Breaking Open the Door of the Path of Nirvana, Refining the Celestial Boat of Creation
Breaking Open the Door of the Path of Nirvana, Refining the Celestial Boat of Creation
Boom!
The void collapsed, and a terrifying great rift valley appeared, as if countless stars had fallen here.
The Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage and the Ji Family’s Founding Ancestor were no longer at their peak to begin with, and after their battle, their auras had grown even more withered.
Gu Changge’s aim was the Source of the two of them. The moment he struck, he directly suppressed them with the Grand Flask.
The place grew even more chaotic. The two roared in fury, sensing a life-and-death crisis, and activated their strongest methods, offering up one divine weapon after another.
Radiant light completely illuminated the dark underground palace. Heaven and earth seemed to have been beaten back to before the creation of the world—utterly blurred, with Chaos Energy submerging everything.
In the end, even fragments of time flew about, and faintly there seemed to be a river, flowing in reverse through the epochs.
The great battle between the three nearly swept into that river. Amid the splashing fragments of waves, the sounds of worlds and sacrificial chants from across the ages rang out.
This was a vast and boundless battle. The Ji Family’s Founding Ancestor and the Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage were, as expected, once-invincible existences whose cultivation at their peak had surpassed the Celestial Realm. They held out against Gu Changge for a long time before gradually falling into decline and beginning to cough up blood.
In the end, the Eight Barren Demon Halberd appeared in Gu Changge’s hand and swept down horizontally. The halberd’s light stretched across, as if splitting open the Great Universe—cold and soul-seizing—directly breaking through all of the two’s attacks.
There was not the slightest suspense in this battle. Once Gu Changge employed his strongest methods, even the Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage and the Ji Family’s Founding Ancestor joining forces were no match for him. After letting out roars of unwillingness, they gradually fell silent.
The Grand Flask hung in the air, as if transforming into a black hole, devouring everything.
Aside from the Ji Family Founding Ancestor’s Source, the Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage was an unexpected delight. As the former Physique of the Ancient Feather Supreme Being, even after being dried up for countless years, the physical energy it contained was beyond ordinary imagination.
Even the Ji Family’s Founding Ancestor had died...
Witnessing all of this with his own eyes, Jiang Chen let out a miserable laugh, his entire person going dumb as if he had lost his mind.
Even the Ji Family’s Founding Ancestor had ultimately died at Gu Changge’s vicious hands—his last hope had clearly been extinguished.
As for Jiang Chen, Gu Changge naturally had no need to keep him alive. Following the method Xiao Ruoyin had described, he directly grabbed him over with one palm, preparing to refine the Celestial Boat of Creation.
Boom!
Brilliant black Dao flames rose in this place, illuminating the cold underground palace. Jiang Chen let out miserable wails, cursing Gu Changge endlessly as his life force began to dissipate.
But his entire body burst forth with dazzling radiance, mysterious patterns surfacing on his body, faintly forming the phantom of an ancient bronze boat.
Although the refinement method was time-consuming, after dealing with the Ji Family’s Founding Ancestor and the Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage, Gu Changge was in no hurry.
During this period, he paid little attention to Xiao Ruoyin, instead sitting cross-legged on the Platform and beginning to refine the devoured Source.
This energy was incomparably surging—enough for him to break through the threshold of the Nirvana Realm and step into the ranks of True Daoists.
In the following months, extremely vast sounds rang out from this place, like chaotic heavenly thunder exploding, producing a world-creating momentum that shook heaven and earth.
Endless radiance and sharp energy soared into the sky, hundreds of millions of rays, as if transforming into a pool of Flying Immortals.
Before Gu Changge, a grand and ancient gateway appeared, containing the aura of the supreme Dao.
However, this gateway was tightly shut, difficult to open. Beyond the gateway there seemed to be another indescribable world.
“The Door of the Path of Nirvana... It seems he is about to step into the ranks of True Daoists.”
Xiao Ruoyin watched all of this, her emotions rather complicated as she thought of Gu Changge’s age.
Twenty-some years old...
This could truly be described as unprecedented and never to be repeated. But thinking of Gu Changge’s identity, she was no longer surprised.
Boom!
The next instant, Gu Changge’s glabella became completely translucent, and a small golden figure identical to him walked out, pushing forward against the gateway.
The gateway swung open. Hundreds of millions of heavenly thunderbolts and radiant light exploded there, and the aura of a newborn world drifted out. Chaos swirled there, immortal energy surged—it was as if one had walked into the legendary Celestial Domain.
At this moment, Gu Changge’s skin, flesh, organs, and bones all became crystalline and brilliant, stained with immortal intent and Chaos Energy, finally condensing into a Heavenly Path imprint between his brows.
A mysterious fluctuation arose between heaven and earth. Dense Great Dao mist arose in this place, completely enveloping him.
This was the Heavenly Path’s reward for a Cultivator stepping into the True Daoist realm. The Great Dao mist contained various Great Dao fragments and Dao-rhyme spiritual essence—incomparably precious.
Under ordinary circumstances, it simply could not be seen. Aside from True Daoists, no other Cultivators were qualified to come into contact with it.
Of course, if this place were not so special, the phenomenon of Gu Changge achieving the Dao would absolutely have shaken the entire Beyond—of this there was no doubt.
As every cell of Gu Changge’s body devoured the Great Dao mist here, his spirit and cultivation also transformed. His aura was too blazing—he was simply like a chaotic furnace, burning between heaven and earth.
Clusters of imperial Dao Primordial Spirit light shone out from his brow bones, incomparably brilliant and blazing.
At this stage, Gu Changge’s life aura was even more terrifying, more surging than a vast sea. Just standing there was enough to suffocate people.
The gap between having achieved the Dao and not having achieved it was simply indescribable in words. The transformation of one’s level of life alone exceeded the comprehension of ordinary Cultivators.
Finally, the chaotic mist here dispersed, and this place gradually returned to calm.
His white robes fluttered, untouched by a speck of dust. His black hair was crystalline like ink, draped behind him—transcendent and matchless.
Gu Changge walked down from the Platform, his expression calm, his eyes deep, like a boundless starry sky.
“It took several months. Actually, that’s not too long.”
He estimated the time it had taken him to step into this stage—compared to other Cultivators, it was already short beyond description.
After all, for ordinary Cultivators at the Quasi-Nirvana Realm, seclusion was often measured in tens of thousands of years.
Only he was a complete exception.
“How much longer until the Celestial Boat of Creation is refined?”
Gu Changge looked toward the other side.
Xiao Ruoyin had been waiting here the whole time. Although she knew Gu Changge was at a critical juncture of his breakthrough, she did not dare leave lightly.
“Half a month at the latest.”
Xiao Ruoyin answered, looking toward the area still shrouded in Dao flames nearby.
Gu Changge nodded. With a roll of his sleeve, he collected the Heavenly Path Treasure Chest bobbing up and down within the Dao flames. Beyond that, he also used up the many Fortuity points and Fatums one by one—his entire body now had two hundred and six Bones of Absolute Detachment.
Which was to say, a state of perfection.
And this was also the reason Gu Changge could break through so easily. After all, the Bones of Absolute Detachment concerned comprehension of rules, Source, and the like.
He had long since had no lack of these; what he lacked was only cultivation and magic power. Now that he had made up for the deficiency in cultivation, breaking through to True Daoist naturally came as a matter of course.
However, Gu Changge always felt something was still missing. The Bones of Absolute Detachment surely had more than just this simple use.
It was only due to the problem of the current world’s rules that it could not be displayed. In other words, the other mysteries of the Bones of Absolute Detachment could probably only be explored after he broke through to the Celestial Realm.
“The matter of the Tree of Epoch should also be put on the agenda...”
Gu Changge began preparing his next plan. The hope of the Beyond achieving immortality was still in his hands.
When the Epoch Dao Fruit ripened, the world’s rules and even the Fortuity of the Beyond would all be nourished in return. In that process, the Celestial Gate would very likely appear, bringing all living beings the opportunity to become Celestials.
And why couldn’t the Epoch Dao Fruit serve as bait?
Half a month later, the refinement of the Celestial Boat of Creation was complete. A bronze celestial boat radiating ancient and mysterious meaning emerged from the Dao flames, layers of blurred ripples spreading around it, as if a long river of time flowed within, capable of traversing past and present.
“So this is the Celestial Boat of Creation. It truly is extraordinary.”
Gu Changge nodded, catching the complexity in Xiao Ruoyin’s eyes.
Xiao Ruoyin also knew she could not take it back, so after glancing at the Celestial Boat of Creation, she looked away.
Although Gu Changge had not killed her, her days ahead would probably not be easy.
“The power of time... but it still lacks some spacetime coordinates.”
Seeing the Celestial Boat of Creation reminded Gu Changge of the Mirror of Wonders and the Spacetime Stone in his possession.
If the two were combined with the Celestial Boat of Creation...
Perhaps he could reverse the years, return to the Celestial Ancient Times, or even the Forbidden Epoch.
However, he currently had no plans to travel back through time.
Afterward, in the process of leaving Kun Mountain with Xiao Ruoyin, Gu Changge encountered quite a few Cultivators and living beings still hiding in this place—all of them people who had gotten separated from their forces and lost their way after the Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage’s attack.
Among these people, there were actually the Ji Family siblings, Ji Chuyue and Ji Yaoxing.
With the Celestial Boat of Creation in hand, Gu Changge naturally did not worry about getting lost here. He then revealed himself and, in passing, rescued this whole group of people.
Trapped in Kun Mountain for several months, these Cultivators and beings were on the verge of despair, not daring to act rashly at all.
This place was filled with mortal danger everywhere. They had personally watched a companion accidentally step on a patch of yellow mud, only to instantly burst apart with a pu sound, dying miserably.
Now, Gu Changge’s sudden appearance filled all of them with surprise and joy, letting them see hope—like seeing a lighthouse in the dark of night.
Even Ji Chuyue, who was extremely fearful of Gu Changge, could not help but feel joy in her heart and let out a long sigh of relief.
It was as if as long as Gu Changge was around, it would not matter even if the sky fell.
This was an indescribable sense of security.
“It seems that Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage back then killed quite a lot of people.”
After listening to everyone’s experiences during this period, a trace of regret appeared on Gu Changge’s face, and he sighed.
“That Feathered-Robe Daoist Sage back then was terrifyingly powerful. Several True Daoists joined forces and activated a Dao Artifact, yet they were still no match for him and died miserably at his hands in the end. Afterward, we each fled for our lives, but the terrain within Kun Mountain is complex, and as we fled, we got lost...”
“Our clansmen also got separated from us, their fates unknown. We don’t know where Father and the Elders are either.”
Ji Chuyue said with a downcast expression.
Before Gu Changge, she did not know why she would say these things.
“Young Master Changge, may I ask what exactly happened after you entered the underground cavern back then?”
Ji Yaoxing then seemed to think of something and could not help but ask, very much wanting to know about their Founding Ancestor, Ji Shengchu.