The first half of Ji Qingyue's life was an absolute power-fantasy narrative.
Supreme talent, supreme background, and supreme resources!
She faced no pressure or danger, sailing smoothly to the pinnacle of power in the Star-Sea World. With the Misty Immortal Sect as her shield and her Void Refinement cultivation combined with a vast array of techniques, there was almost nothing in the entire Star-Sea World that could threaten her.
Yet, in such a life, Ji Qingyue began to feel a sense of profound boredom.
Due to a lack of knowledge regarding the Myriad Law Celestial Physique, she had never been able to unlock its true power. The very nature of the physique had become a mountain blocking her path to the Unity stage. Coupled with the fact that the Star-Sea World lacked the resources to support a breakthrough to that level, her path of cultivation seemed to have reached a dead end.
Furthermore, her mental state and Dao-heart had never been tempered by hardship. This made it increasingly difficult for her to control the power of the Myriad Law Celestial Physique. If she attempted a forced breakthrough, she faced the risk of losing control and perishing on the spot.
Beyond cultivation, nothing in the Star-Sea World piqued her interest.
The men of her generation were like ants she could crush at any moment; how could she possibly develop interest or feelings for them? The older generation was even less appealing, not to mention that most of the old men couldn't even defeat her in battle. Even setting strength aside, could she truly take a companion whose lifespan was significantly shorter than her own?
Her father had taken her across every corner of the Star-Sea since she was a child, so there was very little left in that world that could excite her.
It was under these circumstances that Ji Qingyue entered the most stagnant and confused period of her life.
Her relatives, friends, and even her spirit pets began to die one by one before her eyes. Eventually, even the personnel of the Misty Immortal Sect had cycled through entirely, until there wasn't a single person left whom she recognized.
She didn't even dare to take on new maids. Sometimes, the duration of a single secluded meditation was enough for them to grow old. In the next meditation, she would wake to find only their bones remained. Some had even their bones eroded away by the passing years.
No path forward, and no kin left in the world—this was the predicament Ji Qingyue faced during that time.
'What is the meaning of such a life?' Ji Qingyue suddenly found herself without a direction.
Because she had never experienced true trial or danger, her Dao-heart was not particularly robust. It was only because her father had intentionally helped her temper it that she could barely control her Void Refinement level power.
But after her father departed, her confusion only deepened. There were even several occasions where she nearly lost control and fell into Qi Deviation!
In her early years, she would occasionally spar with opponents of the same rank, but she eventually lost interest in that as well. This was why Ji Qingyue became increasingly mysterious over time. Later, she attempted to step beyond the Star-Sea World to find an opportunity for breakthrough, but her search was in vain.
It wasn't until the Sky-Dragon Continent found her, promising to help her integrate into their world if she agreed to deal with the Bee Daoist. Drowning in ages of stagnation, she agreed without a second thought. Because of her lack of life experience, she didn't consider the deeper implications.
It was only later, when Qi Ping led Meng Tianqi and others to sweep through the Star-Sea, that she sensed the upheaval of the entire world and began to slowly investigate the causes and consequences of everything.
Only then did she realize that the actions of the Sky-Dragon Continent would destroy the entire Star-Sea World.
This was something she was unwilling to see. Although there were no longer any people she knew on this land, she was absolutely unwilling to see her home destroyed. It was the only place where she held memories, and she had spent countless years presiding over it.
This obsession—neither shallow nor particularly deep—was the reason she ultimately left the final spirit veins and various resources to Qi Ping and the others. She only took with her the high-grade spirit herbs and resources she could personally use.
Her proactive departure was partly due to her divination of danger and her fear of the backlash from the Qi Fortune of the Little Immortal Tiger and Qi Ping. But another reason was that she did not want the Star-Sea World to be torn apart by her own battles, causing her familiar home to be utterly ruined.
Before that moment, she hadn't realized she would miss her home. Only when faced with its potential destruction did she realize she didn't want to lose it, for it held her happy childhood and all the memories of her parents and friends.
After being forced to leave the Star-Sea World, Ji Qingyue had actually been observing it from the shadows. Watching the Star-Sea Nine Domains gradually develop and move toward prosperity, seeing a world that was completely different, Ji Qingyue actually felt a spark of anticipation.
She wanted to know if this world, under Qi Ping's leadership, would reach a new pinnacle!
As she gradually learned about the information regarding Earth Immortals and witnessed Qi Ping's true magnanimity and all that he had done, she slowly came to accept this new Lord of the Star-Sea in her heart.
She remembered her father once telling her that everyone has things they are good at. Her personality was simple; she could serve as a Supreme Grand Elder to protect the sect, but she must never involve herself in complex management. Thus, even though she later became the strongest expert in the Star-Sea, she never interfered with the world's development, knowing she was not suited for it.
Her father had also said in his later years that he regretted pampering her too much when she was young. This had prevented her from truly experiencing the hardships and essence of cultivation. This smooth cultivation path had become the greatest obstacle to her progress.
If Ji Qingyue could not find her own path in the future, she might never reach the Unity stage in this lifetime.
Because the limit of Void Refinement was the absolute ceiling one could reach by relying purely on the Myriad Law Celestial Physique. If she didn't carve out her own way, she would never break through.
Her father's words proved prophetic, and Ji Qingyue was completely stuck. She had even nearly died several times from her cultivation spiraling out of control.
In a way, her father's indulgence was indeed the primary cause of her blocked path to Unity.
However, after she was forced to flee the Star-Sea World by Qi Ping, the feeling of her life being threatened and the massive upheaval in her life were precisely the catalysts that gave Ji Qingyue the opportunity to see herself clearly and find her true path!
Her desires were ignited, and her thoughts and insights were born and circulated frantically!
With the unique changes in the Star-Sea World, she began to observe the transformations of the entire world with great interest. By observing the lives of countless people and the shifts in the world, she combined those observations with her own life and the problems she currently faced.
Finally, she slowly saw into her own heart and her own desires!
When she saw every institution and person in the Star-Sea World working together to resist the demons, her own life path became clear, and she made the decision to return.
Most importantly, after witnessing the changes in the world and the cultivation of every individual, she gradually discovered the true mystery of the Myriad Law Celestial Physique!
Thus, at the moment the Star-Sea World went to war with the demons and the World-Domain Battlefield opened, she chose to join the fight without hesitation!
And she was even willing to accept a restrictive seal for it.
The reason she could accept such harsh conditions was that through so many years of observation, she had absolute trust in Qi Ping. She believed that one day, she would earn his trust in return.
Furthermore, the most critical point was that her opportunity for breakthrough lay within the World-Domain Battlefield! She wanted to protect this home she still cherished, and she had to participate in this battle.
Ji Qingyue had a premonition: if the Star-Sea World was destroyed, she would not be far from the collapse of her Dao-heart and death by runaway cultivation.
For these many reasons, she eventually stepped into this battlefield where death was almost certain!
And as expected, she had indeed fallen into a life-or-death crisis!
Now, after killing a King-rank Void Refinement demon at the cost of being cleaved in two, Ji Qingyue felt no fear. Instead, she felt a thrill of excitement from the bottom of her heart!
She hadn't felt this vibration of life for a very long time!
In this moment, she was absolutely certain she was alive. She wanted to keep living, to slay the enemies before her, and to sweep across the entire battlefield!
And in this moment of extreme control over her spells amidst a lethal crisis, she finally attained enlightenment regarding the essence of breaking through to Unity with the Myriad Law Celestial Physique:
The Myriad Laws Floating Cup!
Previously, aside from the lack of resources, the biggest problem with her breakthrough was the conflict between her physique and the Unity stage.
The Unity stage required the complete fusion of one's spiritual power, physical body, and soul. The Great Dao one cultivated had to become a singular, integrated whole.
But the characteristic of the Myriad Law Celestial Physique was the need to cultivate as many paths as possible; only then could its true power be unleashed.
However, once one cultivated too many paths, how could they truly fuse them into one? Even setting aside Ji Qingyue, she couldn't find a single record in history of a cultivator who could truly fuse ten thousand paths.
How then could the Myriad Law Celestial Physique reach Unity?
This question had haunted Ji Qingyue for ages. Her inability to fuse the laws and her unstable Dao-heart had welded her firmly to the Void Refinement stage.
But now, those two problems were finally solved!
She had already found her own Dao-heart and path before entering the battlefield. Had she not, why would she have thrown away her comfortable years to enter this place of near-certain death? She had nearly died just now!
And just now, the final problem plagued her was solved!
She had found the method of fusing the laws: the Myriad Laws Floating Cup!
Based on the Myriad Law Celestial Physique, the Myriad Laws Floating Cup could fuse all the paths she cultivated into a perfect, consummate whole.
This whole could simultaneously erupt with the power of multiple paths—for instance, unleashing the might of the Sword Dao and the Sky-Fire Dao at the same time. Her spiritual power and domain could instantly manifest as any path.
The Myriad Laws Floating Cup itself possessed no inherent offensive power, but it could manifest any path Ji Qingyue had ever cultivated and add a powerful amplification to it!
At the moment Ji Qingyue grasped the Myriad Laws Floating Cup, a domain of the same name instantly enveloped her. At the same time, it transformed into a defensive domain specifically designed to counter the powers of the surviving King-rank demon!
The dual defenses of the Glistening Gold Domain and the Rippling Waters were able to minimize the cutting attacks of that King-rank demon to the greatest extent.
This defensive domain produced a massive effect. With its power countered, the King-rank demon's subsequent attacks were unable to break through her defense in the short term.
Ji Qingyue used this window of time to immediately mobilize the Azure Wood Dao—the most suitable for fleshly healing—and the Rippling Power—the most suitable for soul recovery.
Under these two powers, her cleaved body and wounded soul began to heal rapidly.
Though the extremely stubborn demonic power prevented a full recovery in the short term, maintaining her basic combat strength and her life was no problem at all.
Simultaneously, Ji Qingyue began to mobilize a power of extraction, frantically absorbing all surrounding energy to refine it and replenish herself. She also began testing the various Daoist techniques she cultivated to see which power was best suited for eroding the demonic energy lingering on her.
Before her defense was completely breached, she finally found the Gravity Dao, which was the most effective at grinding down that power!
Under the weight of the Gravity Dao, the residual demonic power began to be slowly suppressed!
The advantage of the Myriad Laws Floating Cup—the supreme art unique to her physique—was fully displayed at this moment!
Ji Qingyue could release any Daoist power she had cultivated based on the situation. Regardless of whether her cultivation in that specific path was profound, it would receive the amplification of the Myriad Laws Floating Cup!
And the more paths she cultivated, and the stronger those paths were, the more powerful that amplification would be!
Even now, having just grasped the power of the Myriad Laws Floating Cup, it already displayed incredible capabilities in recovery, extraction, defense, and suppression. If the day came when she completely mastered this realm, all her paths would display even greater might!
In the instant Ji Qingyue understood the Myriad Laws Floating Cup, the fate of the remaining King-rank Void Refinement demon was sealed. Facing a recovered Ji Qingyue, its only remaining end was death!
And the facts were as expected. With the Myriad Laws Floating Cup, Ji Qingyue's injuries and power were in a state of constant recovery. Unless she could be slain in an instant, it was nearly impossible for her to run out of strength.
Particularly after she found the power to counter the demon, she was practically crushing it.
Completely countered in every aspect, the King-rank demon was utterly slain by Ji Qingyue after holding out for a short time!
In this moment, the existence with the strongest adaptability in the entire World-Domain Battlefield was born!
However, the King-rank demons were indeed formidable. The wounds they left could not be healed even by Ji Qingyue in the short term, and the difficulty of slaying a King-rank demon was exceptionally high.
But it was certain that she had now become a true "hexagonal warrior." Unless a power could completely overwhelm her in a single aspect, she was virtually immortal!