Chapter 28: Primordial Spirit Immortal, Primordial Spirit Pure Yang

Although he only needed to visualize the Kunlun Mirror to eliminate this endless pain and stabilize his Dao heart,

Chen Daoxuan had no intention of visualizing the Kunlun Mirror at all.

As he comprehended the Yin-Yang Transformation Method, he also came to know that during Transformation, there were distinctions of Upper, Middle, and Lower Vehicles.

The Lower Vehicle relies on various external aids such as pills and treasures to assist the Transformation; generally, upon completing Transformation, the Primordial Spirit would be tainted by these external forces, which would be detrimental to future cultivation.

The Middle Vehicle relies on various dharmas, secret techniques, and divine abilities to assist the Transformation.

This brings no harm upon completing Transformation, but one will miss out on many opportunities and fortunes.

As for the Upper Vehicle, it relies solely on one's own Primordial Spirit and one's own Dao heart to complete the Transformation.

If he visualized the Kunlun Mirror, that would be a Middle Vehicle Transformation.

Chen Daoxuan naturally would not make such a choice.

He simply focused wholeheartedly on the Upper Vehicle Transformation, facing head-on the endless pain of the Primordial Spirit fire burning, savoring one by one the various thoughts that surfaced from the depths of his heart.

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Wailing, begging for mercy, death, chaos, madness……

As thoughts arose and perished, Chen Daoxuan seemed to see one version of himself after another being born, only to die.

Amidst the endless pain and the birth and death of countless thoughts, Chen Daoxuan sensed that his mind was being tempered bit by bit, and his Dao heart and will were becoming purer, more translucent, and flawless.

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Time flowed like water; in the blink of an eye, three days passed.

The Twenty Thousand Zhang Great Dao Primordial Spirit, after three days of Primordial Spirit fire, had shrunk to the boundary of Ten Thousand Zhang.

At that instant, Chen Daoxuan sensed that his entire Primordial Spirit had undergone a sublimation and metamorphosis.

It was as if he had performed a Soul-Outsourcing in the Great Universe, Spirit Wandering the Great Void, completing a Great Dao Baptism.

At this point, Chen Daoxuan knew that this Primordial Spirit Self-Transformation of his could be considered a success, and he could end this Primordial Spirit Self-Transformation at will.

But Chen Daoxuan did not end it.

Instead, he continued to operate the Transformation Spirit Method, controlling the Primordial Spirit fire to burn in an orderly manner like the flow of yin and yang, continuing this Primordial Spirit Self-Transformation.

Because after three days, he had only just reached the passing line of a Transformation.

He also clearly felt that the Great Dao Primordial Spirit he had cultivated was still far from its limit.

He could continue.

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Six days later.

As this self-transformation of the Primordial Spirit reached a full nine days and nine nights,

the Primordial Spirit fire, which had been blazing fiercely, naturally extinguished.

At this point, the Transformation Spirit Method Chen Daoxuan had been operating with a touch of Yin-Yang intent came to a halt, completely ending this Transformation.

Chen Daoxuan was full of unfulfilled desire.

His original Twenty Thousand Zhang Primordial Spirit, after nine days and nine nights of Transformation, had become only two thousand zhang.

Yet the Primordial Spirit pressure it exuded was several times stronger than that of the original Twenty Thousand Zhang Primordial Spirit.

Besides this, one-tenth of the Primordial Spirit radiated Immortal Light and Pure Yang Light.

The two kinds of Primordial Spirit light, like two sides of one whole, complemented each other in their convergence.

Moreover, these two thousand zhang of Primordial Spirit were only temporary; he could cultivate and restore them to Twenty Thousand Zhang.

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Sensing the Immortal Light and Pure Yang Light in the one-tenth region of the two thousand zhang Primordial Spirit, Chen Daoxuan's heart was filled with joy.

Soul-Outsourcing Peak, Primordial Spirit Immortal.

Transformation Peak, Primordial Spirit Pure Yang.

These are respectively the states reached after reaching the peak of the Soul-Outsourcing Stage in the Great Universe and the Divine Transformation Stage in the Yuanling Realm.

In the Great Universe, one must condense an Immortal Primordial Spirit to have the foundation to achieve the Soul Division Stage.

In this Yuanling Realm, one must condense a Pure Yang Primordial Spirit to break through toward the Returning to Void Stage.

In the Great Universe, normally, one needs to complete four Great Dao Baptisms and reach Soul-Outsourcing Middle Stage to refine Immortal Intent and give birth to this Immortal Primordial Spirit Light.

And in the Yuanling Realm, at the Divine Transformation Stage, one also needs to complete four Transformations before part of the Primordial Spirit becomes Pure Yang and radiates Pure Yang Light.

Now Chen Daoxuan had, with only Soul-Outsourcing/Transformation First Layer cultivation, obtained the merits normally possessed at Soul-Outsourcing/Transformation Fourth Layer.

"One outer, one inner."

"If I undergo Nine Soul-Outsourcings in the Great Universe and complete nine Great Dao Baptisms,"

"and also complete Nine Transformations in this Yuanling Realm,"

"just how strong will my Primordial Spirit foundation be?"

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Thoughts flowing, sensing the changes in his Primordial Spirit, Chen Daoxuan did not emerge from seclusion.

He continued his closed-door cultivation deep within the Yuanling Realm.

He had only just broken through to Soul-Outsourcing/Transformation not long ago; in truth, he was lacking in many aspects.

The cultivation of the Immortal Scripture, the comprehension of the Great Dao, and along with the breakthrough of a major realm, the cultivation of pills, talismans, artifacts, and formations……

This large pile of shortcomings required time to be slowly compensated for bit by bit.

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In the years that followed.

Chen Daoxuan entered closed-door cultivation.

He comprehended the four Great Daos: Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Four Symbols, and Cause and Effect.

Comprehending the four Immortal Scriptures: Mountain-Sea, Four Spirits, Immeasurable, and Yin-Yang Great Transformation.

Cultivating the Merit Path, nurturing two Merit Dharma Realms and two Merit Objects, and accumulating Merit Lotus Fruits.

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However, every three years, Chen Daoxuan would emerge from seclusion once.

He would also rotate to a different domain and re-enter seclusion.

In this way, he could perceive the differing Heavenly Dao between different domains.

During these periods of emerging from seclusion, Chen Daoxuan would spend some time traveling between the Great Universe, Yuanling Realm, and Tianling Great Realm.

In the Great Universe, every three years he would slay a Dao Thought Body, complete a Sect Mission, and familiarize himself with his own strength.

In the Tianling Great Realm, he would handle matters of the Green Thunder Sect, and offer guidance to the Green Thunder Sect's Core Formation Cultivators, as well as some Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

In the Yuanling Realm, he would discuss the Dao and cultivate together with Lu Lingwei, the Immortal Reincarnate.

The relationship with Lu Lingwei, under his deliberate maintenance, had remained steadily in a very special state of close friendship.

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Time flew swiftly, years passing like a shuttle.

Just like that, in Chen Daoxuan's seclusions, five hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

Within the Cuivei Immortal Mansion, as he used the condensed strand of Five Elements Law Imprint to discern the true from the false of the Great Dao.

Merging it into the Five Elements True Mountain and Five Elements Mysterious Sea cultivated through the Mountain-Sea Immortal Scripture.

Sensing the thirty Great Dao True Talismans contained within the Five Elements True Mountain at this time.

Chen Daoxuan opened his eyes in satisfaction.

"It is time to begin the Second Soul-Outsourcing, and break through to the Soul-Outsourcing Second Layer."

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Unlike the Yuanling Realm, which at the great realm of Divine Transformation actually does not place much emphasis on comprehension of the Great Dao.

In the Great Universe's Soul Egress stage, to have the Primordial Spirit depart the body and undergo the Great Dao Baptism, there are strict and clear requirements regarding comprehension of the Great Dao.

For example, condensing one strand of Law Imprint allows one to coalesce the Primordial Spirit, with a certain hope of surviving the Great Dao Baptism and achieving the Soul Egress stage.

But only by condensing nine Law Imprints, after coalescing the Primordial Spirit, does one have the greatest chance of surviving the Great Dao Baptism and achieving the Soul Egress stage, with the greatest gains.

If one wishes to complete the Second Great Dao Baptism and break through to Nascent Soul Departure, Second Layer, the same principle applies.

Condensing three strands of Law Imprint allows one to sense the opportunity, have the Primordial Spirit depart the body, and undergo the Second Great Dao Baptism.

But only by condensing thirty Law Imprints can one maximize the possibility of surviving the Second Great Dao Baptism, and obtain the greatest gains.

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