[The drawn wisp of soul slowly evolved, growing ever more similar to the cloud seal in the sky. It, too, began absorbing the starlight descending from the three stars, and its absorption rate grew faster and faster. Two months later, it finally formed a miniature starfield...]
[In the 25,978,378th year, Ye Chen's epiphany had yet to end, but Dijiang finally awakened to understanding. During the more than five thousand years he had spent observing the ceremony, something somewhat similar to Ye Chen's celestial cloud seal had also formed near the Origin Crystal.
Now, this small cloud seal fused into one with the Fire Seal within Dijiang's body. Threads of scarlet silk linked to his spirit body, drawing him as well into a strange state of complete enlightenment. Dijiang had only just stepped out of his secluded cultivation chamber when he turned around and went straight back in...]
[In the 25,980,238th year, Ye Chen gained enormously from this enlightenment. He had originally been most skilled in fire-element Amulets, but after this seven-thousand-year enlightenment, his metal-element Amulets improved by leaps and bounds. He had perhaps even overtaken himself from behind; his attainments in metal-element Amulets now surpassed those in fire-element Amulets, and by no small margin. More importantly, after this enlightenment, Ye Chen could clearly sense that he was more compatible with that Golden Seal, as though it had been prepared for him from birth, as easy to wield as an arm or a finger...]
[That same year, after handing the Kan Water Thousand Walls Halberd to Ju Mang, he prepared to leave the Grand Luo Heavenly Domain and return to Qingming Hetong Heaven as soon as possible to digest the gains from this epiphany. After all, comprehension was like knowledge entering the mind: in that instant, one could do anything, but