[The maximum output of the essential reward and punishment is 205→318%, with an individual increase or decrease of 12%→14%; the true essence increases by 23%→30% annually.]

[Overall essence: → times.]

[Standard state 1.4e12 → 2.4e15 Thorns, the second stage is the same as the normal state, because now you only need to maintain your original form to have a bloodline strength multiplier of 360 times (Chapter 659)]

"Now, transformation just adds more methods, and slightly more skill bars."

"Another improvement is in appearance; several more layers of skin have been added."

"After being optimized by the Undying Divine Demon Art, the twelfth's original body is already a natural, fully-equipped original body, and there is no need for him to transform anymore."

[Strongest state: 1.3e20 → 4.9e21 Thorns.]

【30 times! 】

[It's more than 30 times stronger than it was 800 years ago!]

"The base value of the product of the quality and quantity of Dao Seals has more than doubled; the comprehensive essence has nearly doubled; the upper limit of descent has increased three times, which is equivalent to a seven-fold increase in value... So in total, it's more than thirty times!"

"I am now... one in twenty thousand, the weakest True Immortal, with one in twenty thousand of the Dao power!"

[You tried exiting the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm in the future, and then broke through the Primordial Heaven Realm.]

[Within the cosmic membrane layer, you can already achieve speeds of thousands of miles per second!]

"It's already approaching the current world limit of 600,000 miles per second."

"Although it seems like I'm still six hundred times behind, it's never a proportional increase. I estimate that once I become twenty or thirty times stronger, I'll be able to reach that speed."

You pondered quietly: "Unfortunately, there's no way to break through the limits of this world."

Within the universe, within the world, anything with a speed exceeding 3 million seconds can break through space and enter the shattered void, where speed will increase exponentially!

[If there were no physical limitations, the speed that could originally reach 3 million miles per second would be 3 million miles per second within the shattered void.]

[But what could originally achieve a speed of 30 million miles per second would become 300 trillion miles per second in the shattered void! (See Chapter 408 for details)]

If you were to enter the shattered void right now, you could probably travel from one end of the universe to the other in a single second—that is, traverse billions upon billions of light-years in an instant!

However, the world barrier, the cosmic barrier, and even the cosmic membrane layer within the cosmic barrier—these are places where one cannot enter the shattered void!

[The maximum speed can only reach 600,000 miles per second!]

There is only one way to violate this rule: the Way.

[Comprehending the relevant principles allows one to break through the limits of reality, whether in normal space or in places like the cosmic wall where one cannot enter the shattered void.]

[It can travel 3 million miles per second in reality without being forcibly sent into the shattered void.]

[It's possible to achieve true speed within the cosmic walls, thus avoiding the snail's pace of 600,000 miles per second.]

For example, the Lord of the Star Rivers, having comprehended the relevant Dao principles, had his avatar travel 700,000 light-years in just 20 hours, averaging ten light-years per second. This is the true speed of his avatar.

[However, true immortals like those from the Yuantian Realm, who haven't comprehended the relevant Dao principles, will still be restricted in their speed within the cosmic membrane.]

"The biggest problem is that Bai He arrived too quickly..."

You couldn't help but think to yourself.

"Even if the Lord of the Star River had taken me out of the Yuan Tian Realm, he could only have taken me a light-year or two before Bai He stopped and killed me."

["Although I had considered one method, which was to have the Lord of the Galaxy pull me away by several light-years each time I summoned him, gradually escaping the Dao Fruit's sensing range, so that I could eventually get away successfully..."]

"But what I fear is that when the Star River Lord's avatar gets within a few light-years of the Yuan Tian Realm, it will trigger Bai He... and then Bai He will arrive within two or three seconds, or even less."

"Two or three seconds... I didn't have the confidence to quickly convince that clone to take me a little further outside."

"As long as that clone doesn't decisively pull me outside, even a two-second delay will mean that in that future, I'll be completely immobilized, unable to return to my true form, and unable to continue moving away from the Yuantian Realm."

"Even more terrifying, the range of the Dao Fruit's perception is 100 light-years from the Yuantian Realm to the Yuantian Realm; or when the Lord of the Star River is still 100 light-years away from the Yuantian Realm, he has already probed the power of the Dao Fruit from afar..."

"That way, before He even reaches my side, Bai He will arrive in the Yuan Tian Realm first to check the situation."

"When I finally meet that clone, there won't even be a fraction of a second of opportunity for a conversation before Bai He appears between them: 'Damn it, are you two the ones who disturbed me?'"

"At that time, I wouldn't have had any chance to peek out; I would have been completely trapped in the cosmic membrane."

You gently shook your head: "Although I now have some ability to move within the cosmic membrane, I didn't have that ability when I was cultivating the God Summoning System. So I couldn't do that back then, and I just wanted to postpone it until later."

"It's a pity that now I can do it, and I'm no longer afraid of being trapped inside the cosmic membrane, but the Primordial Heaven Realm has already been locked down."

[...]

[Once you successfully condense your Dao Seal and return to the Sixth Realm, a notification about the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm will pop up before your eyes.]

It gave you three choices.

[One: Leave the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm now, but there will be no possibility of returning.]

[Part Two: Freely choose a system to relearn, then proceed to the next level. All previously passed assessments will be reset, and the next level will start again from the simplest first assessment.]

[Three: The AI ​​of the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm will utilize its large database to analyze your current 54 Dao Seals and then deduce the 72/108/144 Dao Seals that can form the subsequent Immortal Path. This will ensure that after cultivating the Dao Seals it provides, you can perfectly synthesize the Dao Fruit.]

However, choosing option three will involve several challenging special assessments.

For example, if you choose the path with 72 Dao Seals, 72-54=18. Then you need to undergo 18 special trials consecutively. After that, the Immortal Ancient Secret Realm will directly give you a complete Immortal Path, providing all 18 subsequent systems.

Similarly, if you choose the Immortal Path with 144 Dao Seals, you will need to pass 90 special trials.

...

(Fourth update. I've revised quite a few words in the previous chapter, such as changing "father" to "him" or "Your Majesty," and deleting some idioms like "up and down" and "one step to the stomach"...)