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

Having figured out the origin of the cheat system and the Chaos Elder's methods of exploitation, Zhou Ming had already made up his mind.

He had no intention of keeping these mysteriously acquired and secretly powerful cheat codes any longer.

The biggest hidden danger of these things is that they can be remotely retrieved by the old man deep in the chaos.

If they remain in the Qiankun World, and are secretly taken back by the other party in the future, they will not only lose several crystal cores for nothing.

It might even expose the secrets of the Qiankun World, leading to even bigger trouble, and in the end, it would definitely be a losing proposition.

Without the slightest hesitation, Zhou Ming raised his hand and pushed out all four golden fingers that were floating in mid-air, handing them over to the central hub of the Qiankun World for absorption.

For him, there is no need to keep these cheat codes anymore.

All core functions have been stripped away and replaced by the newly acquired crystal core. Keeping these four empty shells is not only useless, but also harbors hidden dangers and is a real scourge.

Rather than leaving hidden dangers that could lead to unforeseen problems, it's better to let the Qiankun World absorb and refine them directly.

It was something left behind by a quasi-saint level monster, even though the black energy sphere was gone.

However, the remaining energy can accelerate the evolution of the universe, which can be considered making the best use of it.

Zhou Ming didn't have high expectations to begin with.

In his view, these few cheat codes were just empty shells. Even if they were absorbed by the world's central hub, they would only bring a slight improvement at most, and would not cause any significant changes to the Qiankun World.

But the reality was completely beyond his expectations.

The moment the central hub of the Qiankun World absorbed the four golden fingers, the entire Qiankun World suddenly trembled.

The earth trembled violently, space fluctuated wildly, and the entire world began to experience widespread turmoil.

The world's borders are expanding and extending outward at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the original world territory is constantly expanding.

As the territory continues to evolve and expand, new mountains, land, and space are constantly taking shape.

At the same time, a massive amount of pure world power was continuously generated, filling every corner of the entire Qiankun World, and the world's overall foundation began to surge.

Zhou Ming, who was in the midst of this world, clearly perceived all these changes.

His long-held quasi-saint level of cultivation was beginning to show obvious signs of weakening.

He began to steadily advance towards the realm of a sage, and the signs of a breakthrough were extremely obvious.

Just as his cultivation reached the most crucial point and he was about to completely cross the barrier of his realm, the evolution of the Qiankun World suddenly stopped.

The expanding world boundaries froze instantly, the newly formed territories ceased to take shape, the burgeoning world power was completely severed, and his cultivation advancement came to an abrupt halt.

This sudden halt left Zhou Ming feeling incredibly frustrated.

It's like being interrupted when you're about to do *that*. (This won't pass censorship; you can imagine it yourselves.)

Zhou Ming didn't need to investigate carefully to know the reason; it must be that the remaining energy in those four empty golden fingers had been exhausted.

Without the supply of energy, the evolution of the universe was naturally forced to stop.

Stuck at the critical point between the peak of Quasi-Saint and the Saint realm, unable to go up or down, this state of stagnation made Zhou Ming feel particularly uncomfortable, with a suffocating feeling of being torn apart.

The worst thing you can do when you break through a cultivation barrier is to stop halfway through. If you don't handle this state of being suspended in mid-air properly, you may even get stuck in your cultivation level and leave hidden dangers in your cultivation.

Although he was unlikely to encounter this situation, Zhou Ming still didn't want to be in that state.

After a moment of deep thought, Zhou Ming immediately made his decision.

He raised his hand and took out the spirit bamboo he had seized during the battle between the two quasi-saints. Without any hesitation, he threw it directly towards the central hub of the Qiankun World.

Since obtaining this spiritual bamboo, Zhou Ming has never had the chance to investigate its specific grade.

However, spiritual plants that can grow naturally in chaos must have extraordinary roots and are absolutely rare treasures that are hard to come by.

Zhou Ming originally intended to preserve it carefully and nurture it in the future, so that it could play a great role whether it was used for refining weapons or cultivated into the world's origin spiritual root.

To let the Qiankun World devour and refine it directly like that is, frankly, too wasteful. Under normal circumstances, he would never be willing to do so.

But now, with his cultivation stagnating and caught in a dilemma, he has no choice but to accept it.

Compared to a chaotic spiritual plant, breaking through one's own realm and the complete evolution of the universe are of paramount importance.

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhou Ming decisively abandoned the idea of ​​keeping the spirit bamboo.

The moment the central hub of the Qiankun World received the spirit bamboo, it did not hesitate at all and immediately began to fully refine the spirit bamboo.

In just a few breaths, the stagnant world of heaven and earth began to move again.

The world's borders have reopened and expanded rapidly, with vast new territories quickly taking shape and becoming stable, and the previously stagnant world space is once again revitalized.

The severed power of the world has been regenerated wildly, becoming even more abundant and pure than before, and flowing out continuously.

Zhou Ming's previously stagnant cultivation level began to rise again. The barrier that had previously blocked his realm was instantly broken through, and his cultivation level soared all the way up, steadily breaking through to the next level.

Before long, the ascent in cultivation ended, and everything returned to calm.

Zhou Ming slowly opened his eyes, carefully sensing his own condition.

He carefully examined his own cultivation foundation and the changes in the Qiankun World, and found that in addition to the Qiankun World's territory expanding several times, the world power he could mobilize had become more vast and profound.

Apart from that, there seem to be no other obvious changes.

Breaking through to the Saint realm should have been a transformative change, but he was quite ordinary, almost no different from his previous Quasi-Saint state.

For a moment, Zhou Ming was unsure whether he had truly broken through to the Saint realm.

He calmed down and carefully analyzed the rules of the sage realm and his own special state. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly smiled with relief.

He instantly grasped the key point.

Generally, those who break through from Quasi-Saint to Saint use the Primordial Purple Qi as the foundation of their Great Dao, integrate their true spirit with the Great Dao of the Universe, and rely on the Great Dao to achieve the Sainthood.

The source of a sage's power is the harmony between himself and the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth; both combat and cultivation rely on the power of the Great Dao.

But his situation was completely different from that of all the saints.

Long ago, his true spirit had already completely merged with the central hub of the universe.

All three thousand Great Daos and one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred fundamental rules of the entire universe merged with him.

To others, the Great Dao is an external thing, while the rules are the laws of heaven and earth.

But for Zhou Ming, the Great Dao of the Qiankun World is himself, and the rules are also himself.

He has been situated within the Great Dao from the very beginning, wielding all the rules, and has long been accustomed to this state of being one with the world.

It is precisely because of this that when he broke through to the Saint realm, he did not experience the dramatic transformation that ordinary Quasi-Saints undergo when breaking through. There were no extraordinary phenomena or qualitative changes; everything seemed ordinary and unremarkable.

This seemingly unchanging breakthrough is his unique and most normal state.