Clara let out a loud laugh, hearing Alex’s reply. She laughed so hard that her stomach started hurting. “You are funny, really. No one has ever made me laugh in the last one hundred years.”

“Interesting, what did you find funny? You think I have no capability to do that?”

“If you can flatten my sect in one attack, then I may believe you. You are strong, I admit that, but among immortals, I am categorized as a weak one.

And believe me, the strongest of us can be ten of me easily.”

Ying Xue’s ears perked up since this was the first time she heard this information. She always wondered in the past why the sects staying on the frontline didn’t band together to take over the core region?

With their current strength, half of them should be more than enough. But now, hearing it from Clara, it seems things were not that simple.

“If I have eight people stronger than me, and they cannot be killed, do you think I can or cannot?”

“Eight people stronger than you? That is a good joke. If that’s true, maybe you have a chance, but I still doubt you can win against them.”

“Who?”

“I am in a good mood now, so I will tell you. In this core region, there are more than a thousand immortals. Many are hiding in seclusion while others are busy playing around with new power from the outsiders.

But do you think that is the only reason we stay peaceful like this? Just like the stupid geezer in my clan, there are many who like chaos, fighting, and destruction.

The only reason we stay still is because of those three. We call them the judges. They never intervene in conflicts between clans. But when immortals come out and join the fight, you can bet they will arrive and beat both immortals.

Some are hardheaded and end up getting killed. These three people’s power is no joke. I still remember seeing how they killed other immortals, like killing a chicken.”

“If they are that strong, how about the ones at the frontline?” Alex asked Ying Xue.

“Yes, they are the immortal generals. We also have them, but they cannot leave the frontline.

I don’t know the exact reason, but I suspect because they need to be there to act anytime a strong being comes out from the wall.”

“Interesting,” Alex replied. He still didn’t feel worried at all. With his army, at this stage, he was sure no immortal would intervene.

They would just watch from the side. He still had time to think of countermeasures.

“Yes, so forget your stupid dream of uniting this realm. They will never allow it.”

“Why don’t they do it themselves then?”

“I don’t know. They are eccentric people who rarely appear. But they are always there when immortals make a mess.”

“If they are as strong as the immortal generals, then I doubt anything on this planet can interest them.”

“So I can say you are a low-level immortal while these people are peak-level immortals?” Alex asked towards Clara.

“No, it doesn’t work like that. Realm-wise, almost every immortal in existence has already reached its peak.

What differentiates us is they mastered a power system from other species. The more they master, the stronger they are.”

“Why don’t you learn one then?” Alex asked. There may be many reasons a sect couldn’t get their hands on other power systems, but the Zephyr clan is different.

They have an outsider living with them, giving them information about other worlds.

Clara’s eyes turned complicated. “In the past, someone created and perfected a cultivation system to give strength to humans to fight their invaders.

So much time has passed since then, but even now, no one has improved the cultivation system we have. I honestly don’t believe this is the limit.”

Clara’s eyes then turned determined as she continued, “Many have already given up on the pursuit to break this ceiling, but I will never give up.

Since someone can cultivate this, it’s not impossible for me to improve on it.

Looking for methods from others is stupid. We have reached this far with cultivation, and I believe we can go further.”

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Hearing this, Ying Xue’s face was brimming with pride. Her ancestor was the one that created and perfected the cultivation method, but then remembering what happened to her family now, she couldn’t help but feel shame.

Hearing a stranger from another clan was trying to perfect the system, but her own clan instead started adopting another power system.”

Hearing this, Alex couldn’t help letting out his opinion. Despite having no emotion, this didn’t mean his interest in research was lowering. “In that case, have you looked to use another energy source other than qi?”

“I have, but it changes things too much. At that time, it won’t be cultivation anymore.”

“What makes you think it’s not cultivation then? What makes one a cultivation?”

Clara put some thought into it, then explained, “There are many philosophical answers for this, but I don’t believe in any of them. As the name said, cultivation means to cultivate.

To be called a cultivation, we should cultivate our own being and presence.”

“So you mean we cannot use external factors?”

“Using one is fine, just like this bloodline we have now. It came from our ancestors and people in the past injecting themselves with the blood of mythical beasts.

But in the end, all of this is done to enhance and stimulate our own potential.

What other power systems do so far doesn’t do this. Instead, they enhance the external factor, slowly eroding their own essence.

Despite your current realm, I am sure you already understand what it means to become immortal.”

“Rebirth oneself as qi, giving you complete control of all your power.”

Clara nodded, “That is right, but not really correct. The right definition is amplifying your essence, uniting it all under it.

If you fail to do this, the result will be a backlash that ends up in you dead, or you just become a mindless monster.”

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