Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!-Chapter 977 - 288: Lively Events

At the cost of sacrificing future potential, one gains initial strength.

For the Sects and Families, such a Cultivation Technique still holds certain value!

Originally, although the Domain Realm is a cultivation civilization, aiming to cultivate to the Celestial Human Realm has always been rare.

The great majority of cultivators remain stuck at the first stage throughout their lives.

Those who can undergo Realm Breakthrough to Celestial Human, entering the Second Stage, are heaven’s favored, geniuses among geniuses.

Therefore, for the majority of cultivators, whether they can undergo Realm Breakthrough to Celestial Human, and smoothness in the second stage, is actually not a concern at all.

Among the Sects and Families, those truly extraordinary gifted seedlings, with potential above the Celestial Human Realm, obviously cannot be allowed to cultivate this Cultivation Technique—the extraordinary seedlings are meticulously nurtured by the sects and families for important future roles.

This kind of technique, which sacrifices the future in pursuit of early combat power, can actually be used to train a group of...

Cannon fodder! Death warriors!

Even if it sacrifices future potential, sacrifices the future developmental limits...

Using this method to train a batch of Third Realm cultivators with combat power comparable to the Celestial Human Realm can significantly elevate the strength of any sect or family in a short time!

Combat power of the Celestial Human Realm counts as a master within the Domain Realm! (Celestial Human Realm individuals like Gu Qingyi can serve as main generals of a fortress!)

If such a method can cultivate a batch of Third Realm cultivators with combat power equivalent to the Celestial Human Realm for one’s family and sect...

But the Ghost Race ancestor openly announced another flaw of this Cultivation Technique:

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Practicing the Ghost Race’s technique first requires cultivation talent—this is something everyone agrees on. No matter what a talentless mortal tries to cultivate, they will achieve nothing.

This so-called talent is affinity with the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi—you must be able to sense it.

Compared to ordinary people, those with cultivation talent already form a minority within the population base—precisely speaking, it’s an "extreme minority"!

The Ghost Race’s technique further eliminates half of this "extreme minority"!

Under the Ghost Race ancestor’s explanation: this kind of elimination is quite vexing.

First, this elimination seems very random.

During a Secret Technique ceremony, who can pass and who gets eliminated?

The answer is: unknown.

It completely depends on the Heavenly Dao’s mood!

Traditional cultivation depends on talent.

Those with good talent pass. Poor talent gets eliminated!

But this Secret Technique ceremony is more like a forcibly created bridge for communication with the Heavenly Dao.

By sacrificing part of the soul to the Heavenly Dao, any feedback or gifts from the Heavenly Dao entirely depend on its mood.

There’s even a very common scenario:

For example, among a group of a hundred participants, upon reviewing those who passed and those eliminated, an absurd phenomenon emerges.

Quite likely, someone with average talent passes the Secret Technique.

Someone with stronger talent gets eliminated.

An average talent individual, potentially only capable of reaching First and Second Realm at most, unexpectedly passes!

An individual originally with excellent talent, capable of reaching the Third Realm limit, even possibly attempting the Celestial Human Realm’s threshold, is unexpectedly eliminated in the Secret Technique ceremony!

Aside from the randomness in standards for passing individuals...

The passing rate is also very random.

The Ghost Race ancestor, after numerous attempts, stated:

The highest passing rate was over forty percent!

The lowest sometimes barely reached ten percent!

The passing rate appears completely unrelated to the number and talent of participants in each Secret Technique ceremony!

Just pure randomness!

Many times, you might gather dozens of exceptionally talented individuals, only to see one or two pass.

You might also collect a hundred with poor talent, and suddenly forty pass.

The criteria and conditions for selection by the Heavenly Dao—regarding this, the Ghost Race ancestor said:

I truly don’t know!

Initially, others didn’t believe this.

This Cultivation Technique was created by you! How could you possibly not know?

But when faced with skepticism, the Ghost Race ancestor immediately and decisively performed a Heavenly Dao vow!

Swearing to the Heavenly Dao that he genuinely doesn’t know! 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Thus, silence enveloped the crowd.

Many Saint Venerables were present, along with a Great Celestial Venerable. The Ghost Race ancestor’s Heavenly Dao vow could not be false; not under the scrutiny of so many Saint Venerables, and certainly not under the Great Celestial Venerable.

Even if this random passing standard is vexatious, the interest of the Sects and Families merely dips again—though some interest remains.

If it’s random, it might as well be—just gamble with larger quantities!

But the second drawback of the Cultivation Technique dispels each family’s intention to use quantity for trial and error.

[Anyone eliminated during a Secret Technique ceremony has negligible hope of returning to the normal cultivation system.]

Because in the sacrificial ceremony, the sacrificed soul will not be returned.

Once sacrificed, the Heavenly Dao does not return it.

Those who fail have incomplete souls.

With an incomplete soul, even wanting to retrace steps and adhere to the normal Cultivation Technique, a lacking Power of the Soul makes following the typical cultivation path challenging.

Entry is still feasible.

But from the Second Realm onwards, the Primordial Spirit must be cultivated! With an incomplete soul, the greatest achievement could likely end at the Second Realm in this lifetime.