Chen Zhixing said he would undergo a closed-door breakthrough to the Peak, and he locked himself in the back mountain.

A year had passed.

Cultivation, state, and Great Tao Furnace—these three thresholds that are the simplest for others, took Chen Zhixing merely a week to adjust.

What truly consumed his time was the connection between the nine Great Taos that had already merged into their final stage, the conflict arising during the fusion of the Great Tao levels, how to balance his cultivation distributed among the nine Great Taos, the heat level between Fallen Heart Flame and the Tao Cauldron, and the potential Celestial Tribulation after the breakthrough.

Fortunately, these merely took time and effort, and after enduring long enough, Chen Zhixing's mind became resolute, knowing it was time for his breakthrough.

A black Tao Cauldron gradually appeared around him, with a profound and thick aura like dark ink beginning to transition gently into Chen Zhixing's body, from the skin to the muscles and bones, then through the meridians to the internal organs, finally charging to the top of the head where the silted pill resides.

The next second, it felt as if a bronze bell clanged fiercely in Chen Zhixing's mind sea!

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

The first gate of the breakthrough to Peak began.

The body trembled continuously with the sound of the Great Tao, the aura from the forehead's core of the Great Tao started to reverse, nourished back, driving Chen Zhixing's body for the final transformation, which was the most crucial stage when the Nirvana Realm approaches Peak, allowing the cultivator's body to be closer to the Tao.

Seventeen times.

The blood and flesh within Chen Zhixing's physical body had already begun to be filled with his meridians carrying the aura of the Tao.

At the twenty-first chime, the pseudo-Chaotic Qi within the meridians suddenly exploded, engaging in a most arduous battle with Chen Zhixing's flesh and blood.

At the twenty-ninth chime, most of his flesh and blood had already been devoured by the meridians. At this moment, Chen Zhixing seemed like a skeleton entirely filled with Chaotic Qi Flow.

After the thirty-seventh chime, the Chaotic Qi began to corrode his muscles and bones, and the great power obtained from devouring flesh a moment ago became the force to annihilate them.

By the forty-fourth chime, Chen Zhixing's figure had already disappeared, leaving only a mass of condensed human-shaped Chaotic Qi.

'I am originally the Innate Chaos Tao Body; cultivating Chaotic Qi without needing my body's cells to adapt to it saved me nearly two years. Afterwards, all I need is to re-condense this Chaotic Qi carrying my life's imprint into my form, and this stage will be passed.'

Destruction is always easier than reconstruction.

To dissolve his Tao Body with Chaotic Qi, Chen Zhixing took less than a month, while the process of reconstructing his body took him a full three months.

This process was like customizing an avatar in a game.

Of course, much more troublesome, and much more useful.

Whenever a cultivator reaches the Peak Realm, they can use the Power of the Great Tao that retains their aura to reshape and integrate their own body. Whether one desires a male or female body, with whatever talent, height, body type, or beauty one desires, as long as the Nirvana Power accumulated during cultivation is sufficient, all of this can be transformed into resources for reconstructing oneself.

In other words, this first step from Nirvana to Peak can be considered a kind of reincarnation, allowing one to expend Nirvana Power to change one's fate.

This is exactly where the name of the Nirvana Realm comes from.

In this stage, Chen Zhixing did not spend too much time sculpting anew. As one with the Innate Chaos Tao Body to begin with, his pre-reconstruction form was the epitome of perfection.

He just spent a bit of effort to make his body purer, using this stage to expel internal injuries acquired from cultivation and a slight amount of pill toxin left from consuming pills.

Thus, after three months, in the gentle black flames, a flawless, entirely Chaotic Qi-reconstructed body was completed.

At the center of his forehead, where originally there should be a fish scale, now it was replaced with the image of a burning Tao Cauldron, and unlike usual furnaces, within the Tao Cauldron on Chen Zhixing's forehead, a clear black flame slowly burned.

The first stage had been completed.

Feeling his newly reborn body, and the pulsating energy at his forehead that seemed ready to burst at any moment, Chen Zhixing calmed his mind to sense the 'Snow Demon King's Power', now integrated with the true seed of the Great Tao after his breakthrough, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

'The Snow Demon King's Power is also a kind of inheritance. Once the inheritor breaks through to Peak with their own power, this power naturally integrates with them, becoming part of the Peak Cultivator's Spiritual Power, even greatly aiding in breaking through realms. Ordinary cultivators with insufficient spiritual cultivation can also reach Peak with this Snow Demon King's Power.'

After seven full days, sensing that the Snow Demon King's Power had completely transformed into his own strength without any distinction, Chen Zhixing himself mused softly.

'The second stage, using the Great Tao to accelerate oneself, achieving a transformation in the level of life, gaining the complete Power of Space-Time.'

This stage is both difficult and easy.

It involves using the mighty power of the seed of the Great Tao to accelerate one's own time, allowing the cultivator to achieve faster reaction speeds and Sense of Time. One could say that only during the transition from Nirvana to the Peak Realm can one, by reconstructing their Tao Body and during the unadapted phase, maximize the acquisition of the 'Power of Space-Time'.

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