The Sims: I Open the Immortal Path for All Beings

For millennia, the pursuit of immortality, the yearning for true immortals, has been the arduous quest of countless powerhouses and forces. They do not know how much they have paid, how much cost they have borne.

Yet until today, in both these worlds, numerous supreme strong still found themselves trapped before the threshold of the Immortal Dao Realm, only able to sigh at the legends of immortal and indestructible true immortals.

Therefore, for anyone, or any powerful force, if they truly possessed the method of becoming immortal, they would certainly treasure it and keep it secret, not sharing it with the world.

This was also why Wu Shijiu, when he glimpsed the Witch God Sect’s treasured secret techniques, did not see these things, and guessed that they were merely rumors, regarding the so-called methods of becoming immortal as lies.

But today, Wu Shijiu was shocked beyond measure, “I never imagined that this so-called sacrificial method would be so publicly known, allowed for all Witch God Sect disciples to master and practice. The Witch God Sect powerhouse who thought of this method was indeed incredibly clever, of great wisdom indeed!”

Small secrets are hidden in the wild, great secrets are hidden in the city.

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If a method of becoming immortal appeared anywhere, other supreme forces and powerhouses would inevitably develop a desire to spy. There is a saying that one can be a thief for a thousand days, but one cannot guard against a thief for a thousand days; even the most well-kept secrets can eventually be found. And yet, the Witch God Sect proliferated this method of becoming immortal so widely, teaching it to all disciples as if it were an ordinary divine power skill, creating a darkness under the lamplight that other forces and supreme strong instinctively overlook, never suspecting that such a widely known practice in the Witch God Sect could be the legendary method of becoming immortal.

The sacrificial method is a divine power skill that all novice disciples of the Witch God Sect must learn; it involves constructing a human sacrificial altar, offering sacrifices, and then bartering with the powerful or with Heaven and Earth to obtain what one desires.

“Not to mention other supreme strong and top-tier forces, even a cultivator like me, coming from the Witch God Sect, wouldn’t believe it,” Wu Shijiu remarked with emotion.

If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, even if someone told him that the Witch God Sect’s method of becoming immortal was the sacrificial method, he would never have believed it, and would instead have scoffed at the notion.

“Using the sacrificial method to make offerings to Heaven and Earth and then receiving favor and rewards from the will of Heaven and Earth, gaining Heaven and Earth’s reciprocation to advance oneself,” after hearing the other’s words, Pei Xuanjing also immediately recalled the description of this divine power skill that he had seen within the Witch God Sect.

He too had indeed perused the practice skills and divine powers of various top-tier forces in the Sky Wasteland, spending the most time with the Witch God Sect. However, Pei Xuanjing also fell for the darkness under the lamplight, instinctively focusing on core skills and neglecting the Witch God Sect’s simplest and most widespread practice method.

“However, such a sacrificial method, by gaining the favor and reciprocation of the will of Heaven and Earth, signifies a complete binding with Heaven and Earth. Lose their favor, and the foundation of the realm that was ascended to may wobble; at best, one’s power might be compromised, and at worst, even plummeting in status is possible. Although such a method is swift, it is not suitable for me,” Pei Xuanjing quickly made a decision and chose within his heart.

Indeed, the Witch God Sect’s method of ascending to true immortality may seem the most expedient and safest, but to Pei Xuanjing, it was not at all what he sought.

In Pei Xuanjing’s view, though this method may allow one to easily possess great power, one is like a duckweed without roots, with everything stemming from the favor of Heaven and Earth, much like gods who rely on the protection of the will of Heaven and Earth, completely bound to it. If one loses that heavenly favor, if Heaven and Earth perish, then one would be deeply entangled as well.

Although Pei Xuanjing had embarked on the Dao of Spirit Immortals, he had expended great cost to refine the Sanbao Jade Ruyi, then gathered the Avatar of the Emperor of the South Pole Eternal Life, a strenuous process, all to ensure his own autonomy and avoid being completely bound by Heaven and Earth.

If he really wanted to take the easy way for convenience and lost himself, then why bother with such trouble, and there was no need to learn the methods of the Witch Deity Teaching. At first, he could have simply merged the Longevity World into the Daming World and effortlessly obtained the True Immortal Dao Fruit.

“Moreover, although this path is simple, the idea that one could obtain the True Immortal Dao Fruit merely through sacrifice is far from easy to accomplish,” Pei Xuanjing’s eyes flashed with curiosity.

When he first created the Longevity World, the implicit suggestion of the Will of Heaven and Earth was that he would have to sacrifice an entire Small Thousand World to gain such a reward.

So what about the Witch Deity Teaching, what kind of offerings had they prepared that could be recognized by the Will of Heaven and Earth, and be granted the True Immortal Dao Fruit? This was undoubtedly a matter of great curiosity to Pei Xuanjing.

Pei Xuanjing’s gaze transcended time and space, landing within the bounds of the Witch Deity Teaching beyond the domain.

Time moved back to not long ago, within the Witch Deity Teaching.

Several supreme powers of the Witch Deity Teaching, along with many other cultivators of the Spirit Realm Eightfold and Sevenfold, stood in the void, positioned according to the directions of an ancient formation technique.

In the midst of these powerhouses, there was a sacrificial altar rotating and pulsating. If Pei Xuanjing were here, he would realize that this human sacrificial altar was exactly the same as the one he observed as an avatar in the Tianhuang world during his initial visit to the Witch Deity Teaching, except it was shrunk countless times.

The Witch God Sect Leader stood above this sacrificial altar, holding a banner filled with a primitive aura. This banner was a symbol of authority historically wielded by the leaders of the Witch Deity Teaching; legend says it was a magical weapon forged by the first Human Race Common Master in ancient times as a reward for the witch-priest lineage. After being consecrated and blessed by successive witch-priests and Human Race Common Masters, it possessed terrifying power.

The banner moved slightly, slicing through layers of space as if it were shattering fate itself, claiming its own destiny.

“Thousands of years of waiting, all for today, for the future of my witch-priest lineage…”

The hoarse voice of the Witch God Sect Leader slowly spread, carrying an inexplicable charm at this moment, as if fused with the Tao, full of bewitching power. As the Witch God Sect Leader spoke, all members of the Witch Deity Teaching revealed an excited expression on their faces.

Thousands of years of strategizing culminate in this day.

A fierce light appeared in the Witch God Sect Leader’s eyes.

Everyone knows of the Sky Mechanism Pavilion’s Master Tianji, unmatched in divination, claimed to calculate everything under the sky, yet many have forgotten that the witch-priest lineage, in the beginning, besides managing the human race’s sacrificial and martial duties, also bore the responsibility of deducing Heavenly secrets, and exploring clear paths for the human race in the vast unknown future.

Countless ages ago, a past Sect Leader of the Witch Deity Teaching had already foreseen this day, which led to their strategic planning, just to give birth to a True Immortal of their own Witch Deity Teaching lineage on this very day.