In the depths of the Void Return Realm's void, the Time Hut's radiance flowed in tranquil silence like a frozen river of stars.
Chen Fei sat cross-legged, his aura rounded and restrained, as though he had merged with the entire void.
After successively refining six Sovereign-level characteristics and cultivating each of them to the Great Perfection Realm, even with Chen Fei's current divine soul strength at the Peak Early Stage Sovereign Realm, he felt a thread of deep exhaustion originating from his Life Origin.
It was neither the depletion of vital energy nor the strain of his body. It was a weariness of the mind that arose after repeatedly tempering, shattering, and reforging his own Great Dao, divine soul will, and even his understanding of heaven and earth's laws countless times.
Refining characteristics was not a simple stacking of power, but a repeated sorting, restructuring, and sublimation of his own Power System.
Every choice concerned his future Dao Path, and every fusion came with violent collisions and reshaping at the level of laws. Even though the process had gone smoothly and taken very little time, the mental effort it consumed was unimaginable.
For other Sovereign Realm cultivators, refining a new characteristic began with thousands or tens of thousands of years. Chen Fei had used only a few days.
"Huff."
Chen Fei slowly exhaled a mouthful of Stale Air. Instead of immediately proceeding with the next characteristic's refinement, he slowly closed his eyes and let his mind settle completely.
No more deducing cultivation arts, no more comprehending the Great Dao. All thoughts emptied away as he simply rested, let go, and recovered.
Time slipped quietly by. One day, two days, three days. When Chen Fei opened his eyes again, not a trace of fatigue remained in them. There was only a