Cultivation: When you take things to the extreme

Chapter 1060: 646 Chapter: Secrets

Immortal Spirit Hero, Netherworld Sect Leader, Ksitigarbha King Venerate!

To be honest, Xu Yang was a bit surprised by this outcome.

Although the Immortal Spirit Rank was the pinnacle among heroes, Xu Yang still had not anticipated the sheer extent it encompassed, even including Ksitigarbha, one of the Four Great Bodhisattvas of Buddhism.

Ignoring those fictitious worlds of false Buddha and false Dao, just considering realms like the Earth Immortal Realm, Azure Star Realm, and the real world where Buddhism and Daoism manifest divinely, Xu Yang's own exploration and understanding, whether it was Taoism, Buddhism, or other major Dao lineages, all emphasized equality.

This equality was not about human equality but about the equality of the Dao, the equality of the Three Thousand Great Dao that ultimately converge, where no Dao ranks above another, only differing cultivators and their uneven progress created hierarchical distinctions.

Taking Buddhism as an example, its three main sources—Tathagata Buddha, Bodhisattva, and Fierce Ming King—are actually at the same level of realization.

As long as one could cultivate to the highest realm, there would be no distinctions of higher or lower among them, just as in the Three Pure Taoist Skills of Taoism—could you say Taiqing is stronger than Yuqing, or Yuqing stronger than Shangqing?

Daoist equality has no high or low, only differences among individual cultivators.

Ksitigarbha is among the highest attainments in the origins of Buddhist Bodhisattvas, present not only in the Earth Immortal Realm and Azure Star Realm, but also in the real world, with established Great Vow Tao of Ksitigarbha, and even in the Immortal and Buddha-inhabiting Azure Star Realm where a specifically identified Great Vow Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha exists, said to be a top-tier power among Earth Immortals, nearly at the level of a Heavenly Immortal.

Though all worlds have their own Dao resulting in presence of deities like Three Pure Taoist and Shakyamuni in every realm, similarity in Dao doesn't imply equivalence in realm or power.

For instance, the Supreme Taoist Ancestor of the World of Dao and Law, who possesses the power to create worlds, is conservatively estimated to be a Golden Immortal or even an Immortal.

While the Supreme Immortal Venerable of the Blue Star World is clearly a Heavenly Immortal, as the ruling Immortal Emperor of the Azure Star Realm and all major divine system heads are also Heavenly Immortals.

Apart from those deeply revered and possibly existent creator deities, no one in the Azure Star Realm has proven to have obtained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, including that Supreme Immortal Venerable.

From this comparison, the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of the Azure Star Realm and the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva of the Mystic Yellow Realm are probably peers, as both realms are close in divine hierarchy, hosting Heavenly Immortals but lacking Golden Immortals.

With similar divine hierarchies, the rank of dignitaries should also be not far apart, the Ksitigarbha of the Azure Realm being nearly a Heavenly Immortal-level Earth Immortal, then the Ksitigarbha of the Mystic Yellow Realm is also unlikely to fall below such a rank.

Thus, the arrival of Ksitigarbha was unexpected for Xu Yang.

The Immortal Spirit Hero covers even Earth Immortals?