421: Chapter 421 Breakthrough to the Void Refinement Realm

[The sixty-second year,]

[The xuantian treasure mirror operated day and night. Under the hundredfold acceleration, your Law of Destiny finally progressed from "Minor Achievement" to "Major Achievement".]

[Outside the Immortal Cave, Gu Jing had found her own way of living.]

[She had somehow obtained some seeds of spiritual flowers and exotic herbs, and set up a small courtyard at the cave entrance. She spent her days watering, loosening the soil, and pruning branches, busy and content.]

[She took care of these plants every day, occasionally staring blankly at the entrance of your Immortal Cave with an indescribable smile on her face.]

[The sixty-fifth year,]

[Another three years passed—of course, for you, it was three hundred years.]

[Your Law of Destiny finally reached Perfection.]

[You opened your eyes but did not rush to stand up.]

[You first closed your eyes to feel for a moment, and after confirming that everything was stable, you slowly exhaled a breath of turbid Qi.]

[Then, you called out Zhulong.]

["Senior Zhulong, I need a Protector."]

[It didn't say much, only nodding.]

[Three days later, you found a sufficiently desolate Shattered Star Continent.]

[Zhulong circled above in the starry sky, its massive body obscuring half of the firmament.]

[It didn't say much, just quietly standing guard there, its aura circulating around it, isolating this area into an absolutely safe Domain.]

[You landed on a solitary Peak in the center of the continent.]

[Without hesitation.]

[You raised your hand and made a light stroke toward the Void Realm in front of you—a silent strike of the perfected Sword Law.]

[A rift appeared out of thin air.]

[It wasn't "torn open," but forcibly "slashed open."]

[The edges of the spatial barrier were as smooth as a mirror. Looking inside, there was no light, no darkness, only a pure, heart-palpitating nothingness.]

[The Endless Void.]

[You took a deep breath and closed your eyes.]

[Your entire Primordial Spirit left your body, and your Physical Body immediately fell into a deep sleep.]

[Three perfected Laws—Sword Law, Law of Destiny, and Law of Poison—wrapped tightly around your Primordial Spirit like three protective halos.]

[They rotated slowly, intertwining with each other to form an airtight barrier.]

[Then, you charged inside.]

[Inside the Void Realm, there was no up or down, no near or far, and no time.]

[There was only eternal, undifferentiated assimilation.]

[It didn't attack you or reject you; it simply tried to make you a part of it in a way more patient than time itself.]

[You felt your Primordial Spirit being diluted bit by bit, stretched out, and merged into that boundless nothingness.]

[But you did not panic.]

[You began to "assimilate" it.]

[This was the most dangerous and critical step of the Void Refining Breakthrough—not to oppose the Void Realm, but to coexist with it.]

[You had to turn a part of it into your own before it assimilated you.]

[The Primordial Spirit carried all of your power.]

[Essence, Qi, and Spirit—the three elements unified as one.]

[The Spotless Sword Body was roaring, the Ice Fire Poison Body was circulating, and the Heavenly Fate Dao Embryo was burning.]

[The Dao Pattern Power wove an airtight net around the Primordial Spirit.]

[The three perfected Laws operated to their limit. They were no longer just "protecting" you but began to actively devour fragments in the Void Realm that shared the same source as the Origin Laws.]

[Time passed bit by bit. How long had it been?]

[You didn't know.]

[You only knew that your Primordial Spirit was being tempered over and over again.]

[Like a piece of pig iron, it was repeatedly forged to remove the dross and retain the essence, until all Impurities were gone, leaving only the hardest and purest essence.]

[You lasted longer than last time.]

[Much longer.]

[Then—at a certain moment, you felt the Three Thousand Laws in the Void Realm tremble simultaneously.]

[It wasn't that you had mastered all the Laws, but that those Three Thousand Laws coexisted within the Void Realm, and they sensed the birth of a "peer."]

[A trace of the Void Realm's Origin was successfully absorbed by you.]

[In that instant, your Primordial Spirit completed its transformation.]

[From solid to void, from void to solid.]

[It was no longer a pure "Soul" but a complete "life," an existence between the void and the real that could coexist with the Void Realm.]

[You knew that you had finally mastered Void Power and reached the final step.]

[Without overthinking, you immediately used the techniques from the "Great Void Spirit Condensation Art." With a single thought, the Void Power was at your disposal, and you began to open a Grotto-Heaven Embryo within the nothingness.]

[After an unknown amount of time, the Grotto-Heaven Embryo was finally successful.]

[Your Primordial Spirit excitedly opened its eyes—the Primordial Spirit Eye.]

[The Endless Void before you was no longer the heart-palpitating nothingness it once was.]

[You saw the threads of Laws flowing within, saw the Origin fragments hidden deep in the nothingness, and saw... the way home.]

[The Primordial Spirit flickered.]

[The next moment, you had returned to your Physical Body.]

[You opened your eyes.]

[The wind on the mountain Peak was still blowing, the stars in the sky were still twinkling, and Zhulong was still circling in the firmament, motionless.]

[Everything remained the same.]

[But you had changed.]

[You raised your hand and lightly clenched your fist toward a thousand-foot-tall boulder in the distance.]

["Ssh—"]

[The boulder shattered at the sound.]

[It wasn't smashed or shaken to pieces, but... it vanished into thin air.]

[In its place, only a Void Black Hole condensed from Void Power remained.]

[It wasn't condensed by a Spell, but a rift in the Void Realm itself that you had "plucked" out.]

[The edges distorted the light, and the center was a patch of dead silence, as if it could swallow everything.]

[You released your hand, and the Void Black Hole slowly healed.]

[This is Void Refining.]

[Mastering Void Power, with a single thought, one can tear space apart or swallow all things.]

["Hahaha..."]

["It's finally done!"]

["I have finally succeeded in my Void Refining Breakthrough!"]

[You laughed wantonly, with immense satisfaction.]

[The feeling at this moment was hard to describe in words.]

[It wasn't that you had broken through something, but rather—you suddenly realized you were standing on higher ground.]

[Looking back, the path you came from was as clear as the lines on your palm; looking forward, the mist had cleared, and the world suddenly opened up.]

[With a slight thought.]

[From within your body, a phantom identical to you drifted out, floating by your side.]

[That was your primordial spirit clone.]

[It wasn't the barely condensed phantom of a Soul Transformation Dharma Image, but a true Clone that was no different from you, possessing a real Physical Body.]

[You looked at him, and he looked at you.]

[The same consciousness existed simultaneously in two shells.]

[The Clone of a Void Refining Cultivator is not like a Soul Transformation Dharma Image, which is merely an "extension of power."]

[They are truly "another you."]

[A true Clone that can think independently, Cultivate on its own, change its appearance and form, and do many things for you.]

[There are even more powerful and unknown uses.]

[Of course, the prerequisite is that the Clone is strong enough.]

[This is also why those old fellows always hide their true bodies so deeply—as long as the original body isn't destroyed, it doesn't matter how many Clones die.]

[Feeling the power surging within you, which was more than ten times more majestic than at the Soul Transformation Peak, you suddenly felt an impulse.]

[You wanted to have a fight.]

[You raised your hand, and Qin Han shot out from the spatial ring, floating in mid-air and looking at you with a Clumsy expression.]

["Come, let's spar," you said with a smile.]

[Qin Han stared at you with wide eyes, looking completely bewildered, then slowly shook his fur.]