Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

The Great Sun hangs high in the sky, the sunlight scorching, and the sea surface is covered with multicolored star algae, stretching like a carpet to the horizon with no end in sight.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng's vision blurred, and he saw an eleven or twelve-year-old, handsome young boy with rosy lips and white teeth, appearing out of thin air before him.

"Junior Zhao Qiongtian, pays respect to Your Highness!" Zhao Sheng, though surprised, dared not be impolite, and immediately cupped his fists and spoke loudly.

The Star God directly said, "The divine has waited for you for five hundred years. Are you here to fulfill the promise today?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Sheng's heart stirred. From the words, it seemed the Star God could no longer "see through" his thoughts.

Could it be... due to the promotion to the Divinity Transformation realm? Or is there another reason?

Zhao Sheng's mind raced with thoughts, yet he saw the Star God's expression remained unchanged, its gaze clear, as if it truly could not "see through" his thoughts and intentions.

"Your Highness guessed correctly! I have indeed come in response to the agreement." Zhao Sheng, swiftly processing the thoughts, decisively nodded and said.

"Good, the divine will open the space-time vortex to send you to the other side." The Star God, naturally "straightforward and honest," never spoke any unnecessary words, and was about to get started immediately.

Zhao Sheng, seeing this, hurriedly spoke to stop, "Your Highness, please wait!"

"Oh, are you going to renege?"

"Your Highness misunderstood. You also know that eliminating the Blood God is an extremely dangerous endeavor, basically a sure death mission! Hence, before this matter, I wish to ask Your Highness for a small bit of compensation."

"Compensation? Speak," the Star God responded with great decisiveness.

Zhao Sheng, having dealt with the Star God many times and knowing its character well, directly said, "I wish to borrow Your Highness's power to observe the heavens and attain enlightenment, to comprehend as much of the Taoist Laws as possible."

"You may! But this will consume a large amount of your lifespan. Are you willing?"

Zhao Sheng's gaze was firm, and he nodded, "I am willing. As the Saint says, 'To understand the Tao in the morning, one can die in the evening without regret!' Even if it requires sacrificing the majority of my lifespan, I am willing."

"Good, the divine will fulfill your wish."

As soon as the words fell, massive and magnificent consciousness light clusters suddenly surged from under the sea.

These consciousness light clusters quickly merged into one another, forming a resplendent "star nebula" that blocked out the sun.

In the blink of an eye, Zhao Sheng's "vision" soared continuously. The sky, ocean, and endless star algae before him all became illusory and vanished.

The original Star God World swiftly transformed into a chaotic and foggy expanse, an exotic, indescribable "heaven and earth" appeared in front of Zhao Sheng.

This "heaven and earth" was extremely dazzling, exceedingly brilliant, filled with infinite light.

With the Star God's consciousness blessing him, Zhao Sheng's consciousness became intensely active, with his thinking logic enhanced by countless times, countless spirit lights exploding in his mind.

He clearly saw before him that the "heaven and earth" was astonishingly composed of countless "law silk strings."

Due to the suppression of human emotional sensibility by the Star God's consciousness, Zhao Sheng's consciousness was almost entirely dominated by absolute rationality.

Almost in an instant, he became expressionless, extremely indifferent, fully applying his mind to multiple uses simultaneously, observing this "Principle World" while constantly withstanding an astronomical amount of unknown information pouring in.

Simultaneously, borrowing each strand of the Star God's consciousness, he began to create thousands of "tasks."

Task sequence zero: "Creation of Heaven and Earth"...

Task sequences one to twenty: Observing the Fire Element Law, deducing the cultivation technique "Great Sun Burning Sky Scripture"…

Task sequences twenty-one to eighty-two: Analyzing "Big and Small Ruyi Immortal Skill"...

Task sequences eighty-three to one hundred and nine: Using the Taoist True Texts 'Fortify', 'Fortress', 'Light', 'Heavy', 'Burn' as templates to observe and deduce new Taoist True Texts, preliminary targets: 'Annihilate', 'Tribulation', 'Void'…

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Task sequences one hundred fourteen to one hundred fifty-four: Using "Heart Intent Fist" as template, deducing new Will Martial Ways... deducing the third model of Unity of Essence, Energy and Spirit...

Task sequences one hundred fifty-five to two hundred: From the phenomenon of Power of Annihilation, deducing the Dao of Destruction...

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Task sequences two hundred and eight to two hundred seventy-six:...deducing the cultivation path from Divinity Transformation realm to Returning to Void realm

Task sequences two hundred seventy-six to two hundred eighty-one: Analyzing "Initial Exploration of the Void", "Spirit Realm Origin", "Heavenly Tribulation Mysterious Cloud"...a series of ancient jade scrolls.

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Task sequences three hundred seven to three hundred forty-four: Using Ten Thousand Fire Tripod, Seven Flames Fan, Emperor Tianjian, God Beating Mace as templates, deducing methods to upgrade True Form Spirit Treasures…

Task sequence one thousand two hundred to one thousand three hundred: Using six hundred forty-eight types of Five Elements Cultivation Method as the matrix, deducing the "Five Elements Mixed Element Scripture" that directly leads to Returning to Void realm…

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While Zhao Sheng was busy establishing over a thousand task sequences, the Hundred Generations Book quietly emerged from the depths of his Divine Soul, the book pages silently flipping open:

Name: Zhao Qiongtian (Zhao Sheng)

Lifespan: 879/2921 (-1-1...)

Realm: Divinity Transformation Second Level

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The countless law silk strings filled the entire field of view.

They not only possessed all known human colors, but even more colors that exceeded human cognition, chaotic and unknown, indescribable.

The law silk strings composing the "heaven and earth" wove and merged, continually stacking into extraordinarily complex three-dimensional nodes, and followed specific rules changing constantly, sometimes endlessly far, sometimes shrinking into a point, at times interweaving and coiling, weaving and constructing endless knots and three-dimensional structures.

Since starting to observe this Principle World, Zhao Sheng was constantly bearing the influx of astronomical amounts of information every moment.

Even though he had formed his Primordial Spirit, he soon felt his consciousness rapidly expanding, as though it could burst from the sheer volume of information at any time.

However, Zhao Sheng was unafraid, instead becoming greedier, his lifespan wildly burning in this moment...

Time passed for a long while, yet also seemed just a fleeting instant.

The "silk string" world before him abruptly became illusory and vanished, Zhao Sheng was expelled by an irresistible vast consciousness, instantly breaking free from the "supermind, absolute rationality" state.

His consciousness returned to normal, immediately feeling as if his head would explode, his skull seemingly crammed full of things.

Yet, despite the agonizing pain of his Divine Soul, Zhao Sheng curiously gave rise to an enormous sense of loss.

Name: Zhao Qiongtian (Zhao Sheng)

Lifespan: 879/888

Realm: Divinity Transformation Second Level

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The Hundred Generations Book slowly sank into the depths of the Soul Sea, the attribute panel gradually fading from his mind.

Opening his eyes, he saw again the high-hanging Great Sun and the star algae covered Star God Consciousness World.

Resisting the pain, Zhao Sheng bowed respectfully to the Star God and thanked, "Junior immensely thanks Your Highness for your accomplishment!"

The Star God said, "The divine has fulfilled your wish. Now it's your turn to fulfill your promise."

"Junior dares not forget. Your Highness, please open the space-time vortex!" Zhao Sheng's eyes gleamed like torches, speaking resolutely.

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In the quiet of the night, dark clouds obscured the moon.

The southwest inner sea of the Shattered Star Sea suddenly changed as clouds and winds shifted, all the dark clouds dispelled, revealing a clear bright starry sky.

As the ocean surged with monstrous waves, a space-time vortex appeared silently in mid-air, with a diameter of nearly a hundred miles.

At this moment, a golden stream of light shot skyward, flashing into the space-time vortex and disappearing instantly.

Moments later, the space-time vortex automatically collapsed, dissolving into nothingness.

But its appearance had already alarmed the cultivators within a ten-thousand-mile radius of the Shattered Star Sea.

Immediately, numerous Cloud Boat Treasure Ships swarmed towards this location, with several Golden Core Masters quickly arriving on the scene in tunneling light, but unfortunately discovering nothing.

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That day, the invasive star algae of Wuzhou Sea suddenly unleashed a new round of massive red tides.

At noon, the sky suddenly experienced strong winds, and the turbulent waves on the sea rose as a grayish vortex with a diameter of nearly a hundred miles appeared out of nowhere in mid-air, consequently drawing the surrounding ten thousand miles of nature's spiritual energy, gathering in abundance.

Although the space-time vortex only lasted less than a moment from appearance to disappearance, it still alarmed the major sect forces secretly monitoring Wuzhou Sea's dynamics.

Immediately, the guardian forces of the Five Sea Eyes: the Heavenly Sect, Black Sky Sect, Asking Dao Sect, Heavenly Balance Sect, and Sect of Dominion, all dispatched their Nascent Soul Ancestors to this sea area to investigate.

Yet, out of fear of the Star God, the Nascent Soul Ancestors dared not make an appearance rashly, only stealthily entering the area after the Star God's consciousness returned to silence.

But by then, Zhao Sheng's trace was already long gone, leaving everyone frustrated and puzzled as they finally departed.