parentshiftbook Chapter 678 Changes in the Dao Integration Realm
Chapter 678 Changes in the Dao Integration Realm
Chapter 678 Changes in the Dao Integration Realm
On the altar, the light faded like the tide.
Jemin slowly opened his eyes.
The thousand-meter-tall giant, its body entirely dark gold, was sitting cross-legged in the center of the altar.
"Phew—I'm back."
As his true form began to shine again, Jemin's consciousness fully returned.
With a thought, his Dharma body began to shrink.
The dark golden light collapsed inward, and the thousand-meter-tall body was compressed as if by an invisible force, finally turning into a golden light and disappearing into his transformed human body.
Having returned to his normal form, Jemin stood on the altar and stretched his neck.
There didn't seem to be much change around him, so he habitually checked his biological clock.
Then, Jemin was stunned.
"----How many?"
He sensed it again.
Three hundred years.
Strictly speaking, it is 302 years, 1 month, and 10 days.
Jemin blinked, finding it hard to accept for a moment.
In his subjective perception, although the process of advancing to the Dao Integration Realm was lengthy, it would at most take only a few hours.
But in reality, a full three hundred years have passed.
It seems that when one is immersed in the understanding of the laws, the perception of time loses its meaning.
But thinking about it, it makes sense. That state of resonating with heaven and earth and merging with the Great Dao is as wonderful as a fleeting dream.
"Time flies in cultivation," Jemin murmured to himself, his tone tinged with a touch of melancholy, but he quickly regained his composure.
The information in the Great Dao Book Pavilion actually mentions the corresponding situation.
However, when it actually happened to him, Jemin was still somewhat surprised.
Three hundred years is several generations for mortals, but for wizards, it is just a slightly longer period of seclusion.
From the perspective of a high-level wizard's concept of time, the time he spent this time didn't even qualify as a period of seclusion.
His enemies, his allies, his mentors, and his senior classmates—aren't they all beings who have lived for thousands of years?
Three hundred years is indeed not much in the wizard's time scale.
I just wonder how the Purgatory Sulfur Plane has fared over the years.
Jemin collected his thoughts and began to carefully perceive the changes that had occurred after his promotion.
The most direct feeling is the perception of the world.
In the beginning, he viewed the world as "mountains are mountains".
Energy is energy, matter is matter; all things are distinct and independent.
Later, he learned the Omnipotent Eye, established the Destiny System, and entered the realm of Destiny.
From that moment on, the way he viewed the world changed fundamentally.
The boundaries between matter and energy begin to blur. A huge rock is no longer just a simple substance, but an accumulation of ore, geological changes, the condensation of elemental forces, and the convergence of causal clues.
He can read thousands of years from a stone and sense the flow of elements from a wisp of wind.
That's the state of "seeing mountains as not mountains," where one can see through appearances and directly perceive the essence.
And now—
Jemin slowly raised his hand and looked at his fingertips.
He couldn't feel any "analysis" process, but the movement trajectory of every dust particle in the air was clearly presented in his consciousness.
That mountain turned back into a mountain.
But in his eyes, this "mountain" is both the appearance and the essence.
The boundary between appearance and essence has disappeared. Understanding no longer requires the process of "observation-analysis-cognition," but has directly become part of its existence.
"A mountain is still a mountain," Jemin said softly, his tone carrying an indescribable calm.
He closed his eyes and turned his attention inward.
Within the spiritual sea, the golden lines representing the degree of control over the laws are growing at a visible speed.
Seeing that exaggerated growth rate, Jieming's breath hitched slightly.
He hasn't done anything right now; he hasn't even done any research, let alone consumed any dimensional origins.
He was just standing there, but the gold thread was growing "out of thin air".
It was as if the laws of heaven and earth themselves were actively moving towards him, being understood by him, and being controlled by him.
It doesn't require much effort to study; it's as natural as water flowing downhill.
After observing carefully for a while, Jemin quickly discovered the pattern.
The growth rate of the golden threads in the spiritual energy law is significantly slower than that of other laws.
As a law that did not belong to the original system of the wizarding world, after reaching the Dao Integration Realm, the degree to which he controlled it increased from the original 50% to 80%, and then it slowed down.
However, Jemin didn't care, which meant that he had fully digested the spiritual knowledge he had learned before, and that he only needed to learn a new method of applying incense and deity to reach the maximum level.
Compared to the Reiki Law, which progresses "slowly," the other laws are completely different.
The four most fundamental laws of the wizarding world—fire, wind, water, and earth—were only dabbled in by Jemin when he was researching rune artifacts, and his mastery of them was only about one or two percent.
Now they are like wildly growing vines, with golden lines extending rapidly in the sea of consciousness, growing from a single point of light to nearly 70-80% complete.
More importantly, even though the mastery of the laws of these four elements has reached this level, the rate of improvement has not slowed down and is still increasing!
In addition, the laws of the abyss and the laws of life—laws that Jemin had barely mastered by consuming the origin of the plane in order to modify his spells—are now growing at an alarming rate.
Seventy percent, eighty percent, ninety percent — and then it crossed the threshold of one hundred percent without any hindrance, and began to progress towards surpassing one hundred percent.
Reaching this level of control means that he can attempt to solidify the laws at any time and advance to level six.
Jemin took a deep breath.
In just a few breaths, the golden threads in his mental sea surged like a golden tide, overflowing one unattainable threshold after another.
"This is the Dao Integration Realm—" Jemin murmured.
He truly experienced the real improvement that came with the Dao Integration Realm.
The advancement to the Dao Integration Realm is not simply an increase in strength or energy, but a qualitative change in the way one perceives the world.
When his perspective on the world shifted from "seeing mountains as not mountains" to the third level of "seeing mountains as mountains again," the laws were no longer high walls to climb, but streams flowing towards him.
Of course, Jemin also knew that this did not mean he could simply lie down and advance to the eighth or ninth level of wizarding.
The reason why the four elemental laws and the abyss-type laws grow so quickly is because they are the most fundamental laws in the wizarding world, widely existing between heaven and earth, and the threshold for comprehending them is relatively low.
The reason why the spiritual energy law begins to slow down when it reaches 80% is because it is an "external law" that needs to be built from scratch in the soil of the wizarding world.
He still has to walk his own path from here on out.
However, the most troublesome problem has been solved, and now it's just a matter of proceeding step by step.
So there's no rush.
Jemin gathered his thoughts and stepped down from the altar.
The altar was the core area of his Purgatory Sulfur Plane, surrounded by dense array patterns and protective barriers.
Three hundred years have not changed this place at all; the air is filled with the faint sandalwood scent unique to the power of incense.
Pushing open the heavy stone door, Jemin walked into the corridor leading to the secret room.
The walls on both sides of the corridor are inlaid with pale blue fluorescent stones, and the soft light illuminates the area ahead.
A black figure waiting at the end of the corridor was already kneeling on one knee.
That was a black giant priest.
"Master," the black giant priest bowed his head, "Congratulations on your completion of seclusion."
Jemin nodded, continuing on his way: "I can't believe three hundred years have passed. What happened in this plane? Give me a brief report."
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The black giant priest stood up, standing half a step behind Jemin, and began his report in a steady voice: "The plane is operating well overall. The coverage rate of the incense and divine path system has reached 97%, an increase of 12 percentage points compared to three hundred years ago. The population has grown from 20 billion to 35 billion, the annual production of mortal energy has increased by 40%, and the refining efficiency of incense power has increased by 37% —"
As he listened, Jemin made his way to the laboratory.
Pushing open the laboratory door, a familiar scene came into view.
Various semi-finished magical artifacts and original talismans were displayed on the huge circular workbench, while rare materials and experimental records were neatly stacked on the multi-tiered shelves in the corner.
A two-meter-diameter dimensional projection sphere floats in the center of the room, slowly rotating to display the real-time status of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane.
Everything was exactly the same as before he went into seclusion.
"Go on." Jemin walked to the workbench, picked up a half-finished talisman artifact, and casually flipped it over to examine it.
"The Level 7 large-scale elemental pool is operating stably, with energy reserves reaching 92% of the design limit. The automated factory has sufficient production capacity and is mainly producing standard components for the Black Giant Incubation Pools and the Fire Extinction Divine Light Charging Platforms, as per the instructions you set before your seclusion. Currently, 36,000 Black Giant Incubation Pools and 12,000 Charging Platforms have been added." The Black Giant Priest paused.
"In addition, the destiny system successfully completed its 432nd algorithm iteration seventy years ago, which improved the accuracy of predicting destiny by two orders of magnitude."
"It seems to be running very well overall. You guys did a good job." Jemin put down the talisman artifact and walked towards the dimensional projection sphere.
The entire view of the Purgatory Sulfur Plane is clearly visible on the projection sphere.
The once desolate sulfur wasteland has been transformed into a sprawling cluster of cities, with the settlements of the Black Giant race distributed in an orderly fashion across the habitable zone of the plane, like chess pieces on a chessboard.
Golden specks of incense energy converged in the sky above the city, forming pale golden clouds that moved slowly with the atmospheric circulation, transmitting their power to every corner of the earth.
At the edge of the plane, those newly merged subsidiary planes are undergoing environmental transformation.
The Black Giants' excavation forces moved like ants through the rock layers, transporting ores and energy crystals back to the Prime Plane.
After three hundred years of development, the merged Purgatory Sulfur Plane has transformed from a newly formed plane into a true intermediate plane.
Its internal system is mature and its defense capabilities are sufficient.
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