The Road Ahead

Within the chaotic space, divine radiance bloomed around Mu Zi. At that moment, the heavens and earth seemed to emit a deep hum as strange ripples emerged.

Buzz! Buzz!

Brilliant light surged from the void and rapidly expanded. In the blink of an eye, it became incomparably vast. A hazy phantom slowly emerged, grand and boundless.

It was as though a world was taking shape.

"World-Opening."

Dazzling light reflected in Mu Zi's eyes. Her gaze was deep and bright, carrying an indescribable majesty. She seemed like the creator who had opened heaven and earth, inspiring awe.

This was a system Mu Zi had conceived. At present, it was only a direction, but its boundless potential was already visible.

Previously, Mu Zi had created the formidable technique Four Symbols Creation and used it to carve out a vast Spiritual World that covered Tianxuan Continent. In recent years, the workings of the Martial World had provided her with much reference, granting her profound insight into the methods of creation used to forge worlds.

Now, even without relying on the Four Symbols Spirit, Mu Zi could wield Creation Power and create a genuine world.

Having mastered the powers of the void and creation, the heaven and earth Mu Zi opened surpassed the imagination of many other experts and possessed all manner of inconceivable abilities.

Mu Zi could even merge the heaven and earth she created with herself.

More accurately, this system involved using a special method to condense the power contained within one's own body into an entire world.

Thus, it could be called the Inner World method.

Drawing upon certain ideas from her previous life, Mu Zi had created the prototype of this method. If she continued researching it, she had a great chance of setting foot upon this path.

The Inner World system was undeniably powerful.

A cultivator possessed a complete heaven and earth within themselves. Experts who cultivated an Inner World had astonishing reserves, powerful Power Foundations among those of the same level, and an advantage over most other systems.

At the same time, those who possessed an "inner heaven and earth" could command numerous laws. Their attacks contained World Power and carried tremendous might.

Resources obtained from the outside world that benefited a world's growth could be used to nurture the "inner heaven and earth." As the inner heaven and earth grew stronger, the World Lord's cultivation would grow alongside it.

Although cultivating the Inner World system generally required consuming vast amounts of resources, the resulting progress in cultivation was clearly visible.

Nurture the world, strengthen the world, then strengthen oneself. It was a steady, broad road with a visible future ahead.

Moreover, the World Lord's own cultivation would not be restricted by the Inner World. Even if resources were lacking and the Inner World's development stagnated, a cultivator could still raise their realm through their own comprehension of the Great Dao and laws, thereby feeding that growth back into the "inner heaven and earth."

An inner heaven and earth was a genuine world. It could even give rise to true living beings and develop a brilliant civilization of cultivation.

In short, this system possessed numerous advantages and Mysterious Aspects. It was exceedingly powerful.

Yet although Mu Zi had considered the Inner World, it was not the best choice in her heart.

This method was powerful and offered countless benefits, but Mu Zi vaguely felt that the Inner World system did not suit her.

Cultivators whose strength had reached a certain stage more or less possessed a kind of Dao nature—an indescribable intuition regarding their own path.

Moreover, Mu Zi's comprehension was so exceptional that her Dao nature was even more extraordinary. In The Void, she could sense many things and knew that the Inner World was not His Own Path.

And even setting all that aside, Mu Zi Herself did not particularly like this method.

As a "beautiful young girl," having an enormous world Within His Body just felt strange. It did not suit her at all.

Those great supernatural beings with names like "Profound Yellow Supreme Purity Heaven," "Myriad Realms," and "Unique True World" seemed more like Dao Ancestors of an entire realm. Their style differed from the martial path she pursued.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Mu Zi ultimately gave up on the Inner World. Well, she was at least giving it up for the time being.

At her current stage, another choice lay before Mu Zi, one that might suit her better.

Her consciousness sank into her body. Under her inner sight, everything was as clear as the lines on her palm, down to the finest detail.

Mu Zi's gaze fell upon a place within herself. It was a dazzling sea filled with vast and majestic power. Specks of multicolored light billowed out from the seawater, giving off strange ripples that made one involuntarily intoxicated.

The Sea of Reincarnation.

After Tianxuan Continent's experts cultivated to the Reincarnation Stage, their Dantian would transform into a Sea of Reincarnation.

This Sea of Reincarnation was somewhat similar to the Supreme Sea in the cultivation system of the Great Thousand World. Both were used to contain and store a cultivator's origin power or spiritual energy.

The higher the Sea of Reincarnation's intensity, the more origin power it could contain, and the stronger its Power Foundation would be.

After all the previous enhancements, Mu Zi's origin power had accumulated to an extremely formidable level. While at the Samsara Stage, she had invoked the Triple Samsara Tribulation ahead of time, strengthening her origin power to the utmost limit.

With a single breakthrough, she had stepped into the peak of the Reincarnation Stage. The scale of Mu Zi's Sea of Reincarnation now far surpassed that of experts in the same realm.

The Sea of Reincarnation of an ordinary Third Cycle Reincarnation Realm expert was like a spoon compared to a water ladle, a lake compared to an ocean, before Mu Zi's Sea of Reincarnation. The gap between them was as vast as heaven and earth, like the difference between major realms.

The same was true of her Spiritual Power.

Tianxuan Continent's spiritual cultivation system had likewise undergone several stages of transformation.

Opening the Niwan Palace and condensing a Lifebound Symbol Seal marked entry into the path; when a Heavenly Symbol Master's Niwan Palace transformed into a small spiritual heaven and earth, they had truly entered its halls.

The subsequent cultivation involved gradually strengthening that small heaven and earth until, at the peak of the Great Symbol Ancestor Realm, the Niwan Palace's small heaven and earth reached its limit in scale.

Taking one step further meant condensing a Divine Palace to replace the Niwan Palace, causing Spiritual Power to undergo a qualitative transformation.

When she advanced into the Reincarnation Stage, Mu Zi's spiritual cultivation had also entered the Divine Palace Realm. The Divine Palace she condensed was likewise an existence beyond common sense.

Mu Zi's Divine Palace was not shaped like a palace. Instead, it was a vast heavenly domain, like a divine realm.

At every stage of cultivation, Mu Zi had made breakthroughs that shattered convention and surpassed the ultimate limits. The foundation she had accumulated was incomparably profound, unprecedented in history.

It was precisely because she possessed such "overpowered" Sea of Reincarnation and Divine Palace that Mu Zi's Power Foundation had reached such heights, allowing her, with the cultivation of the Third Cycle Reincarnation Realm, to stand shoulder to shoulder with a Half Ancestor!

The Inner World method Mu Zi had envisioned involved using some means to fuse the Divine Palace and Sea of Reincarnation, forming a true world that could bear and contain her power.

But she had temporarily abandoned that idea.

Boom!

With a thought from Mu Zi, the phantom of the world before her dispersed. Then she withdrew her Spiritual Power, settled her mind, and drew in the chaotic energy of the surrounding space to recover what she had expended earlier.

After a long while, Mu Zi had adjusted herself back to her peak state. Her gaze sharpened as she prepared to truly take that step.

The Inner World was actually not bad, but it felt overused in stories and not very interesting. Besides, it did not suit Mu Zi.

Just imagining Mu Zi carrying countless living beings around with her felt rather strange.