As the preaching concluded, the scene of ten thousand cultivators worshiping was still vivid, and the grand vision of the boundless merit merging into the Human Emperor Seal had not yet completely dissipated.

Gu Qingfeng did not linger in the Chaos Void, nor did he pay attention to the complex glances secretly watching him. With one step, he returned to the depths of the palace of the Mystic Sky Immortal Dynasty, shrouded by many layers of prohibitions.

Without delay, he immediately announced a closed-door training, isolating himself from the outside world, completely focusing on digesting and comprehending the insights gained from this preaching.

This lecture lasted for twelve thousand years, during which he used himself as a medium, sparking wisdom among billions of cultivators, and reverse deducing his own Netherworld Path from the Dao of all beings.

This process allowed him to transcend the limitations of his perspective, observing, verifying, and even completing his own Great Tao from countless angles, truly glimpsing a clearer scene of the path ahead.

With such deep accumulation and unique insights, Gu Qingfeng had a strong premonition deep within his heart.

The membrane that had long blocked his path to the Nine Tribulations Heaven Venerable Realm had become exceedingly fragile. He was truly just half a step away from that realm, which symbolizes the apex of the Heavenly Venerate!

This half-step might require persistent effort, or perhaps just an opportunity for sudden enlightenment.

This time, Gu Qingfeng entered seclusion with no distractions, completely abandoning all disturbances from the outside world, entrusting all Immortal Dynasty affairs entirely to Gu Yang and the Cabinet.

His entire mind and soul were immersed in exploring the endless mysteries of the Netherworld Path.

In the deep comprehension, time lost its meaning, slipping away silently like quicksand through fingers.

The period of seclusion lasted a full ten million years!

For mundane civilizations, ten million years is enough for countless births and extinctions.

For an ordinary Heavenly Venerate, it could also be a relatively long seclusion.

But in Gu Qingfeng's perception, who was fully focusing on breaking through his bottleneck at this moment, ten million years seemed just a long process of continuous accumulation and sedimentation.

He was like the most patient craftsman, meticulously sculpting his own Great Tao foundation, organizing the vast insights gained from preaching, perfectly merging those flashes of wisdom from all beings with his own original Dao Rhythms.

Until one day.

Amidst this day-by-day and year-by-year dull contemplation, without any warning, Gu Qingfeng's mind suddenly entered a state of unprecedented clarity.

It was as if an invisible hand instantly swept away the layers of fog that had always shrouded his vision. Many complex and obscure key points regarding the Netherworld Path, those doubts and barriers that had troubled him for so long, melted like ice and snow at this moment, suddenly becoming clear!

A subtle feeling of mental clarity and natural progression instantly permeated his entire being, spreading through his Divine Soul.

This kind of sudden enlightenment was not a forced breakthrough but a natural explosion after reaching the extreme of accumulation—a qualitative change triggered by quantitative change!

Propelled by this power of epiphany, his understanding and control of the Netherworld Path began to advance by leaps and bounds at an incredible speed, climbing madly towards a deeper and more essential level!

It was a fundamental transformation, a deepening and expansion of the authority of the Great Tao!

This mystically profound, indescribable state of insight made Gu Qingfeng clearly aware—it was done!

At this moment, his control over the Netherworld Path had already broken through the ultimate barrier of the Eighth Level, formally stepping into a new, more vast domain.

The Ninth Layer of the Netherworld Path!

"Buzz——"

In the void of the Immortal Palace, the lotus platform of the Great Tao beneath Gu Qingfeng suddenly radiated brilliance, countless Innate Dao Patterns representing life and death, reincarnation, judgment, and afterlife emerging from the void, slowly rotating around him as if worshiping a monarch.

His tightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and in the depths of his pupils, there was no distinction between eye whites and irises, with his left eye turning into a dark moon exuding endless lunar deathly stillness, and his right eye transforming into a blazing sun containing infinite Sun Life Source Power!

The Dao Rhythms of the alternation of yin and yang and the cycle of life and death naturally nurtured and evolved in the depths of his eyes, akin to holding the universe's fundamental Law of cycles.

The aura around him became incomparably ancient, majestic, and profound, his entire being seemingly merging completely with the nether shadow behind him.

The rules of the void in that area where he resided were forcibly rewritten, transformed into the Netherworld's Domain, the manifestation of reincarnation!

Should ordinary beings step into this range, their life and death cycle would no longer be dictated by the Heavenly Dao but by his whim.

This.

Is the supreme mystery brought about after stepping into the Ninth Layer of the Netherworld Path.

"The Ninth Layer, one more step forward should be embodying the Tao!"

Feeling the unprecedented close connection between himself and the Netherworld Path, Gu Qingfeng murmured to himself, his voice carrying a calm after enlightenment.

Before truly stepping into the Nine Tribulations Heaven Venerable Realm, his understanding of the Immortal Level was more from rumors, observations, and the occasional words from Emperor Ziwei, ever separated by a thick veil, knowing its existence but not its essence.

But now.

At this moment of natural progression, after stepping into the Nine Tribulations Heaven Venerable Realm, the mysteries of immortality flowed naturally in his heart, leaving no secrets.

It was an ascension of cognition brought about by the leap in the level of life.

To advance from the Nine Tribulations Heavenly Venerate to a true Immortal existence, the only path ahead is—embodying the Tao!

At that point, the cultivator's own Tao imprint will completely merge with the corresponding original Great Tao in the universe, indistinguishable from each other.

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