This ridiculous rumor has long been "debunked"!
Can rumors be believed?
Of course not!
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局部战争 began between the witches and demons.
And the humans of the Xuanyang tribe ushered in a precious period of development.
After Fang Ming, carrying the might of killing innate gods and spreading the Heaven-Shielding Method, abolished the Golden Core Dao.
The entire Xuanyang tribe was ignited with a fervor to abandon their Golden Core Dao cultivation and switch to the Heaven-Shielding Method.
Whether it was the tribal elders who had already achieved Earth Immortal or Heavenly Immortal,
Or ordinary tribesmen who were merely cultivators, staying at the stages of Qi Refining to Spirit Transformation, Spirit Transformation to Void Integration, and Void Integration to Dao Attainment, all chose this path.
According to Fang Ming's statistics, as of that time, eighty percent of the entire Xuanyang tribe had begun cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method.
And after cultivating, many humans discovered that the Heaven-Shielding Method was indeed, as the young chieftain said, infinitely better than the Golden Core Dao!
Not only in terms of combat power, where they could fight several opponents of the same rank.
In the same realm, tribesmen cultivating the Golden Core Dao had to gang up several at a time to fight evenly with one cultivating the Heaven-Shielding Method.
This improvement in combat power was already an unimaginably superior cultivation method for humans seeking to increase their survival rate under the slaughter of the demon race.
But among the many advantages of the Heaven-Shielding Method, this was still secondary!
The most significant advantage of the Heaven-Shielding Method was its "rapid success"!
Cultivating the Golden Core Dao often required tens of thousands of years to barely reach the Earth Immortal realm.
And that was just the early stage of Earth Immortal.
What about the Heaven-Shielding Method?
Only a hundred years had passed, and already, some people had cultivated to the Immortal Platform Secret Realm!
Although it was only the first heaven.
But the first heaven of the Immortal Platform Secret Realm already possessed the strength equivalent to the Earth Immortal realm of the Primordial Law!
Tens of thousands of years versus a hundred years?
There was no need to overthink this.
The efficiency was immediately apparent.
The Golden Core Dao had been completely crushed by the Heaven-Shielding Method!
And what excited people the most was.
Within a mere hundred years, those who advanced to the Immortal Platform Secret Realm were not isolated cases, nor were they just a few human geniuses reaching it early.
Advancing to the Immortal Platform Secret Realm was a widespread phenomenon, almost prevalent among all tribesmen!
The Xuanyang tribe had hundreds of millions of humans.
Now, at least one hundred million humans had stepped into the Immortal Platform Secret Realm, cultivating to the first heaven of the Immortal Platform!
This was over a hundred million people!
Even if the first heaven of the Immortal Platform could only be compared to the strength of Earth Immortals in the Primordial world, this was still a terrifying force!
The first heaven of the Immortal Platform had become commonplace, accessible to ordinary humans, not just tribal elders or human prodigies.
Seeing this situation, Fang Ming was not surprised.
Although the Immortal Platform Secret Realm was the last of the five great secret realms of the human body.
And although it might seem incredible that in the Xuanyang tribe, hundreds of millions of humans had cultivated the Wheel Sea, Four Extremities, Dragon Transformation, and Dao Palace secret realms to perfection before stepping into the Immortal Platform Secret Realm.
In reality, the Wheel Sea Secret Realm, Dao Palace Secret Realm, Four Extremities Secret Realm, and Dragon Transformation Secret Realm were merely equivalent to the four major realms of cultivation.
And a single Immortal Platform Secret Realm had nine heavens, encompassing the Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Profound Immortal, Golden Immortal, Grand Unity Golden Immortal, Great Principle Golden Immortal... all the way to the Heavenly Dao realm represented by Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
The Immortal Platform Secret Realm, this final human body secret realm, could not be compared to the previous secret realms.
It almost encompassed all "immortal" realms as a great human body secret realm!
The first heaven of the Immortal Platform was not much in the world of Zhetian.
It was not even enough to leave one's own life ancient star.
Simply put, it was not even at the planetary level, still unable to completely destroy a planet, at most capable of destroying the biosphere of a planet and annihilating all life.
The destructive power was at most comparable to all the nuclear weapons of all countries in Fang Ming's previous life being launched on Earth simultaneously, leading to the annihilation of all humanity, but it could not completely destroy Earth itself.
There was an almost infinite gap compared to an Emperor at the eighth heaven of the Immortal Platform, who could shake the universe with a raise of their hand.
In terms of the gap in the Primordial Law, it was the difference between an Earth Immortal and a Heavenly Dao Sage.
Therefore, hundreds of millions of humans at the first heaven of the Immortal Platform were not an unbelievable matter.
The myriad races of the Demon Court were born immortal; even newborn cubs were at the early stage of Earth Immortal.
At this moment, hundreds of millions of humans at the first heaven of the Immortal Platform were merely equivalent to the cubs of the myriad races of the Demon Court. In terms of realm alone, there was nothing extraordinary.
The only commendable advantage was the high reproductive rate of humans and their large population.
Among the myriad races of the Demon Court, many races, even counting their cubs, adult demon soldiers, and elderly demon soldiers, could not muster a population of one hundred million.
And humans, with just a portion of the Xuanyang tribe, could achieve this number.
And the Xuanyang tribe was merely a small tribe of humans. Larger human tribes had even greater populations, and the entire human race was as numerous as mountains and seas.
If a legion of one hundred million Earth Immortal-level forces could be assembled, trained in formations, and led by powerful generals,
These one hundred million Earth Immortal humans could also contend with many weaker races among the myriad races of the Demon Court!
"When should the human legion be formed..."
"What formations should be used?"
Fang Ming pondered as he walked through the Xuanyang tribe.
He naturally overheard many discussions among the humans.
"Old Li, how is your cultivation progressing?"
"Hahaha! I feel great. I've already cultivated to the second heaven of the Immortal Platform, with strength comparable to a Heavenly Immortal!"
"Second heaven of the Immortal Platform? Old Li, you truly have good talent. With such cultivation, a hundred years ago, you could have been an elder or a high-ranking official in the tribe! There were only about twenty-odd such humans in the entire tribe!"
"Not at all, not at all... Times have changed. Heavenly Immortal strength was considered high-ranking a hundred years ago, but now it's nothing. At most, it's just much stronger than ordinary humans."
"Now, you can find anyone on the street, and there's a fifty percent chance they're at least at the Immortal realm!"
"The average cultivation of our Xuanyang tribe used to be only Spirit Transformation. Now, the average cultivation of the Xuanyang tribe is at the Earth Immortal realm!"
"That's true! Things are different now. Old Li, hurry up and cultivate to the third heaven of Immortal Slaying, the Dao Slaying King. Even now, that would be considered significant!"
"Yes! I still have to complete today's cultivation task. I'll excuse myself for now!"
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"Old Zhang, how is your cultivation progressing?"
"Alas, don't mention it. I couldn't bear to abolish my Golden Core Dao cultivation at first, and only after ninety years of the Heaven-Shielding Method being spread did I steel my heart and abolish my Golden Core Dao cultivation."
"Now I've only cultivated to the Divine Bridge realm, still lingering in the Wheel Sea Secret Realm, and haven't even entered the Dao Palace."
"Oh! So you are one of the two percent of humans in the tribe who were unwilling to cultivate the Heaven-Shielding Method and are still persisting with the Golden Core Dao! Then, how did you change your mind and start intending to cultivate the Heaven-Shielding Method?"