who walked all the way to the end of the platform.
As for him, he did not get any specific reward after reaching the Tenth Supreme Platform. Instead, for some reason, the Embryonic Form of the Dao Fruit was born.
And unlike Lin Hao, while Ye Xiao was walking on the Supreme Platform, he had given birth to Divine Nascent Soul and Domineering G.o.d Platform.
Why?
What was the reason?
All of these things were like pieces of puzzles scattered randomly somewhere unknown and were lost. If he wanted to understand the puzzle, he has to first search for its pieces before placing them together in order. Only then could he understand everything.
The more he knew, although he understand everything, the more and more questions also appeared in his mind.
Thinking about it, the seed was already sown in the Great War of the Primordial Era. And now, who knows how many eras after, Ye Xiao was caught in the storm to solve the puzzle where Lin Hao was just one small chess piece.
And Azure Sky Continent, not only did it have the Heavenly Pearl, but it also had one of the pieces of G.o.d Slaying Sword.
Was everything already destined?
Thinking of destiny, the answer was no. After pa.s.sing the trial set up by Yuan Shi De, Ye Xiao clearly knew his true fate.. If not for the Heavenly Pearl, he would already have been a dead man by now.