Chapter 1140: Chapter 1088-1089: Arrogant Soldiers, Worry_2 Chapter 1140: Chapter 1088-1089: Arrogant Soldiers, Worry_2 From the very beginning of the race war between the human race and the Demon Race, when the great battle of both races unfolded, the powerhouses of the human race were all cautious, regarding the Demon Race as a life-and-death enemy, believing that a single misstep could lead to a life-or-death peril. Thus, at that time, they committed everything they had, leaving no path of retreat.
But when the true battle commenced, after initially paying a significant price, the human race's assaults encountered hardly any substantial resistance. Even though some powerhouses fell, the gains they obtained made these sacrifices seem trivial in comparison.
Everything gained too easily won't be valued highly enough.
Up to this day, the human race internally still maintains an aggressive mindset to exterminate the Demon Race, but the various forces within the human race have also begun to engage in even fiercer struggles.
Everyone is aware that after the extermination of the Demon Race, the chance to enfeoff a Divine Position and obtain an Imperatorial God Position of immortality will be a once-in-lifetime opportunity.
In the future, even if Divine Positions appear, those who have already secured Divine Positions will limit the choices of those who come later. Miss a step, and it may become impossible to catch up.
Especially under the incentive of the List of Divine Honor, every cultivator aspiring for a Divine Position is trying their utmost to strive, surpass their rivals, and increase their chances of seizing an Imperatorial God Position of longevity.
Longevity is the goal pursued by all beings; all beings yearn to exist eternally.
Once, for cultivators between Heaven and Earth, longevity seemed unattainable, completely beyond reach.
Even after the Heaven and Earth Ascension with the emergence of True Immortals, only a minority with exceptional talent were qualified to pursue such a goal. For most cultivators, it remained vague and untouchable.
However, the advent of the Gods Sealing List completely resolved this issue. According to messages spread by many immortal sects, there are several hundred named and titled Divine Positions on the Gods Sealing List, and countless ordinary Divine Positions.
Though ordinary Divine Positions come with limited authority and require coexistence with Heaven and Earth, for those cultivators who originally had no hope for immortality, it is still an opportunity for longevity, and it continues to attract countless pursuers.
This is why the War of Sealing Gods has gained the unanimous approval of all cultivators because everyone has something to gain, something to seek, seeing attainable interests within their reach.
The desire for longevity is the best motivation driving the Conferred God War; it is due to countless cultivators' thirst for immortality that Pei Xuanjing and many other True Immortals are able to mobilize their enthusiasm, making them committed participants in the war.
But human desires are inherently infinite. Always wanting more is the nature of all beings. Only those who can restrain their desires and know when to stop are extraordinary and can be called saintly sages.
How many among the cultivators below Heaven can achieve this?
To restrain their own desires and know when to stop is not what cultivators seek. Even for today's Daming World that has reached the height of internal competition, restraining desires and stopping at appropriate times is considered a disdainful act of lying down in defeat, unsupported and unrecognized by everyone.
To compete, to strive, to endeavor, the path of cultivation lies in a character for struggle, in a character for competition. To exert all one's strength for one's dreams and goals, to pursue everything one desires – this is the main theme of today's Daming World.
Once the Daming World became embroiled in internal competition, this situation became inevitable, and no one can change it, not even Pei Xuanjing, who once pushed many cultivators to compete behind the scenes, can stop or alter this reality.
Originally, many cultivators competed internally to cultivate, to progress, to seek an opportunity for immortality, and they spared no effort for cultivation advancement and for immortality.
Now, even with the appearance of the Gods Sealing List and the existence of Divine Positions showing them the possibility of immortality, it still cannot make these people rest or halt their advance. Instead, it sparks even greater ambitions and desires.
Having seen Divine Positions and the possibility of immortality, who, without having fought for it, would be willing to settle for less and forgo the better Divine Positions, to choose the inferior ones?
In our lifetime as cultivators, we compete with Heaven, with Earth, with others – everything revolves around competition. With the same Divine Positions available, why settle for less?
An independent practitioner once valiantly shouted this phrase, and within just a short period, it spread and gained recognition from countless cultivators, almost perfectly reflecting the true sentiments of all of them.
Over the years, as the War of Sealing Gods progressed, more information about the Gods Sealing List became gradually known, revealing clearly the meaning, authority, and future developments tied to each Divine Position.
“This Divine Position is a gift from Heaven and Earth, not the exclusive right of any one individual. As members of the human race, we are participating in the Conferred God War, shedding our heads and spilling our blood–why shouldn't we have the right to compete for the most supreme Divine Position!”
“We cultivators, what is there to fear in a competition!”
“How critical is the Divine Position–Refining it grants Immortality. If one steps amiss, would that not condemn us to eternal subservience!”
“As men born of Heaven and Earth, shouldn't we wield the Three-foot Sword to achieve unprecedented merit, and not cower so timidly!”
Just as at first Pei Xuanjing and the other True Immortals were discussing the allocation of the Divine Positions on the Gods Sealing List, they didn't want to see this very predicament.
No one wishes to settle for mediocrity; every cultivator harbors a wild ambition in their hearts to reach the pinnacle one day and inscribe their own legend.
The Divine Position of Longevity at hand represents such an opportunity, a chance for all cultivators to defy their fates–how could they possibly pass it by?
If these True Immortals truly wanted to forcefully divide these positions for themselves, treating them as their playthings and thereby cutting off the cultivators' opportunities, then most likely it would lead to a situation where the sentiment of the entire human race would turn against them.
Sometimes, it's not the difficulties that are feared, but despair, which can unleash unimaginable power in those with no path forward and create unforeseeable effects.
Such impacts are something these True Immortals cannot accept; no matter how powerful they might be, they could not realistically slaughter all dissenters–such a notion is impractical.
Even with the power to do so, they could not act upon it, not just because of their moral compass, but also because Heaven and Earth wouldn't permit it.
The matter of Conferring Gods is to comply with the will of Heaven and Earth, to perfect and elevate Heaven and Earth–should they slaughter the common people, it would bring about the revulsion of Heaven and Earth, and these True Immortals would no longer be able to remain in the Daming World.
It is precisely because the human race, united in their efforts, can fight against the Demon Race that their path of ascension is not blocked. For all cultivators, there are still opportunities.
Indeed, those cultivators born within the immortal sects hold advantage in the struggle for the Divine Positions, but this is not absolute. Just like on this List of Divine Honor, indeed many from the immortal sects are present, but the independent practitioners are certainly not without representation, and even in considerable number.
For many independent practitioners, what they desire is hope. They can concede advantages to those from the Great Cults, but utterly refuse to accept all potential paths being closed off to them.
And when Pei Xuanjing promoted the List of Divine Honor, these independent practitioners finally put their minds at ease because it represented the will of the True Immortals, securing they would not be abandoned after use, not discarded after crossing the river.
Of course, every coin has two sides. The presence of the List of Divine Honor puts all competition for the Divine Positions of Immortality into the open, where everyone is clearly aware of every move the others make, daring not a moment's negligence or to take things lightly, undoubtedly intensifying the internal competition.
Through the years, countless cultivators, in their bid to accumulate merits have bravely led the charge against the Demon Race, even paying with their lives.
But not one of these cultivators holds any regrets, for they believe their sacrifice is worthwhile, that their efforts indeed yield a harvest and will not be erased.
Chapter end
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