More than a hundred years later
At this moment, for Bai Ze within the Primordial Time-Space Tower, everything in the outside world had nothing to do with him.
After cultivating for over a thousand years, he had now reached the critical juncture of a breakthrough.
Bai Ze's body was tightly wrapped by the River of Years, as though he had been placed within one different time-space after another.
His consciousness was like a lone leaf adrift upon this endless river of time, floating and traveling through it. Every experience was a brand-new journey through life, and he earnestly felt and comprehended the truths and mysteries contained within.
As time quietly passed, the aura emanating from Bai Ze's entire body grew ever more powerful.
That majestic presence was like surging, roiling waves, spreading outward one wave after another.
At the same time, faint golden light flickered around his body from time to time, like dazzling stars in the night sky.
Within his body, the Immortal Power that had once flowed calmly now resembled a volcano on the verge of eruption, endlessly bursting forth with astonishing energy.
Then, in the next moment, Bai Ze slowly opened his eyes, which had remained shut for so long.
A trace of weathered vicissitudes could be seen in his gaze, as though he had already seen through the rise and fall, glory and disgrace of all things in the world.
After sensing the changes within himself, he murmured softly, "Just as expected. If I want to condense a half-step immortal body ahead of time, I must convert the vast majority of my divine power into Immortal Power."
"Although I failed to completely achieve the goal I had set before entering seclusion this time, I still successfully broke through to the Eighth Layer of Divine Emperor Realm.