The incomplete Continental Plate had been worn down by the passage of time, its volume reduced by more than half.
It spanned only a dozen or so miles, its irregular surface gleaming with the resilient luster of something tempered a thousand times over.
On one earthen slope, Chu Mu sat cross-legged like a stubborn rock eroded by time itself. His aura was utterly silent; not even the faintest trace of life could be detected.
The aura of the Furnace Rules, which had previously vanished, had reappeared.
Only, the Furnace Rules were now exceedingly weak.
If the Furnace Rules of the past had been like a blazing sun, then the present Furnace Rules were merely a single ray of sunlight.
Insignificant, too faint to detect.
Yet the Furnace Rules that had once hung overhead like the great sun had ultimately originated from a mighty figure of the Dharma Appearance Realm.
Now, however, his cultivation was merely at the Qi Refining Realm.
And he had only just entered the Qi Refining Realm—Qi Refining First Layer.
Yet with this mere Qi Refining First Layer cultivation, the mighty power of Rules now enveloped him, carrying an ineffable profundity.
This mighty power of Rules, however, was not stable.
It visibly flickered in and out, like a dying candle in the wind, like a shifting between illusion and reality.
Fortunately, as time passed, these insignificant Furnace Rules gradually stabilized.
Until, in the end, they drew inward once more and vanished.
"Phew..."
Chu Mu slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air and opened his eyes. Sensing his own condition, he could not help but smile helplessly.
The good news was that, after surmounting countless hardships and obstacles, he had finally crossed the threshold to cultivating the Profound Art of Nine Revolutions and formally begun its cultivation.
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