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Chapter 809: Chapter 349 Decisive Battle Begins_2

“Fellow Daoist, don’t think too much, just ascend with peace of mind.”

“Perhaps,” Mo Li chuckled, then reined in his emotions and said earnestly, “Tomorrow I shall lead my disciples to set out, and Purple Cloud Dao should also be leaving at this time.

If you don’t want any variables to occur, you can wait another half a month.

By then, we cultivators from the Nine Provinces should have all embarked on ships to sail out to sea, far from the mainland.

At that time, no matter what great events happen in the Nine Provinces, we who drift upon the sea will be unaware and even less able to intervene.

From then on, everything in the Nine Provinces will also have nothing to do with us.”

Considering that the Dao Inheritance of Feishuang Tao and Chu State were already bound, Mo Li was giving this final hint and admonishment.

After listening, Lu Yuan responded in all seriousness, “I am aware, thank you for your good advice, Fellow Daoist.”

“Mm.”

Mo Li nodded, and then didn’t say much else about it, simply continuing to enjoy wine and discuss the Dao with Lu Yuan, quite at ease.

And Lu Yuan treasured this last exchange with a cultivator from the Nine Provinces, earnestly asking for guidance.

For a time, the conversation between the two was quite merry.

It wasn’t until the sky began to darken that he reluctantly bid farewell to Mo Li.

Atop the palace walls.

Watching Mo Li’s figure fading into the twilight, Lu Yuan, who had gathered his thoughts from the discourse, couldn’t help but whisper a sigh, “The Age of Dharma Decline begins from today.”

He knew that with the departure of Mo Li and the last group of cultivators, and with Northern Dark City draining all the active spiritual energy between Heaven and Earth, the true Age of Dharma Decline for the Nine Provinces was about to officially arrive.

After which, Immortals will become extinct, and myriad spirits will vanish; this is known as the Dharma Decline.

This is the sorrow of all those who aspire to transcendence, yet it is also the zenith for all mortals.

Without the intervention of innate fighters, Immortal Sect cultivators, or any other extraordinary forces, the world will completely belong to ordinary people.

Following thereafter, strength will no longer decide everything; instead, cunning and status will become the main theme of the world.

This is the era of mortals, and it is also his era, the one transcendent being.

The golden age for the long-lived is about to unfold.

The myriad lights of the city showcase Baling’s prosperity, and the worldly aura of bustle is rich.

Gazing at the vast starry sky and the boundless Milky Way, Lu Yuan’s thoughts drifted far away.

…

The next day, there were no farewells, nor did anyone get alarmed.

At the pier outside Baling City, aboard a boat flying the flag of Feishuang Tao, Mo Li and his seven companions quietly departed.

They would follow the rivers eastward, hurtling towards the vast sea.

Lu Yuan received the news as he was just waking up from his sleeping quarters, only to be momentarily stunned before he ignored it and began his morning routine of cultivation.

Though when Mo Li and the last cultivators from the Nine Provinces left, he was truly the number one expert in all the Nine Provinces.

Within the whole Nine Provinces, there was no one else who could match him.

But even so, Lu Yuan wasn’t completely carefree.

Merely relying on cultivating one level of energy might make one the first person in the world.

But being the first person in the world doesn’t mean one is Unrivaled in the World.

Otherwise, in the previous era of Immortal Sects, Mo Li and the others wouldn’t have retired to the mountains.

At that time, they still had to offer benefits to support a Worldly Dynasty for cooperation.

Although cultivators talk about purifying their hearts and desires, avoiding being entangled by the Mortal Dust and disturbing their Dao heart and cultivation.

All of that is nonsense.

As long as one has a steadfast heart of the Great Dao, one can still enter the Immortal Method’s gate, just like Lu Yuan did.

Moreover, while the Immortal Sects claim not to interfere in the Mortal Dust on the surface,

In reality, they still accept disciples as their wings, and secretly court the powerful to manipulate politics.

These various actions prove that Immortal Sects are not as clean on the surface as they seem, not so transcendent and detached.

Immortal Sect cultivators, too, have their own selfish desires.

Yet these cultivators with selfish desires dare not stand upright and directly establish a Dao Country on earth.

This only shows that within the secular world, there is also power that they dread.

And this power, naturally, belongs to those Inborn Grandmasters in the secular world.

Once one reaches the Inborn realm, a Grandmaster can rival a cultivator with magic power.

In the current age, although there are no Grandmasters,

If about a dozen Inborn Grandmasters banded together, even a Dao master who has cultivated one level of energy would have to momentarily avoid the edge.

A dominating country in the world, all of their resources put forth, can basically muster more than ten Inborn.

It is precisely these Inborn Fighters who create a balance with the Immortal Sect Cultivators, allowing Worldly Dynasties to have the confidence to negotiate with Immortal Sect Cultivators.

Therefore, even if Lu Yuan will soon become the top expert in the world,

To truly use his own power to sweep across the Nine Provinces is actually rather forced.

With individual martial strength, to flex in Yangzhou might not be too challenging.

But if Lu Yuan truly wanted to rely on Dao Law to unify the world,

Then it’s likely that all the Inborn Grandmasters in the Nine Provinces would first unite to eliminate this anomaly that exceeds the norm.

And the Inborn Grandmasters of the Nine Provinces, even if calculated as about a dozen per province, have already exceeded a hundred.

If you add up the Grandmasters of the ten regions, the innate quantity is even more than two hundred and might even reach three hundred.

With such a large innate combat power, they don’t even need to unite completely; just two or three provinces working together would be difficult for Lu Yuan to handle.

So being the first person in the world sounds good, but it’s not really that significant.

To truly be Unrivaled in the World, one must continue to improve their strength, at the very least, reaching the state of Gathering Two Qi, and perhaps then one can barely claim to suppress the Nine Provinces single-handedly.

However, given Lu Yuan’s cautious nature, even if his cultivation reaches the stage of Gathering Two Qi, he would still feel it’s not secure enough.

Only by reaching the state of Gathering Three Qi, forming a minor success in Magic Power within oneself, and achieving a minor success on the Immortal Method, can one truly claim a stable and worry-free existence.