In the days that followed.
The entire Chen Family entered an unprecedented state of cultivation.
In every corner of the Purple Star Domain, figures could be seen sitting cross-legged in cultivation.
Some secluded themselves to study Emperor Scriptures, while others sparred to hone their divine abilities.
Even the younger family members who had only recently crossed the threshold of cultivation were brimming with enthusiasm, unwilling to waste this opportunity unparalleled through the ages.
Amid this frenzy of cultivation sweeping the entire family, the strength of the Chen Family members soared almost visibly.
Virtually every day, someone broke through a bottleneck, and someone successfully comprehended a lesser divine ability of their own.
Although most were only lesser divine abilities, they were enough to bring about a qualitative transformation in their strength!
Watching the Chen Family flourish, Chen Changqing nodded in satisfaction.
The results proved that his earlier approach had been right!
Rather than forcibly improving his family members' comprehension, it was better to create an environment that constantly bathed them in Dao resonance.
A thin stream flowing steadily was the way to make things last.
While his family members cultivated like mad, Chen Changqing certainly did not sit idle.
Although he primarily cultivated the Divine Ability Path-Proving Method, the Great Desolate Realm's original cultivation system was not entirely useless.
From the family members' earlier exchanges, Chen Changqing had discovered that one's cultivation realm also amplified the power of divine abilities.
The same divine ability, performed by a mortal and by a Great Sage, would possess power as different as night and day.
Thus, Chen Changqing had no intention of abandoning the Great Desolate Realm's original cultivation methods.
However—
To suit his Longevity Divine Art and provide an "enhancement" to his divine abilities, ordinary cultivation methods were utterly inadequate.
Neither the Chen Family's ancestral Emperor Scripture nor the cultivation methods he had improved himself could contain the vast Dao resonance of the Dao Tree in his sea of consciousness.
He needed a cultivation method that belonged to him alone!
A cultivation method founded upon his chaos body, with the Longevity Dao Tree at its core.
And so, Chen Changqing entered seclusion.
Inside a quiet chamber, he sat cross-legged, his eyes half-closed.
Within his sea of consciousness, his terrifying comprehension, accumulated over a million years, worked furiously at an unprecedented speed.
All manner of cultivation methods continually surfaced in his sea of consciousness.
Every cultivation method he had ever practiced, along with the various Emperor Scriptures he had created for the Chen Family members, fused together at that moment!
He would derive a new cultivation method that perfectly suited his Divine Ability Method!
The first day!
The second day!
The third day!
It took only three days.
When a wisp of gray mist condensed over Chen Changqing's body.
His eyes snapped open.
The Primordial One-Qi Method was complete.
All things in existence had evolved from chaos, and so this chaos qi could transform into any energy and devour any energy. It was the source of all energy.
This was the cultivation method he had tailored for himself.
With his chaos body as its foundation and the Longevity Dao Tree in his sea of consciousness as its guide, it returned all the true essence and laws from his past cultivation to their source, refining them into the most fundamental chaos qi.
However—
Although this chaos qi appeared identical to the chaos qi inherent in his chaos body, it was fundamentally different.
The chaos qi inherent in his chaos body was merely chaos qi, no different from spiritual energy.
But the chaos qi cultivated through this method, though it appeared to be chaos qi, was actually a Dao of returning to simplicity and truth.
It broke down and reassembled myriad cultivation methods, laws, and true essence, returning them to the most primordial state of chaos before heaven and earth had formed.
In essence, this chaos qi already possessed Chen Changqing's "Dao"!
Rather than calling it chaos qi, it would be more accurate to call it Chen Changqing's "Dao." He had manifested his own Dao in the form of chaos qi.
"After three days of derivation, I finally have a cultivation method of my own."
Chen Changqing let out a long breath, a satisfied smile curling his lips.
With a thought.
The Primordial One-Qi Method quietly began to circulate.
Boom—
At that instant, the entire Purple Star Domain began to shake violently.
Throughout the Purple Star Domain, the Chen Family members cultivating and comprehending the Dao opened their eyes in astonishment.
They could clearly sense the spiritual energy permeating every inch of the Purple Star Domain's space rushing madly in a single direction, as though answering an irresistible summons.
"What's going on? Why is all the spiritual energy rushing over there?"
"That direction... that's where Ancestor Changqing is in seclusion!"
"What kind of commotion is the ancestor causing this time?"
While everyone wavered between shock and uncertainty, a sight that made their scalps prickle unfolded.
Not only the spiritual energy, but even the invisible laws of heaven and earth within the void seemed to be seized by an unseen hand, forcibly stripped from the void and sent surging toward Chen Changqing.
Spiritual energy, laws, Dao resonance, and every other form of energy drifting between heaven and earth all poured toward Chen Changqing's quiet chamber.
Inside the chamber.
The aura surrounding Chen Changqing began to climb at an almost frenzied pace.
The peak of the Transcendent Realm!
The first layer of Saint Realm!
The second layer of Saint Realm!
The third layer of Saint Realm!
At that moment, the constraints between realms in the Great Desolate Realm's cultivation system were as fragile as thin paper before him.
With the slightest nudge from his chaos qi, each realm's barrier shattered with a crash, unable to offer even a semblance of resistance.
The seventh layer of Saint Realm!
The eighth layer of Saint Realm!
The ninth layer of Saint Realm!
The Great Sage Realm!
When Chen Changqing's aura broke through the threshold of the Great Sage Realm, a threshold countless cultivators could never cross despite spending their entire lives trying.
He had already devoured nearly all the spiritual energy in the Purple Star Domain!
The spiritual energy that had once wreathed the star domain like mist was now incredibly thin. Even the spirit herbs and immortal roots that had grown for untold tens of thousands of years looked somewhat wilted from the sudden decline.
Chen Changqing sensed the condition of the Purple Star Domain and frowned slightly.
The first layer of the Great Sage Realm!
All the spiritual energy in the Purple Star Domain, combined with the laws of heaven and earth drifting through the void, had barely been enough to raise his cultivation to the first layer of the Great Sage Realm.
"As long as I devour enough energy, the Great Desolate Realm's cultivation system poses no bottlenecks for me."
Chen Changqing murmured to himself, now understanding the power of the Primordial One-Qi Method.
But soon.
He shook his head helplessly. "Still, the amount of energy I need to break through is a little too outrageous."
The Purple Star Domain was the Longevity Imperial Clan's blessed cultivation ground. Its spiritual energy was far denser than that of the outside world, enough to support hundreds of thousands of family members cultivating at once.
Yet all that vast spiritual energy combined had only been enough for him to break through to the Great Sage Realm.
If he wanted to reach an even higher realm, just how enormous an amount of energy would he need?
"As expected, the drawbacks of a cultivation system that relies on devouring external energy are far too glaring!"
"Once the resources between heaven and earth run short, cultivation comes to a standstill!"
Just as Chen Changqing was inwardly lamenting this.
The patriarch, Chen Haotian, appeared before him.
Chen Haotian had been contemplating divine abilities when he suddenly sensed the spiritual energy of the entire Purple Star Domain draining away at a frantic pace.
By the time he reacted, only a tiny bit remained.
Upon investigating, he discovered that, sure enough, that brat Chen Changqing was stirring things up again.
"You little rascal..."
Standing before Chen Changqing and sensing the Great Sage Realm aura radiating from him, Chen Haotian could not help shaking his head with a wry smile. "To think that even all the spiritual energy in the Purple Star Domain couldn't satisfy you!"
In all his years, he had seen countless prodigies, yet never one whose breakthrough to the Great Sage Realm could drain an entire Longevity Imperial Clan's star domain of spiritual energy.
But on second thought.
This brat had created the Divine Ability Method and devised an outrageous formation like the Dao-Comprehension Heavenly Net. Draining a star domain to break through to the Great Sage Realm hardly seemed worth making a fuss over.
Chen Haotian pondered for a moment, then a smile suddenly curled his lips.
"In that case... heh heh heh..."
Grinning mischievously, Chen Haotian turned his gaze toward the boundless expanse of stars beyond the Purple Star Domain.
Beyond the Purple Star Domain lay countless star domains, races, and prodigies, including quite a few places with even denser spiritual energy than their own.
"Then it's time for our Purple Star Chen Family to reemerge into the world."
Not enough spiritual energy in the Purple Star Domain?
Then they would go to other star domains.
The Chen Family had lain dormant for a million years.
It was time for the heavens of the Great Desolate Realm to change.
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