Seeking to Sever His Three Worldly Bodies; Tempering His Heart in the Mortal World to Find His True Self; Dijun Accidentally Enters the Heavenly Realm (Continued)

He watched them helpless in the face of natural disasters, awestruck before the powerful, and tender toward their loved ones...

He had seen newborn babies, their eyes full of curiosity and innocence about the world; he had also seen elderly people nearing the end of their lives, their eyes bearing the marks of time and the wisdom of age.

He had seen kindness and ugliness, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair...

The vastness and brutality of the Primordial World far exceeded his imagination.

There was no orderly society like the ones in later ages, only the most primitive, most naked law of the jungle—survival of the fittest!

Countless living beings were born every moment, and countless others died.

Conflict, slaughter, plunder... these were almost the eternal themes of this land.

Yet beneath that brutal surface also lay limitless vitality and possibility.

Tenacious life, a longing for the Great Dao, the cohesion of clans... each glimmering quality shone like a star in the night, adorning this wild yet captivating world.

Ao Chen walked among them without deliberately interfering in anything or seeking any opportunities or treasures.

He was like a true observer, seeing with his own eyes and feeling with his own heart.

He absorbed everything he saw and heard into his own insights, constantly refining his Dao Heart and strengthening his "true self."

Of course, while training his heart in the mortal world, he had not completely stopped cultivating.

The Great Thousand Universe within him had already taken shape, but it still needed an immense amount of energy to fill, stabilize, and perfect it.

Therefore, as Ao Chen traveled through the Primordial Wilderness, he continued to draw in the Innate Spiritual Qi of heaven and earth without pause.

At his current level as a Mythical True Immortal, his efficiency in