Cultivation of immortality begins with an eighty-year-old eunuch.

Upon seeing this, Chen Fan raised an eyebrow slightly. He had been prepared to go on a killing spree and forcibly seize the Samsara Mirror, but he hadn't expected that the Kunxu Sect Master would be so flexible and adaptable.

"The sect leader's hospitality is too kind of me to refuse." Chen Fan patted his sleeves and nodded calmly.

Dao Wuyai turned around, clenching his fists as he led the way, and said in a deep voice, "Fellow Daoist Chen, the Samsara Mirror is of great importance, and it is not something I alone can decide. This item has always been personally guarded by the Nine Immortal Ancestors of the Back Mountain. However..."

"Just what?" Chen Fan followed up.

"It's just that the nine Loose Immortal Ancestors failed their tribulations back then, and their essence was severely damaged. They have been in deep seclusion for a long time," Dao Wuyai explained. "I need to send someone to open the secret realm and request permission from the Nine Immortals through a special formation. In the meantime, I'm afraid you will have to wait a little while, fellow Daoist."

"how long?"

"It could take three to five days, or as long as half a month. The Nine Immortal Ancestors have different temperaments, and I cannot guarantee when they will respond."

A glint of light flashed in Chen Fan's eyes.

He wasn't in a hurry. He knew before he came that the Mirror of Reincarnation wouldn't be easy to borrow, but as long as he could see the person in charge, waiting a few days wouldn't be a problem. Besides…

What he needs most right now is time!

The golden bowl had just swallowed the 100,000-foot-long Kunpeng golden bone, and now it was undergoing earth-shattering changes in his arms. He was just worried about not having a place to properly study it.

"Alright, we can wait." Chen Fan replied calmly.

Seeing that Chen Fan did not cause trouble, Dao Wuyai secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately instructed Qing Mingzi, "Go, invite Fellow Daoist Chen into the 'Number One in Heaven' Immortal Spirit Cave. Treat him well and do not neglect him in the slightest. If anything goes wrong, you will be held responsible!"

"Yes! Yes! Your disciple obeys!"

……

Half an hour later.

Deep within the Kunxu Sect, atop a white jade immortal mountain suspended in mid-air.

The spiritual energy here is so dense that it's almost impossible to dissolve, and it even faintly carries a trace of the true immortal realm. It is the highest-level cave dwelling specially used by Kunxu Sect to entertain the most outstanding experts.

Chen Fan waved away Qing Mingzi and the group of beautiful female cultivators who wanted to serve him, and with a wave of his sleeve, he directly set up a barrier condensed from the divine sense of a peak Tribulation Transcending cultivator.

The moment the barrier was set up, even Dao Wuyai's divine sense was absolutely unable to detect the slightest movement inside.

After doing all this, Chen Fan sat cross-legged on a warm jade bed that exuded a calming and concentration effect.

He took a deep breath and flipped his hand over.

"Buzz!"

The ancient, dilapidated golden bowl quietly appeared in his palm.

The golden bowl now looks completely different from its previous dull and lifeless appearance. The cracks and gaps on the bowl, which had been eroded by time, are healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Extremely rich celestial energy was continuously overflowing from the rim of the bowl!

If Chen Fan hadn't set up a barrier beforehand, this immortal energy would have immediately caused a frenzy throughout the entire Kunxu Starfield!

"The perfect balance of the five elements... has given rise to such a creation."

Chen Fan's eyes became brighter than ever before. Without the slightest hesitation, he sent a wisp of his divine sense directly into the inside of the golden bowl.

Boom!

The moment his consciousness entered the golden bowl, Chen Fan felt a tremendous, earth-shattering roar explode in his mind.

What appeared before him was no longer that simple space that was only a few dozen miles in size, planted with a few acres of spiritual herbs, and covered with a few thatched huts.

Instead, it is a creation epic scroll that is evolving at a speed of billions of times!

The rib of the Kunpeng, which was 100,000 feet long, had long since disappeared. It had been completely crushed and refined by the golden bowl, turning into countless dark golden specks of light that blended into every corner of this world.

With the completion of the metal elemental source, the five elements within the golden bowl finally formed a perfect closed loop!

Metal generates water, water generates wood, wood generates fire, fire generates earth, and earth generates metal!

The five elements generate each other, creating an endless cycle of life!

Chen Fan was shocked to see the once flat grassland violently bulge amidst the roar. Hard rocks and metal veins rapidly solidified underground, and towering mountains rose from the ground, piercing the clouds.

At the summit, the laws of water converge, transforming into pristine white snow and ancient glaciers.

The glaciers melted, turning into rushing rivers that cascaded down from the mountains with deafening roars, eventually gathering in the low-lying areas to form a vast, boundless blue ocean!

At the edge of the ocean, the laws of wood and earth intertwine, and vast primeval forests rise from the ground, with exotic flowers and rare herbs blooming in profusion; while on the other side of the continent, the law of fire rages, forming continuous active volcanoes and endless red deserts.

Space is expanding wildly!

Ten thousand miles!

A million miles!

Thousands of miles away!

In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the space inside the golden bowl has expanded to the size of a cultivation star!

Moreover, this expansion continues, seemingly without end.

"This...this isn't as simple as just expanding the space of a magical artifact..."

Chen Fan's consciousness floated in mid-air, sensing the energy flowing between heaven and earth, and his heart was filled with turbulent waves.

Ordinary magical treasures, even celestial artifacts, no matter how large their internal space, are lifeless and need to rely on drawing spiritual energy from the outside to maintain themselves. The laws within are also incomplete laws that have been forcibly imprinted on by the creator.

But the world of Golden Bowls is different now!

Chen Fan could clearly sense that this world was nurturing its own "Will of Heaven"!

Above the sky, the phantoms of the sun and moon began to slowly coalesce, and the law of day and night alternation was taking shape; a gentle breeze swept through the mountains and forests, bringing the first breath of the changing seasons; deep in the ocean, the most primitive single-celled life forms were faintly beginning to gestate under the catalysis of the five elements.

It's breathing! It's growing!

This is a real world!

A real universe that is emerging from chaos and evolving into a complete set of laws governing heaven and earth!

Standing high in the sky, overlooking this magnificent spectacle of creation, Chen Fan felt his very soul trembling violently.

"Absolutely astounding...absolutely astounding!"

Chen Fan muttered to himself. His Dao heart, which had been stuck at the peak of the Tribulation Transcending stage and which he thought could only be relaxed once he ascended to the Immortal Realm, actually resonated with something strange at this moment.

Those who cultivate immortality are cultivating either conforming to or defying the will of Heaven.

During the tribulation stage, one comprehends the destruction and rebirth of the laws of heaven and earth.

At this moment, Chen Fan was witnessing the birth of a world!

This intuitive understanding of "creation" is an immeasurable and supreme opportunity for any cultivator.

Chen Fan did not rush to withdraw, but instead completely released his divine sense, merging it into this evolving world.

He felt the weight of the mountains, the flow of the streams, the fury of the flames, the vitality of the plants, and the sharpness of the metal.

At this moment, his state of mind began an unprecedented transformation and sublimation.

Time passed quietly in the cave.

One day, two days, three days...

Outside the Kunxu Sect, because of Chen Fan's strike, the entire sect was still busy repairing the great formation. Dao Wuyai was even more frantic, pacing back and forth in front of the secret realm in the back mountain, waiting for the Nine Immortals' response.

Inside the Immortal Spirit Cave, Chen Fan was completely absorbed in the wonders of the golden bowl, losing himself in the moment.

Until the morning of the seventh day.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Outside the cave, three extremely melodious ancient bell tolls suddenly rang out, seemingly able to penetrate the barrier.

Immediately afterwards, Dao Wuyai's slightly solemn voice rang out outside the barrier:

"Fellow Daoist Chen, the Nine Immortal Ancestor... has issued a decree."

Chen Fan's tightly closed eyes suddenly opened at that moment.

Deep within his eyes, faint phantom images of the rising and falling of the sun and moon, and the rotation of the five elements flashed by.

He slowly put away the golden bowl, stood up, and straightened his gray-blue cloth robe.

"Finally, it's here."