Chen Xuan withdrew his gaze from the Path to Immortality behind him, then turned and stepped through the golden portal.
The moment his foot touched down, he felt as though an invisible hand had gently cradled his entire body. From the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, every inch of skin and every strand of divine sense simultaneously perceived an unprecedented feeling of being enveloped.
It was like being suddenly hauled out after countless years submerged in a freezing deep sea and tossed into a warm sacred spring that radiated a gentle halo, its warm, abundant energy soaking him from head to toe.
The air on the other side of the Immortal Gate was no longer spiritual energy, no longer Law Fragments, nor any form of energy he had ever encountered. It was immortal energy.
Pure immortal energy, so dense it was almost liquid, began gathering around him the moment he stepped inside, as though it had gained consciousness. It surged into his skin, muscles, bones, meridians, and dantian, each stream vying to be first.
Every pore opened, and every breath drew that warm energy deep into his lungs. Under the nourishment of the immortal energy, the Great Dao laws accumulated within him over countless years began undergoing a fundamental transformation.
Under the cleansing tide of immortal energy, the interwoven silver-white and gold sheen on the surface of the Ninefold True Seal, originally formed from chaos energy, gradually melted, restructured, and crystallized anew. It was like an iron tool rusted over countless years being thrust into a tempering furnace and reforged from the inside out.
His dantian was the first to change.
As immortal energy poured into it, the Ninefold Infinite Chaos True Seal rapidly expanded to more than twice its size. The nine-colored patterns on