As soon as Xu Yue stopped paying attention to the outside world, time began passing with fervor.

Second, minutes, days, years, in the blink of an eye, ten thousand years had passed, causing Xu Yue to snap her fingers.

In an instant, all the memories of every single one of Xu Yue's incarnations suddenly entered her mind, allowing her to once again sink into her cultivation.

Ten thousand years after that, Xu Yue once again opened her eyes and did the same thing once again, before once again delving into her seclusion.

And again, and again.

...

In what seemed like a relatively short amount of time from her perspective, Xu Yue finished her longest ever seclusion up until now.

170 thousand years, if you measured time outside of Xu Yue's seclusion, much more if you measured time inside.

At this moment, the gap between Major Transcendence cultivators and Dao Saints was fully visible.

Although for Xu Yue, this was merely a single one of her seclusion, more of which would follow in the future, in this period of time, an entire generation of Major Transcendence Cultivators were born and died.

Each one of those mighty cultivators, who could decide the fates of trillions of living beings in an instant, were now dead, having no power to fight back against the endless might of time itself.

In fact, if not for a single, tiny fact, Xu Yue would have spent even more time in seclusion.

A few moments later, Xu Yue suddenly appeared inside of her Sea of Consciousness.

...

As she stared at the enormous golden tree in the middle of her sea of consciousness, which was currently over 6.6 million Li tall, Xu Yue couldn't help but take in a deep breath before letting out a faint melancholic sigh.

"Reaching this point took much less time than expected..." mumbled Xu Yue as she stared at the enormous golden fruit that was currently rapidly sapping the vitality of the tree, swaying it to its side.

That's right, the reason why Xu Yue stopped her seclusion was very simple, she reached the peak of the Mortal Boundless Dao, the peak of the Dao Saint Realm.

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A moment later, Xu Yue disappeared from her Sea of Consciousness, as well as the Origin Sword Sect and even the Three Thousand Regions.

...

At that very moment, the eyes of Xu Lanfeng, who was currently drinking a cup of tea, couldn't help but suddenly widen, causing her cup to instantly crack.

Merely a moment later, Xu Lanfeng suddenly disappeared from the Origin Sword Sect, reappearing in the endless void outside the Three Thousand Regions only a few moments later.

At the same time, the eyes of several beings from within the Three Thousand Regions also widened, as they suddenly felt something subtly change, something they had felt many, many times in the past.

...

As she stared at Xu Yue, whose body was currently shedding an enormous amount of impurities, Xu Lanfeng couldn't help but fall silent.

Not long after Xu Lanfeng arrived, several other figures arrived at the scene and began watching Xu Yue expel impurities from her body.

In just a few hours, all the spiritual energy which Xu Yue had taken from Heaven and Earth was returned, being replaced with spiritual energy created by Xu Yue's own Dao.

As such, an enormous amount of spiritual energy, numerous Small Worlds worth, now floated around Xu Yue.

Perhaps after eons, if left undisturbed, this huge amount of spiritual energy may eventually transform into small worlds.

After taking a cursory look at her body and Qi, and noticing no impurity staining it, Xu Yue couldn't help but shake her head.

Although Xu Yue could spend a long amount of time slowly but surely inspecting her body for tiny impurities, but what point would that have?

Xu Yue was confident, confident that nothing had escaped her gaze, confident that she would succeed in her goal.

No, Xu Yue was completely that she would now succeed in becoming a True Immortal, as if that fact was a natural law of reality, a part of the Grand Dao.

After taking a look at the beings that had come to watch her, Xu Yue then turned her attention onto her Sea of Consciousness, in which her Dao Tree, as well as the Dao Fruit that had grown on it stood.

A moment later, Xu Yue stretched out her hand inside of her own Sea of Consciousness, before suddenly ripping out the Dao Fruit without any care in the world.

The moment Xu Yue ripped out the fruit, the entirety of her Sea of Consciousness suddenly began collapsing in an instant.

But even so, Xu Yue, who held the tiny Dao Fruit in her palm, did not care in the slightest about that.

As soon as it exited her Sea of Consciousness, Xu Yue's Dao Fruit, which was already extremely huge, grew in size to match Xu Yue's own size, growing hundreds of thousands if not millions of times its previous size in moments.

Then, after staring at her Dao Fruit, which now fit nearly within her palm for a few moments, Xu Yue, whose Sea of Consciousness had already nearly completely collapsed, bit into it.

Unlike what she had originally expected, after biting into the Dao Fruit, Xu Yue felt like nothing much had actually happened.

No shaking of Heaven and Earth, no extraordinary change no nothing.

Instead, only a weird feeling spread through Xu Yue, causing her to turn her attention to the beings that were watching her.

As soon as Xu Yue's eyes landed upon them, all four of the beings suddenly lost all of their mystery, as Xu Yue immediately saw through them.

Then, with a snap of Xu Yue's fingers, Xu Lanfeng, alongside the other three False Immortal Cultivators immediately disappeared, leaving Xu Yue alone, and allowing her to think.

At this moment, Xu Yue finally realized what that feeling that she was currently feeling actually was.

This was not a feeling of ascendance, nor one of supreme power, instead, Xu Yue felt as though she had quietly returned to her natural state.