During this period of secluded cultivation.
Lin Xuan had completely refined and absorbed the Heavenly Dao's Mysterious Yellow Merit he had obtained on two occasions, as well as the vast amount of the Heavenly Dao's Primordial Origin contained within that Buddha's golden body.
He had raised his cultivation to the limit of the Hunyuan Ninth Heaven.
As long as he took one more step forward, Lin Xuan could directly become a Hunyuan Limitless Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
He would reach the same cultivation realm as Dao Ancestor Hongjun.
However, Lin Xuan had forcibly withdrawn the foot he was about to take across the threshold.
Because he could clearly sense that breaking through this bottleneck would bring about a qualitative transformation.
He ought to use a better method to break through, rather than act so rashly.
He should make sufficient preparations before attempting it.
Otherwise, he would lose a tremendous opportunity.
Lin Xuan trusted this intuition of his immensely.
Thus, after raising his cultivation to the Hunyuan Ninth Heaven, he chose not to continue breaking through.
Instead, he chose to completely refine the Chaos Bead in his hand.
This Chaos Bead was the Chaos Supreme Treasure that had fallen into Lin Xuan's hands earliest.
It had once benefited him greatly when he was still a quasi-saint.
It could be said that without the Chaos Bead, Lin Xuan probably would not have been able to toy with the four saints Taishang, Yuanshi, Zhunti, and Jieyin.
Now that Lin Xuan's cultivation had advanced.
He discovered that the secrets contained within the Chaos Bead were far more complicated than he had imagined.
Back then, using it to Obscure Heavenly Secrets had only been its simplest application.
It was equivalent to merely awakening one of the Chaos Bead's instincts.
Its true might had never lifted