In one region of the Boundless Chaos Sea...
A towering gate drifted through that region, radiating a presence that could suppress the heavens and endure forever without decay.
The gate had no destination. It moved with the "sea." Yet from a broader perspective, despite veering this way and that, it seemed to have a direction of its own. It was not wandering at random.
In the Shrouding the Heavens World, quite some time had passed since Ye Fan, Ruthless, and the others had made their breakthroughs.
After attaining the Dao of Chaos, and before they began exploring the Limitless Path, there was no need to deliberately enter seclusion for Cultivation.
They only had to devote part of their minds to the Great Dao. As long as they encountered no bottleneck, their Cultivation as Chaos Ones would slowly rise until they did.
A bottleneck, though, took some work to overcome.
So Shi Hao and the others had been rather at leisure since attaining the Dao.
Meng Chuan was still painstakingly exploring the Limitless Dao. Occasionally, he emerged from seclusion to exchange insights with Ruthless and the others, testing their understanding of the Great Dao against one another.
Cultivation had four essentials: wealth, companions, methods, and land. Upon reaching the Chaos Domain, the importance of "companions" had plainly surpassed the other three.
Wealth was no concern for a Chaos One, especially a Near-Limitless Being. Treasures capable of advancing a Near-Limitless Being's Cultivation were so exceedingly rare that no one counted on obtaining one.
If one did obtain such a treasure, its importance would naturally surpass everything else.
But if none could be found, what could anyone do?
Wealth, the foremost essential, no longer mattered.
As for methods, the Limitless Path depended entirely on oneself. Methods that could help a Near-Limitless Being