The days of cultivation always passed this quickly. Close one's eyes, open them again, and several years had gone by.
When Li Changshou said he would enter seclusion for twelve years, he had not said it casually.
The state of ascension was difficult to maintain for long. After all, it came from direct contact with the Great Dao and was the most precious opportunity a Qi Refiner could encounter. Li Changshou had estimated that he could maintain it for at most three or four years.
That alone would have been exceedingly rare.
Yet what Li Changshou had not expected was that the accumulation he had built before this tribulation... had truly been deep enough.
The ascension state lasted a full seven years!
In the first year of seclusion, he had already reached his expected goal, advancing from the first rank of the Golden Immortal Realm to the second;
After that, he sank into enlightenment once more and could not stop for a long while.
What was the Dao?
It certainly could not be simply explained by the four words "laws of nature."
At this point, what Li Changshou most needed to comprehend was instead this simplest of questions.
Fortunately, he was not entirely without clues. The advantage of a Saint's lineage in cultivation methods was fully revealed after reaching the Golden Immortal Realm.
—The Great Dao of Taiqing had already pointed out the road ahead for him!
Beyond that, Li Changshou could also use other methods—"knocking at the side," "proving from the flank."
Li Changshou retained some vague memories of certain scientific theories from his previous life. For instance, some particles that could not be directly observed could be studied through their interactions with other observable particles...
This line of thought could, in fact, also be applied to comprehending the