Chapter 61

"Is it idle thoughts or a spiritual premonition!"

While muttering to himself, Chen Daoxuan already had an answer in his heart, his expression turning utterly solemn.

Because within the Shanhai Immortal Sect's territory, given the people and matters he has come into contact with, it should not bring any danger to his current self.

"If I return to the Great Universe and leave the Xuanwu Mie Xian Zhen, what great danger would there be?"

"But what great danger is it, that even with my current cultivation realm I cannot withstand, and what is the cause behind it?"

"Is it because I became the Return to Origin Lineage Master, or because of my status as a Secret Inheritance Disciple, a standby disciple?"

"Or is it because of Junior Disciple Zhang's Dao Companion Grand Ceremony?"

After long contemplation, though he had many guesses, Chen Daoxuan still had not the slightest clue, yet his heart also felt no urgency about life and death.

Because of that spiritual forewarning, he not only failed to account for the Kunlun Mirror,

Even the fact that he cultivated together with Lu Lingwei, achieving minor success in the Yin-Yang Grand Transformation Immortal Technique, and possessing a Yin-Yang Grand Transformation Immortal Heart with three lives, was not taken into account.

With the Kunlun Mirror and the Yin-Yang Grand Transformation Immortal Heart in his possession, even if a Heqi Xiu or even a Tribulation Transcendence Quasi-Immortal were to attack him, he could still escape.

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But regarding this nameless crisis, Chen Daoxuan felt quite displeased.

"Well then, let this venerable one see what divine being it is!"

After a while, Chen Daoxuan finally collected his thoughts.

He directed his gaze toward the two Merit Dharma Realms, looking at the vast Merit Clouds within.

Above the Human Dao Merit Lotus Pond Dharma Realm, there were over six hundred golden Merit Clouds.

Of those, six hundred were descended from the Heavenly Heart Consciousness of the True Spirit Great Realm.

Just as before, with his reaching the Returning to Void Stage, the seven-grade Merit Lotus that had blossomed to the seventh grade transformed, slowly turning into Human Dao Merit Lotus Fruit.

Above the Tian Dao Merit Lotus Pond Dharma Realm, there were one thousand eight hundred azure Merit Clouds, all descended from the Heavenly Heart Consciousness of the True Spirit Great Realm.

This is three times the amount of the descended Human Dao Merit.

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In a thought, Chen Daoxuan linked with the Innate Lotus of Merit, Twelve Grades, began consuming Tian Dao Merit Clouds, and cultivated the Innate Creation Celestial Flame Immortal Technique.

After three hundred sixty days.

With the consumption of exactly five hundred sixty-seven Tian Dao Merit Clouds.

Every ten days, he condensed one Innate Divine Prohibition, advancing the Innate Creation Heavy Pupil by one level.

Taking the Innate Lotus of Merit, Twelve Grades as this Innate Object, building upon the original thirteen Innate Divine Prohibitions, he continuously refined another thirty-six, reaching a total of forty-nine.

If he were still at the Soul Egress (Divine Transformation) stage, the Tian Dao Merit Clouds consumed over these three hundred sixty days would have to be doubled.

However, upon achieving the Returning to Void Stage, the required Tian Dao Merit for cultivation is halved compared to the Soul Egress (Divine Transformation) stage.

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Thereafter, after a brief adjustment of a few days, Chen Daoxuan continued cultivating the Innate Creation Celestial Flame Immortal Technique.

Ten days later, he consumed fifty Tian Dao Merit Clouds.

Chen Daoxuan condensed the forty-nine Innate Divine Prohibitions into one Innate True Prohibition, elevating the Innate Lotus of Merit, Twelve Grades to an Innate True Treasure, and simultaneously raising the Innate Creation Heavy Pupil.

He sensed that there were still one thousand one hundred eighty-three Tian Dao Merit Clouds remaining.

Chen Daoxuan halted his cultivation of the Innate Creation Celestial Flame Immortal Technique.

Because subsequent cultivation would start with a hundred Tian Dao Merit Clouds, and each additional True Prohibition refined would increase the Merit Clouds by fifty.

With his over one thousand Tian Dao Merit Clouds, he could not refine even a few Innate True Prohibitions, failing to reach the minor qualitative change that occurs every seven.

It would be better to keep them as a precaution.

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With the Innate Lotus of Merit, Twelve Grades elevated to an Innate True Treasure, the Innate Creation Heavy Pupil underwent a qualitative change.

The profundity it contained also increased.

Quite simple and brutal, a single strand of Creation Force could manifest the effect of ten strands of Merit.

Even cultivation at the Returning to Void (Soul Separation) stage did not diminish.

The speed at which the Innate Lotus of Merit, Twelve Grades generates Creation Primordial Force also increased tenfold.

Originally, one Innate Divine Prohibition, over ten years, would generate a strand of Creation Primordial Force equivalent to a strand of Merit.

The Innate True Prohibition formed by the union of forty-nine Innate Divine Prohibitions could, in one year, generate Creation Primordial Force equivalent to fifty strands, and in ten years, five hundred strands.

According to Chen Daoxuan's former method, where a hundred years were needed to consume the Creation Force requiring replenishment by one Tian Dao Merit Cloud.

Thus calculated, he had barely achieved freedom of Creation Force.

After all, in a hundred years, the Innate Lotus of Merit, Twelve Grades could generate Creation Primordial Force equivalent to five thousand strands of Merit.

While a single Merit Cloud possessed only three thousand strands of Merit.

After a hundred years of cultivation, there would still be a surplus.

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With a thought, Chen Daoxuan projected his Primordial Spirit outward, entrusting it to the True Void Realm, and merging with it.

Instantly, his Primordial Spirit united with the True Void Realm, and merged with the seventy-eight heavenly-earthly roots that had received the Yuanling Realm's empowerment.

In an instant, the Yin-Yang Grand Dao became exceedingly clear, and Chen Daoxuan even had the illusion of merging with the Yin-Yang Grand Dao.

As for the vast majority of other Grand Daos, although they did not produce such an illusion, they were at least several times clearer.

Chen Daoxuan knew this was to glimpse the mystery of the sun and moon, to see the creation of heaven and earth.

This is the greatest shortcut for a Returning to Void Stage cultivator to supplement the most important fortuitous creation in Grand Dao cultivation.

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In a thought, within the Innate Creation Heavy Pupil in his left eye, the forty-nine strands of Innate Creation Celestial Flame had already merged into a single mass, which Chen Daoxuan activated, the pure azure celestial flame light flowing.

In an instant, his comprehension temporarily increased fivefold.

One year will consume fifty strands of Creation Force.

It just happened to balance with the speed at which the Innate Merit Azure Lotus generates Creation Primordial Force.

One strand of Creation Force equals ten strands of merit; if still purely using the Tian Dao Merit Lotus Fruit, that would be equivalent to six years, consuming one Tian Dao Merit Cloud.

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After enhancing his comprehension, Chen Daoxuan also took charge of that Heavenly Heart Mark governing the Yuanling Realm.

After various states stacked, Chen Daoxuan then began to comprehend the Great Dao of cultivation.

Mainly, he comprehended that besides Yin-Yang, Five Elements, and Space, there were another seven Great Dao including Time, Creation, and Reincarnation.

Because he held the Heavenly Heart Mark, with the permission of the Yuanling Realm's Heavenly Heart Consciousness, and mainly due to the transformation from the Mortal Realm to the Xiao Lingjie, karma, time, creation, and reincarnation could all be comprehended.

Although these four Great Dao, in this newly formed Xiao Lingjie of the Yuanling Realm, each had less than a thousand strands of Law Imprint, but for Chen Daoxuan now, it was already completely sufficient.

It was completely sufficient for him to comprehend and condense three hundred strands of Law Imprint, reaching the state that yields the highest success rate for breaking through the Divine Transformation Stage in the Great Universe.

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Two years later.

From Chen Daoxuan's first Returning to Void Stage cultivation, after opening the heavenly earth roots, a full three years had passed before he sensed that the cultivation repulsion had completely disappeared.

Then he withdrew from Great Dao cultivation.

The Innate Creation Celestial Flame technique also changed from enhancing comprehension to enhancing cultivation.

He began his second Returning to Void cultivation.

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In the subsequent time, Chen Daoxuan cycled between Great Dao cultivation and Returning to Void cultivation.

Unnoticed, another sixty years passed in a flash.

Only eighteen years remained until Zhang Shidi's Dao Companion ceremony.

Upon comprehending and condensing the three-hundredth strand of Creation Dao Law Imprint at this time, Chen Daoxuan stopped cultivating.

After several days of sitting meditation, after clearing the mind's dust, Chen Daoxuan suddenly opened his eyes.

With a thought, communicating with the Kunlun Mirror, his figure disappeared from the Yuanling Realm.

The entire True Void Realm, including the heavenly earth roots opened up over these years, fell into silence.

The Yuanling Realm's Heavenly Heart Consciousness surfaced, faintly reluctant.

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