His gains this time fell mainly into three categories:
[Cultivation]
The Rising Sun Spirit-Refining Insights recorded four stages of the primordial spirit returning to its rightful place, corresponding precisely to the four realms of spirit refining:
Yin Spirit: the Divine returned to the mud pill, and the primordial spirit could commune with heaven and earth.
Feathered Transformation: the Divine roamed the Great Void, and the primordial spirit could venture out in broad daylight.
Yang Spirit: the Divine essence became pure yang, and the primordial spirit no longer feared lightning or fire.
Three Flowers Gather at the Crown: the Divine merged with the laws, and the primordial spirit could command a Dao Domain.
After receiving the Great Dao's blessing, Xuanming had come into close contact with the laws of heaven and earth. Not only had his cultivation broken through into Feathered Transformation, but his comprehension of the Dao had also advanced to the level of Yang Spirit. Once he accumulated enough magic power and repeatedly tempered his primordial spirit with true fire and heavenly lightning, refining away every trace of yin dross, he would be able to break through.
[Divine Abilities]
The Great Dao's blessing remade the recipient.
This process was relatively comprehensive.
Beyond his cultivation gains, all of Xuanming's Divine Abilities had multiplied in power. Those he had comprehended before had begun merging with the laws, transforming without exception into great Divine Abilities. Those that had already reached that level had advanced further, while the abilities he had recently comprehended, such as Shifting Stars and Reversing the Dipper and Moving Mountains and Filling Seas, had reached minor attainment.
He had also developed some preliminary ideas and made initial attempts toward the Primordial Unity Divine Ability of Revert to Root, Return to Origin, which he had been pondering all along. If