Li Miaoxuan's aura rose rapidly as the spiritual qi of North Spring Grotto-Heaven swirled into her body.
Having attained the chaos heaven immortal level, every particle in her body greedily absorbed power, drawing on the mark of her Dao principle imprint to open illusory spaces.
From breaking through to the chaos heaven immortal level to fully stabilizing that realm, a considerable amount of time was needed.
This advancement brought a world-overturning change to a cultivator's power, a comprehensive transformation from within to without. The Dao principle imprint, physical body, and divine soul broke through their barriers and merged completely, laying the foundation for a future true Dao source seed.
Even Gu Yuanqing had taken more than ten years to stabilize his foundation back then, and Li Miaoxuan was no exception.
Gu Yuanqing set up a formation to protect her secluded cultivation, then turned his attention back to his own practice.
After so many years, Gu Yuanqing had nurtured all his powers to near Perfection. The phantoms of Small Worlds formed by his myriad particles were already almost indistinguishable from reality.
A primordial spirit resided in each Small World, sitting cross-legged in cultivation. Their vast powers resonated continuously as though they were one.
Yet once he approached Perfection, that heavenly chasm finally revealed itself in Gu Yuanqing's mind.
Using North Spring Grotto-Heaven to sense the great Dao of the Cultivation World, he could feel a certain sluggishness in its workings. That sluggishness was difficult to describe, like a painting that appeared flawless yet somehow felt wrong, though he could not say exactly where the flaw lay!
Cultivators of this world cultivated by emulating its Heaven and Earth, and the Dao principle imprints within their Heavenly Human Worlds likewise arose from insights gained from this Heaven and Earth.
When this Heaven and