Translator: CinderTL
"They've finally made their move!"
The instant the two Ultimate Powerhouses unleashed their Grand Dao Power, Li Chunjun, whose perception of the Dao had become extraordinarily acute, sensed their approach.
Though the backlash from what felt like an entire Great World descended upon him, his expression remained unchanged.
With a single sword strike, the Void before him transformed into an impassable chasm, like a black hole, frantically devouring and annihilating the thirteen foreign race dao harmonization experts. The space containing these thirteen beings plunged into a non-existent abyss.
Yes!
This time, he wasn't just pulling down a single dao harmonization expert, nor merely a strand of Grand Dao Power.
As his mastery of the Grand Dao Power approached the Great Unification realm, he was now dragging entire starry skies into the Void.
Like the celestial dog devouring the sun, he was pulling entire regions of space, along with their great dao light nets, into the Void.
No living being within this Void could escape. They, along with the space itself and the Grand Dao Power it contained, all plummeted into the land of emptiness.
This attack was inescapable, indefensible, and unavoidable.
In the instant the two Ultimate Powerhouses unleashed their devastating strikes, he and the thirteen dao unification experts on the battlefield were instantly annihilated, vanishing completely from the area.
"This is..."
The sudden shift alerted Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse to the anomaly.
Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling also realized that the essence of the void great dao extended far beyond mere concealment, evasion, or serving as a vessel to accommodate and harmonize other great daos.
It wasn't just about achieving the sublimation of the great unification realm, mastering, controlling, and annihilating all great daos!
It seemed...
There were effects they could never have imagined!
The minds of Ultimate Powerhouses operated with unimaginable speed.
Combined with their vast knowledge accumulated over hundreds of millions, billions, or even tens of billions of years, they instantly devised a countermeasure.
In the next moment, the two Ultimate Powerhouses altered their killing moves.
The world power they had simultaneously unleashed, initially causing "world backlash," rapidly reversed, transforming from "world backlash" into "world derivation."
The core great daos transformed from destruction, Void, and chaos into life, creation, and soul.
A Great World seemed to be born before this power.
Although the limited Grand Dao Power that the two Ultimate Powerhouses could wield prevented them from achieving the true Heaven-Opening, world-creating abilities of a great unification-level powerhouse, the embryonic evolution of a world from nothingness still forcibly pulled Li Chunjun back from the void space into which he had been banished.
This gave the "void" a vessel for "existence" once more!
"This technique...?" Li Chunjun murmured in astonishment.
Heaven-Opening!
World Creation!
These were the hallmarks of the great unification realm!
While the technique displayed by the two Ultimate Powerhouses didn't truly reach the great unification realm, it contained a nascent form of that realm's power.
In other words, every Ultimate Powerhouse had already surpassed their current capabilities in terms of comprehension and understanding of the Dao.
It was only due to various constraints that their growth had been stunted, preventing them from advancing further.
Yet this was only natural.
The great unification theory itself had been proposed by the Ultimate Powerhouses.
Since the Ultimate Powerhouses had proposed this theory, it was clear they possessed a profound understanding of this power.
However, circumstances had prevented them from moving beyond the theoretical stage, making practical application impossible.
And what about himself...?
Wasn't he in the same predicament?
He hadn't even truly opened the void great dao, possessing only its divine essence without its tangible form.
This was why the two Ultimate Powerhouses had effortlessly shattered the void world he had created, using their Heaven-Opening and world-birthing techniques.
The void world now had a vessel once more.
The thirteen foreign race dao harmonization experts, who had been dragged into the void along with their spatial domain, clung to this like a final lifeline. Desperate to escape, they launched a fierce counterattack, miraculously fleeing from the starry sky Li Chunjun had transformed into nothingness.
Yet Li Chunjun's expression remained calm.
He suddenly clenched his void hand.
The void-transformed starry sky churned violently as countless streams of Void Power surged toward the worlds manifested by the two Ultimate Powerhouses.
Ultimately, the worlds created by the two Ultimate Powerhouses possessed fatal flaws.
Even with the power of their Immortal Artifacts, capable of manipulating over twenty great daos, they were still far from creating a complete Great World.
In this state, the Void Power's invasion and assimilation of the world proceeded with unstoppable momentum.
Apart from the dozen core great daos sustained by the two Ultimate Powerhouses, the daos manifested through the Immortal Artifacts rapidly disintegrated.
The already "fragmented" world power lost several more pillars of support, and the Void threatened to reclaim this space entirely.
"This power..."
Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling felt the Grand Dao Power being eroded, his eyes filled with a shock that transcended mere emotion or ideological conflict.
"It's annihilation!"
Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse's expression grew equally grave. "No, not even annihilation! Just as the name of this great dao suggests—it's Void! It's extinction! It's the enemy of all existence!"
The two Ultimate Powerhouses exchanged a glance, both seeing the terror reflected in each other's eyes.
Over hundreds of millions, billions, and even tens of billions of years, the Ultimate Powerhouses had thoroughly explored every path before them.
In recent times, with no new progenitor divine beings emerging, they had even begun to believe the Cosmos had reached its perfect form.
Yet, based on the most subtle theoretical deductions, they knew that true eternity was impossible, and true perfection could never exist...
Because...
Perfection would be a tremendous obstacle to the development of all things in the world and the vast cosmos.
Based on this theory, they further deduced, even focusing their attention on those who had achieved dao unification.
Among those who had achieved dao unification, apart from those who had ascended through exploiting flaws in their souls by refining innate divine beings or by virtue of being innate divine beings themselves, most theoretically possessed immortal lifespans.
Throughout the Human Race, it was common to find dao unification cultivators who had lived for billions or even tens of billions of years.
Moreover, as long as they avoided direct conflict with others of the same realm, they could theoretically continue living indefinitely.
Tens of billions of years, hundreds of billions of years, trillions of years, quadrillions of years.
Truly achieving co-existence with the heavens and earth, and enduring alongside the cosmos.
While the rate at which dao unification cultivators emerged was slow, overall, it was steadily accelerating.
As time passed, their numbers would continue to grow.
Perhaps there were only four digits now, but in a billion years, there would be five digits; in ten billion years, seven digits; and in a hundred billion years, even nine or ten digits!
What would the cosmos look like then?
Furthermore, research at the Supreme Research Institute had uncovered the saying: "The Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Evolution is forty-nine, and one has escaped."
The forty-nine great daos had long since manifested, yet the final, elusive "one that escaped" remained unborn.
Combining this great dao with the perfect cosmos's anomalous, shouldn't-exist form...
Every Ultimate Powerhouse had once harbored a suspicion!
Perhaps...
The very concept of the "one that escaped" existed to maintain the Cosmos's natural cycle of operation.
The void great dao, by its very nature, excelled at evasion and concealment!
Now, it could also nullify their great daos, reducing them to nonexistent nothingness...
Coupled with the future Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse had glimpsed through time—the collapse of the great dao of the soul and the fall of countless Dao Venerables...
"So that's it... So that's it..."
In that moment, the Supreme Powerhouse experienced a sudden enlightenment.
A theory previously confined to speculation, with only a slim chance of being true, had been forcefully thrust into reality!
"The one that escaped—existence—void!"
The Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse watched as the figure dragged the thirteen foreign race dao harmonization experts back into the void. "The void is not our hope. It wields power approaching Great Unification, but this power is not the key to our ascension to the great unification realm. Rather, it is the eternal nemesis of all 'existent' beings!"
His Grand Dao Power erupted with full force.
"Destroy him! We must eliminate him completely before he truly enters the great unification realm! Otherwise, every eternal being in the world and the entire Cosmos will become his prey, dragged into the void!"
The Ultimate Powerhouse's refined Grand Dao Power surged forth, instantly colliding with Li Chunjun's encroaching void space.
"Enemy of existence!"
Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling, equally aware of the gravity of the situation, unleashed all his methods.
Though the Void Power within the void space frantically eroded the Grand Dao Power channeled by the two Ultimate Powerhouses, each Dao was exquisitely refined.
Their comprehension of the great dao far surpassed Li Chunjun's rudimentary grasp, which was merely at the entry-level.
Despite Li Chunjun mobilizing the void great dao to nullify and dismantle them, he couldn't halt the overwhelming momentum of these Daos.
"The great daos of Ultimate Powerhouses!"
Li Chunjun calmly sensed the formidable power of the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse's nine great daos.
Each Dao was nearly at the "upstream" level.
Especially the great daos of chaos, karma, and time, which had almost reached the source itself.
No!
On the great dao of chaos, he was the source!
Precisely because of this, he could perceive what others could not, capturing it with a "chaotic" perspective.
This great dao had not yet given rise to the void great dao, and Li Chunjun, unable to unleash its full power, was helpless against it.
Logically, he should have avoided its edge.
But...
Li Chunjun wanted to test himself.
To see what he could accomplish by facing an Ultimate Powerhouse head-on.
Especially...
As the Ultimate Powerhouse's nine great daos rampaged through the starry sky being pulled into the void, constantly restoring "existence" from "nothingness," two of the thirteen foreign race dao harmonization experts had already been completely consumed by the void great dao.
Originally, after annihilating the four quasi-tenth-tier beings of the Great Kun Realm, Li Chunjun had estimated he could raise his Life Level to 47!
Now, with the fall of these two foreign race dao harmonization experts...
And even earlier, when the first Dao Venerable perished, the final piece of the puzzle for his Life Level advancement had fallen into place.
["Killed Level 41 creature, experience +45,022!"]
["Killed Level 41 creature, experience +21,811!"]
[Life Level: 47 (30,985/7,000,000)]
As the Life Level climbed to 47, an unprecedented sensation surged through his heart.
In that moment, the comprehension of the forty-nine great daos ceased to exist as separate entities, no longer even resembling a unified force coordinated through resonance.
They...
were now a single, indivisible whole!
(End of the Chapter)
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