Ten eras passed in the blink of an eye.
The meditation chamber door opened, and Hu Yanbo's true body stepped out.
He stood before the hall, his karmic perception spreading naturally outward.
The continent's scenery flowed into his awareness. It was clearly different from before his seclusion.
A large swath of those sources of sin, once scattered everywhere like glaring stains, had vanished.
The remaining middling ones kept their auras tightly contained deep within their lairs, not daring to show themselves at all.
Beneath its clamor, the entire continent held a taut silence, as though something had frightened it.
Hu Yanbo knew what that was.
It was the commotion he had caused while casually clearing away those "costs" to repay the advance on the "great Dao of destruction."
Ten eras later, the lingering force of that commotion remained.
Hu Yanbo glanced back at the meditation chamber.
Inside, one of his clones remained seated. The Great Dao Diagram slowly rotated before him, streams of light sinking into his brow.
After ten eras, the progress of the fusion-remained slow.
Perfectly fusing the six major branches through the Great Dao Diagram alone and entering the second realm was indeed no simple matter.
But it did not matter.
The Great Dao Diagram's purpose had always been to repay his debt; fusion was an extra.
Leaving a clone and a little spiritual will here to continue studying it would make success a pleasant surprise.
Failure would be normal, too.
With the debt repaid, it was time to take the next step.
Hu Yanbo's true body looked up toward the valley where his teacher resided.
Obtain twenty million Hunyuan crystals and repay the advance on "mid-stage God Emperor will."
Go straight to those two Progenitors?
Too many uncertainties.
Ask Teacher first.
That would be safer.
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