Chapter 48: Chapter Forty-Seven: Refining the Void, Sensing Space-Time

The Divine Transformation method circulated, and the Primordial Spirit's fire blazed up mightily.

Nine days of time flashed by in an instant.

As the Primordial Spirit's fire naturally extinguished.

During these nine days, once again shrinking by ten times in height, only a Five Thousand Zhang tall Great Dao Primordial Spirit remained, radiating brilliant light throughout its entire body, inside and out.

As Chen Daoxuan had anticipated, upon completing the fourth Divine Transformation, his Great Dao Primordial Spirit was one hundred percent Immortal and Pure Yang.

The Immortal Light and Pure Yang Light converged and resonated, mutually reinforcing and strengthening each other.

The entire Yuanling Realm seemed to echo in response with it.

……

In the unseen depths, Chen Daoxuan perceived a mysterious connection with the void illuminated and pervaded by the Pure Yang Light.

Within the illumination of the Pure Yang Light, it seemed as though at any moment he could, through this connection, attempt to break through to Returning to Void.

He knew that this meant, with the Primordial Spirit Pure Yang, he had already reached the theoretical minimum standard for breaking through to Returning to Void; if he did not fear failure, he could now attempt to achieve Returning to Void Stage within the Yuanling Realm.

At the same time, through this mysterious connection with the void, Chen Daoxuan also discovered that he had faintly gained some perception toward the Great Dao of Space.

In a fleeting thought, Chen Daoxuan recalled the final words Lu Lingwei had left behind.

"The Great Dao of Space, the Great Dao of Time?"

……

After pondering for half a day, Chen Daoxuan finally gathered his mind and began to meticulously and minutely sense the void region that had formed a mysterious connection with him under the illumination of the Pure Yang Light.

"Ten Thousand Zhang!"

"According to the Returning to Void method obtained from the envoy of the Tianlei Sect's Green Thunder Scripture, and the Returning to Void method naturally comprehended after the Yin-Yang Great Transformation Immortal Scripture reached Great Completion, only a Ten Thousand Zhang void region barely meets the theoretical minimum standard for breaking through to Returning to Void.

If one wishes to obtain the most Upper Vehicle Returning to Void with the greatest probability, this Ten Thousand Zhang of void is still far from sufficient!"

In a fleeting thought, vast and mighty Primordial Spirit Dharma Power, through the Pure Yang Light, surged into this Ten Thousand Zhang of void and began to refine it.

And with every inch of void refined, Chen Daoxuan perceived that this inch of void seemed to become a part of his body.

Every single day, Chen Daoxuan refined exactly one one-thousand-and-eightieth of this Ten Thousand Zhang of void.

After nearly three years, Chen Daoxuan completed one full refinement of this Ten Thousand Zhang of void.

The formless and featureless Ten Thousand Zhang of void, without needing the illumination of Pure Yang Light, was already connected with him in unseen depths, as if becoming his second body, tightly linked.

……

Sensing the tight connection with this Ten Thousand Zhang of void, Chen Daoxuan reflected in his heart on the differences between Returning to Void Stage in the Yuanling Realm and Tianling Great Realm, and Dazhou Yuzhou Fenshen Qi.

In the two realms where the Yuanling Realm and Tianling Great Realm were located, Returning to Void Stage meant using the Pure Yang Primordial Spirit to thoroughly refine a region of void and condense a Returning to Void Seed.

Using this as the foundation of Returning to Void, the Primordial Spirit entrusted itself to the void, achieving Returning to Void Stage.

As for the cultivation of Returning to Void Stage, it was in fact bright returning to sun and moon, dark returning to void.

Using the region of void entrusted by the Primordial Spirit, returning it to heaven and earth, preparing for the Primordial Spirit to achieve Heavenly Dao Harmony and attain Combined Body Stage.

……

As for the great realm of Dazhou Yuzhou Fenshen Qi, it was entirely different.

The Primordial Spirit Immortal, the Primordial Spirit split apart, entrusting itself to the Great Dao.

In the end, however different the paths, they converged at the same destination—both were the Primordial Spirit achieving Heavenly Dao Harmony, attaining Combined Body Stage.

……

"It's only Ten Thousand Zhang now; there's still some distance to the ultimate Myriad-Myriad-Zhang Void!"

Chen Daoxuan calculated slightly: nearly three years for one refinement, and with the current Pure Yang Primordial Spirit, only Ten Thousand Zhang of void could be refined at a time.

If he wished to refine a void of Myriad-Myriad Zhang in length, width, and height—the three dimensions—that would require… nearly thirty quadrillion years, that is, nearly three trillion years without rest.

Faced with this result, Chen Daoxuan fell slightly silent, but in his heart he was not discouraged in the slightest.

Once the Primordial Spirit recovered from the current Five Thousand Zhang to Fifty Thousand Zhang, the area illuminated by the Pure Yang Light, calculated by the three-dimensional space of length, width, and height, would increase a thousandfold.

With the refinement time of once every three years unchanged, this would be equivalent to shortening the time by a thousandfold, requiring only three billion years.

And if his calculations had no major errors, each subsequent Divine Transformation should be able to hasten things by hundreds or thousands of times.

When he successively underwent five more Divine Transformations and completely finished the Nine Transformations, the changes in the Primordial Spirit…

……

After sensing for half a day, Chen Daoxuan connected with the Kunlun Mirror and returned to the Great Universe.

Instantly, Chen Daoxuan perceived that his connection with the Ten Thousand Zhang of void he had refined was completely severed.

"This also cannot cross realms?"

In a fleeting thought, Chen Daoxuan communicated with the Kunlun Mirror and once again returned to the Yuanling Realm.

In an instant, Chen Daoxuan perceived that his connection with that Ten Thousand Zhang of void was restored to its original state.

Afterwards, Chen Daoxuan traveled back and forth between the Great Universe and the Yuanling Realm several more times in this manner.

Once he had complete mastery of the situation, Chen Daoxuan finally returned to the Great Universe.

Seated cross-legged within the Cuivei Immortal Mansion, the Great Dao Primordial Spirit radiated the brilliance of Immortal and Pure Yang converging together.

In an instant, Chen Daoxuan sensed that within the area illuminated by the Great Dao Primordial Spirit's Immortal Light, six Daos—Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Four Symbols, as well as Cause and Effect, Thunder, and Slaughter—all resonated with it.

In the unseen depths, there was a sensation of the Primordial Spirit splitting apart.

There was an impulse for the Primordial Spirit to entrust itself to the Great Dao.

Chen Daoxuan understood that as long as he wished, he could, with his current Immortal Primordial Spirit, begin the Primordial Spirit's division, and using the condensed Great Dao True Talisman as the foundation, begin to entrust himself into these six Daos, achieving the Fenshen Qi realm.

Faced with this, Chen Daoxuan merely gathered his thoughts and calmed the impulse in his heart.

It was still far from being the time for his breakthrough.

Only after completing nine Great Dao Baptisms, cultivating nine Daos, and condensing three hundred Great Dao True Talismans for each, would it be the time for the perfect breakthrough.

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And as the Immortal Light shone, amid the resonance of the six Great Daos, Chen Daoxuan suddenly faintly perceived a trace of the omnipresent Dao of Time.

"Mm, in the Yuanling Realm, the radiance of two Primordial Spirits — Immortal and Pure Yang — pervades, and the Pure Yang radiance pervading allows one to sense the Dao of Space."

"In the Great Universe, it is the pervading Immortal Light that allows one to sense the Dao of Time."

Thoughts flowing, Chen Daoxuan was lost in thought.

"Could this difference be the most fundamental distinction between the Great Universe and the Yuanling Realm, the Tianling Great Realm?"

"Lingwei's final message also told me to lay down foundations for the Dao of Time and Space as much as possible."

"Could it be that cultivation after ascending to immortality is related to the Dao of Time and Space?"

After pondering for a long time and arriving at some guesses, Chen Daoxuan finally fell into cultivation, drawing in the Dong Tian's spiritual energy to restore his Great Dao Primordial Spirit.

……

Several decades later.

His Great Dao Primordial Spirit had recovered to over forty thousand zhang, not far from fifty thousand zhang.

And this time happened to be exactly seven hundred years since Chen Daoxuan had accepted the mission assigned by his Master, Guiyuan True Lord, and come to the Xuanwu Mie Xian Zhen.

Although basically every three years Chen Daoxuan would take time to slay a Dao Thought Body, in seven hundred years he had only slain a little over two hundred of them.

On this day, just as Chen Daoxuan was once again preparing to spend some time slaying a Dao Thought Body.

On his True Inheritance Shanhai Stele, a wisp of message Spiritual Light suddenly flashed.

Seeing this, Chen Daoxuan was slightly surprised.

Because the only messages that could cause the Shanhai Stele to emit message Spiritual Light were those from the dozen or so people he had specially marked.

"Who is it?"

Thoughts flowing, Chen Daoxuan sensed the message within the Shanhai Stele at the first instant.