Cultivation knew no passage of time, and a hundred years drifted by.
The Sun Star remained suffused with boundless Dao resonance.
Dijun, Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Houtu, Xuanming, and the others were still immersed in contemplation. Compared to a hundred years earlier, all of them had made considerable progress in their cultivation.
This was especially true of Zhao Gongming and the Three Xiao Sisters, whose cultivation realms were lower.
Not long before, they had only just broken through to the early Great Luo Golden Immortal stage. Yet after a mere hundred years, they had actually reached the middle Great Luo Golden Immortal stage, and their realms were as stable as if they had broken through thousands of years ago.
Their gains were tremendous!
"Boom!"
A heaven-shaking rumble rang out.
The boundless Dao resonance enveloping the entire Sun Star vanished in an instant. Light flashed in the void, and Daochen's figure appeared.
A hundred years earlier, when Daochen had just broken through to the peak quasi-saint stage, his aura had been utterly imposing. Now, he exuded no aura at all and looked like an ordinary man, having distilled complexity into simplicity and returned to his original, unadorned nature.
Yet no one dared underestimate him because of it. Everyone understood that Daochen's cultivation had advanced again.
And that was indeed the case. Over the past hundred years, Daochen had not deliberately cultivated, instead devoting all his attention to refining the Grandmist Purple Restrictions. Yet, propelled by the boundless Dao resonance, his cultivation had continued to rise.
Not only had he stabilized his peak quasi-saint stage, he had advanced another step and reached the pinnacle quasi-saint stage.
One more step, and he would attain the Dao and become a Sage!
Unfortunately, the laws of heaven and earth imposed limits. If Daochen wished to advance