Chapter 52: Four Hundred Years Pass in the Blink of an Eye

After temporarily concluding his cultivation of the Innate Creation Celestial Flame immortal art.

Chen Daoxuan began using this immortal art to assist his cultivation.

One year later, his Great Dao Primordial Spirit had fully recovered to fifty thousand zhang.

Afterwards, Chen Daoxuan headed to the Great Universe and directly began his fifth Great Dao Baptism.

Although his Five Elements Great Dao True Talismans numbered only a little over ninety, his Yin-Yang Great Dao True Talismans had already reached three hundred.

And this depth of Great Dao cultivation had already reached a mysterious threshold.

It was no different from when, at the breakthrough from Nascent Soul Stage to Soul Egress Stage, one comprehended and condensed nine Law Imprints, or more than nine, for a realm breakthrough.

Even exceeding three hundred would not provide better assistance for achieving the Divine Transformation Stage.

Therefore, Chen Daoxuan did not wait for progress in his cultivation of the other Great Daos, and directly began his fifth Great Dao Baptism.

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A mere ten years later, he completed the fifth Great Dao Baptism, raised his Great Dao Primordial Spirit to sixty thousand zhang, and returned it to his body.

Communicating with the Kunlun Mirror, he returned to the Yuanling Realm, and in nine days' time, Chen Daoxuan completed his fifth Divine Transformation.

And once again shrinking to one-tenth its height, his Great Dao Primordial Spirit became six thousand zhang.

Not only had his Primordial Spirit foundation been strengthened once more.

His Immortal Light and Pure Yang Light had also each grown ten times stronger.

This meant that for the two kinds of Primordial Spirit Radiance spreading outward, the one-dimensional linear distance had grown tenfold.

The two-dimensional planar area had grown a hundredfold, and the three-dimensional space a thousandfold.

Setting aside the strengthening of his Primordial Spirit foundation, just this growth in Primordial Spirit Radiance alone meant his speed of refining void would directly increase a thousandfold.

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Besides this, Chen Daoxuan could sense that his perception of the two Daos of Time and Space had fundamentally doubled.

Even his perception of the six Daos of Five Elements, Yin-Yang, Four Symbols, Cause and Effect, Thunder, and Slaughter had become subtly clearer.

Sensing these changes within himself, Chen Daoxuan's heart was filled with joy.

"Good. Sharpening the knife does not delay the work of chopping wood."

"First, I will complete the nine Great Dao Baptisms and nine Divine Transformations as quickly as possible. Once my cultivation realm reaches the peak of Soul Egress (Divine Transformation), I will then focus on cultivating the two Daos of Time and Space."

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With a thought, Chen Daoxuan continued to use the Innate Creation Celestial Flame immortal art, employing the most cost-effective expenditure of Creation Force to empower himself.

Causing his cultivation speed to continue its temporary threefold increase.

As before, every three years he would shuttle back and forth between the Great Universe and the Yuanling Realm.

While recovering his Great Dao Primordial Spirit, he used the subtle differences in the Three Thousand Great Daos between the two spatiotemporal realms to discard the false and retain the true, comprehend the Great Dao, and condense Great Dao True Talismans.

And along the way, he would slay the remaining Dao Thought Bodies within the Mie Xian Zhen.

And in a mere thirty years' time.

Chen Daoxuan's Great Dao Primordial Spirit had not only recovered to sixty thousand zhang once more.

His Great Dao cultivation had also advanced by leaps and bounds.

In the cultivation of the six Daos such as Five Elements and Yin-Yang, although the three Daos of Cause and Effect, Thunder, and Slaughter greatly held him back, because Chen Daoxuan was mainly focused on the Five Elements Great Dao, he was not affected for the time being.

At an average rate of comprehending and condensing one Five Elements Law Imprint every ten months, his progress advanced steadily and swiftly.

In those thirty years, he condensed a full thirty-six Five Elements Great Dao True Talismans.

As for the two Daos of Time and Space, Chen Daoxuan had not yet begun to comprehend and cultivate them, intending to wait until his cultivation realm reached the peak of Soul Egress (Divine Transformation) before doing so.

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As his Great Dao Primordial Spirit recovered to sixty thousand zhang, after spending several days carefully polishing and stabilizing it, Chen Daoxuan returned to the Great Universe and began his sixth Great Dao Baptism.

Ten years later, he broke through the bottleneck, his Great Dao Primordial Spirit grew to seventy thousand zhang, and returned to his body.

Just as forty years prior, Chen Daoxuan directly returned to the Yuanling Realm and began his sixth Divine Transformation.

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In this manner of cultivation, time flowed like water, and years passed like a shuttle.

Counting from when he had cultivated the Innate Creation Celestial Flame immortal art to success, in the blink of an eye, four hundred years had slipped away.

Within the Xuanwu Mie Xian Zhen, he slew the last remaining Dao Thought Body that still existed.

Chen Daoxuan took out his True Inheritance Shanhai Stele, intending to upload his progress and complete the mission.

Suddenly, his heart stirred, and a thought surfaced.

"No rush. I will continue closed-door cultivation for another hundred years, and submit the mission before Junior Disciple Zhang's Dao Lu ceremony."

"These hundred years will also serve to see whether I can first achieve the Returning to Void Stage realm in the Yuanling Realm."

After a slight deliberation over these thoughts that had suddenly surfaced in his heart, Chen Daoxuan followed his inner prompting, put away his True Inheritance Shanhai Stele, and returned to the Cuivei Immortal Mansion.

Preparing to cultivate for another hundred years before doing anything else.

He sat cross-legged within the Cuivei Immortal Mansion.

The Mountain-Sea Immortal Scripture circulated, polishing the cultivation realm that had, two hundred years ago, completed the nine Great Dao Baptisms and nine Divine Transformations, reaching the peak of Soul Egress (Divine Transformation).

And using the most recently comprehended and condensed Space Law Imprint to resonate with the Great Dao of Space in the Great Universe, discarding the false and retaining the true, condensing True Mountain and Mysterious Sea, and condensing them into a Space Great Dao True Talisman.

Two hundred years ago, after completing the nine Divine Transformations and reaching the peak of Soul Egress (Divine Transformation), Chen Daoxuan's perception of the two Daos of Time and Space—because from the time he reached the fourth level of Soul Egress (Divine Transformation), when his Great Dao Primordial Spirit became completely Immortal and Pure Yang, had been successively raised an additional five times—had reached a peak.

Although it had not surpassed Yin-Yang and Five Elements, it was not far off.

Coupled with the assistance of the Innate Creation Celestial Flame immortal art, although he had no Immortal Scripture to guide him, because he focused on cultivating the Great Dao of Space, in a mere two hundred years he had nearly caught up to the two Daos of Yin-Yang and Five Elements.

He had already condensed two hundred and ninety-seven Space Great Dao True Talismans, along with the most recent Law Imprint.

In truth, he was only two short of the number three hundred.

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As for cultivation on the Time Great Dao, it uses the Immortal Light of the Great Dao Primordial Spirit to sense within the Great Universe.

And like the other Great Daos, it is also affected by the Chang Sheng Tian Gui of the Great Universe.

In these two hundred years, Chen Daoxuan has only barely condensed a single Time Great Dao True Talisman.

He has barely managed to condense a Time Great Dao True Mountain and a proto Profound Sea within Shanhai Jie.

Within the Primordial Spirit Dharma Realm, he has condensed a Dharma Aspect only a little over ten zhang tall.

Compared with his cultivation on the Space Great Dao, the difference is like heaven and earth — vastly far apart.

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And because the spacetime domain where Yuanling Realm lies, breaking through from Divine Transformation to Returning to Void Stage does not impose the same harsh demands on Great Dao cultivation as breaking through to the Divine Separation Stage in the Great Universe.

This is why Chen Daoxuan plans to first break through to Returning to Void Stage within Yuanling Realm.

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Every breakthrough of a major realm is an all-round elevation and sublimation.

Whether combat strength, lifespan, or comprehension… all will be sublimated from the very foundation.

After achieving Returning to Void Stage, with the boost in comprehension, cultivation on the Great Dao will increase by at least several times over.

The same holds for cultivation on the Time Great Dao — even with the influence of the Great Universe's Chang Sheng Tian Gui, it can likewise be accelerated by at least several times.

Once his Great Dao accumulation is sufficient in the future, it will not be too late to break through to the Divine Separation Stage in the Great Universe.

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