Shen Mo used [External Incarnation] to divide himself into two.
His true body accelerated time two hundred thousandfold, accumulating Destiny Points through cultivating immortal arts and cultivation methods.
As time passed, the incarnation's lifespan was also consumed at a frantic rate. Only one year had elapsed in real time, yet two hundred thousand years of lifespan had vanished. However, his mastery of immortal arts and cultivation methods soared rapidly. The techniques he had already mastered rose at an astonishing pace to the realm of [Return to Simplicity], while he continued mastering new techniques and awakening new divine abilities.
Even the Primordial Dao Fruit became increasingly miraculous.
However, the Spirit Stone veins contained within the small worlds incorporated into his Dharma Aspect were constantly vanishing. Nearly every year, dozens of small worlds had all their spiritual veins drained dry.
While Shen Mo's true body remained in seclusion, cultivating and accumulating Destiny Points, the entire Immortal Realm and the myriad heavens and worlds descended into enormous turmoil.
The contest between the Eternal faction and the Transcendence faction among the Daluo Golden Immortals swept every True Immortal in the cosmos into its wake. No one could remain aloof. The general trend was a struggle between True Immortals who had pledged themselves to the Immortal Court, remnants of the old era, and other True Immortals, yet it was entangled with all manner of convoluted causes: grudges accumulated between the myriad races of the Immortal Realm over countless millennia, the various karmic ties between True Immortals, the reckoning of those who had died and returned to life against the present age, the schemes and intrigues of major powers, and battles over Blessed Land spiritual veins, treasures and resources, even minor thousand worlds...
Within mere decades, it was as though every contradiction had erupted at once.