If you die, I will be able to inherit your cultivation.

Time moved forward little by little.

The fragmented soul that remained atop the celestial mountain remained standing, waiting quietly.

This wait lasted for a full half month.

For half a month, everything around was very calm, without any unusual activity.

The void remained undisturbed, and the true spirit, filled with chains of cause and effect, also remained unchanged.

Zhou Ming, who was inside the Qiankun World, was gradually losing patience and could no longer sit still.

Zhou Ming had originally thought that if the old man from the chaos were to descend upon this world,

He then released the true spirit that carried the causal network, which would soon attract the old man from the chaos.

At worst, he'll lose a fragment of his soul and this cheat ability.

Fortunately, after a long wait, the anticipated mishap did not occur.

The divided soul is still alive and has not dissipated, which also means that the old man in the chaos has not appeared.

Zhou Ming focused his mind, mobilizing the power of the Qiankun World itself, pushing the world's concealment capabilities to their limit, and trying to hide all traces of the world as much as possible.

Zhou Ming once again pinpointed the location of the split soul in the Immortal Realm and carefully tore open a tiny spatial door.

First, establish a connection of consciousness. In the fragmented soul's memory, everything around is normal.

Even so, Zhou Ming still couldn't put his mind at ease.

The old man in this chaos is of unknown strength. He must be careful, careful, and even more careful, because any carelessness could bring disaster upon himself.

Mobilizing the power of the world, Zhou Ming gradually spread his power across the vast area surrounding his split soul.

Zhou Ming's idea was very straightforward.

He has now reached the Quasi-Saint level, and his perception covers an extremely wide range.

As long as the old man's strength is not too much greater than his, once the other party steps into this area spanning hundreds of billions of miles...

The power of the world that spreads out has the opportunity to capture the clues left behind by the other party.

The power of the world continues to spread outward, sweeping across the void, mountains, and earth inch by inch.

With the help of the world's power, Zhou Ming carefully examined every corner, not missing any abnormal energy fluctuations.

The extensive search continued for quite some time, but Zhou Ming found nothing.

The extensive search concluded, but no trace of the Chaos Elder was found.

Zhou Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After a brief moment of relief, Zhou Ming immediately regained his composure and dared not let his guard down.

The absence of traces does not mean the other party is not present, nor does it mean they will not suddenly reappear at some point.

Waiting passively was too risky, so Zhou Ming issued new instructions to his split soul through his thoughts.

He ordered his divided soul to go out and continue searching for transmigrators in this world, with a focus on finding Lu Chen, Zhang Jiao, and Lie Yang.

Zhou Ming's idea was simple: find these people and keep an eye on them.

Once I'm sure they haven't been harvested, I can feel a little more at ease.

The old man in the chaos wasn't targeting just one person.

He couldn't believe his luck was that bad that the old man would skip over the other transmigrators with similar cheat abilities and target him specifically.

In fact, Zhou Ming could have commanded the central hub of the Qiankun World to completely absorb this piece of true spirit that was covered with a network of cause and effect.

Once this is done, the hidden danger can be eliminated directly, and he will no longer have to be constantly on edge, guarding against being harvested by the old man.

However, if he were to devour the true spirit once and for all, then the only ways for him to continue improving his cultivation in the future would be to go out and plunder resources or rely on the slow evolution of the Qiankun World itself.

Relying on this method of cultivation, it would take an unknown number of long years to break through to the next realm; it could be said to be a distant prospect.

If he were to actively destroy this true spirit, the old man in the chaos would surely realize that there was a problem with his arrangements.

They might just appear in this world and harvest this batch of韭菜 (a metaphor for easily exploited people) ahead of time.

This would have the opposite effect.

Therefore, Zhou Ming's plan was also very clear.

We must raise our cultivation level as much as possible and acquire enough power to protect ourselves before the old man appears, so that we will have the confidence to face an opponent of that level.

Without further hesitation, Zhou Ming used the spatial passage connecting the two places to reach out and directly retrieve the true spirit, which was covered with a web of cause and effect, from the celestial realm's divided soul back into the Qiankun World.

After the True Spirit returned to his hand, Zhou Ming directly threw it to the central hub of the Qiankun World.

The command center extracts and absorbs all the black spheres sealed within the True Spirit.

Over the millennia, countless cultivators who practiced the Scripture of Salvation have perished and their cultivation has vanished.

The power left behind by countless cultivators all came into the True Spirit, gathering in black spheres, accumulating an extremely large amount of energy.

As the central hub of the Qiankun World began absorbing the power contained within the black sphere, the entire Qiankun World underwent another significant change.

The world was nourished by a massive amount of energy, and its territory began to expand outward continuously.

As the world expands, Zhou Ming, as the world's ruler, also experiences a significant boost in his own cultivation, with his cultivation level clearly improving.

Although the increase brought by this absorption was considerable, there was still a significant gap between it and his breakthrough in realm.

Once you reach the Quasi-Saint realm, it's incredibly difficult to improve your strength rapidly.

The fundamental difference between a Quasi-Saint and a Great Luo Golden Immortal lies in the severing of one's corpse.

The Great Luo Golden Immortal cultivates "Dharma," which unifies all laws and binds space and time, representing the limit of a world.

But what a quasi-saint cultivates is the "Tao" itself.

They have begun to sever the three corpses: the good corpse, the evil corpse, and the self-corpse.

With each severance of a corpse, a portion of the "self" is separated from the Great Dao, transforming into an independent incarnation.

After severing the corpse, the Quasi-Saint possesses an incarnation.

The good corpse incarnation, the evil corpse incarnation, and the self-corpse incarnation—each incarnation possesses combat power approaching that of the original.

Fighting him is like fighting three quasi-saints at the same time.

Even more terrifying is that there is no distance or delay between the avatar and the original body; they can switch places with a single thought.

You have just defeated his benevolent form, and his true form has already appeared behind you.

The term "quasi-saint" means "preparing" to become a "saint".

They had reached the threshold of sainthood, but had not crossed it.

This seemingly small step feels like an insurmountable chasm.

The power of a quasi-saint is beyond measure in terms of "quantity".

The magical power of a Great Immortal is like a vast ocean, while the magical power of a Quasi-Saint is like an entire ocean.

When they make their move, they no longer draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth; the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is itself a part of them.

With every gesture, boundless magical power gathers spontaneously. There is no need to "accumulate power" or "cast spells." With a single thought, the magic arrives.

The Great Immortal has bound the past and future; the power of time and space can only be used on himself.

Quasi-Saints go a step further, using their spacetime power on others and actively rewriting spacetime.

If you become his enemy, he can travel back to before you were born, before you embarked on the path of cultivation, and completely erase you.

Or even more ruthless, erase your "existence" from the river of time and space, making everyone forget that you ever existed.

The same applies to cause and effect. It can sever your cause and effect, or it can create a cause and effect out of thin air, giving you an enemy or benefactor for no reason.

Quasi-Saints are almost impossible to kill.

Their true spirits have been entrusted to the Great Dao, and as long as the Great Dao exists, they will never perish.

Even if one's soul is scattered, it can still be reassembled from the Great Dao.

The only thing that can completely obliterate a quasi-saint is a saint.

Because the true spirit of a sage has merged with a part of the Great Dao, it can deny the existence of the sage from its very source.

At most, quasi-saints can seal each other; they cannot completely kill each other.

To a saint, a quasi-saint is still an ant. But to all beings below the saint level, a quasi-saint is like heaven.

A Great Luo Golden Immortal is like an infant facing a strong man before a Quasi-Saint. They are not even on the same level.

Zhou Ming is fundamentally different from other quasi-saints or saints.

His true spirit merges with the universe, or one could say that it merges with the great Dao of the universe.

Saints from the outside world can only merge with one of the three thousand Great Daos.

Zhou Ming's true spirit directly merged with the Three Thousand Great Daos.

What Zhou Ming needs to do now is to strengthen the Qiankun World. As long as the Qiankun World becomes stronger, his own strength will also become stronger, and the degree of integration between his true spirit and the Qiankun World will be higher.