After weighing the pros and cons, Liu Changning quickly mobilized the true energy in her dantian, simultaneously circulating the Primordial Chaos Technique and the Heartless Dao, closing her eyes and attempting to merge the two mental techniques.

The Heartless Dao technique that Liu Changning cultivated was, in fact, no longer the original Dao. Over the years, as she gradually mastered the Dao technique, with different cultivation states of mind, she had been constantly perfecting it, using it as the foundation to cultivate her own Dao.

Her Dao heart was stable, which is why when the Primordial Chaos Technique forcibly joined and spontaneously merged into the true energy in her dantian earlier, it had no impact on her Dao heart at all.

This also laid a solid foundation for her to merge the mental techniques without going astray in the following steps.

She frowned, not daring to relax her mind.

The situation inside her body was not good, due to the sudden addition of the Primordial Chaos Technique and being in the primordial chaos space.

There was only primordial chaos energy, without a trace of spiritual power.

This caused the vast primordial chaos energy from the surroundings to merge into her body, while the mystic ice true energy in her body couldn’t be replenished. The two frantically vied for dominance, with the primordial chaos true energy quickly gaining the upper hand.

However, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse. The mystic ice true energy was no pushover either, counterattacking with all its might. It was a battle between a strong dragon and a local snake.

If Liu Changning had sat idly by, her meridians might have been burst open by the two true energies competing for dominance in less than a few breaths.

Her spiritual consciousness shuttled back and forth between the two Dao techniques, striving to merge the mental techniques as quickly as possible.

There are three thousand great Daos, and ascending to immortality and attaining the Dao. In fact, no matter what kind of Dao one cultivates, the purpose is the same.

Dao heart, Dao lineage, and Dao techniques are originally interconnected.

Liu Changning had experienced the questioning of the heart during her tribulation to ascend to immortality. Although she failed to ascend at that time, she gained a different understanding of the cause and effect of Dao techniques.

Although the two Dao techniques in her body seemed to be going in opposite directions, their ultimate purpose was to assist cultivators in gathering spiritual power, cleansing their mortal bodies, and ascending to immortality.

All laws have cause and effect. She needed to sort out the causal relationships.

Dao scriptures are merely aids on the path of cultivation. It should be known that since ancient times, countless cultivators have fallen on the path of ascending through tribulation. The reason is that they couldn’t master the Dao techniques and lost their original hearts.

Liu Changning had always been steadfast on the path of cultivation, never changing her belief that human determination can overcome heaven’s will.

At this moment, the two true energies were in chaos within her body.

Yet her consciousness gradually became clear, her Dao heart increasingly firm, her mind open and seeing everything as fleeting clouds.

The stable Dao heart now condensed into a shadow of a great tree rooted in her dantian. The two Dao techniques were absorbed into it, becoming intertwining branches, echoing each other.

Liu Changning used her spiritual consciousness to merge the two techniques into her Dao foundation. The tree’s roots were solid, rapidly growing stronger, its branches stretching out and leaves flourishing. Gold and white leaves were evenly distributed on the branches.

The true energy began to circulate orderly in her dantian, with the abundant primordial chaos energy continuously pouring in.

After merging the Dao techniques into one, Liu Changning carefully sorted out the primordial chaos true energy, circulating it together with the mystic ice true energy. The two complemented each other, achieving a strange harmony within her body.

The vortex disappeared, and the vast desert seemed like a carpet stretching to the horizon, calm and serene.

Two red suns in the sky were obscured by clouds. Occasional gentle breezes blew, moving fine yellow sand forward.

It was a scene of beauty not of this world.

The woman sitting cross-legged on the yellow sand remained motionless. Her long hair like a waterfall was disheveled on her shoulders, her face calm and undisturbed.

A grain of sand stuck to her crow-black eyelashes. As a breeze passed, it silently fell.

Her entire being seemed like a statue, maintaining a meditation posture, her body and mind in perfect harmony.

The myriad things no longer disturbed her.

Liu Changning, having merged the two top-tier Dao techniques and incorporated them into her own vast Dao foundation, needed time to refine and solidify them, just like grinding soybeans into tofu.

The two true energies circulated in her meridians, constantly expanding her extraordinary meridians.

The abundant primordial chaos energy continuously poured in. As Liu Changning became proficient in mastering the merged Dao technique, it transformed into two true energies that constantly tempered her body.

This place was a primordial chaos space, originally prepared by the Immortal Lord as an excellent cultivation site for those with the destiny to cultivate the Primordial Chaos Technique.

Liu Changning had stumbled upon merging the two Dao techniques into one. The Dao scripture she was now cultivating no longer belonged to the realm of the Immortal Lord. As her cultivation deepened, her body faintly emitted a golden and white light.

It was vaguely a sign of cultivating divinity.

Within the three realms, it was almost impossible to cultivate divinity by skipping levels. But this was a Dao technique that Liu Changning had comprehended on her own. The Heartless Dao technique and the Primordial Chaos Technique were originally created by the ancient Demon Lord and Immortal Lord themselves.

They gathered the essence of their own Dao technique comprehension. Liu Changning had stumbled upon merging them into one, creating her own Primordial Chaos Heartless Dao technique.

She had vaguely touched the threshold of the divine realm.

The stagnant meridians in her body were rapidly repaired by the intertwining golden and white true energies, constantly expanding.

Liu Changning could feel her Nascent Soul growing visibly larger.

Time seemed to stand still around her, with only her in the world. At first, running one great circulation was extremely difficult, but later the speed became faster and faster.

The mental technique circulation almost reached its limit, with spiritual power increasing orderly in her body. Step by step, it expanded her meridians and cleansed her spirit body.

In cultivation, there is no concept of years. One blink of an eye, and seven years had passed.

In the vast desert, sand dunes rose and fell. Two red suns hung high, but without the scorching heat that baked the earth, they seemed like two lanterns hanging in the sky.

On the flat yellow sand, the female cultivator who was nearly half-buried suddenly opened her eyes. Her tea-colored eyes flashed with brilliance, with a flying sword suspended above her pupils.

Breaking out of the sand, she called out: “Cangming”

The flying sword eagerly shot out, hovering in front of her. Her body was enveloped in a warm yellow divine light. Cangming seemed to sense something, extremely dependent on its master’s aura.

The sword body trembled slightly, letting out a joyful cry. It circled around Liu Changning’s body again and again.

Liu Changning looked down with a smile, her clear and cold eyes flashing with sharp brilliance, her aura intimidating.

She grasped Cangming’s blade, her divine sense exploring inside it, finding a piece of clothing.

Cangming was no ordinary immortal sword. It was forged with ice soul and red essence, originally belonging to the Azure Peace Divine Lord.

The Azure Peace Divine Lord was the only divine lord of artifact forging in the divine realm, her forging techniques transcendent.

Cangming was one of her most prized immortal artifacts, containing a void space within.

It could imprison and restrain souls, and store items.

Back then, the cultivation world gathered all its strength, not hesitating to sacrifice an immortal sword, to seal Pei Ziyuan inside Cangming’s body for this reason.

To prevent the phoenix from entering reincarnation, neither dying nor perishing.

Liu Changning hadn’t explored the inside of Cangming with her divine sense for many years. This time, she unconsciously touched the threshold of the divine realm, her cultivation advancing greatly.

During these seven years, she progressed step by step from the Nascent Soul stage, crossing through Deity Transformation, Extinction, Unity, and Great Achievement, until she woke up with her cultivation reaching the Tribulation Crossing stage.

Everything happened naturally, without hindrance or inner demons.

With the Dao techniques fully merged and her realm elevated, her entire cultivation path also slowly changed, her body exuding a faint divine pressure.

This time when her divine sense entered Cangming’s body, she no longer had to worry about realm issues, proceeding smoothly without obstruction.

Cangming clearly sensed its master’s great advancement in cultivation and was elated.

Because Liu Changning couldn’t use immortal artifacts beyond her level, it was rarely summoned by its master. Now feeling its master’s divine pressure, the immortal sword emitted bursts of sword cries, clear and pleasing to the ear.

Liu Changning patted it and took out clothing from the sword body to wear.

The rare treasures, pills, spiritual materials, spirit stones, precious tools, clothes, and hairpins collected in her first life, including the preserved fruits that the phoenix liked, were all there, familiar yet melancholic.

Liu Changning smiled casually and fastened Cangming to her waist.

“Old friend, do you miss him? It’s time to go out and meet!”

Cangming seemed to sense something and lightly shook its sword body in response.

Liu Changning merged her divine sense with the space, and soon the person and sword disappeared from the desert.

Because she had comprehended the Primordial Chaos Technique, with her divine sense operating, she was transported out in an instant.

The black primordial chaos stone fell into Liu Changning’s palm, obediently motionless.

Liu Changning stored it inside the sword body and quickly concealed her form with a flash.

The transportation location was a bustling marketplace. Fortunately, it was noon, and there weren’t many people walking on the street. Everyone only felt a flash of white light, but upon closer look, nothing unusual had happened.

For ordinary people, incidents of white light flashing and people disappearing in the city had been occurring more and more frequently in recent days.

This was the Northern Frontier. Since three years ago, when the demon race began frantically occupying the blessed lands and cave abodes of the Immortal Spirit Domain, this place had not known peace.

Because this place was separated from Yong Province by sea, with Coral Island eight hundred miles across the sea, including Yong Province, all these areas were the demon race’s main base.

Cultivators of the righteous alliance frequently came and went from this place. Especially three months ago, when the righteous faction and the demon race engaged in the largest-scale war in history.

Two Tribulation Crossing stage patriarchs of the righteous faction perished, and the demon race retreated in defeat. The security in this place became even tighter.

These few months, the city had been relatively peaceful on the surface. However, this was merely superficial.

Even little girls in the mortal realm knew that this was the calm before the storm.

In the previous confrontation, of the three Tribulation Crossing stage patriarchs of the righteous faction, only one returned safely. The Demon Lord, however, suffered no major injuries. Once he recovered his strength, he would inevitably return to fight again.

And in the next invasion, relying solely on the Master of the Secluded Immortal Palace, the chances of victory were zero!