Although my realm hasn't improved, my strength continues to accumulate.
Of course, very few Void Shattering experts intentionally halt their realm advancement.
Most people find it challenging enough to maintain their current realm.
Fifth-layer experts often align themselves with a force, not merely for mutual support.
It's primarily because fifth-layer experts need substantial resources to maintain their strength.
It's like buying a large house; if there's property management, you'll inevitably have to pay management fees.
This amount can vary greatly depending on the property management's arrangements and setup.
However, this analogy is somewhat inappropriate.
While management fees can be high, they rarely render someone unable to pay.
These fifth-layer experts might genuinely be unable to stabilize their realm, potentially falling out of the fifth layer.
Such occurrences are common. What should they do to avoid falling?
They need massive resources to sustain themselves, but an individual's resource acquisition is slow and limited.
Therefore, these experts naturally seek a force.
Either they join an existing force or create their own.
In short, securing resources quickly and stabilizing their realm is paramount.
Most fifth-layer experts are preoccupied with maintaining their strength and realm.
Considering further advancement or stabilizing their current realm?
That's simply impossible.
Only a select few choose to halt their realm advancement.
Like the previous Shuten-dōji, he also possessed fifth-layer strength.
However, the power he displayed surpassed that of many sixth-layer experts.
His apparent strength was weak, but his actual strength was formidable. Such individuals are rare.
They often have reasons preventing cultivation and further advancement.
Shuten-dōji's reasons involved his cultivation method and fear of being targeted by the Supreme Consciousness.
He had committed many misdeeds, so being targeted was understandable.
Members of the Abyss Cult often choose to halt their realm advancement because breaking through would be suicidal.
Jiang Wang also halted his realm advancement purely out of caution.
Halting realm advancement isn't necessarily good or bad.
Breaking through, at the very least, grants greater strength, making further advancement smoother.
However, halting realm advancement, while allowing continued strengthening, is too slow.
Breaking through is a qualitative change, while halting realm advancement is a continuous quantitative process.
While one can learn more secret techniques, increase their capabilities, and address their weaknesses,
this cultivation can only unleash fifth-layer power, which is a disadvantage.
Breaking through is generally more beneficial than halting realm advancement.
The suppression of lower levels by higher levels still exists.
Qualitatively changed power means the sixth layer is stronger than the fifth, undeniably. Realm suppression persists.
Even after halting realm advancement for years, facing someone with a higher realm is still difficult.
It's strange that Scarface, a sixth-layer expert, doesn't think he can defeat Jiang Wang, a fifth-layer expert.
Little does he know, Jiang Wang is among the rarest of those who halt realm advancement.
These nine million worlds always produce various oddities.
In fact, most seventh-layer experts halted their realm advancement when they were at the fifth layer.
They were already preparing for "immortality."
After all, if they directly advanced to the seventh layer and then started preparing, time would be insufficient.
Moreover, higher levels require more resources to maintain strength.
This is, in fact, an arrangement by the Supreme Consciousness.
Maintaining strength requires massive resources, meaning that those at higher levels must take action to avoid realm regression.
Taking action makes them targets, leading to suppression and death.
Inaction likely leads to regression, which pleases the Supreme Consciousness even more.
After realm regression, breaking through again becomes more challenging.
The Supreme Consciousness has arranged all these things perfectly; this is the so-called world law.
Everyone is subject to these laws and rules.
Therefore, halting realm advancement and preparing more thoroughly before reaching the seventh layer is the right path.
Chapter 964: Realm Stagnation
If one doesn't halt realm advancement and prepare, it's too late to act after reaching the seventh layer.
Maintaining the seventh layer requires massive resources, and simply finding these resources consumes considerable energy.
The Dream Demon King simply does nothing, relying on the Paradise World to increase her strength.
Myriad Incarnations directly splits into a large number of incarnations, engaging in various actions.
These are their efforts to maintain their realm.
If they break through to the seventh layer without fully perfecting their immortality and still need to gather resources,
any significant action will attract the Supreme Consciousness's attention, leading to suppression until death.
Such seventh-layer experts are like fireworks, shining briefly before disappearing.
Therefore, those with true foresight choose to halt at the fifth layer.
If these special existences are allowed to grow, they will become absolutely stable seventh-layer experts.
For these anomalies, realm and such cannot be used to define their strength.
Level and realm cannot evaluate these terrifying and dreadful individuals.
To them, anyone who is an enemy can be killed regardless of realm or strength differences.
Didn't Jiang Wang defeat Myriad Incarnations, a seventh-layer expert? Cross-level challenges are common; challenging across two levels is commonplace.
Such anomalous existences are rare, and they will almost certainly become major figures.
Scarface looked at Jiang Wang, and for some reason, the fighting flame burning within him seemed to dim.
He knew he probably could never defeat his opponent.
As long as one loves and enjoys battle, the fire of battle will not be extinguished; this is easy to understand.
But the truth is that battles have wins and losses, and everyone wants to win.
Even if the people of the God of War Path say that the result of the battle is meaningless and the process is the most important,
if they can't win, it's all a lie.
Loving battle but being unable to win means that love will soon disappear.
Just like a series of dreams that gradually touch the iron wall of reality; if they can't break through, the passion can only disappear.
Isn't this how countless young people who pursue their dreams repeatedly encounter obstacles and gradually lose their passion?
The God of War Path is the same; battle itself is interesting, but being unable to win is a joke.
Scarface continued to look at Jiang Wang in the distance, shaking his head helplessly.
As time passed, the huge ball of light that had erupted had shrunk several times.
This was the effect achieved after Jiang Wang circulated his power.
He had indeed blocked this move, this strongest killing technique.
"If it were me, I wonder if I could withstand it?"
Scarface couldn't help but ask himself.
He was a strongman of the God of War Path and had previously proven his strength; resisting was definitely not a problem.
However, he was now beginning to doubt himself.
The passion at the beginning seemed to be gradually cooling down.
"The passion has cooled, and the fighting spirit on your body is no longer so sharp. Now you look like a normal person."
The Old Sword Demon stroked his beard and sighed at Scarface.
"However, as long as the resolve is there, it can be ignited at any time. It's truly incredible."
"This power, is it called the God of War Path? It really gives me a familiar feeling."
"In the Divine Continent world, there seems to be someone who uses this move..."
"That monkey, no, it shouldn't just be the monkey; there should be others. Yes, from the Conferred Gods era."
The Old Sword Demon felt that he could vaguely say the answer.
The Divine Continent area is a special region of connected worlds.
It's not exactly that gods are flying everywhere, but each world is managed by Void Shattering experts.
In that area, Void Shattering experts are called "Immortals."
And the organization that manages the Immortals is the Heavenly Court, the most powerful organization in the Divine Continent area.
