Chapter 123.1 : Unceasing (Part 1)
Aside from all of that, there was also the matter of reconstructing Ying Qingjue's body.
Chu Ge's status within Taihuang needed no elaboration.
As for the resources stored in the Taihuang Treasury, while it couldn't quite be said that he could take whatever he wanted, he still possessed extremely high clearance.
Not to mention Luo Huangjun's private little treasury sitting right there.
More than half of the materials required for reconstructing a body were taken from these two sources.
As for the remaining, rarer spirit materials that were not commonly seen, Luo Huangjun arranged for people to be dispatched to search for them.
Now, after half a month had passed, everything had finally been gathered.
In the blink of an eye, another three days went by.
At this point, Chu Ge had already finished opening all of his hidden apertures.
All 360 star apertures and 9 hidden apertures were fully lit.
With a single thought from Chu Ge, his cultivation surged upward.
The barrier of the Fourth Heaven was like paper before him, shattered in an instant.
Fourth Heaven · Unceasing Realm!
Success!
And Chu Ge hadn't merely broken through.
After all his star apertures had been fully unlocked, the daily aperture rewards from the diary transformed into pure cultivation rewards instead. Over the past half month, Chu Ge had stored all of these up.
Now, with the realm breakthrough achieved in one fell swoop, his cultivation soared rapidly, charging straight into the middle stage of the Fourth Heaven—only a single step away from the late stage.
Cultivation in the Unceasing Realm differed from that of the Lower Three Heavens.
In the Lower Three Heavens, cultivation was inseparable from achieving certain hallmark milestones, such as forging a spirit seed or opening apertures, as these were tied to excavating one's own potential.
Upon reaching the Unceasing Realm, a cultivator's power underwent a massive surge—this was a comprehensive amplification of pure strength and energy.
Everything gained during the Lower Three Heavens would be sublimated in the Fourth Heaven.
A cultivator's spiritual energy could now autonomously circulate, absorb, and refine itself, achieving a state of endless regeneration—hence the name Unceasing.
The signature ability of this realm was void traversal. Spiritual energy would replenish itself endlessly, and the energy consumed by flying through the void would perfectly balance with the energy restored by the spirit seed's autonomous circulation—
Of course, this referred only to normal travel speeds.
If one flew at full power, the consumption of spiritual energy would still exceed the recovery rate.
With the realm breakthrough, Chu Ge's strength naturally rose along with it.
The terrifying foundation he had laid in the Lower Three Heavens would begin to play a decisive role in the realms to come.
"Xiao Ge, you broke through?"
As Chu Ge opened his eyes, a pleasant and melodious voice reached his ears.
It was Ying Qingjue.
These past few days, whenever Chu Ge cultivated, Ying Qingjue would occasionally come out of the Dragon Abyss Ring.
She didn't really do anything in particular—most of the time she simply watched Chu Ge cultivate, staring for hours on end. Other times, she would lie in his arms in her soul form, displaying an inexplicable sense of dependence on him.
Now, that dependence was subtly beginning to verge on clinginess.
"Sister Qingjue, today is the day to reconstruct your body. Are you ready?"
"I've been ready for a long time. I've finally been waiting for this day. Once I have a body again, I'll be able to truly feel you, Xiao Ge!"
Ying Qingjue was extremely happy, a delighted smile blooming across her pretty face.
Her outward image was that of a mature, elegant older-sister type, similar to Luo Huangjun or Dantai Jinglian.
Yet the demeanor she displayed before Chu Ge right now was more like that of a clingy young girl.
Still, for such a graceful, tall, and shapely mature beauty to show this kind of contrast carried a uniquely captivating charm of its own.