Before Shang Xia, cultivators in the sea of stars had typically advanced to the Martial Emptiness Realm in one of three ways.0

The first involved relying on a Dao Field, using the power of the World Origin Source to complete the breakthrough. However, cultivators who advanced that way were almost permanently bound to that Dao Field, with influence limited strictly to the world they belonged to. Their reach didn’t even extend meaningfully to subsidiary worlds to their Heavenly Field.0

Few used that method, as it required access to a preexisting Dao Field established by a Sage. Such places were typically preserved by older sects hoping to force a successor to draw on...0