Chapter 47: Chapter Forty-Six: The Heart-Mind Immortal, the Original Heart Ever-Present

Even Chen Daoxuan, by connecting with the Heavenly Heart Consciousness, could not divine any heavenly secrets concerning Lu Lingwei.

It was as if Lu Lingwei's existence were merely his own fantasy.

And regarding the circumstances he had probed out, Chen Daoxuan could only sigh at the Immortal's mighty power.

"Is this what they mean by a mayfly glimpsing the blue heavens!"

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Not lingering long in the Yuanling Realm, he communicated with the Kunlun Mirror and returned to the Great Universe.

He returned to the Cuivei Immortal Mansion.

Only at this point did Chen Daoxuan begin to sense the changes in himself after the tenth Primordial Spirit dual cultivation with Lu Lingwei.

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The previous nine Primordial Spirit dual cultivations.

The Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Scripture advanced to Great Completion; between the true mountain and profound sea condensed through cultivating the Mountain-Sea Immortal Scripture, the manifested pair of Yin Yang Fish completely transformed into a Sun and Moon.

The sun rose and the moon set, time flowing on.

As for the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Art, it had only reached Minor Completion.

However, after that one 【Great Transformation Immortal Heart】 reached Minor Completion, it already contained three "lives," and had fallen into an irrecoverable state; the probability of successful reincarnation and rebirth had also risen to thirty percent.

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And beyond the improvements in the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Scripture and the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Art, the nine Primordial Spirit dual cultivations brought other gains.

Chen Daoxuan also discovered that his Dao Body had undergone tremendous changes.

From the original Hong Grade Five Elements Dao Body, it had transformed into a Zhou Grade Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Body, containing yin and yang, with yin and yang as the primary aspect.

The Dao Body's eight grades are Heaven, Earth, Mystery, Yellow, Universe, Zhou, Hong, and Wild.

Among them, the two grades of Hong and Wild only greatly aid the cultivation of the Great Dao at the Soul Egress (Divine Transformation) stage; when comprehending the corresponding Great Dao, one is even faster than with the guidance of an Immortal Scripture.

The two grades of Universe and Zhou, on the other hand, greatly aid the Spirit Division (Return to Void) stage.

Advancing from Hong Grade to Zhou Grade is equivalent to directly elevating one major realm tier.

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However, these were merely the gains from the previous nine Primordial Spirit dual cultivations.

As for the tenth dual cultivation carried out after Lu Lingwei recovered her memories, Chen Daoxuan felt no difference whatsoever.

He discovered no changes at all.

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Just after Chen Daoxuan left the Yuanling Realm and returned to the Great Universe.

Above the Yuanling Realm, the Spirit Realm.

Within a Du Li Shi Kong, Lu Lingwei, who was directly traversing the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, a faint smile surfaced on her face.

"Senior Disciple has such fortune; my worries were for nothing."

"It's just that that Body Integration demon, daring to have some Cause and Effect with Senior Disciple, cannot go unpunished."

In the span of a thought, Lu Lingwei's expression turned icy; beneath the Immortal Tribulation, she gently waved a jade hand outward.

In an instant.

In a certain place of the Spirit Realm, a stretch of demonic earth permeated with demonic qi, spanning hundreds of millions of miles.

As a wisp of yin-yang radiance appeared.

A scream rang out; the Body Integration demonic shadow hidden deep within the demonic earth was directly struck down a realm, severed from its connection with the Great Dao it had merged with.

Directly traversing the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, sensing the sudden surge in the tribulation's might, Lu Lingwei paid it no heed; after calculating briefly with her fingers, a smile resurfaced on her face.

"In this way, that demon will still have karmic entanglement with Senior Disciple, but it can no longer pose a threat to his life; instead, it can become his opportunity."

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Great Universe, Cuivei Immortal Mansion.

Chen Daoxuan merely began to immerse himself in cultivation.

He took the two hundred and fifty-eight strands of yin-yang Law Imprints he had comprehended and condensed during the one hundred and twenty-nine years before the Primordial Spirit dual cultivation with Lu Lingwei, and returned them to their source, condensing them one by one into yin-yang Great Dao True Talismans.

Perhaps because of the Zhou Grade Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Body, or perhaps because the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Scripture had reached Great Completion.

In just half a year, he had condensed all those yin-yang Law Imprints into yin-yang Great Dao True Talismans.

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Only at this point did Chen Daoxuan perceive the effect on himself of the tenth Primordial Spirit dual cultivation with Lu Lingwei.

And this effect concerned neither the Flesh Dharma Body nor the Great Dao Primordial Spirit, nor did it concern spiritual wisdom and comprehension.

It was related to the heart-mind.

After half a year had passed, Chen Daoxuan discovered that his heart-mind now possessed an incomparably subtle change.

It was as if his original heart remained ever-present, able to endure the passage of time without waning or aging.

The heart-mind was immortal.

Chen Daoxuan guessed that this state of his immortal heart-mind was likely somewhat similar to an Immortal's heart-mind.

Before the heart-mind became immortal, as time went by, Chen Daoxuan could sense the formless, invisible traces of time accumulating on his heart-mind.

Even every advancement to a major realm could only dilute and delay the traces of time on his heart-mind, but could not cleanse them away entirely.

But now, Chen Daoxuan felt that the traces of time on his own heart-mind had been cleansed away entirely, carrying a sense of being untouched by time, imperishable and unworn.

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This change in the heart-mind, according to Chen Daoxuan's comprehension.

Was in fact a change in the perception of time.

Normal beings of the myriad creatures, including himself, were the same before the tenth Primordial Spirit dual cultivation with Lu Lingwei and the immortalization of the heart-mind.

All of it will fade with the passage of time; as more time passes, one will feel time slipping by faster and faster.

The reason behind this is actually very simple.

For example, when a person is five years old, a single year makes up a full one-fifth of their life.

But by the time they reach thirty, a single year is only one-thirtieth of their life.

Compared to the "him" at five, the "him" at thirty will naturally feel that a year passes in the blink of an eye.

And this change in the sense of time only grows more pronounced the further on one goes.

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Half a year ago, before undergoing the tenth Primordial Spirit joint cultivation with Lu Lingwei and achieving an imperishable mind, Chen Daoxuan was also in this state.

Compared to the over ten thousand years he had lived through, a year or two truly passed in a flash.

Yet over this past half year, because of his imperishable mind, Chen Daoxuan felt that, on top of the already swift passage of time, he had also returned to the perception of time he had as a newborn in his previous life.

His mind could perfectly take in everything he saw and heard, savoring the passage of time drop by drop.

He possessed both the child's sense of time moving slowly, and the sense of time flying by that came from having lived through ten thousand years.

One slow and one fast sense of time coexisting within his mind, keeping his original heart ever-present, making his spirit seem imperishable, unworn, unaging, and undying.

It was also because of his imperishable mind that Chen Daoxuan understood why, after Lu Lingwei awakened her memories, the situation he had imagined—her memories of this life fading and her becoming cold and heartless toward him—did not occur.

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After spending half a year to fully condense the Yin-Yang Law Imprint into a Great Dao True Talisman.

Having understood his own imperishable mind, Chen Daoxuan sensed the opportunity, and directly began his Primordial Spirit Soul Egress, Spirit Wandering the Great Void, undergoing the fourth Great Dao Baptism.

And this Great Dao Baptism took only a short half a year for Chen Daoxuan to completely pass through.

After ten years had passed.

The several Dharma Aspects within his Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm, along with the Great Dao Primordial Spirit that had undergone four Great Dao Baptisms, had all grown to fifty thousand zhang.

Only then did Chen Daoxuan return his Primordial Spirit to his body.

After spending another few days to master and understand the various changes, Chen Daoxuan could not wait to communicate with Kunlun, and head straight for the Yuanling Realm.

In the depths of the Yuanling Realm, he began his fourth Divine Transformation.

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