Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

Continuing forward once more, a fleeting message suddenly reached Chu Zheng's ears.

Initially, he didn't want to bother with it anymore, but as he discerned the specific information within the message, Chu Zheng couldn't help but halt his steps.

[Upper Form]

[Sacred Insight of the Ancestral Dao, Illuminating the Ten Directions with Divine Light.]

[Today, Mysterious Gate disciple Chu Zheng, aged eighteen, pure and gentle by nature, seeks truth in the Dao, adheres to the clear regulations, ever harbors a heart to aid all beings, and holds noble thoughts of life.

[There is a maiden from the Song Clan, named Song Lingxue, born on the auspicious day of the Jiazi in the Guihai month of the Wuchen year, aged twenty-one, gentle in nature, with wisdom and insight equaled to orchids and irises, demonstrating virtue and cautiousness, possessing a natural root of kind wisdom.]

[With utmost reverence, may the Ancestral Dao extend its mercy, using heaven and earth as mediators, and uniting through heaven and earth.]

[Tracing the origin of their fate, it began at a tender age, meeting first at seven, their hearts already well-connected.]

[From that point onwards, green plums adorned the path, bamboo horses filled the courtyard, as the years stretched on, their feelings grew deeper, blessed by the unseen protection of the Grand Master, guided silently by their dao fates, mutually delighted, enduring the frost and snow, becoming ever more steadfast, like pine and cypress, becoming greener through frost, like gold and jade, remaining firm over time, this is genuinely a heaven-bestowed blessed fate, supported by earth's virtue, beyond what human effort can force.]

[Now disciple Chu Zheng, together with Song Lingxue, carefully chooses an auspicious day and hour, prepares incense and pure wine with reverence, submitting a petition to request:]

[May the Sacred Insight of the Ancestral Dao attest to this union!]

[May the sun, moon, and stars reflect its sincerity!]

[Disciple dutifully announces to the Mysterious Sky, wishes to follow the heavenly logic that parallels heaven and earth, adhering to the profound mystery of Yin Yang Dual Qi, upholding kindness and filial piety, preserving the righteous path, illuminating the Mysterious Gate, maintaining peace and stability, achieving neutrality and harmony, promoting family unity, extending benevolence widely, united in heart as husband and wife, sharing both suffering and joy.]

[Cultivating oneself to harmonize the family, harmonizing the family to aid the Dao, above to repay the Grand Master's great grace, below to alleviate the suffering of all beings, facing the cold years with abundant pine and bamboo, proving the dao heart together even into old age.]

[Respectfully hoping for the Ancestral Dao's compassion, to accept this humble wish, to bestow blessings, causing the phoenixes to harmoniously sing in the jade realm, auspicious orchid and calamus to flourish abundantly in the garden steps, blessings extending long, virtue protecting future generations, with the Dao Qi always present, forever basking in the mysterious wind.]

[Respectfully submitting this petition, sincerely burning it, to reach the heavenly ears.]

[Disciple Chu Zheng and Song Lingxue, bowing and prostrating a hundred times.]

[Prepared at the auspicious hour of the Yi You day of the Xin Wei month in the Jia Chen year of Heavenly Fate.]

Chu Zheng's expression was intensely shaken, and he halted his steps, lowering his gaze towards the chaotic River of Space-Time, momentarily speechless.

This is... the marriage contract submitted to the Ancestral Dao on the day of his grand wedding with Song Lingxue, burnt in the furnace!

But now... this marriage contract has once again reached his own ears.

Chu Zheng stood there for a long time, his heart once lacking in disturbance, now filled with a complex mix of emotions.

That document still floated between his Sea of Consciousness, lingering for ages, as if quietly waiting for his response.

After a long time, he slowly raised his hand and gave approval to the marriage contract.

[Approved.]

At this moment, Chu Zheng finally completely confirmed that the ethereal Ancestral Dao he once believed existed never truly existed from the beginning.

His heart grew heavier as he gazed at the unfathomable end of time and space, and for a moment, a chill arose within him.

With the passage of time, all this seemed predestined long ago.

His footsteps became somewhat heavy as he proceeded, gradually slowing down.

However, after a few breaths, his figure once again halted.

This was not his own intent, but an invisible time-space barrier blocked his physical form, preventing him from moving forward.

It seemed that reaching this point was already his limit.

The barrier, though intangible, effectively blocked his physical form, firmly confining him in place.

A powerful repulsion emanating from the origin of the rules surged out from the barrier like icy tides, pushing against him, preventing him from peering into an even older past.

Chu Zheng's brow furrowed, without any hesitation, his eyes overflowing with a faint golden light, immediately mobilizing all the Heavenly Destiny within the Dao Seed to push across.

The Space-time Laws intertwined into an invisible colossal hammer, striking heavily at that invisible time-space barrier.

Buzz—

In the instant the colossal strength touched the barrier, an abrupt change arose.

The Dao Seed within him experienced severe fluctuations, creating an extremely strange and tight resonance and conflict with this invisible barrier.

That strike, as if suppressed by the most solid shackles, spread out from the Dao Seed as the core, instantly penetrating his entire being.

All the power around him was instantly frozen, completely confined.

This wasn't the suppression of external force, but more like an internal limitation.

Chu Zheng's brow furrowed tighter, his gaze piercing the flowing River of Space-Time beneath, reflecting the light and shadows of eternity.

The raging waves seemed to turn into a frozen painting, yet he paid no attention to those scenes; instead, he turned around, his gaze as precise as the most meticulous time-space compass, sweeping across the trajectory he had just reversed.

Countless fleeting fragments of time stilled within his perception, reassembling.

Using himself as an anchor point, Heavenly Destiny as a ruler, Chu Zheng began conducting precise and unbelievable time-space calculations.

In the blink of an eye, the answer emerged.

Eighteen years.

From the moment he received the marriage contract as the starting point, the distance he had reversed was precisely eighteen years.

This number, like a cold bolt of lightning, instantly struck through Chu Zheng's mind.

He ceased his calculations, his gaze returning to the roaring River of Space-Time.

According to his time calculation, this time-space node, where he couldn't move an inch further, firmly locked by an invisible barrier, was precisely the moment of his own arrival into the world, his birth moment.

This was the day of his birth.

Chu Zheng had never thought that crossing through time, tracing back over the years, would ultimately be blocked at the limit of this life: his beginning.

The confinement from the Dao Seed reverberated within Chu Zheng's perception.

His understanding of time and space was far from enough.

Now, for Chu Zheng, the past before the time-space node of his birth had seemed to become an absolutely untouchable forbidden zone.

The brief tremor and perplexity were like a stone dropped into a deep pond, the ripples quickly subsiding, and Chu Zheng's gaze swiftly returned to calm.

He had come to some speculations: this wasn't an obstacle from the space-time law, but a shackle originating from himself.

The Dao Seed within him, which had absorbed much Heavenly Destiny, its existence could only be within the time-space "after his birth."

It is the proof of "Chu Zheng's" existence and the source of his power.

And beyond that barrier, within the ancient years belonging to before his birth, there existed an identical Dao Seed.

Two completely identical Dao Seeds carrying the essence of Heavenly Destiny perhaps could not coexist within the same time-space.

This might also be an irreconcilable conflict for the River of Space-Time itself, necessarily causing the rejection of the River of Space-Time.

Firmly confirming his speculation, there was no hesitation on Chu Zheng's face.

"So that's how it is..."

A whisper dissolved into silence on the quiet time-space embankment.

The next instant, a sharp brilliance erupted from Chu Zheng's eyes, an unprecedented radiance lighting up his Divine Soul.

Buzz—

An extremely pure Divine Soul, like an ancient star suddenly ignited, erupted magnificently from Chu Zheng's Ancestor Acupoint.

The moment the Divine Soul left the body, Chu Zheng actively severed all connections with the Dao Seed.

In this instant, he almost equaled severing the Dao, abandoning the Dao Seed, the physical body, and everything except this single Divine Sense.

Chu Zheng's existence fundamentally transformed at this moment, from a Grand Ancestral Realm Supreme in control of Heavenly Destiny to a wisp of pure Divine Sense.

This Divine Sense, immaterial and shapeless, yet condensed all his memories, obsessions, and past, like a sword stripped of all shells, leaving only its most core sharpness.

Without a moment of hesitation, the pure Divine Sense, like a moth diving into a flame, abruptly changed direction, no longer attempting to walk on the dry land but diving into the roaring River of Space-Time below.

Chu Zheng intently fixed on the river's end, his gaze like sharp blades, tearing through the eternal fog, effortlessly breaking through that invisible barrier, continuously swimming upstream.

Boom—

The instant he plunged into the river, a time-space wave far more terrifying by billions of times than before surged towards him in an instant!