Sitting cross-legged on the palm of the sacred Buddha, Tathagata Sublime had one hand in front of him while the other was twirling prayer beads. There was an indescribable smile on his face. Ever since Devil Emperor Blood River appeared, the smile on his face had never disappeared.
"After not seeing you for so many years, I didn't expect your understanding of the Dao of Darkness to be so deep that even I am amazed. Blood River, oh Blood River, I really admire you more and more."
Tathagata Sublime's voice was ethereal and vast.
"Becoming a demon with an immortal thought and stepping on the darkness as a demon. When you become an immortal, you are the emperor of the Immortal Dao. When you become a demon, you are the emperor of the Devil Dao. Fortunately, the Dao of Darkness did not bestow the heavenly mandate. Otherwise, the title of Emperor of Darkness would have been yours."
Since ancient times, there were also three thousand Great Daos.
However.
Some Great Daos were easy to get started with but difficult to comprehend.
For example, the Immortal Dao was the most typical. It was easy to get started with but difficult to comprehend.
For mortals, as long as they had a persevering heart, it was easy to become an immortal. Once they became an immortal, they would be considered to have stepped into the Immortal Dao.
However, after stepping into the Immortal Dao, how far one could go would depend on one's aptitude, comprehension, and fortune.
Apart from the Immortal Dao, the Demon Dao, and the Ghost Dao were also easy to get started with but difficult to comprehend.
For cultivators, they could become demons with their physical bodies and become ghosts without their physical bodies.
Whether it was demons or ghosts, they could become immortals, such as the demon immortals and ghost immortals of the vast wilderness.
There were also some Great Daos that were hard to get started with and even harder to comprehend.
For example, Buddhism.
The threshold of Buddhism was much higher than the Immortal Dao. One only needed perseverance to become an immortal. However, perseverance alone was not enough to become a Buddha. Buddhism was particular about karma and fate. If one had no karma or fate with Buddhism, one might not be able to step into Buddhism.
Similarly, the Devil Dao was not easy to become a demon and even harder to comprehend.
In a sense, the threshold of becoming a demon was even higher than the threshold of Buddhism.
Demons were divided into innate and acquired.
Innate demons were Heavenly Demons. For example, the Demon Emperor Ren Tianxing was a Heavenly Demon.
Devil Emperor Blood River became a demon as an immortal, so he could only be considered as an acquired demon.
Heavenly Demon was a Heavenly Demon.
However, the Acquired Demon was not something that could be achieved just because one wanted to.
Since ancient times, although there weren't many Heavenly Demons, there definitely weren't few either.
However, people like Devil Emperor Blood River who had gone mad after birth were extremely rare.
It couldn't be said that there weren't many people who succumbed to the devil after birth. It could only be said that there weren't many people who were still alive after succumbing to the devil after birth.
Firstly.
Be it Immortals, Buddhas, or demons and ghosts, none of them would be so bored as to fall into the Devil's Path. Most of them did so because they were forced to do so. For example, they had made a mistake in their cultivation and thus fell into the Devil's Path. There were also those who fused with the creation that they should not have fused with, or sacrificially refined magic treasures that they should not have sacrificially refined.
Under such circumstances, they would not live for long. After falling into the demonic path, they would lose their sense of self. They would not recognize their friends and family, and they would lose all sense of morality and rationality. They would not even have the concept of life and death.
When a person is full and feels bloated, they will not eat anymore.
However, even if a demon was stuffed, he would continue to eat until he was stuffed to death.
When one encountered a bottleneck in their cultivation, they would stop.
If a demon encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, he would not stop until he finished cultivating.
In the face of danger, people would be cautious or give up. Demons would only charge forward bravely, because they didn't know the meaning of life and death.
Therefore …
Since ancient times, those who were forced to fall into the Devil's Path either died from self-detonation for various reasons or were killed by other Immortals and Buddhas.
Blood River was the only one who could fall into the Devil's Path after becoming an Immortal, and even become the Emperor of the Devil's Path.
Among the 3,000 Great Paths …
There were also some Great Paths whose threshold was so high that it not only surpassed the Immortal Path, but also the Buddha and the Devil.
For example, the Path of Light, the Path of Divinity, the Path of Life, and even the Path of Heaven and the Path of Destiny.
These Great Paths were known as the Supreme Great Paths.
Ordinary cultivators could hardly reach these Supreme Great Paths.
No!
It was not that they could not reach them, but that they could not see them at all.
Not to mention ordinary cultivators, no matter how high their aptitude was or how good their comprehension was, they were not qualified to come into contact with these Supreme Great Paths.
Only those who had supreme creation and inherited the Mandate of Heaven were qualified to come into contact with these Supreme Great Paths.
For example, those who had the Bloodline of Light were qualified to come into contact with the Path of Light.
If they had the Bloodline of Divinity, they were also qualified to come into contact with the Path of Divinity.
However, it was just coming into contact with it. Whether or not one could comprehend it depended on one's own creation.
No one knew how many existences in the universe had comprehended the Path of Light, and how many had comprehended the Path of Divinity.
The only thing that was known was that since ancient times, there were not many who had the Bloodline of Light and Divinity. Those who could comprehend the Path of Light and Divinity were even fewer.
It was the same for the Path of Light and Divinity. As for the Path of Life, the Path of Heaven, and the Path of Destiny …
This thing was even more pitifully small.
So far, it was only known that Goddess of Nature, Yun Nishang, had stepped into the Path of Life.
It was only known that Nameless had stepped into the Path of Destiny.
As for the Path of Heaven … there was no one at the moment.
Speaking of which …
Among the 3,000 Great Paths, there was a more special Great Path.
This Great Path not only had a higher threshold than the Immortals, Buddhas, and Demons, but it was also higher than the Path of Light and Divinity, which were known as the Supreme Great Paths.
For example, the Path of Darkness, the Path of Death, the Path of Massacre, the Path of Absolute, and so on.
These Great Paths were all Forbidden Great Paths.
They were also Great Paths that had been removed from the 3,000 Great Paths.
Although the threshold for those Supreme Great Paths was high, at least there was a threshold. One knew what kind of threshold and conditions one had to come into contact with these Supreme Great Paths.
However …
Forbidden Great Paths were different.
Forbidden Great Paths had no threshold at all. Because there was no threshold, no one knew what kind of conditions one had to meet to come into contact with these Forbidden Great Paths.
Those with the Bloodline of Light were qualified to come into contact with the Path of Light.
However, those with the Bloodline of Darkness were not qualified to come into contact with the Path of Darkness.
According to the legends …
Only by breaking the taboo could one come into contact with these Forbidden Great Paths.
It was also said that only those who had karma with the Forbidden Great Paths were qualified to come into contact with these Great Paths.
There were many different opinions. No one knew what the threshold for a Forbidden Great Path was.
No one knew how the Devil Emperor Blood River had broken the taboo and stepped into the Path of Darkness after he had turned into a demon.
Looking at the past and present.
The Forbidden Great Paths had always been a mystery. At least after the Primordial Era, it was almost impossible to see a Forbidden Great Path.
However, there was one person who seemed to be very 'fated' with the Forbidden Great Path, and it wasn't just any ordinary fate.
That person was the famous Emperor You.
It was said that Emperor You had not only stepped into one Forbidden Great Path, but several of them.
The Path of Death, the Path of Absolute, and the Path of Massacre.
Back in the Mortal World, many people had personally witnessed Emperor You monopolizing all three Forbidden Great Paths. It was truly terrifying.
The reason why Emperor You had always been known as the True Lord of Original Sin recorded in the Book of Destiny was more or less related to him monopolizing all three Forbidden Great Paths.
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