Those with great power were not formed through acquired means, but were born with immense strength.
This was the understanding of their own capabilities among the nobles.
It was precisely for this reason that their assessment of the threat posed by the immortal path was severely delayed. Although a very small number of nobles could see the threatening nature of the immortal path—bloodlines could only weaken with each generation and be passed down from higher bloodlines, while the immortal path allowed many commoners to cultivate.
This completely broke the monopoly of bloodline sanctity, enabling power to be cultivated through acquired means.
And what was the ratio of commoners to bloodline nobles? Once the majority of commoners cultivated immortality, their numbers would far exceed those possessed by the nobles, representing an immense force. This threat was so extreme that measures had to be quickly devised to restrict it.
A very small number of nobles saw the threatening nature of the immortal path.
But this had no effect.
Because the vast majority of nobles had never truly grasped the threat of the immortal path. Since this was the case for the noble class, the few nobles who clearly recognized the threat could not alter the overall situation.
It was precisely because of the nobles' misjudgment of the future and their incorrect perception of the immortal path that when the Core Condensation realm was created and cultivators of the Core Condensation realm appeared in the world.
When the nobles began to feel threatened.
The momentum of the immortal path had already taken hold, sweeping through many tribes in the south.
The nobles of the south were simply not strong enough to resist the tide of the immortal path.
They awoke too late.
Therefore, facing the sharp edge of immortal path powerhouses, they chose to cease their resistance.
Mo was thus able to act as a preacher, spreading the path in the Qingyang Tribe.
This was because the chief and elders of the Qingyang Tribe could not stop his actions.
Mo departed.
Mo did not leave alone; he took many humans with him, including Quan.
The chief and elders of the Qingyang Tribe could only watch with grim faces, their hearts filled with fury but their hands tied.
On the way back to Mount Taihang, Quan inquired about the details of Mo's cultivation, specifically regarding the condensation of Yin Sha.
It required collecting the Sha Qi of various exotic beasts to eventually condense a divine ability seed and step into the Yin Sha realm.
However, commoners possessed no bloodline abilities to approach exotic beasts. Setting aside the inherent dangers of the beasts themselves, even merely touching the Sha Qi from an exotic beast could make a commoner gravely ill.
Therefore, if a commoner were left to collect Sha Qi on their own, the mortality rate would be far higher than a nine-in-ten chance of death.
The various types of Sha Qi, almost each one, were sufficient to kill a commoner. Let alone condensing a divine ability seed with different proportions and types of Sha Qi to step into the Yin Sha realm, it would be difficult to even collect a single type of Sha Qi.
This was the problem that Quan was worried about.
He feared that because of this issue, he would be unable to embark on the path of cultivation.
Quan asked Mo for a solution to this problem.
Mo smiled.
He knew that Quan was worried about his inability to cultivate.
This was a problem he encountered frequently.
As a preacher, he often interacted with many commoners who had not yet cultivated the immortal path.
Some commoners, upon encountering immortal cultivation methods, did not immediately recall the contradictions that arose during the introductory stages of cultivation.
However, some commoners, like Quan, who were intellectually astute, eventually developed doubts about the contradictions in the introductory stages of the immortal path.
It was difficult for commoners to approach exotic beasts and collect Sha Qi. A cultivation base in the Yin Sha realm was required to even approach exotic beasts and obtain their Sha Qi.
Dealing with exotic beasts, even the weakest ones, required a cultivation base in the Yin Sha realm.
And without the Sha Qi of exotic beasts, one could not step into the Yin Sha realm.
This formed a vicious cycle, a knotty contradiction.
Without the strength of the Yin Sha realm, one could not collect Sha Qi while in proximity to exotic beasts, yet to step into the Yin Sha realm, one needed to approach exotic beasts to collect Sha Qi.
Fortunately, the Mount Taihang Cultivation Group had already resolved this issue.
Mo told Quan that cultivators helped each other. In Mount Taihang, cultivators of the Core Condensation and Yang Gang realms had long prepared secret chambers filled with the Sha Qi of various exotic beasts, as well as elixirs, for commoners who had never cultivated before.
In the secret chambers filled with the Sha Qi of various exotic beasts, imbued with the vital energy of cultivators, the Sha Qi would not harm the commoners' bodies. Thus, commoners could calmly collect Sha Qi in the chambers without being harmed by it, and without having to confront exotic beasts directly. They could obtain all the types of Sha Qi needed to condense elixirs and proceed with the elixir-making process.
Of course, for a simpler and faster approach, commoners could also skip the Sha Qi collection and elixir-making steps. They could directly consume elixirs refined by cultivators to step into the Yin Sha realm and become cultivators.
However, condensing various types of Sha Qi and making elixirs was a process best integrated by oneself. While the result was important, the experience of the nature of Sha Qi during the process was also crucial.
Directly skipping the steps of condensing various Sha Qi and making elixirs, and consuming elixirs refined by other cultivators to step into the Yin Sha realm, appeared to be a clever move. In reality, their grasp of Sha Qi would be weaker than that of cultivators who stepped into the Yin Sha realm through the normal process.
Even the first step, the threshold of entering cultivation, was taken through a shortcut, thus weakening their future experience in controlling Sha Qi and hindering their future development in cultivation. This was the most helpless approach, taken when one was incapable of condensing a divine ability seed. However, it was not recommended for all commoners to do so.
While this action did not cause as severe damage to one's foundation, it was not a good thing.
Secondly, due to the inherent nature of Sha Qi, the elixirs that allowed commoners to enter the Yin Sha realm would slowly lose their efficacy over a short period, eventually becoming useless.
This "short period" generally did not exceed fifteen days.
The shelf life of the elixirs would not be too long. Even the cultivators in Mount Taihang could not neglect other matters to refine a batch of elixirs for commoners who had not yet entered the immortal path every fifteen days.
Therefore, unless commoners were extremely lucky, even if they went to Mount Taihang, they would not receive ready-made elixirs that would allow them to step into the Yin Sha realm.
Typically, the normal choice for commoners was to familiarize themselves with the various types and varieties of Sha Qi, understand the synthesis and blending formulas, and then, in a blazing fire, refine the materials from the secret chambers into elixirs, condense them, and consume them to step into the Yin Sha realm and condense a divine ability seed.
This was also the path that the Mount Taihang Cultivation Group had prepared for commoners.
Upon hearing that Mount Taihang had dedicated secret chambers for collecting various types of Sha Qi,
Quan finally breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that his path to cultivation had a solution.
He would not be unable to cultivate due to this knotty contradiction.