A hundred years passed in the snap of a finger.
As Li Yun cultivated in silence, the Eternal Illumination of the Past Scripture he had created grew more complete by the day. As it continued to circulate, the twelfth Undying Heavenly Wheel gradually sharpened from a blur into clarity.
The Twelve-Wheel Realm slowly stabilized.
The new twelfth Undying Heavenly Wheel then began, as naturally as water flowing into a channel, to merge with the eleven before it. Little by little, they became one.
A hundred years later.
The twelve Undying Heavenly Wheels had fused perfectly, with no distinction between them.
Whether viewed with the naked eye, probed with Divine Consciousness, or examined by any other means, no trace of the twelve separate Undying Heavenly Wheels could be found within the unified wheel.
At that moment.
The sole Undying Heavenly Wheel began to turn.
Li Yun's entire body dissolved into a mass of pure Eternal Qi, which naturally joined with the Undying Heavenly Wheel.
The Immortal Traits that formed the Undying Heavenly Wheel visibly began to transform at last.
With one revolution, clear qi swirled around it.
The surrounding Space-Time rippled like water, wave after wave. Space-Time, once utterly real, began to turn illusory.
As though this world had never been real to begin with.
Everything was illusion.
Only that heavenly wheel truly existed, and would exist for eternity.
Without a sound.
A figure emerged from within the heavenly wheel.
It gradually grew clear.
A clean, flawless body appeared in silence, seemingly carved from jade yet made of living flesh and blood.
An aura of reality beyond description suddenly spread outward.
The entire cave lit up in an instant, bright as day.
The Eternal Divine Medicine and the Eternal Scripture among its roots seemed to sense something. Both swayed and stirred,