Zhao Gongming Breaks Through, and I Directly Reach the Threshold of Quasi-Saint

Zhao Gongming's secluded cultivation site was ultimately chosen at the confluence of Innate Spiritual Veins in northern Penglai.

The terrain there was broad and open.

The space was stable.

Several natural immortal mountains nearby formed a spirit-gathering formation. Though it could not compare to the Enlightenment Ancient Tree or Three Lights Divine Water Lake, it was exceptionally suited for charging into a major realm.

Luxuan could not even be bothered to build another cave abode.

With a wave of his hand.

Several immortal mountains moved on their own.

Mountains and rivers shifted.

An Innate Spirit-Gathering Array spanning ten thousand li naturally took shape.

Zhao Gongming stood within the array and fell silent for a long while.

In the past, just to find a large spiritual vein suitable for secluded cultivation, he could roam the Great Wilderness for hundreds of years.

But here in Penglai.

His master casually moved a few mountains.

And there was his cultivation site.

The difference was indeed a little too great.

"Break through in peace."

Luxuan stood outside the array.

"Your accumulation has long been sufficient. There is no need to keep suppressing it."

Zhao Gongming nodded solemnly.

"This disciple understands."

Very soon.

The spirit-gathering array closed.

A vast amount of innate spiritual energy continuously surged from the underground spiritual veins, completely enveloping Zhao Gongming.

This breakthrough was entirely different from all his previous ones.

In the past, whenever he attempted the Great Luo realm, he would think only of how to make his magic power even more profound.

Now, he completely abandoned that notion.

He did only one thing.

He condensed his own Dao.

The laws of space appeared first.

One spatial pattern after another crisscrossed behind him, forming an illusory heaven and earth.

Then.

The Water Great Dao merged into it.

An ocean appeared.

Mountains and rivers appeared.

The once-empty heaven and earth finally possessed the first traces of a true world.

At last.

Zhao Gongming infused it with the intent of suppression he excelled at most.

Boom!

The illusory world instantly sank.

Though the world still had only an outline, it now carried an incomparably heavy aura of suppression.

It was not suppression through magic power.

It was suppression with an entire world!

The Great Luo Dao Zhao Gongming had been unable to condense all these years finally found its core completely at this moment.

Buzz—

A roar of the Great Dao suddenly rang through northern Penglai.

Above the sky.

Boundless auspicious clouds gathered of their own accord.

Zhao Gongming's aura, originally at Late Taiyi, began to rise swiftly as well.

Peak Taiyi.

Perfection.

That barrier which had blocked him for countless years appeared once more.

If it had been before.

Zhao Gongming would likely have continued forcing his way through with magic power.

But this time.

He did not even pay attention to that barrier.

He focused solely on evolving his illusory world.

The mountains became more real.

The waters grew more agile.

Space became more stable.

At the instant the embryonic world truly formed a closed loop.

Crack!

The Great Luo barrier shattered on its own.

Boom!

A majestic aura shot straight into the heavens.

Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal!

Zhao Gongming threw back his head and let out a long howl.

The exhilaration in his voice could not be suppressed.

The realm that had trapped him for who knew how many years.

Today, it had finally been broken!

The three sisters Yunxiao arrived almost at the same time.

Bixiao saw the phantom of the world behind Zhao Gongming from afar and could not help crying out.

"Elder Brother really broke through!"

A smile also appeared on Qiongxiao's face.

"Now he should be called Great Luo."

Yunxiao was even more attentive.

She noticed that although Zhao Gongming had only just broken through, the aura of his Great Dao was not the slightest bit unstable. Clearly, he had taken this step with exceptional solidity.

Luxuan was equally pleased by what he saw.

Then.

The hundredfold return arrived.

Boom—!

A terrifying insight into the Great Dao, far beyond what he had received when the Three Cloud Sisters broke through Taiyi, almost instantly flooded Luxuan's Primordial Spirit.

Taiyi entering Great Luo.

Was itself a fundamental transformation.

Not to mention that what Zhao Gongming had condensed was an embryonic World Great Dao with an extremely high degree of completeness.

Space.

Water.

Suppression.

The world's cycle.

After every kind of insight had been magnified a hundredfold, the heaven and earth in Luxuan's eyes seemed to have been dismantled and reassembled.

And what was truly terrifying.

Was the cultivation feedback.

The qualitative transformation in magic power produced during Zhao Gongming's breakthrough into Great Luo likewise fed back into Luxuan's body on a hundredfold scale.

He had already been nearing Great Luo Perfection.

Now, he only felt that the small remaining gap in his realm had instantly been filled.

Peak Late Daluo Immortal.

Boom!

Great Luo Perfection!

His Three Flowers solidified completely.

The Five Qi within his chest circulated as one.

Boundless magic power formed an almost perfect cycle within his body.

Yet the feedback did not end immediately.

Even more immense insights into the World Great Dao continued to pour in.

For the first time, Luxuan clearly sensed the layer of heaven and earth beyond Great Luo.

He needed only take one more step forward.

To reach what the Great Wilderness now called Quasi-Saint.

According to the method Hongjun would later impart.

One could perform Corpse-Slaying.

Entrust one's good, evil, and self corpses to Innate Spirit Treasures, steadily raising one's own cultivation.

But Luxuan looked at the foundation within himself, already fused with the Array Dao, Sword Dao, Space Great Dao, Cloud Water, World Great Dao, and countless other Great Daos, and a powerful resistance suddenly arose in his heart.

Slay them?

Why should he slay them?

All these Great Daos were his own.

He had cultivated them.

Comprehended them.

Merged them into his origin.

Yet in the end, he had to entrust part of them to spiritual treasures?

This path could not be called wrong.

But it might not suit him.

Luxuan closed his eyes.

Within his Primordial Spirit.

The Array Dao became the framework of heaven and earth.

The Space Great Dao extended the boundaries of the world.

The World Great Dao Zhao Gongming had just fed back became its foundation.

The Sword Dao transformed into pure Slaughter.

The Dao of Cloud Water ran through them all.

The various insights that had once seemed entirely different actually began to merge slowly around his Great Luo Dao Fruit.

A brand-new thought grew ever clearer.

Do not slay.

Do not entrust.

Let every Great Dao return to himself.

Ten thousand Daos merged.

Primordial Unity as one.

Once this path was successfully forged.

The realm he entered perhaps should not be called "Quasi-Saint" at all.

But—

Primordial Golden Immortal.

Luxuan slowly opened his eyes.

He did not rush to break through.

He had already seen the path.

What remained most important was to truly plant this step beneath his feet firmly.

If he forcibly stepped forward now for the sake of realm, he might instead waste the foundation nurtured for countless ages by the Penglai Origin.

In the distance.

Zhao Gongming had already finished his breakthrough.

The phantom world behind him slowly withdrew into his body.

He took a single step and arrived before Luxuan.

"This disciple thanks Master!"

This bow.

Zhao Gongming offered it with wholehearted conviction.

Without Luxuan's guidance.

He might have remained stuck at Taiyi for who knew how much longer.

Luxuan waved a hand.

"You've only just entered Great Luo. First, stabilize your realm."

"Your World Great Dao is still only in its embryonic form. Don't be greedy for greatness."

Zhao Gongming immediately nodded.

"This disciple will remember."

Bixiao came running over as well.

She circled Zhao Gongming once.

"Big Brother, you're really Great Luo now?"

Zhao Gongming was in an excellent mood.

"Of course."

Bixiao fell into thought.

"Then when we fight people in the future, won't we have a Great Luo thug now?"

The smile on Zhao Gongming's face instantly froze.

"What do you mean, thug?"

Bixiao spoke with perfect confidence.

"Master is so powerful. We can't have Master personally deal with every little matter, can we?"

"You're the highest realm now."

"Of course you go first."

Zhao Gongming suddenly felt that

his breakthrough into Great Luo might have been a little hasty.

Luxuan did not stop her.

He even felt Bixiao's words made quite a bit of sense.

Personal disciples were responsible for growing.

Named disciples were responsible for working.

The structure of the sect suddenly became reasonable.

But there was something even more important at hand.

Since Zhao Gongming had officially entered Great Luo,

as his master,

it was time to give him the greeting gift that had long been prepared.