To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck-Chapter 1575 - 613 Seeking the Path is Tough_2

Opposing each other is inferior to cooperation; in a single Donghua Continent, there are but a dozen or so Heavenly Immortals.

Between the continents, the vast sea areas harbor hidden crises.

Even the foreign Heavenly Immortals in the perilous seas cannot claim to be entirely without worries.

Venturing into unfamiliar sea areas, one might still step into danger, losing one's life.

Should danger strike and the Heavenly Path detects one's existence as an unregistered being, doubling the peril, then survival becomes almost impossible.

Under such circumstances, even a Heavenly Immortal like Lu Yuan dares not to roam freely across the entire Immortal Realm.

The active regions of each Donghua Continent are actually limited to the sea areas nearby, that's all.

But it has changed from a solitary island to a collection of isolated islands.

Initially, Lu Yuan and his companions gathered the Heavenly Immortals from the surrounding regions and sea areas. Even though they could not invite all the Heavenly Immortals from those places due to various reasons, they gathered most.

Yet in the end, only a little over thirty were assembled, testament to the rarity of Heavenly Immortals, the scarcity of fellow seekers.

Even in the current Donghua Continent of today, with nineteen great domains, only twelve are governed by Heavenly Immortals.

Including the newly ascended Lu Yuan, otherwise, the number would be even less.

The resources of the Donghua Continent have not yet been fully allocated among the Heavenly Immortals, leaving seven great domains as opportunities for newcomers.

Additionally, the current Heavenly Immortals constantly face the risk of falling victim to calamities.

It can be said that in today's Donghua Continent, in today's Immortal Realm, there are ample opportunities and resources.

There's no worry of scarcity, no concern of competition over resources.

If you have the ability, you can become a Heavenly Immortal; no one will stop you. Some of the lonely Heavenly Immortals may even extend their help, wishing to encounter more like-minded beings.

Such is the mindset of Lu Yuan and Shi Junyang.

There are too few Heavenly Immortals, so few that when they wish to converse with someone or explore the Great Tao together, there are scarcely any candidates.

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Besides discussing the Great Tao, seeking new paths and personally practicing it, even fewer can accompany them to this stage.

Now, it's only Lu Yuan and Shi Junyang.

The other nine peers are also without word.

It's unknown whether they are still alive, lingering in the mortal world, or if their True Spirits have perished, entirely ceasing to exist.

Facing the ever-decreasing numbers of their counterparts, the increasingly stringent nets of the Heavenly Path, Lu Yuan and the others do not fear hearing too much; they feel there are too few peers.

Other Heavenly Immortals of East China have become Great True Persons, becoming homebodies, so to speak.

Even when evading the attention of the Heavenly Path is taken into account, they turn a deaf ear to all external affairs.

They also strictly forbid their disciples from meddling in domains without Heavenly Immortals, competing to produce new Heavenly Immortals, considering these factors.

They too feel lonely and wish to meet more peers, even though these peers may never join them side by side on a daily basis.

But simply to have them nearby, as a neighbor, aware of someone's presence here—that one is not alone—is much preferable to solitary existence.

The Great Tao is lofty and hard to pursue.

The path to enlightenment is vast and lonely, fraught with hardship.

To embark on this path already demonstrates great resolve, great perseverance.

Lu Yuan and the others wish for more companions, even if they cannot support one another; alleviating loneliness is also desirable.

Such is a normal mentality.

Similarly, for Lu Yuan, there's no need to worry about personal feelings.

Knowing that Daoist friend Shi is still alive, that on this path he treads, someone else is accompanying him and it is still traversable, is sufficient.

Everyone is seeking the Tao, everyone is busy, everyone is facing danger.

In such circumstances, meeting only stirs up ripples, easily attracting other uncertainties, such as the watchful eye of the Heavenly Path, for example.

It is better to remain a neighbor at ease, no one disturbing the other; with unspoken understanding, continue resolutely and comfortingly towards the originally set direction.

It is the transcendence of the Great Tao that they truly pursue.

Even if one cannot attain Dao, cannot transcend, but if a Daoist companion succeeds, it also confirms that the sought path is correct, the chosen road is without error.

It is as if carrying one's own last wishes, achieving ultimate success.

The journey ahead is treacherous, and Lu Yuan wouldn't dare to boast with certainty that he could definitely succeed, even though he has a golden finger of unknown origin that other Heavenly Immortals do not possess.

After all.

Even with the golden finger, he had gone through countless cycles of reincarnation before finally awakening this time.

It is unknown how many years have passed before he was able to become a Heavenly Immortal again.

Anyway, that Heavenly Immortal who has lived for over a million years in the nearby Region Continent, Lu Yuan had never heard of this person's name in his former life as Lu Li.

It is evident that countless years have separated the two lifetimes; the world is as changeable as the sea turning into mulberry fields, and time changing, beyond all reckoning.

With the golden finger, reincarnating once, to return is already so difficult.

Not to mention the outcomes for others.

Even now, for Lu Yuan, even though he has attained a Dao Fruit again and reincarnated, after the fusion of the powers of the two Dao Fruits, the likelihood and confidence of awakening in the next cycle are surely greater than the last.

But he still wouldn't dare to claim that he could definitely return.

If by some misfortune, he perishes on the path of awakening, and his True Spirit is utterly extinguished, that too is a possibility.

In fact, at this moment, Lu Yuan couldn't help but speculate.

Whether having a golden finger is a unique case for him?

The Immortal Realm is so vast, with so many chances available; why should he be the only special one?

Shi Junyang was able to awaken before him, who knows if this dao companion has other secret opportunities?

Perhaps Shi Junyang, like him, is also a traverser, it's not impossible!

The further one travels, the more one understands, and the less Lu Yuan feels that he is truly special.

To become a Heavenly Immortal, one must have great opportunities and great Qi Luck.

Who knows what secrets are buried deep in the hearts of those Heavenly Immortals?

"The long road ahead is perilous, and the night is everlasting.

To walk this boundless road alone is utterly lonely and terrifyingly frightful.

I do really hope that those Heavenly Immortals, companions like Shi Junyang, each and every one of them, possesses great opportunities, are all traversers, and have their golden fingers.

With such people as my companions, even leading the way ahead and carving out a path for me, allowing me to follow and copy them, that would be fortunate.

Rather than now, when dao friends become fewer, the path increasingly difficult, and the future increasingly dim, which truly leads one to despair."

Lu Yuan sighed, then gathered his spirit: "But just the same, the more dangerous the road, the more it must be traveled; the more obscure the future, the more we must seek it. If not, how can we go against the heavens, and how can we strive to achieve the Great Tao?"

Casting aside these melancholic thoughts, he no longer dwelled on them.

He glanced once more at the presence of Dao Friend Shi in the south, their Qi intertwining, the latter promptly responding.

Even though they had not met or spoken, he could distinctly sense the joy in the other's Qi.

It was the joy of seeing an old friend return, a sign that one's dao is not solitary.

They were old friends of countless years, both well aware of the other's temperament, at this moment all was understood without words.

After greeting the old friend, Lu Yuan, with warmth and excitement in his heart, looked at the two Dao Fruits before him, took a deep breath, and immediately began the fusion of the Dao Fruits.

His peaceful world is not large, it does not need two Dao Fruits, two cores, nor can it afford to maintain two great Buddhas.

Just as the Immortal Realm cannot have two Heavenly Paths.

Dao Fruits can encompass multiple Tao paths, or even simply be a collection of the Great Tao.

But they absolutely cannot be countless Tao paths standing independent, unrelated, causing the authority over the world to become fragmented. That would only lead to chaos, conflict, and eventually, the world would not be able to maintain itself and would fall apart.

The only way is to centralize authority, allowing countless Tao paths to become one, to integrate and understand them; that is the mainstream consciousness with magnificent power concentrated within one.

After all, the path of the Heavenly Path of the Immortal Realm, this successful way, has already been laid out before us.

How can the other Heavenly Immortals not follow suit?

Lu Yuan and his younger-generation followers only need to imitate it.

And his journey toward the Heavenly Path begins here, with the fusion of these two Dao Fruits before him.