Pangu Hall, inside a quiet chamber.
Zhou Ming sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.
Zhou Ming's consciousness sank into the deepest level of nothingness, where the ocean of Dao lay, the source of laws.
An invisible, indestructible barrier stretched across before him.
The peak of Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal.
One more step forward, and he would reach Hunyuan Grand Ultimate.
That was a qualitative transformation, the ultimate leap from "technique" to "Dao."
In the past, he could see this barrier and touch it, but he could not shake it in the slightest.
That required endless years of polishing and accumulation, painstakingly wearing away this layer of separation bit by bit through persistent effort.
But now, as the origin of Wu fused into him, a fine crack silently appeared on that indestructible barrier.
Zhou Ming's mind sank into an extremely profound state.
All of his consciousness focused on that crack.
Time lost all meaning in this moment.
Perhaps a day passed, perhaps ten days, or perhaps a year.
The crack was widening.
The Magic Power within Zhou Ming's body surged, constantly intertwining, colliding, and reforging itself with the origin of Wu.
With every collision, the crack on that barrier deepened by another fraction.
His Dao was transforming.
The step from Hunyuan Grand Unity to Hunyuan Grand Ultimate was not merely an accumulation of power, but another comprehension of the essence of the Great Dao.
Pangu's inheritance surfaced in his sea of consciousness.
Endless profound truths, like floodwaters bursting through a dam, poured madly into his Primordial Spirit.
At this moment, his understanding of the Great Dao of "force" surpassed everything he had known before.
If the previous him had been able to mobilize and use these laws, then the current him had become part of the laws themselves.
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