Translator: CinderTL
Void Dao Physique.
Through repeated interactions with the Three Sages of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, including Liu Yu, Li Chunjun had learned that the current world was governed by forty-nine great daos.
Every being who achieved dao unification merged with one of these forty-nine great daos.
Since the primordial era, when the first forty-nine divine sages pioneered these great daos, newly born Innate Divine Beings had also been nurtured by these same forty-nine great daos.
It seemed that forty-nine was the ultimate limit of the Dao's numerical representation.
Many who had achieved dao unification, Supreme Sovereigns, and Ultimate Powerhouses sought to investigate this phenomenon.
However, during the ancient era, countless Supreme Sages, driven by their pursuit of dao unification, collaborated with human Dao Venerables to hunt down Innate Divine Beings. This drove the Innate Divine Beings from this territory, causing them to vanish into the starry sky, their numbers dwindling to near extinction.
Even if the Supreme Research Institute wished to study their origins, there were no longer any divine sages available for research.
But...
Were there truly only forty-nine great daos?
"Human dao unification is achieved by emulating the enlightenment of the first forty-nine divine sages. These primordial divine sages are the dao founders of the forty-nine great daos, the source of all who achieve dao unification, Supreme Sovereignty, and even Ultimate Powerhouse status. They can be called dao ancestors, beings who transcend even the Ultimate Powerhouses..."
If forty-nine Innate Divine Beings had already pioneered entirely new great daos, becoming dao ancestors, then why couldn't he...?
Why couldn't he establish the void great dao, rooted in his Void Dao Physique?
"My combat power is indeed formidable, but it doesn't exceed expectations by much. Some Special Life forms can achieve similar feats. For example, those connected to the primordial great dao could accumulate sixty thousand years of Millennial Magic Power in the Dharma Manifestation Realm."
Li Chunjun understood clearly: "If these Special Life forms were properly nurtured and guided by top-tier experts to cultivate Supreme Dharma Aspects, they could also reach 240,000 combat power! With the addition of Top-Tier Dao Artifacts or even Quasi-Immortal Artifacts, surpassing 300,000 combat power wouldn't be impossible!"
But...
Even if Special Life forms could exceed human limits by twenty, thirty, forty, or even fifty percent in certain areas, they could never achieve seventy, eighty, or even double the human limit.
Doubling!
This was the exclusive domain of Innate Dao Bodies and Innate Divine Beings!
His current Dao Body amplification was already seventy percent. If his Life Level were to increase to 41, and the Void and Destruction Dao Bodies completed their final transformations, achieving a doubled Innate Dao Body would be within reach.
In other words...
He was an Innate Divine Being!
But if he was an Innate Divine Being, why not simply become a progenitor divine being, the source of a great dao, and the founder of a primordial great dao? Why choose to be an Innate Divine Being who might be hunted down by human powerhouses seeking dao unification, Supreme Sovereign status, or Ultimate Powerhouse status?
Li Chunjun's thoughts gradually clarified.
"Research the Void Dao Physique and... pioneer the void great dao!"
With this idea in mind, Li Chunjun devoted the next two months entirely to this pursuit.
Leveraging his unique state, he made significant progress in developing and utilizing his Void Dao Physique.
However, claiming he could reach the point of pioneering the void great dao was clearly delusional.
If pioneering a great dao were so simple, there wouldn't be only forty-nine great daos in existence after all this time.
Yet, as the months passed and he delved deeper into the power of his Void Dao Physique, he stumbled upon another direction—a direction that wasn't a direction at all.
Waiting.
Waiting for his Life Level to increase, allowing his Void Dao Physique to transform into an innate void dao body.
This process...
As expected, would likely complete at Life Level 44, or at most 45!
The moment his innate void dao body successfully transformed would be the day he officially founded his dao!
"Dao unification can only be countered by those who have mastered a high-tier Dao. If I become a great dao pioneer and maintain control over its source, even an ultimate powerhouse cannot truly kill me!"
Having decided against dao unification and choosing instead to pioneer his own Dao, Li Chunjun's gaze shifted back to the Sovereign Dao Canon.
This wasn't to abandon his path of pioneering the void great dao, but rather, since he had set his Life Level target at 44 or 45 and committed to becoming a dao founder, he needed to ensure he had sufficient self-defense capabilities before embarking on that path.
After all, after annihilating over two hundred Dharma Manifestations in the dark horned prison battle, anyone with a shred of logic would realize that such power could not belong to an ordinary being.
Either he possessed a Quasi-Immortal Artifact!
Or he was an immature Innate Divine Being!
Both a Quasi-Immortal Artifact and an infant Innate Divine Being would make any Supreme Sage green with envy.
The latter, in particular, would drive Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivators stuck before dao unification into a frenzy.
It might even alert beings at the dao unification, Supreme Sovereign, or even Ultimate Powerhouse levels.
Fortunately, if he remained hidden within a Great World, the likelihood of dao unification, Supreme Sovereign, or Ultimate Powerhouse level beings targeting him would be low.
Firstly, the Dao Rhythm backlash from a Great World would be unpleasant.
Secondly, before achieving dao unification, he held no particularly significant value to them.
However, just because his value wasn't great enough to make them risk the backlash from the Great World's Dao Rhythm didn't mean he had no value at all.
To ensure his safety, he needed to arm himself as thoroughly as possible and grow stronger, exploiting the temporal perception gap between dao unification beings and non-dao unification beings.
If he moved quickly enough, by the time those dao unification beings truly reacted, he would have already successfully founded his Dao. Only then would he truly stand at the pinnacle of the Cosmos.
Even the Ultimate Powerhouses would have to face him with respect.
The best way to arm himself was to become powerful himself—so powerful that he could suppress the entire situation even when facing countless Quasi-Tenth-Tier beings willing to pay any price for dao unification.
"The theoretical limit for Quasi-Tenth-Tier Special Life forms should be around 700,000 to 800,000 combat power. If they were equipped with Quasi-Immortal Artifact-level Supreme Treasures, they might even reach 900,000! As for me, without cultivating the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation and lacking a Quasi-Immortal Artifact, my maximum combat power would be around 1 million. Even with a Quasi-Immortal Artifact, I could only reach 1.2 million at most."
This combat power was higher than the theoretical limit for Quasi-Tenth-Tier beings, but it wouldn't give him a crushing advantage.
If eight to ten Quasi-Tenth-Tier beings ganged up on him, they could potentially kill him.
Only by cultivating the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation and pushing his maximum combat power to 1.5 million could he truly be invincible.
Although Li Chunjun knew that such an extreme scenario was unlikely, when faced with the temptation of dao unification...
He wasn't willing to gamble on the greed of human nature.
"Sovereign Dharma Manifestation."
Li Chunjun flipped through the Sovereign Dao Canon again and again.
Combining this with the Dharma Aspect upgrade plan Liu Yu had designed for him...
"This profound yellow spirit has truly been plotting this for a long time, obsessively wanting me to walk this path. Still, seeing how powerful the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation truly is, I'll cultivate this Dharma Aspect."
With a wave of his hand, a void origin crystal appeared in his palm. Using Void Power, he transformed it into the foundation for all great daos, serving as the core of the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation.
Immediately afterward, the Void Storm Dharma Aspect began to optimize and restructure itself.
In that state of "perfection" and sudden enlightenment, the entire process flowed effortlessly.
As he forged the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation, he simultaneously gained new insights into the characteristics derived from it.
The Void Storm Dharma Aspect originally had only three forms: sword qi storm, transcending the void, and tempest cataclysm. But the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation, evolved from the Void Storm Dharma Aspect, gave rise to two additional forms.
The first form is Absolute Control!
This is considered the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation's passive state. Upon gaining this Absolute Control enhancement, the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation's combat power amplification increases from four times that of a Supreme Dharma Aspect to five times.
The second form is Great Dao Sovereign!
This is the Sovereign Dharma Manifestation's greatest spectacle—commanding the great dao!
This form can only be successfully activated after achieving perfection in understanding a single great dao and wielding Qi equivalent to a primordial cycle.
Through this form, even a Cultivator who has not yet achieved dao unification can still draw upon and shake a portion of the Grand Dao Power.
This is not merely the power of a law, but the Grand Dao Power itself.
This power, unique to dao unification and transcending all laws, crushes down with irresistible force, beyond the resistance of any Supreme Sage.
Only the great dao can contend with the great dao.
Without a Quasi-Immortal Artifact to rely on, even a Quasi-Tenth-Tier being like the Heavenly Emperor of the Immortal God Race would face certain death before such power.
Li Chunjun's efforts to optimize and reshape his Dharma Aspect naturally caused quite a stir.
Over the past half-year, the dark horned prison had further compressed. Even with Li Chunjun dividing the space into two realms, the Heavenly Palace and Wu Ji Sect Dharma Aspects on the opposite side quickly sensed the disturbance.
In an instant, these Dharma Aspects began to stir restlessly.
Among them, Yuan Shaoyang was the most unwilling to accept defeat.
The three blood eagles and other Dharma Aspects had been crippled, their Dharma Aspects shattered. Yuan Shaoyang, the sole Dharma Aspect among the three heroes of the Yuan Clan, immediately approached the Universal Transformation Venerable of the Heavenly Palace.
Compared to the numerous but disorganized Dharma Aspects aligned with the three blood eagles, the Dharma Aspects accompanying the Universal Transformation Venerable and the Council of Elders clearly possessed greater combat prowess.
"Escape?"
The Universal Transformation Venerable stared at Yuan Shaoyang in astonishment, then glanced at the periphery of the dark horned prison. "Now that the dark horned prison has been compressed and collapsed to its extreme, even if you cultivate a Supreme Dharma Aspect, you'll be instantly crushed to dust if you dare leave this core balanced zone. How could we possibly escape?"
"Conventional methods would indeed make escape nearly impossible," Yuan Shaoyang replied gravely. "But don't forget, the dark horned prison itself isn't a stable space. Its stability deteriorates further as it approaches its eruption phase."
"Months ago, I would have been helpless. But now... the spatial structure around the dark horned prison's periphery is on the verge of collapse. If enough Dharma Aspects combine their power and unleash a thunderous assault to shatter this structure, we could trigger the dark horned prison's eruption ahead of schedule."
"Shatter the dark horned prison's structure to force an early eruption..." The Universal Transformation Venerable frowned. "The risks are too great. A single misstep could collapse the entire balanced zone, burying us all alive."
"Venerable Universal Transformation, do you truly believe Li Chunjun would let us leave the dark horned prison alive?"
Yuan Shaoyang sneered.
The Universal Transformation Venerable fell silent.
"Besides," Yuan Shaoyang continued, "even if we were willing to offer enough resources to buy our lives, do you really think he'd spare our Dharma Aspects?"
The answer was obvious: absolutely not.
A single Dharma Aspect was often worth tens of billions of Spirit Crystals!
For over a hundred people, that meant trillions of Spirit Crystals!
Who would willingly let go of such a fortune?
"Losing our Dharma Aspects and being burdened with tens of billions in debt... how could we ever recover from that?" Yuan Shaoyang asked coldly. "We'd be better off taking our chances!"
He gazed at Li Chunjun, whose Dharma Aspect was being reconstructed. "Though I don't know exactly what he's doing, the fact remains that his Dharma Aspect has been disassembled. Even if he can reassemble it quickly, it will still take time—time that gives us an opportunity!"
The Universal Transformation Venerable's gaze also turned toward Li Chunjun. "It must be one of the Dao Artifacts we surrendered that's helping him perfect his Dharma Aspect. He's optimizing its structure to further enhance his combat power..."
After careful observation, he added, "Judging by the extent to which he's deconstructed his Dharma Manifestation, it will take him three breaths to reassemble it quickly. That timing... aligns almost perfectly with how long it will take us to close in on him. He remains fully vigilant!"
"Exactly! He's never truly trusted us. If we don't want to end up as lambs for the slaughter, fighting back is our only chance of survival."
Yuan Shaoyang proposed, "Let's disrupt the dark horned prison's structure and trigger its premature collapse. If we all unite, forming an unbreakable defensive formation, we might withstand the eruption and break free!"
As he spoke, his eyes burned with ruthless determination. "At worst, the prison will collapse, dragging Li Chunjun down with us in a final, mutual destruction! We'll all perish together!"
Hearing this, the Universal Transformation Venerable's heart gradually turned cold.
Who in the Dharma Aspect Realm would willingly accept defeat? Given even the slightest chance, they would fight to the death without hesitation!
The Top-Tier Dharma Manifestation nodded slightly. "Very well! Let's gamble our lives and carve out a path to survival!"
(End of the Chapter)
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