Inside the Chaos Void Cavern, a Daoist in a green crown and dark robes sat cross-legged amid the void, eyes closed, heedless of passing years.
The Bixi Wind, Yin Fire, and Tribulation Thunder that had once sprung from nowhere around him had vanished without a trace.
They seemed to have been extinguished alongside the Wind Thunder and Water Fire within Jiang Sheng's sea of consciousness.
After Jiang Sheng survived the three calamities of Void Refinement for the third time, his already formidable True Spirit and body rose by more than another realm.
The three calamities tempered a living being's essence, qi, and spirit to their utmost. Only by making nature, life, and truth whole and one could the three flowers converge above the head, followed by the Five Qi Converging at the Origin.
Without that further transformation after the Golden Core Realm and Spirit Transformation, the three flowers could not gather. Without the True Fruition of the three origins, the five qi could not revolve in an endless cycle of renewal.
Jiang Sheng had survived the three calamities three times. The Void Refinement tribulations of the three mysteries and three refinements had raised his body and soul to an astonishing level.
An immortal, after all, was born of nature and life joined together, of yin and yang sustaining each other. Neither body nor soul could be missing.
Only then could the wholeness of nature, life, and truth raise a True Spirit that neither perished nor wavered through ten thousand tribulations.
Now that Jiang Sheng had survived the Void Refinement tribulations of the three mysteries and three refinements, his nature, life, and truth had all reached their limits. The three flowers gathering above his head was only the beginning.
Once the five viscera stirred and he completed the Five Qi Converging