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Chapter 263 Eight Refinements of the Primordial Spirit
Wu Ming did not rush to break through the bottleneck. Although the bottleneck of the Eighth Refinement was almost non-existent for him, and it could be said that passing through it would be a natural progression, he could not be impatient. Impatience would create inner demons. The higher the path, the greater the demons. At his current level and with his current foundation, the only thing that might cause him to fail to break through the bottleneck was inner demons.

As the saying goes, the hardest person to defeat in the world is oneself.

Three days later,
Wu Ming's primordial spirit calmed down completely, and all his soul power was contained, like a pool of water in the deep mountains, calm and endlessly deep. In this endless tranquility, it was as if a drop of water fell into the pool, creating a thousand ripples.

The supreme array engraved within Wu Ming's primordial spirit, supporting the entire primordial spirit, shone with golden light. An invisible force instantly spread out, and Wu Ming's soul, which was several times stronger than that of a normal grandmaster, was controlled by this supreme array. It quickly began to collapse and converge towards the core point.

The entire primordial spirit seemed to transform into an invisible vortex, with soul power spinning wildly and converging inward.

This process was very easy.

For ordinary people, gathering their primordial spirit is the first hurdle, and their inner demons are the second. Generally speaking, if one can cultivate a perfect-level formation and use it as a foundation to gather primordial spirit power, there is basically no difficulty, and one can easily break through the barrier. Even with a dexterity-level formation, there is still a certain probability of breaking through the barrier.

But all of this is true for ordinary people. Wu Ming's primordial spirit and soul power have been tempered by the evil energy in the Demon Subduing Diagram for many years, and have been constantly restored and refined by the Zhe-word technique, making his soul power so pure that it is several times higher than that of other cultivators of the same level!
Such powerful and pure soul power makes it much more difficult for him to gather his primordial spirit soul power and break through to the eighth level of refinement than for normal Dao cultivators. Even a perfect-level formation may not be able to guarantee his breakthrough!
However, Wu Ming's primordial spirit was attached to a supreme formation that surpassed perfection.

Under the overwhelming power of the supreme formation, even his soul power, which was several times stronger than that of others of the same level, was forcibly absorbed by the formation's power and continuously collapsed, converging towards the core point.

The whole process was not fast, but it was incredibly calm and stable, as if all bottlenecks and obstacles were nothing more than paper, unable to stop it in the slightest.

that's it,
In just half an hour, Wu Ming's primordial spirit completely coalesced and collapsed into an extremely tiny point.

Thus, the first half of the breakthrough to the eighth level of refinement was completed without any major setbacks. As long as the primordial spirit maintains this form and all the soul power is gathered and unified, and a breakthrough is made from this point, then the change will be a natural outcome, and the entire primordial spirit will undergo a complete transformation.

But it was at this stage that the difficulties of the second half of the Eighth Refinement began to emerge.

In Wu Ming's consciousness space, in a pure white and boundless world, a figure quietly emerged. The figure looked exactly like him, even wearing the same clothes, and walked towards him.

Wu Ming looked at the figure that looked exactly like him, his gaze completely calm, without surprise or emotion.

"You came."

"I am coming."

"You didn't need to come."

"But I'm still here."

Their brief conversation was like that of two very familiar acquaintances.

In fact, they were indeed very familiar with each other. One was Wu Ming's true nature, and the other was the inner demon derived from his true nature. Even if his true nature was tempered to perfection, like the blazing sun, there would still be shadows where there is light. No matter how strong one's cultivation of the Dao heart is, one cannot avoid the generation of inner demons. Even Buddha has a demonic side.

However, this time the situation is different. Wu Ming's foundation is too profound, and he has even mastered the law of killing. Even if his inner demon manifests, it is no match for him. This appearance is actually unnecessary.

But his inner demon is also a reflection of himself. If he and his inner demon switched places, he would come too. Even if he knew he would fail, he would do his best and never give up as long as there was even the slightest chance.

boom! ! !
The two figures collided in the pure white world.

Wu Ming unleashed a blood-red lightning, a lightning power fused with the laws of slaughter, akin to divine punishment. The inner demon opposite him unleashed the same power, a dense barrage of blood-red lightning. The two bolts of lightning roared and collided in the void, exploding into continuous arcs of blood-red lightning.

Slaughter, fighting, tearing apart...

Two figures fought a fierce battle in this pure white world of the mind, a battle that shook the heavens and the earth, as if from the ancient war to the end of time, exchanging countless moves.

In the end, Wu Ming's true self stood with his hands behind his back, still standing firm in this mental space, while the inner demon opposite him had become illusory, like a bubble.

"you win."

"But you can't always win."

"Hehe, haha, hehe... It's still early, it's not the right time yet, ahahahahahaha!"

The bubble emitted a burst of maniacal laughter.

puff.

Wu Ming reached out and made a grasping motion, the bubble burst in his palm, and the sound stopped abruptly.

Having reached this level of cultivation and foundation, the inner demon is far from being his match. The situation has now reversed; the demon is one foot taller than the righteous path... But all of this is not permanent.

Even at the bottleneck of the eighth or even the ninth level of refinement, inner demons can hardly disturb him anymore. But when he enters the ninth level of refinement, everything will be different, because after entering the ninth level of refinement, he will face the calamity of decline from the world itself!

Every calamity is a blow to the true self.

Wu Ming was already fully aware of all this, and since his inner demon was a reflection of his soul, he was naturally very clear that the nine tribulations on the path to immortality were the true opportunity for his inner demon to rise again.

"I will win to the very end, until I achieve immortality."

Wu Ming slowly closed his eyes.

The words of his inner demons had no effect on him, and his Dao heart would not waver in the face of future crises.

click!
A crack appeared in the pure white world, which eventually shattered with a deafening roar. His consciousness instantly returned to itself, back to the very core of his primordial spirit. At that very moment, his primordial spirit, which had been gathered to an extremely small point, also emitted a 'crack' sound, as if something had broken.

This is the breaking of a bottleneck, the butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, the sound of being 'reborn'.

Like flowing water, his primordial spirit extended outward from that tiny point again, his soul power surging, but it was completely different from before. His entire primordial spirit underwent a magnificent baptism from the inside out.

Eight Refinements of the Primordial Spirit!

He finally broke through!

(End of this chapter)