She slowly stood up, her exquisite face tinged with a charming blush, like red plum blossoms blooming in the snow, captivating beyond compare.

In those eyes, clear as autumn waters, there was only a watery tenderness and unreserved trust.

"My dear Xu."

Her red lips slightly parted, her voice carrying a barely noticeable tremble, yet it sounded all the more seductive, as if her eyes contained spring water capable of melting the hardest steel into soft silk.

Xu Ping walked forward with a gentle yet solemn smile, lightly holding her slightly cool and delicate hand.

"Shuang’er."

Their eyes met, emotions flowed, and everything was understood without words.

Both of them embraced, their figures slowly fading into the depths of the stone chamber.

The heavy stone door closed silently with a slight movement of Xu Ping’s mind, isolating everything inside from the outside world.

Yin and Yang are transformed into life.

Jade furnace and ice lotus nestle together, Spiritual Dew quietly crosses the mysterious gate.

Dragons and tigers converge, stirring winds and clouds, Kan and Li harmonize, the Dao begins to take shape.

...

For a long, long time.

Inside the stone chamber, the originally clear Spiritual Qi seemed to be tinged with a layer of ambiguous crimson, with an indescribable romantic atmosphere filling the air.

On the luxurious and soft cloud bed.

Duan Shuang curled up like a lazy kitten in Xu Ping’s strong and warm embrace, her originally fair and jade-like skin now tinged with a rosy hue, spreading all the way to her delicate earlobes and long neck.

Her beautiful eyes were tightly closed, her long and curling eyelashes trembling slightly, her breaths were weak and sweet. She felt as if every bone in her body was softened, lacking even the strength to lift a finger.

Xu Ping lay on his side, his arm wrapped around Duan Shuang’s smooth jade-like back.

At his fingertips flowed gentle and pure Mana, like the finest spring rain, slowly nourishing and soothing Duan Shuang’s slightly damaged delicate body and cultivation foundation due to the loss of Nascent Yin.

He could clearly sense that Duan Shuang’s Nascent Soul was slightly dim due to the loss of its origin, and her Dao foundation also had a tiny crack.

This damage was a loss of the great Dao, not something easily repaired in a short time.

"Shuang’er, you’ve worked so hard."

Xu Ping gently placed a kiss on her smooth forehead, his voice filled with tenderness and promise,

"Rest and recuperate without worry. Once I achieve Divinity Transformation, I will certainly seek out the spiritual essence of Heaven and Earth, and with unparalleled Mana, I will rebuild your Dao foundation and restore your origin. I will not let your path stop here."

Upon hearing this, Duan Shuang didn’t even have the strength to open her eyes. She just made a satisfied and trusting "mm" sound, burying her cheek deeper into his chest, as if it were the safest harbor.

The two embraced for a long time, basking in the silence and warmth that followed the melding of spirits and flesh.

...

Several hours later.

Xu Ping returned to the cavern.

All prerequisites were already in place.

Dao heart in perfect harmony, state at its peak, Yin and Yang balanced, external array protection!

It was time.

To seclude and breakthrough to Divinity Transformation.

Once again, the heavy stone door thunderously closed.

A month later.

Within the core cavern, Xu Ping sat cross-legged at the center of the Spirit Gathering Array, five hearts facing the sky.

He immersed his mind entirely within, guiding the mana that had already reached a boiling point towards the invisible barrier existing in the void, separating Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation, making the final assault.

"Hoo!"

An incomparably powerful aura, like a prehistoric beast that had slumbered for eons suddenly awakening, surged rapidly from within him.

This aura merged with his impeccably pure Mana, the vitality of his Nirvana golden body, as well as the Round Harmony Dao Heart refined through worldly experiences, consolidating into an invincible current of will, fiercely crashing into that invisible barrier.

Boom!

As if it were the first sound of creation, it exploded deep within his Divine Soul.

The Divinity Transformation bottleneck, which obstructed the paths of countless genius cultivators, under this supreme assault that concentrated centuries of Xu Ping’s accumulation and numerous serendipities....

It indeed seemed fragile.

"Crack!"

A clear sound, like the shattering of glass, came from the void.

The incredibly solid barrier was effortlessly torn apart, penetrated, and utterly shattered by this force.

With the obstacle gone, Xu Ping’s aura, like a breached galaxy, could no longer be restrained, starting to ramp up crazily.

Rumble!

His aura rose step by step, as if with no end.

A terrifying oppressiveness that could overpower all beings and suppress the entire Heaven and Earth uncontrollably emanated from within him, instantly filling the entire cavern.

At the same time.

Beyond the cavern, even over the entire ruins of the Heaven-Suppressing Sect, the weather changed dramatically.

The quasi-fifth-tier great array operated frantically, almost plundering the Spiritual Qi from the underground fifth-tier Spirit Vein.

In the sky, an enormous whirlpool of Spiritual Qi suddenly formed, covering a thousand miles in radius.

Endless Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, as if summoned by a king, converged madly from all directions towards the center of the whirlpool, towards the cavern where Xu Ping was, flooding in.

Inside the core cavern.

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was so dense that it had condensed into a milky white Spiritual Liquid, completely submerging Xu Ping’s figure.

His Dantian and Sea of Qi were undergoing a creation-like transformation.

The Nascent Soul, identical to his appearance, sitting at the center of the Mana galaxy, now emitted unprecedented dazzling brilliance.

The originally somewhat ethereal form, under the infusion of the tremendous Spiritual Qi and its own Dao Principle, was undergoing an enigmatic transformation of essence.

The limbs, skeleton, five senses, and seven orifices of the Nascent Soul became clearer and more solid, as if transforming from a pure energy body into some higher-level life imprint.