To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

And as long as a trace could be extracted, then the Heavenly Immortal Taoist Fruit would initially form, and the position of Great True Person would also be certified.

From then on, the path of one’s self would be independent, unrestrained by Heaven and Earth, enjoying boundless Lifespan.

At the same time, with absolute control over the Great Tao extracted, one could harness the full power of this path, naturally surpassing those ordinary Earth Immortals who only control the Tao of Heaven and Earth and could only rely on their meager authority to summon a fraction of this power.

Simply put, it’s like members, administrators, and group owners — three different identities corresponding to a single Great Tao, each possessing different permissions.

Within a Great Tao (group), members (Human Immortals) can only enjoy the most basic permissions, which they must share with other members. Administrators (Earth Immortals) could, on this basis, obtain more permissions, mobilize more resources, and sanction those with lower levels of authority.

The group owner directly controls the entire Great Tao and can decide what to do with this group, doing as they wish.

And under the group, other members or administrators have no power to resist.

To deal with them, it’s just a matter of flicking one’s finger, simply kicking them out of the group.

Translated to the Immortal Realm, it becomes seizing their Great Tao with a single thought and destroying their cultivation.

It has long been rumored in the Immortal Realm that cutting off the three flowers atop the head and breaking the five qi within the chest are seen as the greatest punishment and torture to any cultivator, with all cultivators greatly fearing this.

Here, it refers to the deterrence of the Great True Person, a Heavenly Immortal, over the lower-level cultivators.

When fighting peers, at worst they kill you and take your life, and in many cases, you could even escape.

But facing a Heavenly Immortal, they would directly ruin your Dao Fruit and destroy your cultivation, making thousands of years of hard work vanish in an instant. They would leave you alive, only to watch yourself plummet from Immortal to dust, making your existence worse than death.

For many cultivators, this punishment is deemed unbearable, preferring to die with their cultivation intact rather than witnessing their Great Tao crumble and be worth less than ants.

This is an unacceptable form of extreme punishment.

The immense power of the Great True Person is thus evident.

But although no longer restricted by authority and having directly become the group owner, one could not rest easy yet.

This is because the Great True Person only took advantage by exploiting a loophole, stealing the Dao Fruit from Heaven and Earth, and managed to barely control such power.

Facing Heaven and Earth, as long as the Heavenly Path detects the loophole and seals it back, it means breaking through the deceptive defenses set by the Great True Person and merging that domain’s Heaven and Earth back with the Immortal Realm’s.

The Dao Fruit of the Great True Person would naturally be consumed instantly by the might of Heaven and Earth, and merge back with Heaven and Earth as one.

Once merged back into one, having lost the independent Dao Fruit, the Great True Person would naturally be subject to the constraints of Heaven and Earth again, and the originally infinite lifespan of the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit would naturally burst.

The ten-thousand-year limit of Heaven and Man would descend again, and for the Great True Persons whose Lifespan generally exceeded ten thousand years, their souls would instantly return to the netherworld, causing their physical demise.

Therefore, the inspection by Heaven and Earth is also referred to as tribulation by the Great True Persons of this realm.

How to avoid such tribulations has thus become the primary consideration of every Great True Person, and from this, numerous methods of Avoiding Tribulation have emerged.

Although the methods vary, they also share some commonalities.

For example, the reason a single domain’s Heaven and Earth serves as the basis of this independent Dao Fruit, and why it is just one domain, is the result of continuous exploration by predecessors to find the optimal volume.

Becoming a Heavenly Immortal requires the territory of one domain, which is the most widely recognized standard.

The area of a domain’s Heaven and Earth, just the right size, can essentially accommodate a complete Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit.

In terms of gathering the required territory of Heaven and Earth for the Great Tao, it does not exceed too much, preventing the force of Heaven and Earth from being too strong and causing too much resistance when separating the Dao Fruit, leading to failure.

It is also not too small, preventing one’s own path from exceeding the Heaven and Earth too much, ultimately causing the dispersal of the Great Tao and rendering the Heavenly Immortal Dao Fruit incomplete.

Thus, the range of a domain is the most universally applicable scope confirmed by predecessors after continuous summarization.

Based on this range, various Region Continents of the Immortal Realm, and even the various Sea Areas, autonomously divided up their own domain boundaries, passing them down from generation to generation, ultimately forming today’s structure of the Immortal Realm.

Of course, depending on the abundance or scarcity of their own Great Tao, each Great True Person also adjusts the range from which they separate Heaven and Earth to fit the most compatible state.

The ways of each Great True Person differ, and the quantity of the Great Tao each achieves also varies, so it is difficult to set standards; this will not be elaborated upon further.

Anyway, a Great Domain is confirmed to satisfy the needs of almost all Great True Persons.

At most, a Great True Person makes adjustments and modifications within the Great Domain according to their needs.

As previously described, in order to face the least resistance from Heaven and Earth when separating one’s own Great Tao, each Great True Person strives to make the domain of Heaven and Earth they separate just large enough to accommodate their own Great Tao.

Similarly, the lesser the Heaven and Earth they separate, the less likely it is for the Heavenly Path to detect it during its operational surveillance.

A person would not notice a change in a single strand of hair on their own body, and naturally, the Heavenly Path would not either.

Possibly, if you put a mole on the basis of the hair, and grow a dark hair from it,

As long as it is within the visible range, it becomes hard not to notice abnormalities on it.

This way, how to make oneself like a hair and not a noticeable dark hair has become a compulsory lesson for each Great True Person.

This returns us to the initial question.

How to minimize one’s separation of Heaven and Earth as much as possible to avoid attracting the attention of Heaven and Earth has thus become the Art of Avoiding Tribulation.