Fulfillment

Waiting Area.

Du Mingsheng bought two steamed buns and silently returned to the hotel to continue waiting.

A bite of steamed bun, a sip of soy milk.

Such an exceptionally large being as he is, in theory, can do without food—the energy provided by food is negligible for such a physique.

But Du Mingsheng still maintained his habit of eating three meals a day.

Nothing more than the warmth of human connection, which made him feel like a human being, rather than an old monster who had lived for over 1,700 years.

Breakfast is finished.

Wiping his mouth, Du Mingsheng stood up and saw a familiar, chaotic mist flowing quietly across the wooden floor of the hotel room, overflowing like a river.

That is...

He quickly bowed and waited respectfully.

After a few breaths, the chaotic mist, flowing like water, had gathered into a blurry human figure, which could be vaguely discerned as a True Person.

"Second Du Mingsheng greets the True Person."

"No need for formalities."

The True Person spoke calmly, gazing intently at the middle-aged man:

"That member thanked you for the information. I am here today on His behalf, and for only one matter."

Du Mingsheng slightly, his pupils dilated involuntarily, and his eyebrows raised unconsciously.

He heard the True Person speak calmly:

"Then I will give it to you, what He has given you."

"A position Thousand Year Spirit Refining."

The six realms of humanity, from the Twelve Refinements of Martial Artists to becoming Martial Arts Master.

Then there are the Grandmasters who have reached the Minor Perfection of Spirit Refinement and the Great Grandmasters who Perfection Realm.

Du Mingsheng licked his lips, his breathing becoming rapid, his heart pounding.

The fifth realm: the Innate Great Realm.

He achieved the rank of Thousand Year Spirit Refining, thus breaking through the first Great Limit of spiritual attainment, and his physical body also reached the [Sealed Furnace] level.

This is what is meant by the innate.

Finally.

After bowing respectfully in thanks, Du Mingsheng saw a faint light appear in the hand of the True Person formed from the chaotic mist.

The interplay of light and shadow resembled a series of mysterious characters.

The True Person spoke:

Would you be willing to accept this gift?

"Willing!"

"Good."

The True Person nodded, extended a finger, and gently touched the words formed by countless lights and shadows.

The text exploded.

Something indescribable quietly flowed into Du Mingsheng's body.

In an instant.

He seemed to have become 'higher', having already attained the position of Thousand Year Spirit Refining.

And so, quietly and silently.

Du Mingsheng was so excited that he bowed deeply, but when he looked up again, the True Person was nowhere to be seen.

Only wisps of lingering chaotic mist remained, accompanied by the lingering echo of the True Person's voice.

"The transaction between you and that fellow member is not yet complete. You still need to use your special karma to help that fellow member once more. Remember this."

The chaotic mist completely dissipated, leaving the hotel completely empty.

Du Mingsheng silently felt the earth-shaking changes within himself, then brought two fingers together and tremblingly tapped them in the void.

'Thud!!'

A crisp sound rang in the ears of everyone in the Waiting Area.

A position Thousand Year Spirit Refining.

If we can get help from another deity, we can break through the first mental Great Limit and connect the divine realm with Different Dimension!

So.

He was born with it!

"More than a thousand years have passed in a flash."

The middle-aged man sighed softly, and before he knew it, tears were streaming down his face.

Like a thousand-year-old obsession, it has finally vanished at this moment.

Land of Exotic Treasures.

Zhang Fusheng closed his eyes slightly. At this moment, he had 'sold' his spiritual realm. His Mental Accumulation had plummeted, and his realm had slid to the Minor Perfection.

At this moment, he was merely a master who had lit four furnaces.

But that's enough.

This was his best moment, his highest achievement.

"The ultimate leap."

With a slight thought, he sat upright in the Golden Ancient Chariot, but his own will had already retreated into the Eight Sceneries Palace, where he sat cross-legged on a futon.

A single thought can trigger another.

Inside the Contract Book, two items slowly peeled away: one was the 4th-level star beast 'Mixed Blood Golden Crow Meat' obtained from Golden Councilor Li Guoquan.

The other thing is the spiritual cultivation history accumulated in the Contract Book, which still has two thousand years left!

The final leap will come at this moment.

"Limit-Breaking."

"Who said that divine assistance is needed to break through the first mental Great Limit?"

Talking to myself.

Two thousand years of Spiritual Cultivation have quietly merged with oneself.

The so-called ultimate leap is to achieve the position of a Thousand Year Spirit Refining when one's spiritual realm is still at Minor Perfection, and then break through the realm with force.

The reason is quite simple.

The realm of Minor Perfection is still an illusory divine realm, without significant interaction or connection with Different Dimension, and therefore naturally will not be 'dragged down'.

In this situation, if one were to reach the level of Thousand Year Spirit Refining, it would be the only way to break through the Great Limit of one's spirit directly without the help of deities!

"Two thousand years of Spiritual Cultivation, let me see when your spiritual Great Limit will be lifted!"

The Heavenly Venerable spoke in a deep, resounding voice.

Right now.

In my first year, I began to focus on honing my spiritual will; I picked up the White Bone Meditation and continued my practice.

The so-called White Bone Meditation is actually the Hell Meditation; it is not a visualization technique for killing, but rather a method of compassion.

[Second Year]

[In the third hundred years, I have long since regained my position as a Refiner of the Spirit, and I have also seen the vague Great Limit of my spiritual life, but I am not in a hurry to shatter that Great Limit.]

I've discovered that the deeper my accumulation, the deeper the secrets to breaking through Great Limit become.

[Six hundred years, amidst the vicissitudes of life, I see the vicissitudes of the world. The Mortal World seems to have left me far behind. Six hundred years of quiet cultivation, I have never seen the smoke of human life.]

[The First Millennium]

[I started to succumb to demonic possession, but was immediately corrected by the Contract Book —this meant I had reached my limit, but the Contract Book was absolutely correct, so the limit was no longer the limit.]

[In the thousand and first year, I was constantly succumbing to demonic possession. Each time I did, the Great Strength Ox Demon Body grew stronger, and his spirit became more profound.]

Time flies, and years pass by.

In every instant, Zhang Fusheng's face contorted with rage a thousand times over, and the illusory image of the Flame God Mountain unconsciously reflected behind him.

Faintly, the sound of a cow mooing from ancient times seemed to echo around him.

The Great Strength Ox Demon Body, or perhaps the Heaven-Pacifying Great Sage Scripture.

This method takes an unorthodox approach; each time one succumbs to demonic possession, one becomes more powerful and refined—it is truly a demonic scripture.

But it also fits Zhang Fusheng so perfectly!

In an instant, a year's worth of Spiritual Cultivation.

In this instant, within a year, I was possessed by demons a thousand times, and corrected a thousand times; in another instant, I was possessed by demons a thousand times again, and corrected a thousand times.

Every time I succumb to demonic possession.

The Flame God Mountain and the phantom of the Bull Demon on it also grew stronger.

[In the 1300th year, I have never been so far removed from the Mortal World. I have immersed myself in ascetic practices, ignoring all worldly affairs, and I have gradually come to feel a sense of peace.]

[I am falling into demonic possession, and I am also seeking peace.]

[The 1800th year]

My spirit has accumulated to an extremely powerful level; I can feel it deep within my spiritual world, deep within my true soul.

[A something indescribable was born]

[That is what I gained from eighteen hundred years of purity, what I gained from being far removed from the Mortal World for too long, that is]

[A wisp of illusory divinity?]

[The Second Millennium]

I opened my eyes; the Mortal World lay beneath my feet, and above me was nothingness.

Zhang Fusheng opened his eyes.

Time has passed, and time has changed again.

For two thousand years, we have remained detached from Mortal World; for two thousand years, our hearts have been pure and untainted.

He became ethereal, possessing a transcendent quality, and an extreme sense of indifference and alienation.

Zhang Fusheng let out a soft sigh of relief.

That portal, representing the first Great Limit of spiritual endurance, shattered instantly.

The Great Limit has passed.

Spiritual sublimation.

This is just the beginning.

The indifference that had settled over him from being away from the Mortal World for so long, as cold as the sky, was completely reversed and flowed into the wisp of divinity within his true spirit.

Divinity became solidified.

His body was shaking violently, and all 360 acupoints shone brightly at the same time. His physical body naturally entered the sealing furnace level.

Grandmasters and Great Grandmaster cultivate the furnace.

The Innate Realm is the Sealed Furnace.

Zhang Fusheng exuded a sense of roundness, his true form concealed, yet the immense energy generated within him was constantly...

All of this energy is then fed back into the body, making it stronger and generating even greater energy—and so the cycle continues.

"So this is the Innate Great Realm."

Spiritual sublimation, physical sublimation.

Zhang Fusheng whispered, finally understanding what the [Innate Great Realm] was.

"After sealing the furnace, I only take and do not give. My physical body is perfectly round and without leakage, and my spirit is like the true nature of the divine."

He quietly comprehended the profound mysteries of the innate realm.

"Through all these things, I have transformed from an ordinary mortal in the universe into an independent individual!"

Humans are an integral part of the universe.

All things in the universe are inherently constant and cyclical, but those in the Innate Great Realm completely shut down their own Essence, Qi, and Spirit, and spirit, no longer circulating with the universe.

In other words, those Innate Person only take in and don't give out.

They only take, never give back.

With each additional Innate Person, the world weakens by a fraction. Over time, the world declines, eventually giving rise to great calamities.

During the great calamity, those at the innate level and above perished like rain. With each death, the world grew stronger again. Eventually, the great calamity ended, and the golden age followed.

Zhang Fusheng smiled and clapped his hands:

"I see, I see!"

"Only by proving one's innate nature can true power truly be attained within oneself!"

"Only by attaining the innate state can one transcend the universe and become independent—oneself becomes a microcosm!"

He stood up, walked out of the Dao Palace, and looked down.

Two thousand years have passed in the divine realm.

The Death Qi flowing from Mount Luofeng has permeated every corner of the divine realm, and even the statues of gods that have been worshipped by dozens of Living Souls for two thousand years have gained a wisp of [divinity].

The statue has an illusion that it's about to come to life.

Zhang Fusheng spread his hands.

"Innate."

The divine realm trembled, and he seemed to vaguely see Different Dimension —the divine realm was beginning to connect with Different Dimension!

Five Villages Temple, the Land of Return on the Other Shore, Mount Luofeng

Everything becomes more [real] at this moment!

He understood.

"Once you step into the sixth realm— the Celestial Person Realm— the Different Dimension landscape you are anchored to will appear both real and illusory."

"And if one were to take another step forward and successfully Ascension to Divinity?"

"Then Five Villages Temple, Mount Luofeng, and the Other Shore Flower will become a reality!"

"In other words, my divine realm encompasses and carries a portion of Different Dimension!"

Zhang Fusheng muttered to himself, but showed no joy.

When that time really comes...

The master of Five Villages Temple can then directly appear in his own divine realm.

Something's not right.

He muttered to himself, "How come it seems that the higher the cultivation level, the more deeply the divine realm becomes entangled with Different Dimension?"

Once one Becoming a God, to put it nicely, a part of the Different Dimension completely descends into the divine realm; to put it bluntly...

The divine realm has become a place that hosts Different Dimension, a part of that Different Dimension!

I've thought about it a lot, but I still can't figure it out.

I stopped thinking about it.

"Three thousand years of Mental Accumulation, Perfection and flawless body, breaking through the Great Limit the spirit, the physical body forms its own cycle, becoming an independent microcosm."

How strong am I now?

He didn't know.

With a single thought, one withdraws from the divine realm and returns to one's true self.

Open your eyes.

Below, tens of millions of people are bowing and worshipping the statue of a god, with Wei Lingzhu beside them, and in the distance, the South Heaven Gate and an eerie Peach Tree of Immortality.

"Master?"

Wei Lingzhu spoke with some confusion:

"You seem to have changed a bit."

As she spoke, she sensed something was amiss and noticed that the people below, who were worshipping the statues, had all started to look up at the sky with a dazed expression.

She also subconsciously raised her head.

Wei Lingzhu stared blankly at the sky above, and what she saw was a huge 'world' pressing down on her.

In that illusory world, divine mountains stand tall, eighteen layers of purgatory rise and fall, and a river flows through the east and west of the world, shrouded in divine light, resembling a place of refuge on the other shore.

The divine realm descended from the heavens.