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Does the birth of the Transcendent Field indicate that one can abandon the path of faith and instead pursue the path of true cultivation?

Of course, it is possible.

However, anyone with a modicum of intelligence would not choose this path.

After all, it relies on external forces to nurture the Soul Seed. Although the Transcendent Field formed after the Soul Seed's fusion can absorb and refine spiritual energy, it still falls far short compared to true cultivation.

All living beings, whether cultivating or evolving, share a common goal: to become more perfect.

Therefore, each breakthrough in realm represents a comprehensive evolution and transformation. Taking true cultivation as an example, each breakthrough also alters one's own field.

The field transforms along with the cultivator's metamorphosis; it cannot remain static forever.

This implies that a first-grade Profound Transformation talent is definitely superior to an Entry-level talent. By extension, the higher the cultivation and the more transformations undergone, the better the talent.

If talent remained unchanged, would it still be called cultivation, still be called the pursuit of the Dao?

The first character in cultivation is 'cultivate,' which encompasses not only training but also self-refinement, honing oneself to be closer to the Dao.

This is the true essence of cultivation.

It's impossible for my Entry-level low-grade spiritual root field to remain a low-grade spiritual root field even after reaching Profound Transformation and Transcendent Transformation.

What would I be cultivating then? Would all those years of cultivation be in vain?

Innate talent is merely the starting point of cultivation. The height one reaches is ultimately determined by experiences, trials, insights, even choices, and self-awareness.

So, back to the original point, Wei Qiancheng can indeed refine spiritual energy now.

However, his Transcendent Field is far inferior to that of a true cultivator. A true cultivator's Transcendent Field has undergone transformation, while his is newly born.

This is equivalent to being naturally one level weaker than a true cultivator, analogous to going from having no spiritual roots to having mixed spiritual roots.

Whereas the minimum for a true cultivator is going from mixed spiritual roots to low-grade spiritual roots.

Refining spiritual energy is still inferior to true cultivation, so choosing to absorb spiritual energy is simply foolish.

He should continue on the path of faith.

The cultivation of true cultivators is approaching the Dao, while the path of faith cultivators is approaching the Divine.

In their eyes, the Divine and the Dao are the same.

True cultivators observe the heavens and earth to comprehend the Great Dao, while faith cultivators observe the Divine to supplement themselves.

The path of a Transcendent faith cultivator involves Divine Soul prayer, observing the Divine image condensed within the Divine Soul, and obtaining divinity through observation of the Divine, thereby supplementing oneself.

Therefore, the first thing Wei Qiancheng needs to do, like a Profound Transformation true cultivator, is to engrave a visualization diagram in his Divine Soul.

True cultivators use the Three Treasures, while faith cultivators use Xuan Huang and the two Divine Beasts.

At this moment, the Divine Seal that Xuan Huang left in Wei Qiancheng's Divine Soul began to change.

Far away on Azure Cloud Mountain, Xuan Huang sensed Wei Qiancheng's transformation, signifying a further strengthening of their connection.

This is the only downside of being a faith cultivator: the more one cultivates, the tighter the connection with the Divine becomes. The Divine can arbitrarily decide the life or death of a faith cultivator with a single thought.

However, then again, it's the same for true cultivators. The more one cultivates, the deeper the connection with the Three Treasures becomes, and the more control Xuan Huang has over them.

Wanting them to die is also a matter of a single thought.

After all, this world cannot comprehend the heavens and earth, only Xuan Huang.

Xuan Huang has no choice but to do this. The true cultivators are also aware of this situation, but they have no other option.

The Divine Seal in Wei Qiancheng's Divine Soul emitted a soft light, and the imprint began to blur, gradually transforming into the likeness of Xuan Huang.

This meant that Wei Qiancheng didn't need to comprehend and condense; the Divine image of Xuan Huang was directly generated.

This saved Wei Qiancheng at least a month of time.

Wei Qiancheng excitedly accepted all of this. The effect of the Divine Seal was already inconceivable before, not only accelerating his cultivation speed but also tempering his Divine Soul.

However, he knew that in the Entry-level stage, he was only passively receiving the Divine Seal's effects. To fully utilize the Divine Seal's power, he needed to reach the Transcendent stage.

Now that he had stepped into Transcendence, the Divine Seal had changed, directly transforming into the Dao Lord's Divine image that he needed to comprehend and condense.

The Dao Lord's Divine image was in his Divine Soul, which was equivalent to being close to the Divine.

Which was the same as a true cultivator being close to the Dao.

It should be noted that this Divine image was not comprehended and condensed by himself but was the Dao Lord's imprint, his own Divine image phantom.

The power of this Divine image far surpassed the Divine images condensed by ordinary faith cultivators themselves.

For one thing, in terms of divinity, it was currently ten times that of a Divine image he could condense himself.

True cultivators need spiritual essence, and faith cultivators need divinity; these are indispensable.

The speed at which he obtained divinity was ten times that of others, which meant his speed was ten times faster. This first change in the Transcendent-level Divine Seal was equivalent to opening a cheat.

An excited Wei Qiancheng kowtowed and prayed.

Thanking the Dao Lord for his blessings.

At this point, he could leave seclusion.

If it were an ordinary faith cultivator, they could leave seclusion as soon as the Transcendent Field transformation was complete, announcing their successful Transcendence.

Because Wei Qiancheng had the Divine Seal bestowed by Xuan Huang, he had an extra procedure.

Now, this procedure had directly saved him the time of comprehending and visualizing the Divine image. Although his cultivation hadn't become stronger, his foundation had greatly increased.

He could continue to lead other faith cultivators by a large margin.

"Creak!"

The door to the closed room was opened, and Wei Qiancheng stepped out without restraining his aura.

While the faith cultivators outside were pleasantly surprised, their bodies trembled. Fortunately, they were all experts. Ordinary faith cultivators wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure alone.

It wasn't that Wei Qiancheng was deliberately trying to make things difficult for everyone.

But there was no better way to directly express his successful Transcendence.

Such a declaration was worth more than a thousand words.

"We congratulate Temple Warden, congratulations on your Transcendence, for our faith cultivators..."

Everyone expressed their heartfelt joy and congratulations.

In this era of fierce competition, faith cultivators desperately needed their own Transcendent cultivator.

Without their own Transcendent cultivator, people wouldn't even look at you properly, and even speaking would seem lacking in confidence.

Only with their own Transcendent existence could they call themselves a major force.

"Thank you, everyone," Wei Qiancheng said, retracting his aura and thanking the crowd.

After speaking, he added, "Everything is a blessing from the Divine, a guidance from the Divine..."

Wei Qiancheng spoke very respectfully.

Xuan Huang's establishment of the path of faith cultivation, and the believers that have developed so far, are not the kind of rigidly hierarchical organizations with believers as puppets and strict church structures that everyone imagines.

Xuan Huang simply lets things be and doesn't set any precepts or rules for believers.

Therefore, the entire world of faith cultivation is not like the Western Church, constantly comparing themselves to being humble, ants, kissing feet, and so on.

Xuan Huang is in a free-range state.

More like a primitive god, or the Eastern system's Taiyi God.

I exist, therefore you exist. If I were not here, you would perish.

Therefore, believe it or not, it's up to you, worship or not, it's up to you.

It doesn't require anything of its believers, nor does it seek any return from them. On the contrary, the entire system, the entire faith-based cultivation world, cannot exist without Xuan Huang. If Xuan Huang were to disappear, the entire faith-based cultivation world would collapse immediately.

Therefore, Xuan Huang is a supreme god, a primordial god, a creator god, the highest and only one.

Perhaps, as time passes, new gods will be born, or some people will reach the height and ability of gods.

At that time, Xuan Huang, the creator god, will be the sole origin, branching out into various gods, forming a comprehensive mythological system.

Xuan Huang never makes decisions on a small scale. Isn't spreading the Dharma to the world, becoming the Dao Lord and Dao Ancestor, better than being the founder of a single sect?

My disciples are the founders of sects.

Establishing a faith and incense system, becoming the unique and supreme creator god, isn't that better than being some god or another?

My subordinates are the various gods.

Without missing a single word, a single strand, a single idea, a single aspect, a single glance!

Everything starts from the essence, only focusing on the big picture, not being petty.

In short, the Xuan Huang at the root doesn't care about, nor does it like, these rules and regulations.

The faith-based cultivation world doesn't have so many mundane rituals, nor does it have complicated and convoluted rules.

This leads to a very casual scene. After Wei Qiancheng expresses his sincere gratitude to the Dao Lord, everyone only needs to be sincere in their hearts, without needing to kneel and kowtow at the mention of the gods.

According to custom, following the custom of true cultivators, Wei Qiancheng begins to preach to the people, sharing his experiences and insights, and answering their doubts and confusions.

This is where the difference lies.

In places with strict doctrines, these things, all rights of interpretation and preaching, belong to the gods, or the pope or something appointed by the gods.

Here, you can freely exchange insights and express your thoughts.

"…In short, the first step to entering transcendence is to comprehend the visualization diagrams like true cultivators, which are the two great divine beast messengers, and the Dao Lord's divine image. There is no superior or inferior. You must know that the visualization diagrams we comprehend are not the Nine-Life Mystic Cat and Dream-Eating Tapir adults in the strict sense, but the Nine-Life adult and Dream-Eating Tapir adult in the hearts of countless believers."

Here, Wei Qiancheng pauses and continues: "That is to say, the visualization diagrams are the strongest two adults in the hearts of the believers. Even the two adults need to observe their own visualization diagrams, which is how they should be in the hearts of the believers. You must understand this point."

This is the difference.

It is also the most magical part of Xuan Huang's 'Deification Art'.

As Wei Qiancheng said, the visualization objects of the Mystic Cat and Dream-Eating Tapir are also themselves. They comprehend themselves, but this self is not the real self, but the self imagined in the hearts of the believers.

And their evolution and cultivation is to constantly approach the self in the hearts of the believers, living the way others want them to be.

This is to make up for the lack of intelligence of spirit beasts, which Xuan Huang specially created.

A kind of turning falsehood into truth.

Imagine an invincible and powerful self, and then slowly become this invincible and powerful self.

Starting from fantasy, realizing fantasy is the path to truth for spirit beasts.

After Wei Qiancheng explained, everyone nodded.

After all, they are all faith-based cultivators, so they can naturally understand this point.

It's not that comprehending the Dao Lord's divine image is stronger, but that it's the same.

On the contrary, comprehending the Dao Lord's divine image is weaker.

The weaker here means that the Dao Lord is the Dao Lord, is himself, and will not live the way believers want him to be.

This is a big discount.

The Mystic Cat in the believer's imagination seeks good fortune and avoids evil, so the Mystic Cat becomes good at seeking good fortune and avoiding evil.

The Dao Lord in the believer's imagination is kind and benevolent, seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, but Xuan Huang will not change, still himself.

This is a big discount, not the appearance in the hearts of the believers, nor the abilities in the believers' imaginations.

Therefore, comprehending the Dao Lord's visualization diagram will be more difficult. When using and borrowing it, it is not as simple and easy as the two great divine beasts.

After all, the Deification Art was created for spirit beasts, not for Xuan Huang's needs.

Xuan Huang's participation is purely for the suppression of will.

If it weren't for this, Xuan Huang wouldn't have planned to participate in the Deification Art, nor would he have created it.

"Temple Keeper, what are you comprehending?"

During the question session, a believer cultivator asked.

"Don't learn from me. I was bestowed with the divine image imprint by the Dao Lord's grace. But I will also comprehend and condense the divine images of the two great divine beasts," Wei Qiancheng said very sincerely.

But these words shocked everyone.

Finally, there is an answer.

Why is he the first Temple Keeper? Why is his cultivation so fast? Why are all the miracles initiated by Temple Keeper Wei?

Finally, they know that Temple Keeper Wei has long been favored by the Dao Lord.

Wei Qiancheng felt that he could tell everyone after he transcended.

"Temple Keeper, after the transcendent field merges, can we refine spiritual energy?"

Upon hearing this, Wei Qiancheng did not speak, but looked at everyone.

Making the person who asked the question nervous.

"I know you will definitely ask this question. I can answer you, after the transcendent field merges, it can indeed absorb and refine spiritual energy, and it can also intercept Dao essence, but it is useless to us."

Wei Qiancheng continued: "This is using our weaknesses to attack the enemy's strengths. Our transcendent field cannot compare to the transcendent field of a cultivator who has undergone a transformation. Refining spiritual energy is equivalent to doing twice the work for half the result, a very foolish choice."

"Cultivators need spiritual rhyme, capturing and intercepting it from the heavens and earth. What do we need? Divinity? Where do you capture it from? Of course, some people will definitely ask, can spiritual rhyme replace divinity?"

"It can completely replace divinity to transform our transcendent field, but there still needs to be a comparison. Compared to the transformed true cultivators, our transcendent field is already worse. The spiritual rhyme captured and intercepted will be even worse. How can you catch up with true cultivators with such a difference?"

"Alas!" Saying this, Wei Qiancheng sighed: "I know that many of you have not yet built up confidence, always thinking that the path of faith is inferior to true cultivation, that true cultivation is more perfect than us. After all, they can cultivate, and we can only rely on the grace of the gods to cultivate. But I want to say that if you don't change this kind of thinking, I dare not say that your achievements will stagnate, but there will definitely be no future."

"When you don't believe in yourself, when you think you are very poor, then please don't cultivate anymore. You are insulting cultivation, and even more insulting the faith system established by the Dao Lord."

These words are very heavy.

This problem has existed for a long time. Wei Qiancheng found it before, but it was not easy to say, difficult to deal with.

Now it's different, we need to change this situation.

If you always hold the idea that you are trash, that you are worse than true cultivators, there is no future.

If you don't believe in yourself, what's the point of cultivating?

The metaphysical power of consciousness and mind plays a leading role in the physical body.

If the metaphysical is holding back, the physical body, even if it uses all its strength, cannot move it.

Fortunately, it is the cultivation of the faith soul seed. This kind of cultivation is an external gift, the grace of the gods, with sincerity as the first priority.

If true cultivators had this kind of thinking, thinking that they are not good, that they are very poor, they would have already gone into a state of madness, stagnating.

…(End of this chapter)