"Mother, didn't Husband just say it was a cultivation issue?"

Xu Qingqing shook her head and looked somewhat hesitantly towards the house where Chen Zhixing was in seclusion.

As far as she knew, since Chen Zhixing started cultivating, he had never encountered any difficult hurdles. Today's situation left her unsure of how she could be of any assistance.

...

In cultivation, Chen Zhixing hadn't encountered any obstacles.

The reason he isolated himself was that he knew his current mentality wasn't right for interacting with others.

At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged on his bed, a large cauldron about a square meter in size floating around him, with strands of chaotic qi flowing and gathering around him, occasionally colliding and fusing, then bursting with a bang, creating tiny space cracks emerging from within the cauldron.

"If I continue in my current state, breaking through the Peak Realm won't be a problem. But if I want to follow this Chaos Dao, it's not enough. However, if I don't follow the Chaos Dao, my Dao is too diverse and mixed, and each Great Dao is strong enough, stronger than the First Order, yet unable to reach the Second Order's threshold... If this continues, these Dao won't only fail to achieve Golden Nature, but they'll become a hindrance, making it difficult for me to attain Golden Nature."

This wasn't much of an issue for Chen Zhixing.

Life and death, Yin and Yang, ice, fire, sword, great strength...

As long as he leaned towards a few paths by choice, those paths could naturally reach the level of the Second Order, with a lot of room.

But here's the problem.

Even though he knew about the sequence matter and roughly calculated the length needed for a First Order Dao, at present, almost all of his Dao had crossed the First Order's threshold, yet he didn't know what the Second Order's threshold was!

This made Chen Zhixing a bit irritable.

"In understanding the Dao, there's no saying of going back. Once a realm is reached, it can't be pressed down. Now, with nine Dao cultivated together, even if some have missed the threshold, there should still be a few Great Dao that can achieve Golden Nature... But won't following this path take me farther from Chaos Perfection?"

Because of his Innate Chaos Tao Body and the innate foundation cultivation technique being the Innate Chaos Tao Scripture, Chen Zhixing had an obsession with cultivating the Chaos Dao.

If possible, he naturally wouldn't want to abandon this Chaos Dao.

But if he doesn't abandon it, how can he achieve balance and still perfectly align with the threshold of the Gold Nature of the Second Order?

"If an ordinary cultivator reaches my level, what they do is nothing more than using time to forge ahead. They only cultivate one Great Dao; as long as the path is clear, they will eventually reach the node for Golden Nature.

If I use the same method, it would mean forging through nine Great Dao, consuming time and effort nine times more than theirs, not to mention the requirement for innate talent... So was my head kicked by a donkey initially, to choose such a challenging path? If I specialized in the Sword Tao, by the time I proved the Dao Longevity, I could directly rank in the Fourth Order of Longevity Gold Nature!"

Or else, should I dismantle this Great Tao Furnace?

Subconsciously, such a thought flashed in Chen Zhixing's mind.

If the chaos couldn't be achieved, then those nine Great Dao would only be a burden to him. It was like playing a game where others control one character and reach level forty, while his nine characters are all around level twenty, and in a real fight, these level twenty characters couldn't fight in groups, but have to go up individually to sacrifice themselves, with no cost-effectiveness at all!

"Okay, it's not quite like that. Having more Dao isn't without benefits, at least it gives thicker blood and no shortcomings, providing more options to counter enemies without being overly targeted."

Thinking of this, Chen Zhixing couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In reality, both choices had no inherent advantage or disadvantage for him.

Ultimately, if he specialized in one Dao, he could hope to reach an unimaginable height for regular people in a short period, while cultivating all nine would lay a stronger foundation, allowing for higher heights later.

Compared to each other, one is a realm sect, and the other is a foundation sect, without one being better or worse.

After all, given his talent, the path of cultivating nine Dao was a feasible one.

Yet precisely because of this, he became even more conflicted.

"Unless I can truly merge the nine Great Dao into one Chaos, then one becomes nine, and cultivating one Chaos Dao becomes cultivating all paths... Forget it, I should first consider if there's any method to perfect chaos; if it's truly impossible, I can only specialize in one path, push it to the peak, and then come back to nurture the others!"

Thinking this, Chen Zhixing began to focus all his mind on his Companion Cultivation Technique, the 'Innate Chaos Tao Scripture,' hoping to find a better path from this cultivation technique.

...

Chen Zhixing's troubles were, so to speak, the happy kind of trouble, the kind that if told, would drown him in spit.

After all, normal cultivators only have one path to follow, and even then, the path is shrouded in uncertainty, not knowing if they have any chance to prove Dao and achieve Longevity in their lifetime!

Yet he not only had options but was also dissatisfied that the Dao he achieved wasn't perfect... If this were spoken out loud, he'd probably be besieged by a group of Longevity True Monarchs at his door, with each taking turns to beat him three times a day for three days straight!

Having a path to walk should be enough! You still want perfection!

Where in this world are there so many perfect things!

Yet speaking of it, isn't the pursuit of perfection just a synonym for humanity's greedy nature?

"The Way of Heaven harms what is excessive to replenish what is deficient, but the human way is reversed, killing what is deficient to supply what is excessive..."

Chen Family's First Peak.

Back mountain.

Listening to the bustling noise outside, holding the Chen Family Five Elements Qi Collection Spell, Chen Zhaosheng smiled slightly.

Having the memory of Wuduolong, he knew that with Ancestor Tianyuan leading the family, for a millennium, no others would have the possibility to achieve Golden Nature by cultivating this Five Elements Qi Collection Method.

But that didn't prevent him from reading it.

After all, this was his family's Longevity Realm cultivation technique, and reading it more could expand one's horizons, offering some benefits.

"Compared to the Qianyuan Gold Martial Arts used by Wuduolong to prove Dao, the Five Elements Qi Collection Method is more refined, but it lacks in grandeur. It's no wonder Ancestor Tianyuan advised me to seek other ways... Well, as Zhixing would say, cultivating the Five Elements Qi Collection Method at the highest level only allows attaining Longevity with a Gold Nature of First Order, while the Qianyuan Golden Soldiers have the potential for the Second and Third Orders.

Such a cultivation method seems rather insufficient for my noble Chen Family.

But it can't be said like that. After all, when Ancestor Chang Feng was cultivating, my Chen Family didn't exist. As a loose cultivator, he cultivated the Five Elements Qi Collection, eventually attaining Golden Nature and achieving Longevity. Longevity Ancestor truly was a genius, but for us descendants to continue cultivating this with the same technique, we've disgraced our Ancestral Patriarch."

Thinking this, Chen Zhaosheng also smiled slightly.

However, in the next second,

the smile on his face turned cold as his gaze shifted to the forest behind him.

"Why are you here?"

"Why can't I be here?" The figure in the shadow sneered, "Wuduolong, don't tell me you've truly taken yourself as Chen Zhaosheng and considered this Ziwei Chen Family as your possession?"

"Of course, it's mine." Chen Zhaosheng put down the book and turned, his gaze icy as he looked at him, then suddenly smiled, "As per our previous agreement, it's about each of us returning to our families to wield the power of the noble family. What, Fang Cun, do you have any objections to this?"

"On this point, I did cast a vote in favor at the meeting."

The man in the black robe frowned, then walked out of the forest, standing in front of Chen Zhaosheng, "But Wuduolong, don't forget, besides you, there's a person named Chen Zhixing in this Chen Family, and your task..."

"Shut up!"

The icy look in his eyes suddenly turned into a blue light, and a mysterious Saint King Map slowly condensed behind Chen Zhaosheng.

In that moment, a hint of ferocity appeared on Chen Zhaosheng's face:

"Fang Cun, this is my issue. If you overstep again, I'm afraid only one of us will walk away alive!"

"Heh, do you think I'm afraid of death?"

"Then die here today in Ziwei Mountain!"

As Chen Zhaosheng's words fell, the grand Saint King Map ascended into the sky.

In the vast clear sky above, countless stars reflected against it.

Time rewound!

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