I created the Tianjiao Era.

"The boundary stone has not been used yet..."

Jiang Hao looked at the boundary stone in his hand.

Now that he has so many world origins, he naturally doesn't need to use boundary stones anymore.

However, the boundary stone is very precious and all ancestors need it, so Jiang Hao naturally keeps it with him, thinking that it might be of great use in the future.

"My physical body has been perfected. The next step is to comprehend the great Dao and improve my immortal soul..."

In order to comprehend the great Dao, Jiang Hao has been in the chaotic space.

The avenue is also steadily improving.

Although the improvement is relatively slow, it is far less direct than that of the physical body.

It takes almost a hundred years to comprehend a great truth.

But it wins in stability.

Nothing will happen.

Moreover, now that his physical body has been perfected, Jiang Hao no longer needs to take the risk of occupying all the avenue nodes in the chaotic space.

He no longer needs to ask those powerful people to hand over the origin of the world.

In this way, Jiang Hao can also comprehend the great Dao with peace of mind.

"It takes a hundred years to comprehend one avenue, and a thousand years to comprehend ten avenues. Currently, one avenue has been perfected, and there are forty-eight avenues left. That will take at least four thousand eight hundred years."

"In less than 5,000 years, my guardian avenue will be completely perfected. This speed is already very fast."

Jiang Hao did not become impatient because of the rapid progress of his physical body.

He is very calm.

Physical progress does not represent progress in the Tao.

In less than five thousand years, one can fully comprehend all forty-nine great ways.

There is even hope of being promoted to the ancestor, which is already a very fast speed.

Therefore, Jiang Hao did not interfere much in the aspect of comprehending the great Dao.

Now it is mainly the soul system.

Jiang Hao had almost no clue.

The Yuanshen system is the most mysterious and rarest system among the three major systems.

Normally, it is difficult to find a powerful person in the soul system.

Not to mention the ancestor.

At this moment, Hei Zun, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke.

"Fellow Daoist, are you worried that your soul cannot be elevated?"

Although Hei Zun is inside the Desolate Sky Tower, it is indeed very special and can detect everything in the outside world.

If it weren't for the fact that only the soul body was left, and it was a broken soul body at that, I'm afraid this Desolate Sky Tower would definitely not be able to trap it.

"Fellow Daoist Hei Zun actually knows Jiang's troubles?"

Jiang Hao was a little confused.

He then entered the Desolate Sky Tower and met Hei Zun.

"Of course I know. Your soul lineage has been unable to improve, and you don't even know the direction of improvement. This has almost affected your cultivation. I can help you resolve this difficulty."

"Fellow Daoist Hei Zun, do you have a method for spiritual cultivation?"

"There is indeed a method. However, the soul lineage is very important. In the Black Ruins, the soul lineage is recognized as the most difficult and also the most fundamental. If the soul cannot break through, it cannot enter the Black Ruins. Even if it enters the Black Ruins, it will be assimilated by the Black Ruins and become a part of it."

"The reason why my soul has not completely perished despite being so severely damaged is because my soul strength is far greater than anyone else in the Chaos. Even the Emperor's soul strength is probably not as high as mine."

Jiang Hao narrowed his eyes slightly.

Is the soul so important?

But Hei Zun is indeed in soul form.

Jiang Hao thought that Hei Zun’s physical body was destroyed in the Black Ruins, so only his soul remained.

Now it seems that it is not that simple.

Hei Zun is probably very good at the soul system.

"Soul... Fellow Daoist Hei Zun, from what you said, the soul seems to be particularly important? Even more important than the physical body?"

Jiang Hao understood the hidden meaning in Hei Zun's words.

It is not difficult to see from Hei Zun's words that Hei Zun attaches great importance to the soul.

This seems to be different from what Jiang Hao has learned, and also different from the current mainstream cultivation system of Chaos.

Hei Zun nodded and sighed, "Yes, the soul is very important, even more important than you can imagine. The practitioners in the Chaos, including the Emperor, probably don't realize the importance of Chaos. The reason why Chaos has not yet given birth to life in the Ruins is actually related to the fact that Chaos practitioners do not value the soul."

"If you want to become a life form in the Ruins Realm, you must be able to withstand the 'assimilation' of the Black Ruins, and the assimilation of the Black Ruins is terrifying. The Black Ruins is a complete concept of 'nothingness', there is nothing. Any matter that enters the Black Ruins will be annihilated. Only extremely rare treasures can resist the assimilation of the Black Ruins, but it is almost impossible for the flesh to resist the assimilation of the Black Ruins."

"Only the soul can resist the assimilation of the Black Ruins. After all, the soul is the carrier of all life consciousness, the carrier of the existence of the 'self', and the power that can best demonstrate 'existence'."

"A life in the Ruins Realm begins with the soul resisting the assimilation of the Black Ruins time and time again, and finally the soul undergoes a qualitative change, and then it can become a life in the Ruins Realm. So, it's not wrong for you to cultivate the Great Dao and the body in the Chaos Realm, but you don't pay much attention to the soul, which is a big mistake."

After hearing what Hei Zun said, Jiang Hao understood.

The physical body and the Tao also have a role, but their role is not the greatest.

The soul plays the greatest role.

The soul carries consciousness.

And consciousness is the basis of "existence".

The Black Ruins belong to nothingness.

When life has consciousness, that is the most obvious existence.

Nothingness and existence are naturally opposites.

Matter also exists, but once it enters the black ruins, it can easily turn into nothingness.

“Nothingness… Fellow Daoist Hei Zun, even though you’ve said so much, I still don’t have an intuitive feeling of what the ‘nothingness’ in the Black Ruins is.”

Jiang Hao said.

This is his biggest doubt at the moment.

The Black Ruins are just outside the chaos, but Jiang Hao has never seen the Black Ruins.

Naturally, they don't understand what nothingness is.

"This is easy. I have experienced nothingness before, which is when my soul endured the assimilation of the Black Ruins. I will show you the artistic conception. If you experience it carefully, you will be able to roughly understand what nothingness is."

"Then I'll have to trouble Daoist Fellow Hei Zun."

Jiang Hao was not polite either.

He did want to know what "nothingness" was.

Only in this way could he know whether his soul could withstand the assimilation of the Black Ruins.

"Om".

The next moment, a state of mind spread from Hei Zun's soul and instantly enveloped Jiang Hao.

This is just a mood, there is no danger.

This is a hint of the artistic conception of the "Black Ruins Assimilation" process that Hei Zun went through.

Although it was just a slight difference, Jiang Hao immediately felt the difference.

When the mood descended, Jiang Hao felt the surroundings darken.

It's that kind of absolute darkness.

There was nothing to be seen around.

Whether it is spiritual consciousness or other senses, nothing can be felt.

And it was very quiet, without any sound at all.

Jiang Hao could not feel any concept of time or space.

The whole person seemed to be floating in endless darkness.

It seems to be the same everywhere.

No matter how he struggled, it was the same.

There is no concept of time here.

It is eternal emptiness, eternal nothingness, eternal nirvana.

Perhaps the only thing that exists is "yourself".

At least, Jiang Hao knows "himself".

This is the only meaning of his "existence" at the moment.

"So this is the void..."

Jiang Hao murmured in a low voice.

Just by experiencing a little bit of the artistic conception, Jiang Hao already understood what nothingness is. (End of this chapter)