Until the Spiritual Qi vortex in the sky subsided, and the voice of Chen Zhixing greeting was heard in the courtyard, only then did Chen Zhaosheng, accompanied by the rest of the Chen Family, push open the door and walk inside.
"Zhixing, didn't you say that the breakthrough could be delayed until next month? How come you suddenly broke through without any notice?"
"Breaking through next month was the best expectation. Um, it happened during sleep, I let my guard down, and the breakthrough happened by itself."
"Then you now have one month less time. How is your Chaos Dao cultivation going, is there any hope?"
"Far off, I'm afraid there's no hope of merging the nine Daos into a furnace before reaching the Peak."
"What will you do then? Are you planning to use the Life and Death Tao to prove the Peak, or the Sword Dao?"
"I haven't decided yet, I'll see when the time comes. I've just broken through now, and compared to when I was at the Eighth Layer, my body feels more comfortable. I estimate I can suppress the breakthrough to the Peak Realm for about three more years."
"Three years... not short, but I believe in you, Zhixing. With your talent, three years is enough for you to fuse the Chaos Tao Fruit, and step on the Path of Chaos to reach the Peak!"
"Dad..."
"Your mother also believes in you, Qingqing believes in you too, and especially the little one in Qingqing's belly believes in you so much! Son, keep it up, your mother believes you can do it!"
Chen Zhixing: "..."
"You're putting a lot of pressure on me, quickly stop it, if this goes on, I'll be pampered to death by you all sooner or later."
"What?"
"Son, you're saying... Oh, heh heh heh, you two haven't been intimate for quite a while..."
"Get lost, you shameless old man, can't you see how big Qingqing's belly is? Every single day, do you have a death wish!"
Xu Qingqing was so ashamed that she wished she could bury her head in her chest.
Hmm.
At this moment, Chen Zhaosheng, the Young Clan Leader, seemed like an outsider.
Well, he was indeed an outsider.
After waiting for a long while, until the family finished their chat and dispersed, Chen Zhaosheng finally had a chance to get close to Chen Zhixing.
He handed over a bottle of immortal dew to replenish Spiritual Qi, and Chen Zhaosheng quietly asked, "Is there really no hope for the Chaos Tao Fruit?"
Chen Zhixing took a sip after receiving it and nodded.
"There's no hope unless I can use the Great Tao Furnace to fuse over ten thousand different paths in three years to have a thirty percent chance."
"Is it that difficult?" Chen Zhaosheng was somewhat incredulous. "From what I know, in ancient times there were cultivators who stepped into the Peak Realm via the Chaos Tao, but if even you can't do it, then... how did they manage?"
"Who knows." Chen Zhixing laughed lightly: "Maybe their talent was better, their resources more abundant, their luck greater, perhaps they worked harder."
Chen Zhaosheng: "..."
Taking a deep breath, Chen Zhaosheng pondered for a while, then softly said, "Perhaps I am overthinking it, maybe those who walked the Chaos Tao spent thousands of years cultivating in the Nirvana Realm before stepping into the Peak, hence they could..."
Chen Zhaosheng said this just to comfort Chen Zhixing, hoping he would feel a bit better, after all, with Chen Zhixing's reputation as the greatest prodigy of the past ten thousand years, now to be stuck on a path others have traversed... Chen Zhaosheng feared he would overthink and get stuck in a rut.
But unexpectedly, after hearing his words, Chen Zhixing let out a laugh.
"A thousand years? Even if you gave them ten thousand years they wouldn't make it!"
With that, Chen Zhixing raised a hand, and at the center of his palm, a pellet-sized pitch-black furnace was slowly melting with it, the core of this furnace exuded a terrifying aura that seemed to both encompass and destroy everything, continuously burning and refining within this small cauldron.
"Those you mentioned as verifying the Chaos Dao probably only reached this level, if not less, since they didn't have the Fallen Heart Flame to help refine, the 'Chaotic Qi' they gathered wouldn't measure up to this refinement."
As he spoke, Chen Zhixing looked at the continually burning wisp of qi within the cauldron, feeling rather displeased.
Over more than a year, endlessly burning day and night, during which he had Lii Shuang and Snow Soul help him extract fate-bearers from the outside world, while he frequently visited the Ziwei Divine Prohibition Celestial Prison behind the main peak to extract essences of various Great Demon Giant Monsters and Spirit Essences, yet all this only resulted in producing such an illusory, superficial thing!!!
"You succeeded?!" At the moment the Chaotic Qi appeared, Chen Zhaosheng was overwhelmed by its nearly eternal aura, and afterwards, didn't listen to anything else Chen Zhixing said.
This was Chaotic Qi!
Capable of creating all laws!
Capable of extinguishing all laws!
The utmost pinnacle Great Tao, was actually successfully condensed by his cousin?
Unbelievable!
Inconceivable!
"Condensed a ghost." Chen Zhixing sighed: "It's just a facade, looks decent, but compared to genuine Chaos, it is still leagues apart, who knows if I can truly achieve it in this lifetime."
Chen Zhaosheng wasn't aware of the difficulties involved, but Chen Zhixing himself was very clear about them.
He was able to condense the Chaotic Qi within the Tao Cauldron to its current state because of his advantage in physique and cultivation technique, as for his talent and the massive resources he's absorbed over the years, they're just basic, not worth mentioning.
Regardless, all things considered.
As long as he continues to refine this Chaotic Qi, when he steps into the Peak Realm three years later, his path will just barely graze the word 'chaos.'
Whether it's Life and Death Chaos, Ice and Fire Chaos, or some other type of Chaos.
When the time comes, whichever works best is what he'll use.
After all this effort, what Chen Zhixing seeks is the essence of chaos capable of transforming one path into myriad paths. For now, he's barely managed to merge his nine Daos into a Chaos unity. At that point, when he proves the Peak, he won't need to cultivate the nine Daos separately; he just needs to fill the Chaos, and naturally, the nine Daos will be of the same level as the Chaos Dao.
In other words, when Chen Zhixing proves the Peak in the future, the path he walks can also be called the Nine Chaos Tao!
And after that, he will include all known Taoist trunks into this Tao Cauldron, allowing them to interweave, collide, and propagate to weave new Daos, instead of cultivating them one by one.
Wind and fire can interweave to form the Dao of Blazing Explosions, wind and water can interweave to form ice, ice and fire can... therefore Chen Zhixing only needs wind, fire, and water as main trunks within the Tao Cauldron, the rest can be left to time to interweave naturally; otherwise, he wouldn't have enough time in this lifetime to focus entirely on cultivating new Daos!
This is the answer Chen Zhixing arrived at after pondering for so long.
First, contain the nine Daos within Chaos, prove the Peak, and even after Longevity, gradually fill them in one by one. Eventually, when Chen Zhixing truly gathers all the paths under heaven and reaches their pinnacle, it will be the moment he proves Chaos!
Most of the Chaos Dao predecessors that Chen Zhaosheng mentioned were similar to Chen Zhixing, they first integrated their own Daos into a framework of Chaos, reaching the Peak and then slowly completing it.
Compared to these people, Chen Zhixing has many advantages.
Born with the Innate Chaos Tao Body, this physique allows Chen Zhixing to recklessly devour when cultivating Chaos initially, without worrying about potential conflicts like life and death, ice and fire power Daos existing together, if he didn't have this god-defying physique, he would have to rotate them one by one using the law of Nirvana, otherwise, he would face an inevitable body explosion.
The Chaos Tao Song then grants Chen Zhixing the possibility of truly fusing into genuine Chaos, saving him a large amount of time by allowing the fusion of the true Chaos.
Otherwise, as Chen Zhixing mentioned before, unless one has eternal life, there's absolutely no chance of achieving the Chaos Tao!
As a person's time and energy are limited, how could one pursue something that inherently represents endlessness within these limits?
As for the innumerable amounts of Golden Nature that will emerge as he allows the Daos to coexist within him....
"That would truly be an unimaginable number...."
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