The years drifted by, and in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years had passed.
His Dharma Appearance Completion cultivation, already just one step from the door, encountered no obstacles over those hundred-odd years and stepped into the seventh tier of the immortal path—the Body Integration Realm.
Afterward, when Chu Mu attempted to advance beyond the seventh tier, with the knowledge gained from lifetime after lifetime of reincarnation in the Illusory Realm of Grand Void and a lofty vantage point, everything proceeded as smoothly as he had expected.
In merely a few thousand years, his cultivation, having only just entered the Body Integration Realm, surged forward in triumph without encountering any bottlenecks or hindrances.
From Integrated Body Early Stage to Integrated Body Middle Stage, and as the third millennium approached, he entered Integrated Body Perfection in one stroke.
Only then did Chu Mu barely begin to sense the faint presence of a bottleneck.
This bottleneck did not stem from the Furnace Rules or from any obstruction in his realm.
Rather, his cultivation had broken through too quickly, causing the Furnace World to expand and grow too rapidly. Its foundation was unstable, and thus this faint obstruction had emerged.
After spending several hundred years stabilizing the somewhat hollow foundation left by this meteoric advance, this seclusion that had lasted several thousand years finally came to an end.
To those Rule Great Experts who stood high above all else, several thousand years were merely one period of seclusion, one session of cultivation.
Compared to the nearly immortal lifespans of peak Rule Great Experts, such a passage of time was undoubtedly negligible.
But for a nearly newborn race, several thousand years were clearly enough for a new racial civilization to take complete shape.
Within this Qingqiu Grotto-Heaven, after several thousand