Longevity Clan Starts with the Patriarch's Marriage

Calming his heart, Han Li began to check the requirements for ascending to the Divine Yuan Realm.

After Han Li finished reading, he was completely staggered, taking a sharp intake of breath—the requirements were too extensive.

To ascend from Fourth Grade qualification to the Divine Yuan Realm, one needed eight thousand years of cultivation; for Third Grade qualifications, this was halved to four thousand years; and for Second Grade qualifications, it was halved again, requiring only two thousand years.

From this, Han Li could see just how great an impact qualification had on cultivation; cultivators with low qualifications, without enough luck and opportunity, were unable to cultivate all the way up.

Many cultivators had enough luck in the early stages to cultivate rapidly to the Myriad Phenomena Realm, the True Martial Realm, but once their fortunes were exhausted, and they couldn’t gain new great opportunities, they would be stuck in that realm for life, unable to continue climbing higher.

Han Li felt fortunate that his qualification had been raised to Second Grade; if he were still at Third Grade, he would just barely have enough to ascend to the Divine Yuan Realm.

Now, if he were to ascend to Emperor Wu of the Divine Yuan Realm, he would still have more than two thousand years of cultivation left to continue elevating his realm.

“Cultivation really is a struggle against the heavens, a path against the natural order, and reaching the Divine Yuan Realm is too difficult,” Han Li’s face was full of emotion.

It was impossible for a True Martial Realm cultivator with Third Grade qualification to ascend to the Divine Yuan Realm through sheer hard work; cultivating from the first level of the True Martial Realm to its peak required one thousand five hundred years, and breaking through to the Divine Yuan Realm required four thousand years, while the lifespan in the True Martial Realm was only two thousand years.

It’s not just True Martial Realm cultivators with Third Grade qualifications that find it difficult; even those with Second Grade qualifications struggle, for although they cultivate quickly in the early stages, going from the first level of the True Martial Realm to the peak through hard work takes seven hundred and fifty years, but breaking through to the Divine Yuan Realm still takes two thousand years.

To cultivate to the Divine Yuan Realm through sheer hard work, one must have at least First Grade qualification; only such peerless geniuses, without relying on cultivation resources or competing for opportunities, could cultivate all the way to the Divine Yuan Realm and become the supreme Emperor Wu.

Those with qualifications lower than First Grade who wish to cultivate to Emperor Wu of the Divine Yuan Realm can’t make it just through hard work; they need to struggle, snatch, experience hardships, and seize opportunities.

This path, littered with countless failures, becomes a pile of dry bones, while the successful ones march higher step by step, acquiring great opportunities, significantly shortening their cultivation time, and advancing to the Divine Yuan Realm and even higher realms.

But this path is extremely perilous, one wrong step and all is lost, becoming one of the countless dry bones themselves, forming the stepping stones for other cultivators to reach the summit.

Han Li was very clear that to cultivate to a higher realm, one needed to compete; the path of emperors is strewn with bones, and isn’t it the same with other realms?

High-level cultivators have a glimmering exterior, but behind that are uncountable hardships, climbing out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, snatching opportunities from countless other cultivators, and enduring trials to reach higher grounds.

This is a typical survivorship bias.

Those cultivators with low cultivation only see the halo of glory behind the strong, easily ignoring the hardships they have gone through, taking this path lightly, and most end up as piles of white bones.

Han Li was very grateful that he didn’t have to struggle in the outside world, endure hardships, or fight for opportunities… He just needed to honestly keep a low profile, focus on developing his family, and his cultivation could soar, allowing him to cultivate to his current state.

Keeping a low profile might also encounter risks, but the chances are very slim; unlike going out to gain experience and compete for opportunities where the risk of encountering danger is one hundred percent, and the chance of death exceeds 95%.

Normally, out of a hundred cultivators at Emperor Wu of the True Martial Realm, perhaps only one can cultivate to Emperor Wu of the Divine Yuan Realm, or even none at all.

Cultivators who can ascend to Emperor Wu of the Divine Yuan Realm are those with great fortunes and opportunities, perhaps with unparalleled qualifications or insight against the norm; in any case, they have something that makes them stronger than most cultivators to advance to higher levels.

Since ancient times, the Qianyuan Divine Province has produced countless True Martial Realm cultivators, but how many have managed to cultivate to Emperor Wu of the Divine Yuan Realm?

A great part of them are from Bai Yujing, Heavenly Demon Hall, Xumi Mountain, Myriad Demon Mountain, and other major sacred lands; these sacred lands have profound heritages, and entering one is a huge opportunity in itself.

In each era, these sacred lands have several Divine Yuan Realm Emperor Wus, with many Tongxuan Realm powerhouses at the peak, and at least one Tongxuan Realm powerhouse at the lowest, showcasing their heritage and lineage.

Cultivators from sacred lands have countless times the advantage over ordinary cultivators; of course, being able to enter a sacred land means the cultivator’s qualifications, insight, fortunes, or other aspects are extraordinarily high.

“Two thousand years of cultivation, what a painful loss,” Han Li muttered, feeling helpless.

He had thought his accumulated cultivation of over four thousand years was an astronomical figure, but now it seemed far from enough.

The cultivation consumed for ascending a minor realm in the Divine Yuan Realm would definitely be more than the consumption for ascending a minor realm in the True Martial Realm; it could even double or more.

With his remaining two thousand one hundred plus years of cultivation, could he raise his realm to the Seventh Heaven of the Divine Yuan Realm?

Han Li expressed his concern.

“Huff~”

Letting out a breath, Han Li calmed his thoughts and suddenly felt it wasn’t such a big deal after all.

While the cultivation needed to elevate his realm was indeed substantial, for Han Li, it was countless times better than bitter cultivation or searching for opportunities; in just six years, he had accumulated over four thousand years of cultivation.

This not only allowed him to elevate his realm from the Sixth Heaven of the True Martial Realm to its peak but also to ascend to the Divine Yuan Realm and continue climbing higher.