Chapter 15: Primordial Spirit Dharma Aspect, The Second World

He found himself in a void.

Eighteen Five-Colored Halos enveloped the Great Dao Primordial Spirit, like a god, like a saint, like a deity of the Great Dao.

He clearly sensed that boundless, borderless, neither good nor evil Great Universe Heavenly Mind Consciousness.

Chen Daoxuan knew he was within the Great Universe Origin.

In an instant.

Chen Daoxuan also knew that he had overcome the Soul Egress Tribulation, completed this first Great Dao Baptism, and achieved the Great Dao Primordial Spirit.

He could return to the mortal world at any time, his Primordial Spirit returning to its vessel, achieving the Soul Egress Stage.

And at this moment, only three years had passed since his Primordial Spirit had egressed, Spirit Wandering the Great Void, and begun the Great Dao Baptism.

At this, boundless joy welled up in Chen Daoxuan's heart.

Not only because he had successfully completed the Great Dao Baptism, overcome the Soul Egress Tribulation, and achieved the Great Dao Primordial Spirit.

But also because this time, he had broken through smoothly without relying on the Kunlun Mirror.

Compared to nearly ten thousand years ago, when overcoming the Spirit Void Tribulation still required relying on the Kunlun Mirror, this was tremendous progress.

……

At this moment, although he could return to the mortal world at any time and fully achieve the Soul Egress Stage.

Chen Daoxuan did not return.

Instead, he activated the method within the Black Tortoise True Scripture he cultivated for condensing the Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect.

He began condensing the Great Dao Dharma Aspect within this Great Universe Origin.

At the Soul Egress Stage, the Primordial Spirit is singular, but the Great Dao Dharma Aspect is not.

One Dao, one Dharma Aspect.

If one had the ability, even comprehending the Three Thousand Great Daos, cultivating the Three Thousand Dharmas, and condensing the Three Thousand Great Dao Dharma Aspects would all be possible.

……

Around the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul, where five-colored radiance flowed, the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm—sky profound and earth yellow—manifested.

Within the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm, a Black Tortoise phantom.

At this moment, it was mysteriously connected to the Water Great Dao.

Within the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul, eighteen individual Water Great Dao True Talismans emerged, one by one surging into the Black Tortoise phantom.

The Primordial Spirit Dharma Power within the Great Dao Primordial Spirit, sublimated from Nascent Soul Dharma Power, likewise surged into the Black Tortoise phantom.

Immediately, that Black Tortoise phantom began to solidify bit by bit.

The various Black Tortoise divine abilities he cultivated—Black Tortoise Spiritual Sense, Xuanwu Armor Shield, Xuanwu Breath Concealment—and so on, the divine ability runes condensed from each, were likewise successively branded within.

But with every divine ability branded, the Primordial Spirit Dharma Power within the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul was consumed at extreme speed.

Causing the once-solid Great Dao Primordial Spirit to become illusory.

But within the span of a single breath, the Primordial Spirit Dharma Power Chen Daoxuan had consumed was restored from the mysterious void, and the Great Dao Primordial Spirit solidified once more.

Consume, restore; restore, consume.

In such cycles of Primordial Spirit Dharma Power, the Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect took shape little by little.

And that Great Dao Primordial Spirit was tempered and refined; with each cycle of Primordial Spirit Dharma Power, the Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul would become more solid, rise a little higher.

……

Time flowed on.

In the blink of an eye, nearly ten years had passed.

Within the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm—round heaven, square earth, sky profound and earth yellow—a lifelike Ten Thousand Zhang Black Tortoise swam freely.

This also caused that Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm to no longer be dead silent, gaining a touch of vitality.

Signifying the successful condensation of the Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect.

If the Dharma Aspect is not destroyed, the Primordial Spirit is immortal.

Equivalent to having two lives.

And the original Ten-Thousand-Zhang Dao Soul had been tempered and grown to Thirteen Thousand Zhang.

……

And with the condensation of the Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect.

Chen Daoxuan continued his cultivation within this Great Universe Origin.

With single-minded focus, he polished his Primordial Spirit and elevated the Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect.

……

Until another Two Jiazi had nearly passed.

With only fifty years remaining until the Three Jiazi.

The Great Dao Primordial Spirit and the Black Tortoise Dharma Aspect had both been elevated to Twenty Thousand Zhang.

Reaching a limit.

Unless his cultivation realm broke through, no amount of further cultivation could elevate it by even the slightest degree.

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At this point, there was no longer any need to remain within the Great Universe Origin; with a single thought.

Chen Daoxuan sensed that Flesh Dharma Body, and his Primordial Spirit returned to its vessel.

Within the Mie Xian Zhen, Xuanwu Ding Ninety-Nine sensed Chen Daoxuan at the Array Eye of that Spirit Qi Planet.

Manifesting the Boundless Vision of Xuanwu Treading the Void, circling the Endless Heavenly River.

"After a span of One Hundred Thirty Years, True Disciple Chen has finally overcome the Soul Egress Tribulation and achieved the Soul Egress Stage realm."

"I thought he had failed!"

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Inside the Blessed Land.

When the twenty-thousand-zhang Great Dao Primordial Spirit returned to its orifice, triggering a breakthrough phenomenon.

Chen Daoxuan's Flesh Dharma Body also began to undergo a profoundly mysterious metamorphosis and elevation.

From its original Nascent Soul Dharma Body, it sublimated into a Primordial Spirit Dharma Body.

Three days later.

The sublimation was complete, achieving the Primordial Spirit Dharma Body.

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Instantly, Chen Daoxuan's whole body shuddered.

In the unseen depths, Dharma Body, Primordial Spirit, and Dharma Aspect converged — a Trinity.

The Flesh Dharma Body was no longer a weakness.

As long as any one of the three remained, the other two could slowly recover.

His survivability reached a level unimaginable at the Nascent Soul Stage.

Of course, this was in the Great Universe, where the Chang Sheng Tian Gui granted lifespans measured in yuan-hui.

But in the Yuanling Realm's spacetime domain, the Divine Transformation Stage — equivalent to Soul Egress — only carried a five-thousand-year lifespan.

He might not have recovered before his lifespan ran out.

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As he formally reached Soul Egress.

Chen Daoxuan sensed two changes appear on the Kunlun Mirror.

The first change: beyond the original Yuanling Realm Coordinate, a Second World Coordinate emerged.

The second change: without leaving the Great Universe, he could sense everything within a Thousand Li Range of the Yuanling Realm and another world through the Kunlun Mirror.

The Thousand Li Range sensed in the Yuanling Realm was centered on the position where he had left.

The other world, meanwhile, was a vast Flower Sea.

Within the sensed thousand-li region, countless exotic flowers and herbs bloomed, and the dense Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi took tangible form — yet not a single other living being was present.

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Sensing the two changes in the Kunlun Mirror, Chen Daoxuan's heart rejoiced.

On the Yuanling Realm side, with the Demon Extermination Karma unresolved, he did not dare take half a step away from the Yuanling Realm before reaching the Divine Transformation Stage.

Afraid of being targeted by the Great Powers of the Demon Domain.

Now, the appearance of a Second World Coordinate was perfect.

Gazing at the Second World, he perceived the thousand-li region filled with countless exotic flowers and herbs for a moment.

Chen Daoxuan entered the ten-zhang-tall Giant Substitute Puppet.

After securing the True Inheritance Shanhai Stele, he used the Kunlun Mirror to travel to that Second World.

……

"Where did this Outer Realm Wild Cultivator come from, daring to sneak into our Heng Immortal Court's Emperors' Garden?"

"Die!"

Chen Daoxuan had only just arrived in that Second World.

He had just sensed that this world possessed a stable space nearly comparable to the Great Universe, and Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi so dense it became tangible.

When he saw, a thousand li away, three figures clad in Azure Divine Armor, wielding halberds and maces, forming a Dharma Array, radiating an Aura exceeding Soul Departure Peak, charging toward him in furious wrath.

He also saw over a dozen similar three-person squads rushing in from even farther away.

He even sensed a grand Mysterious Forbidden System manifesting from above and below.

Seeing this, Chen Daoxuan's heart gave a jolt.

In a flash of thought, he connected with the Kunlun Mirror and returned to the Great Universe.