Time came and went he finally adjusted to his new life and improved his cultivation by leaps and bounds from the middle stage of the Earthly Immortal Realm to the late stage of the immortal realm in just 450 years where it would have taken the former owner of this body more than 600 years and less than 650 years that's just how talented he was during this time he had a son who was almost as talented as his former body if his former body was a 10 this body is a 7 to an 8 but considering his former body was one in an era this body is also good.
it'd usually take a normal to convert essence into Qi 15 years give or take it took his son 3 years and it took him 18 to convert Qi into Spirit whereas it would usually take 50 to 80 years for a normal, it also took him around 72 years to convert spirit into emptiness where it would usually take around a hundred years to a hundred and twenty years for a normal person. He was simply a genius.
But where he lagged behind others was how long it took him to convert emptiness into Dao it was the simplest even the most foolish and a fool couldn't reach this point.
Even if a pig lives for 400 years he would become wise but it took almost 306 years to be able to reach that point it forced Dào zhī shàng to make a special technique for him to make his body stronger than others to the point he would be able to carry Dào zhī shàng soul for a thousand years just with his cultivation base but if reached the earth immortal realm he could carry his soul somewhere between thirty thousand years and fifty thousand years and with Dào zhī shàng's calculation he'd be able to find a new life star within ten thousand years and twenty thousand years if he's unlucky but he always believed in his luck he cultivated a luck boosting cultivation technique just for this.
...
50 years later he's body started to rot from the inside so he took his son aside for a few days to talk but he prepared everything even if his son had a natural-born immortal body and soul he'd not be able to get away from this.
"little Xisheng do you trust your dad?"
he looked at his son with caring eyes.
"yes, dad I trust you why are you asking this? you already know the answer?"
He looked at his father weirdly. His father was the closest person to him since his mother died from giving birth to him. In fact, no one treated him wrongly or even dare to do that since his father is not weak and his grandfather from his mother's side is the group leader.
Since his childhood, he had an easy life with a caring father and a doting grandfather.
"son I'm trying to help you please don't resist going to be painful but don't worry father is here"
"I trust you dad I won't resist"
"good son don't worry this won't take long a minute"
Dào zhī shàng smirked to himself in his head even if you resist what can you do about it? But he was still smiling hypocritically on the outside because a smooth takeover is better than a forced one.
He then started the formation and left a clone soul proportional to the strength of this body and left with his main soul to take over his son's body although it took a fraction of a second
Dào zhī shàng saw the horror on his son's face because he could feel his soul being eaten alive
Dào zhī shàng sneered loudly if this kid were half as smart as him he would be able to struggle at least one-thousandth of a second.
Dào zhī shàng could feel his body was a whole lot more comfortable than his old body so he decided instead of taking control of this body he should hide in the Dao heart instead of the sea consciousness to slowly recover while these two clones of his take charge of the day to day life
...
nine thousand six hundred and thirty-nine years later
His two clones finally found a new world
It was a trichiliocosm
A trichiliocosm is a concept in the cosmology of a "third-order" universe containing one thousand second-order clusters, which are made of one thousand first-order clusters, which are in turn made of a thousand worlds each. Billion-fold universe.
It was a new universe and better yet it was still young maybe just if they're no humans he could pretend to be a new life and reincarnate their
He laughed to himself for worrying too much but still, it's very important to be redundant in your preparations. Your backups should have backups and they should have backups thereof it's safe to say this time I was lucky maybe next time I won't be so lucky.
He entered while thinking about poems he heard a novel back from his home world
Ambitious mountains with steps firm as steel, taking large strides with unwavering determination. Taking risks to obtain the essence of the universe, my heart still seeks to rise beyond heaven
Obstacles and difficulties fill this road, life, and death matter little against calamities and tribulations. My body flies like willows with the wind, regardless of wind or mud I still fly free
While entering the universe he sensed that the laws and Daos of this new universe are not still half-formed but luckily for him this would take at least trillions of years and at most a septillion years which is very unlikely if it creates humans then that time can be at least a few hundred trillion years but before creation, it has stabilized its dào.
"Although it is half-formed some Daos are still missing or others are bigger than others, for now, I can hide here under its cover it won't notice and even if it does there is nothing it can do to kick me out"
"So I'm going to have to be staying here and continue healing my soul and I might even earn some profits but who knows? hahaha but for now I have to sleep"