The Cosmic Crystal Release Formation around the Ninja World slowly withdrew its purifying light, quietly vanishing into the laws of heaven and earth as it continued to regulate the earth veins and nourish this world in a gentler manner.
Meanwhile, Neji had sealed Kaguya and Black Zetsu's vast source power, Isshiki Otsutsuki's lingering will and energy, and the core information he had just refined from Kaguya regarding the nature of the "Ten-Tails" and the Divine Tree's cycle, all within the Primordial Chaos Golden Core for temporary suppression and purification.
These powers were mixed and immense. Directly absorbing them could rapidly increase his cultivation, but it would inevitably leave hidden dangers behind. He might even be contaminated by the lingering fragments of Ōtsutsuki Clan will within them, tainting his pure Dao foundation.
The Golden Core Dao sought unity and perfection, the completeness of one's own laws—not the simple accumulation of power.
"It must be tempered with fierce flames, stripping away the dross and preserving the essence, returning to the origin..."
Neji floated in the void beyond the world, his gaze blazing as it pierced the boundless cosmos before finally fixing upon the fiery celestial body that brought endless light and heat to the Ninja World—the sun.
Using a star as a furnace to refine a Dao pill! Such ambition was unthinkable, much less achievable, for anyone who had not attained the Golden Core and used the Divine Eye to see through the void!
Without further hesitation, he activated the Primordial Chaos Golden Core with a thought. His Core Essence circulated at full force, carrying himself and all the "materials" he had just collected as his body transformed into an almost imperceptible gray streak, hurtling toward the sun like an infernal furnace.
Chaos Immortal Power formed a field around him, shielding him