Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had passed.
Chen Ming sat in solitary meditation on Vast Mountain, condensing the Azure Emperor Zhao Body. Only a third of the Azure Essence Jade Talisman had finally stabilized and taken solid form.
The rest remained illusory.
"Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!"
"Cultivation is a struggle against heaven and man. If every Supernatural Ability takes this kind of solitary, painstaking effort, then even if I cultivate until my lifespan runs out, I'll have wasted it all!"
Chen Ming suddenly understood a little.
Why True Person Mingyun used a Supernatural Ability to transform into a Luan Bird, and why Fairy Caiyi had also established the Chayi Sect and created the Seven-Colored Clothes under her command.
They weren't doing it just for show. They were using this method to squeeze and save themselves the hard labor of cultivation!
"I can also fabricate illusory arts now and lure people into cultivating them!"
"Once they're ready, I can extract them for my own use and turn them into my own Supernatural Abilities!"
"But although that would save me the hard labor, it would involve too many complications and wouldn't be pure. It could easily stir up trouble, needlessly entangling me in many calamities. Once they accumulated, stepping into the Origin Return Realm would become much harder."
Chen Ming saw the matter clearly and naturally had no desire to do something that harmed others without much benefit to himself.
Over the years, as Chen Ming refined his Azure Emperor Zhao Body, the Towering Ancient Tree formed by the Grotto-Heaven Dojo atop the mountain had grown ever more lush and green.
Its roots had even complemented the mountain's spirit spring, spreading across all of Vast Mountain and making the spiritual energy there increasingly dense.