Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 584 - 584 603 Quasi-Saint Realm

584: Chapter 603: Quasi-Saint Realm 584: Chapter 603: Quasi-Saint Realm Ye Xuan had played all his trump cards in this battle.

Regardless of the Tribulation Immortal Transformation or the Reverse Immortal Array Map, he had even resorted to the Heavenly Punishment Halberd, the supreme artifact of slaughter through the ages.

Yet facing the Venomous Ancestor, who had only just entered the Quasi-Saint Realm, Ye Xuan knew he had still lost.

By observing a part, one understands the whole.

If the Venomous Ancestor, a nascent Quasi-Saint was this terrifying, then how fearsome would the other Quasi-Saints be?

As Ye Xuan knew, Quasi-Saints also varied in their levels, representing different life strata from Immortals.

It is common knowledge that there are seven Saint Positions in Heaven and Earth, with six Great Saints residing high in the Nine Heavens, leaving only the last Saint Position suspended in the void.

These six Great Saints all achieved their status through accumulating merit, save for Hong Jun who chose the path to Sainthood by Cutting Three Corpses.

Below the Saints are the Quasi-Saints, a realm widely recognized throughout the Three Realms.

However, the distinctions within the Quasi-Saint Realm are vast, with each stratum representing an insurmountable gap from the next.

Take the Venomous Ancestor for instance; he had only just entered the Quasi-Saint realm, just begun to control the Heaven and Earth Laws, and was able to wield the immense power of Heaven and Earth for his own use.

He could even change Heaven and Earth, displaying various Infinite Great Divine Powers, and due to his entry into the Quasi-Saint Realm, a hint of True Spirit peculiar to Quasi-Saints had arisen.

The so-called True Spirit is unique to Quasi-Saints and forms the foundation of their existence.

As the Venomous Ancestor said, as long as the True Spirit is undying, the Quasi-Saint shall be immortal.

But this True Spirit is also the most fragile.

Although it can help a Quasi-Saint recreate their physical body and resurrect, there is a limit.

Furthermore, it can cause irreparable damage to one’s foundation in the Dao, as evidenced by Ye Xuan shattering the Venomous Ancestor’s physical body.

Some might think this is as far as the Quasi-Saint Realm goes.

They would be gravely mistaken!

The true terror of the Quasi-Saints lies in the Path Cutting Method, commonly known as Cutting the Three Corpses to instantly achieve Sainthood.

This is the path all Quasi-Saints must take to ascend to being a Saint.

And it is within Cutting the Three Corpses that the disparity among Quasi-Saints becomes clear.

It has been mentioned before that aside from Hong Jun, who chose to harmonize with the Dao, the six great Saints of Heaven and Earth all became Saints through accumulating merit.

The seventh Saint remains elusive, but undoubtedly, the path to Saint status would entail accumulating merit combined with Hongmeng Purple Qi and the favor of the Heavenly Dao, ensuring the attainment of the last Saint Position.

If this seventh Saint were to appear, wouldn’t the chances for the other Quasi-Saints to become Saints vanish?

Therefore, becoming a Saint by Cutting Three Corpses is the sole path for all Quasi-Saints, the only opportunity for Sainthood left by Hong Jun to every sentient being.

After all, Hong Jun himself became a Saint by Cutting Three Corpses, offering all Quasi-Saints a glimmer of hope.

The Realm of the Quasi-Saint.

Those who have just stepped into the Quasi-Saint realm possess impeccable bodies, untainted by the Red Dust, with a nascent True Spirit born, perfectly melding with the physical body.

This is the initial state of the Quasi-Saint, known as the Purity Realm.

The Venomous Ancestor was at this stage, yet he had not achieved great success within the Purity Realm before he encountered Ye Xuan, a substantial anomaly, eventually meeting his doom.

With the Purity Realm at great success, when the physical body and True Spirit are flawless, one can step into the next realm, a stage that has left countless Quasi-Saints with their souls scattered, perishing between Heaven and Earth.

This realm consists of three tiers, also known as the Three Corpses Slashing Technique to Saint.

Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, Self!

This is the path that one must take to perform the Three Corpses Slashing.

These three realms have no order of precedence nor is there a distinction in their heights, yet each time one slashes away a corpse, one’s cultivation undergoes an extremely terrifying transformation, incomparable to an ordinary Quasi-Saint.

To give an example, for a Quasi-Saint like the Myriad Poison Ancestor, anyone who has slashed away a corpse would find killing him as easy as slaughtering a chicken, such is the gap between Quasi-Saints.

In cutting the Three Corpses, Quasi-Saints may select which corpse to slash first, but most people choose to first cut the Evil Corpse, as it is the simplest hurdle.

Yet there are those who begin with cutting the Good Corpse, because everyone’s cultivation is different, so whether to slash the Good or Evil Corpse first varies from person to person.

However, without exception, the Self is the hardest to cut because slashing the Self is akin to killing oneself.

Aside from Hong Jun Ancestor, who was the lone successful three-time corpse slasher, countless Quasi-Saints have perished at this stage since the dawn of creation.

Look at the Saint Taishang Laojun who, before becoming a Saint, walked the path of Cutting Three Corpses to sainthood; yet he, too, was ultimately stuck at the hurdle of cutting the Self and could only become a Saint through merit.

It was precisely because Taishang Laojun once walked the path of Cutting Three Corpses that he was able to create the Great Divine Power Technique known as “One Qi Transforms into Three Clears.”

This “Three Pure Ones” isn’t the same as the other “Three Pure Ones”; it is Taishang Laojun’s strongest Divine Skill, allowing him to create two Dharma Bodies to fight alongside him.

He even repelled the Heavenly Sect Master with it during the seminal battle between deities, indicating the terror of the Great Divine Power of “One Qi Transforms into Three Clears.”

I digress.

Returning to the topic of the Quasi-Saints performing the Three Corpses Slashing Technique, the Three Corpses may sound simple, but their terror is beyond the explanation for outsiders.

Each time a Quasi-Saint slashes away a corpse, they must endure the great terror between life and death, with the risk of their soul scattering should they falter.

But if they succeed in cutting a corpse, their cultivation will undoubtedly advance greatly.

This is the impassable chasm that lies between Quasi-Saints.

Sadly, since the Sky Opening, there have been very few who could slash away even one corpse.

Even fewer could cut away both the Good and Evil Corpses, those you can count on your fingers, and not a single one has become a Saint by Cutting Three Corpses.

This shows just how hard the path to sainthood by cutting the Three Corpses is.

During the grand assembly at Nuwa Palace, Ye Xuan and the Myriad Poison Ancestor clashed.

Ye Xuan, having just entered the Quasi-Saint realm and not yet achieved Great Success in the Purity Realm, to say nothing of stepping into the realm of Cutting Three Corpses, was yet given a brush with death by the Myriad Poison Ancestor.

Awakened to his own being and gazing ahead at the road before him, Ye Xuan knew that sooner or later, he would have to face those Quasi-Saints who embarked on the realm of Cutting Three Corpses.

With his current level of cultivation, he wouldn’t even catch the eyes of these Quasi-Saints.

Not to mention the Quasi-Saints who had cut the Three Corpses, even those newly entered into the Quasi-Saint Realm were no longer ones he could withstand.

Moreover, Ye Xuan had a premonition that the mysterious apparition that appeared during the grand assembly at Nuwa Palace couldn’t save him every time.

Its appearance must be for a significant reason and couldn’t manifest in this spacetime at will.

If Ye Xuan were to expect this mysterious apparition to help him out of every life-and-death crisis, he’d call himself an idiot.

Inhale—exhale—increase—exhale.

Ye Xuan pushed down his troubled thoughts and once again began healing his grievously injured body because he knew the Quasi-Saint realm was far too distant for him, and he was also walking the path of Proving Dao with Power.

Although he didn’t know what changes would occur when stepping into the Quasi-Saint realm, he would surely surpass those who became Saints by Cutting Three Corpses.

Of course, the path to become a Saint by Cutting Three Corpses was so rugged and difficult, the way of Proving Dao with Power that Ye Xuan was walking would surely be no less challenging.

He feared that when he steps into the Quasi-Saint realm, he would face unimaginable, terrifying tribulations.

As Ye Xuan continued to heal his injuries, he also scrutinized his own deficiencies, as seen from his battle with the Myriad Poison Ancestor.

Although he possessed many Divine Power Techniques and relied on the Chaotic Sky Seven Killings Spear to smash the Myriad Poison Ancestor’s physical body, the root issue was still his insufficient cultivation, preventing him from destroying the Myriad Poison Ancestor’s True Spirit and plunging him into a crisis of death.

Somewhere in the depths of destiny, Ye Xuan felt that if he could step into the Daluo Third Water Dividing Ridge, even without the aid of the Heavenly Punishment Halberd, the Tribulation Immortal Transformation’s counter-celestial Great Technique would enable him to truly defy the Quasi-Saints, securing an unparalleled position for himself.

Perhaps, under the circumstances of utilizing the Heavenly Punishment Halberd, he might even slay a Quasi-Saint.

Of course, this was merely a premonition of Ye Xuan’s; whether or not he could achieve what he envisioned, that would have to wait until he steps up to the Daluo Third Water Dividing Ridge for an eventual uplift.