332: Break through the bottleneck!

In the Origin Chamber.

Another nearly three thousand years passed.

Lin Chen finally comprehended the Grandmist Great Dao to 99% of the Origin Level!

For the last 1%, his clones had been sitting in meditation for several hundred years, but they made little progress.

“It seems that to break through this bottleneck, relying on my own comprehension will take too long.”

If it were an ultimate-level Great Dao, Lin Chen, with the help of his clones, might have broken through the bottleneck long ago.

But this supreme-level Great Dao involved Great Dao profundities that were too vast...

Lin Chen no longer delayed; with a thought, he decided to have the system add points to achieve perfection.

Buzz—

The system panel flickered, as if understanding Lin Chen’s intention, and instantly consumed 800 billion Energy Points!

Lin Chen’s eyelids twitched at the sight; this Grandmist Great Dao was only at the Origin Level, yet the Energy Points consumed were even more than when the Taiyi Great Dao was at the Creation Level!

The Creation Level Taiyi Great Dao consumed 600 billion Energy Points for every 1% increase... But fortunately, he comprehended it almost entirely to perfection on his own.

This calculation saved him over 50 trillion Energy Points.

With 19 epochs remaining until the end of his seclusion, Lin Chen actually felt that time was a bit tight.

Comprehending the Creation Level Grandmist Great Dao might be even slower!

“Perhaps, it would be better if I first break through my true spirit.”

Lin Chen’s eyes suddenly lit up.

Once his true spirit broke through to the Half-step Eternal Realm, his comprehension would greatly increase, making it faster to comprehend Creation Level Great Dao at that time.

No sooner said than done, Lin Chen’s main body continued to comprehend the remaining 1% of the Grandmist Great Dao, while his clones individually entered the environments of the Martial Dao Space to temper their true spirits...

The illusions of the Martial Dao Space were effective even for Eternal Realm mighty beings, let alone Lin Chen.

After a clone entered an illusion, Lin Chen would actively cut off contact, allowing the clone to fully immerse itself in the illusion.

The illusions of the Martial Dao Space would autonomously identify the weak points of Lin Chen’s true spirit and generate illusions...

Each time one of the 71 clones passed through an illusionary tempering, the true spirit’s power would increase slightly, and through this repeated process, Lin Chen’s true spirit power began to slowly rise.

This feeling was truly marvelous; although it was far from as fast as improving through system point allocation, Lin Chen could completely accept it...

At this rate, he only needed to wait for his true spirit to reach a bottleneck, then use the system to add points and break through that bottleneck!

Lin Chen suddenly realized that perhaps this was the true way to use the system!

However, before this, his comprehension was too low, and even with the clones comprehending, the effect was not as good as it was now.

In the future, Lin Chen’s method of improvement could continue to follow this pattern.

Energy Points would primarily be used to improve his physical Realm and upgrade various body techniques, combat skills, and secret arts.

As long as his comprehension always remained far ahead of his current Realm, he would be able to quickly comprehend Great Dao profundities with the help of his clones!

Of course, when he had the chance later, he would still need to acquire more heaven-defying comprehension-enhancing rare treasures.

And so, Lin Chen waited for the moment his clones reached the bottleneck.

Time also quietly flowed by... Five epochs passed in the blink of an eye!

On this day, Lin Chen’s true spirit power finally touched that invisible bottleneck.

He had a premonition that even if his clones were to temper themselves in the illusions for another five epochs, that bottleneck would be very difficult to break through.

The true spirit Realm itself was a huge hurdle for both the martial and body cultivation paths.

The true spirit Realm could not be lower than the martial dao Realm and the golden body Realm!

The reason is actually very simple: if the true spirit Realm was too low, a martial dao cultivator would simply be unable to comprehend the vast Great Dao profundities.

For body cultivators, if the true spirit Realm was too low, they would be unable to withstand the extreme pain brought about by physical transformation...

For ordinary beings, if they wanted their true spirit to break through that bottleneck, they either had to continuously undergo illusionary tempering, enduring countless years to possibly break through the bottleneck.

Or they had to travel through countless worlds with their main body, allowing their true spirit to naturally transform and break through the bottleneck.

However, this method had great uncertainties and required a certain degree of talent, fortuitous encounters, and blessings...

Relatively speaking, natural transformation was more reliable.

In martial dao cultivation, the further one progressed, for example, to the stage of an Eternal Realm mighty being, those bottlenecks might be difficult to break through even after enduring prolonged illusionary trials...

Therefore, the better Lin Chen utilized the system’s ability to break through bottlenecks, the greater his advantage would be in the later stages of martial dao cultivation!

“Let me try to see how many Energy Points are needed to break through the bottleneck.”

A trace of the passage of time flickered in Lin Chen’s eyes, then returned to clarity.

This seclusion had lasted too long, nearly 60,000 years!

It was even longer than the previous time his true spirit broke through to the Great Emperor Ninth Level.

Fortunately, Lin Chen’s true spirit Realm was strong enough; otherwise, after such a long period of sitting in meditation, his true spirit would have collapsed and he would have died long ago...

Buzz—

The system panel flickered, and 16 trillion Energy Points were consumed.

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, glad that he had enough Energy Points.

The next moment, Lin Chen felt as if his true spirit power had broken through a membrane and entered a new world.

Boom—

His thinking speed surged rapidly.

Memory, willpower, soul power... all aspects of his true spirit’s abilities far surpassed what they once were!

Not only that, Lin Chen discovered a faint golden stream of light appearing within his true spirit.

Due to his body cultivation, his true spirit had long since integrated into countless cells.

So now his entire body emitted a faint golden glow.

Lin Chen’s expression was excited; these golden streams of light were precisely immortal substance!

They were exactly the same as the immortal characteristics attached to his Spirit Slaying Art and Ancient Desolate Battle Body, and even more concentrated.

The entire transformation process lasted for nearly a year, and after everything settled down, a wisp of true spirit power appeared at Lin Chen’s fingertips.

Within that wisp of true spirit power, there were also faint golden streams of light flickering.

Lin Chen nodded in satisfaction; with this immortal substance, his true spirit would never decay!

As long as he wasn’t killed and the Primordial World didn’t perish, he would live forever.

As a high-level four-dimensional world, the Primordial World could exist for 3 billion epochs.

Even if only 100 million epochs remained, that was still an unimaginable time dimension.

How long had Lin Chen lived now?

Even including the time spent in seclusion, it was less than 10 epochs...

“Now that my true spirit has broken through, for the remaining time, I will fully comprehend the Creation Level Grandmist Great Dao!”

Lin Chen looked at the system panel.

At this moment, the Grandmist Great Dao was already at 1% of the Creation Level.

During these five epochs, his clones had not been idle either.

After the Grandmist Great Dao reached perfection at the Origin Level, with the clones' efforts, they forcefully comprehended 1%.

This efficiency could be said to be too touching...

However, things were different now.

After Lin Chen’s true spirit transformed this time, his comprehension had a terrifying improvement.

If his comprehension was comparable to the early Eternal Realm before, it was now comparable to the middle Eternal Realm!

“I still have 24.2 trillion Energy Points, which also need to be used to deduce the Great Dao Combat Skill of the Grandmist Great Dao.”

Lin Chen looked at the system panel; after the system upgrade, the Great Dao Combat Skill deduction had updated with information on supreme Great Daos.

Great Dao Combat Skill Deduction: 10 trillion (Supreme)

Now that the Creation Level Grandmist Great Dao had been comprehended to 1%, the Great Dao Combat Skill could be deduced.

Subsequently, Lin Chen began the Great Dao Combat Skill deduction, while his main body and clones also began to comprehend the Creation Level Grandmist Great Dao together...