Chapter 57: Successful Ascension, The Origins of the Yuanling Realm

With the Heavenly Heart Consciousness not intervening, Chen Daoxuan established his Dao Field at a pace of fusing with the Yuanling Realm by only one one-thousand-and-eightieth each day.

Moreover, while overseeing the fusion and establishment of the Dao Field, Chen Daoxuan also wielded the Heavenly Heart Mark to comprehend the three Great Daos of the Four Symbols, Thunder, and Slaughter within the Yuanling Realm.

Among the ten Great Daos he now comprehends.

The three Great Daos of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and Space have all condensed three hundred Great Dao True Talismans each, reaching the Yuanling Realm's limit, with no further comprehension possible.

As for the four Great Daos of Cause and Effect, Time, Creation, and Reincarnation, they are all relatively difficult to comprehend.

Only the three Great Daos of the Four Symbols, Thunder, and Slaughter have not yet reached the Yuanling Realm's limit, and they remain among the vast majority of the clearly visible Three Thousand Great Daos within the Yuanling Realm.

With his advancement to the Returning to Void Stage, his comprehension was fundamentally enhanced several times over, combined with the assistance of the Heavenly Heart Mark.

After one thousand and eighty days, he completely transformed the Yuanling Realm into his Returning to Void Dao Field.

In the cultivation of the three Great Daos of Thunder, Slaughter, and the Four Symbols, each gained an additional ten strands of Law Imprint.

If this pace of Great Dao cultivation remains unchanged.

To completely comprehend one Great Dao and condense one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred strands of Law Imprint would only take a little over ten thousand years.

Compared to the twenty-thousand-year lifespan of the Returning to Void Stage, it is more than sufficient.

Nevertheless, regarding this pace of Great Dao cultivation, Chen Daoxuan still felt it was somewhat slow.

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His thoughts flowed.

Sensing the Yuanling Realm that had become his Returning to Void Dao Field.

Inexplicably, Chen Daoxuan perceived that even without using the Heavenly Heart Mark, and even without the Heavenly Heart Consciousness's consent, he felt he could, to a certain extent, slightly wield and control the nearly one-ten-thousandth of power dispersed between heaven and earth within the Yuanling Realm.

The Three Thousand Great Daos of the Yuanling Realm became even clearer.

But he also sensed a faint hint of displeasure emanating from the Yuanling Realm's Heavenly Heart Consciousness.

……

At this, Chen Daoxuan smiled slightly, took hold of the Heavenly Heart Mark, and communicated with the Yuanling Realm's Heavenly Heart Consciousness.

"Come, ascend with me!"

As he spoke, he sensed that trace of ascension guidance.

Following the guidance, Chen Daoxuan, bearing the Yuanling Realm, began to traverse the chaotic, boundless void and ascend to the Ascension Realm.

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Ten years later.

Within a violent void storm.

The Yuanling Realm, like a disk of profound yellow, navigated through it with great difficulty; under the assault of the nearly endless void storm, its profound yellow barrier became uneven, appearing deep in some places and shallow in others.

The Void True Realm barrier clinging tightly to the outside of the profound yellow barrier was battered like rain drumming on plantain leaves, appearing battered and tattered.

"Charge!"

Upon sensing that only the final tens of millions of miles remained before breaking out of this void storm.

Deep within the Yuanling Realm, Chen Daoxuan, whose aura had somewhat waned, immediately felt a surge of joy.

Taking command of the Void True Realm, wielding the Yuanling Realm, he fully activated the set of True Treasures on his body for augmentation, and began to sprint forward with all his might.

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Three days later.

Having completely broken out of the void storm, Chen Daoxuan, whose complexion appeared pale and whose Primordial Spirit appeared dim, still did not pause for even a moment.

Only after completely putting that void storm far behind him did he temporarily halt in a relatively calm stretch of void.

He fully unfolded the Void True Realm.

Then, using the Yuanling Realm—this Void Dao Field—as the core, he began to inhale and exhale void energy.

Half a year later.

The uneven, irregular profound yellow barrier of the Yuanling Realm was restored to its original state.

And Chen Daoxuan himself, once his magical power recovered, also healed the minor injuries on his body.

Sensing that trace of ascension guidance.

A vast, boundless world inexorably manifested within his perception.

He knew that was the core of this realm of space-time—the Spirit Realm situated above countless Mortal Realms.

He calculated briefly.

"Not bad, it should be less than one-tenth of the way, almost there."

His thoughts flowed, and Chen Daoxuan set off once more.

Immediately, formless and featureless void ripples began to slowly emerge, centered on the teleporting Yuanling Realm.

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Half a year later, after slaying a Void Savage Beast that had been attracted by the Yuanling Realm's movement.

He navigated for another three days.

Suddenly, like a mortal cresting a mountain, the vast Spirit Realm that he had previously only sensed inexorably through the ascension guidance now came into Chen Daoxuan's view.

The majestic, surging radiance of the world permeated boundlessly.

At that instant.

Chen Daoxuan clearly sensed the Yuanling Realm's Heavenly Heart Consciousness boiling over.

And inexorably, he perceived a vast, boundless Heavenly Heart Consciousness, countless times greater than that of the Yuanling Realm, descending.

And it directly linked with the boiling Heavenly Heart Consciousness of the Yuanling Realm.

Thereafter, Chen Daoxuan no longer needed to exert any further effort.

The Yuanling Realm rapidly sped toward that vast world.

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In but an instant.

The descending, vast Heavenly Heart Consciousness, in the unseen workings of fate, radiated a trace of affection toward Chen Daoxuan.

Chen Daoxuan immediately sensed that within the two Merit Dharma Realms, countless Tian Dao Human Dao Merit Clouds had materialized out of thin air.

His fundamental fortune also surged at extreme speed.

In that instant, Chen Daoxuan knew with enlightened clarity that the vast Spirit Realm he beheld was called the True Spirit Great Realm.

The Yuanling Realm was, in the distant ages past, one of the countless World Seeds scattered by the True Spirit Great Realm, and had grown from one of those seeds.

Originally, unless the Yuanling Realm could break through the limits of the Mortal Realm and ascend to become a Xiao Lingjie, there would never again be a time when it could meet with the True Spirit Great Realm.

And now, it was because Chen Daoxuan had not only achieved the Returning to Void Stage within the Yuanling Realm, but had also, with a Primordial Spirit foundation refined through eighteen transformations and sublimations, seized that fleeting opportunity, broken through the limit, and achieved the Hundred-Million-Zhang Void True Realm.

Added to this was the fact that he had originally earned the trust of the Yuanling Realm's Heavenly Heart Consciousness by saving the realm.

With all these conditions stacked together, Chen Daoxuan alone had the ability to take the Yuanling Realm and roam through the endless void, ascending.

Now, after more than ten years and numerous dangers, he had successfully ascended with the Yuanling Realm, and only then was he granted such vast merit and fortune by the True Spirit Great Realm's Heavenly Heart Consciousness.

Beyond the Merit and Fortune, just as the Yuanling Realm was racing forward at extreme speed, Chen Daoxuan sensed a mysterious force akin to the World Origin descending.

It performed a baptism upon him and the Yuanling Realm together.

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One month later.

In a certain Desolate Domain in the south of the True Spirit Great Realm.

Vast anomalies manifested, spreading in all directions.

From the common folk below to the Combined Body Heavenly Lords above, all could clearly see, in the south of the heavens, the anomaly of a realm merging in.

Within the bounds of this Desolate Domain, those several Combined Body Heavenly Lords who had merged with the Great Dao, as well as certain peak Returning to Void cultivators, could all sense the joy of the Heavenly Heart Consciousness.

"This kind of special anomaly, and this reaction from the Tian Dao—could it be the legendary descent of a Xiao Lingjie?"

"Or is some kind of special supreme treasure being born?"

In an instant, after their conjectures, whether the Combined Body Heavenly Lords who had merged with the Great Dao, or those Great Cultivators at the Returning to Void Stage seated within their Dao fields,

all set out at the first moment.

Some manifested their Combined Body Dao Bodies, others revealed their Return to Void Dharma Bodies, and all raced toward the south of the heavens where the world-merging anomaly spread.

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