Translator: CinderTL
Humans possess two hands and two feet, each with ten fingers and toes.
But whether hands and feet, or fingers and toes, they are ultimately parts of the human body.
Before reaching Life Level 47, Li Chunjun could resonate with the forty-nine great daos, causing them to interact and unleash power far exceeding that of a single dao. However, under those circumstances, the power of the forty-nine great daos remained fragmented.
The soul was the soul, chaos was chaos, time was time, the Void was the Void, destruction was destruction...
But now...
The great daos were unified!
Forty-nine had become one.
One had become forty-nine.
In this state, even if each of the forty-nine great daos was only at the entry level, when he twisted them all into a single strand, it became thicker and stronger than any single great dao!
Even the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse and Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling, who resided at the source of the great dao—the great dao of chaos and the great dao of the soul—seemed insignificant compared to the unified power of these forty-nine great daos.
However, Li Chunjun did not immediately reveal this power.
He even allowed the Grand Dao Power of the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse and Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling to rampage freely through the starry sky he had drawn into the Void.
Meanwhile, he himself continuously studied, observed, and comprehended the two Ultimate Powerhouses' application of these various Grand Daos.
He focused particularly on Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling's great dao of the soul.
Having previously traded with Gui Ling, he had obtained insights into the cultivation of the great dao of the soul.
Now, it was as if he were receiving hands-on instruction from the Ultimate Powerhouse himself, who was demonstrating all the mystical wonders of the great dao of the soul after Li Chunjun had already studied the textbook.
Under this demonstration, his understanding of the great dao of the soul advanced by leaps and bounds.
If he were to achieve dao unification now, he could likely ascend to the upper echelons of the great dao of the soul.
And not just any upper echelon—but the very top, ranking among the top five, or even the top three!
Li Chunjun's plan was sound.
But which Ultimate Powerhouse, having lived for hundreds of millions or even billions of years, wasn't cunning and insightful?
Which one lacked extraordinary vision?
The moment they realized he possessed the power to turn the tide of battle yet chose to use them as sparring partners, the two Ultimate Powerhouses immediately sensed something was amiss.
The key wasn't even the Grand Daos themselves!
It was simply Li Chunjun's demeanor!
He no longer showed any emotional fluctuations!
When someone acts with unhurried composure, neither rushed nor hesitant, even without uttering a word, it's clear they either possess absolute confidence in their actions or...
They're completely oblivious to the gravity of the situation.
The two Ultimate Powerhouses naturally wouldn't assume someone like Li Chunjun was so oblivious he couldn't grasp the life-or-death stakes.
Therefore, only one explanation remained:
Confidence.
"The great unification realm requires forty-nine great daos. Even combined, we possess only fifteen. As for the Grand Dao Power amplified by Immortal Artifacts... it's too weak to harm him! Therefore... we must gather all forty-nine great daos to completely eradicate him!"
The Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse secretly communicated with the Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling through Heart-Mind convergence.
"Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine, one escapes. Paths diverge into life and death, the Dao encompasses Yin-Yang. If your theory is correct... this final progenitor divine being truly is the greatest Natural Enemy of all dao unification beings and eternals... Now that things have reached this point, I will immediately inform my true body and summon all dao unification beings, Supreme Sovereigns, and supreme powerhouses to jointly confront the life-or-death tribulation brought by this progenitor divine being!"
"Danger and opportunity often coexist," Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling said. "Though this progenitor divine being has brought about a great tribulation, it has also completed the final link in the Dao, creating an opportunity to reach the great unification realm. This will compel all Ultimate Powerhouses, Supreme Sovereigns, and dao unification experts to emerge. I doubt anyone will refuse."
Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse responded, "This will be the greatest hunting event in history!"
The target of this hunt...
Naturally, it was the progenitor divine being who had brought the void great dao.
Throughout Human Race history, Supreme Sovereigns and Ultimate Powerhouses had collaborated on numerous occasions to hunt progenitor divine beings.
"Indeed. If we can..." Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling agreed.
But before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly paused.
Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse also froze, then turned an incredulous gaze toward Li Chunjun. "How... how could you have found us so quickly?!"
Li Chunjun's gaze met theirs.
"So, I've been discovered."
He channeled the profound mysteries of the great dao of the soul, quietly sensing the exchange between the two Ultimate Powerhouses.
Their Heart-Mind communication naturally involved the application of the great dao of the soul.
In this domain, Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling held a clear advantage, making Li Chunjun's perception somewhat unclear.
But the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse...
Even though his understanding of the great dao of the soul was also among the highest echelons, nearly ranking in the top three, it paled in comparison to Li Chunjun's mastery, which now rivaled even Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling's.
Sensing that the two Ultimate Powerhouses were preparing to withdraw, Li Chunjun ceased using them as sparring partners.
In the next instant, the seemingly shattered void starry sky, previously ravaged by the Ultimate Powerhouses' clash, abruptly reversed.
The Grand Dao Power, though not inherently formidable, had undergone a qualitative transformation through Great Unification, now colliding head-on with the Grand Dao Power of the two Ultimate Powerhouses.
The initial clash was between the great dao of chaos and the great dao of chaos.
Li Chunjun's understanding of the great dao of chaos was merely ordinary, far inferior to his mastery of the Void, Destruction, Soul, and Devour daos.
Theoretically, his rudimentary chaos power should have been utterly crushed by the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse's chaos power, which stemmed from the source of the great dao.
But the true outcome of the clash caused the eyes of both Ultimate Powerhouses to narrow sharply.
Just as Li Chunjun's great dao of chaos was about to be shattered by the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse's great dao of chaos, the force of the collision cascaded through the layers of his other great daos, distributing the impact evenly across the remaining forty-eight.
No!
Not forty-eight!
At most, only eight or nine!
Yet even with just those eight or nine great daos sharing and transmitting the force, the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse's strongest great dao of chaos power was systematically dispersed, fragmented, and ultimately annihilated into nothingness.
Worse still, empowered by the combined force of his other great daos, Li Chunjun's great dao of chaos surged forward, counterattacking and shattering the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse's great dao of chaos—theoretically the one that should have stood at the source of the great dao.
It was as if two armies had charged into battle, and the vanguard general, leading the charge, was about to break through the enemy lines when, in a single exchange, he was cut down from his horse by the enemy's numerical advantage.
"The great unification realm!"
A violent tremor surged through the Heart-Minds of both the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse and Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling simultaneously.
The great unification realm!
Li Chunjun...
He wasn't merely touching or approaching the great unification realm like them!
He had actually reached the great unification realm in terms of his cultivation level!
As they gazed upon the formidable form forged from the convergence of forty-nine great daos, the two Ultimate Powerhouses felt a dazzling, almost mystical awe.
This was the great unification realm they had pursued for hundreds of millions, even billions, of years!
Though Li Chunjun's demonstration of the great unification realm stirred within them a longing to hear the Dao in the morning and die content by evening, their status as Ultimate Powerhouses with Heart's Perfection allowed them to swiftly recover their composure from the shock of witnessing the great unification realm.
For...
As the "great dao of chaos," which had served as the blade's tip, shattered, Li Chunjun's remaining Grand Dao Power surged forward, sweeping toward the Grand Dao of Karma and the great dao of the soul.
Its speed was such that it seemed capable of completely engulfing the great daos of Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling and Tian Wen in an instant.
At that moment, even the mighty Ultimate Powerhouses Tian Wen and Gui Ling felt their power being eroded, as if they were being dragged downward, plummeting into the void.
That absolute emptiness, that utter nothingness, filled the two Ultimate Powerhouses with a chilling, hollow sensation that defied description.
This was...
Their souls were being devoured by the void.
"The Void!"
Startled by the hollow, void-like terror, the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse reacted with lightning speed.
After all, he was an Ultimate Powerhouse who had faced countless life-and-death crises, his true body having personally experienced such trials.
In the next instant, Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse detonated an Immortal Artifact forged from the great dao of chaos. The terrifying chaos power carved out a chaos space within the Void.
Taking advantage of the chaos power's concealment, which shared certain similarities with the Void, Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse abruptly suppressed his Grand Dao Power. Then, with a burst of Void Power, he instantly teleported away, leaping out of the battlefield.
As Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse detonated the Immortal Artifact to escape, Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling followed suit, summoning a soul-type immortal artifact.
However, almost as soon as he summoned the artifact, terrifying Void Power enveloped him completely.
"Not good!"
Gui Ling Supreme Powerhouse pushed his Grand Dao Power to its limits.
Yet the soul-based applications within the Void Power were nearly on par with his own.
No matter how he manipulated or unleashed his primary great dao of the soul, every attempt was effortlessly dissolved by the soul-based applications within the Void Power, leaving him utterly unable to shake its grip.
He could only watch helplessly as the Void Power completely overwhelmed him.
Such terrifying mastery of the great dao of the soul...
And it's only been... how long?!
A flicker of disbelief flashed through Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling's mind, quickly followed by a bitter realization.
The way this soul great dao was being wielded was unmistakably identical to his own.
This was precisely the soul great dao he had traded to Li Chunjun.
At the time of the exchange, he could never have imagined Li Chunjun mastering it to such an extent so quickly.
He had even believed that, as the Imaginary Dao Venerable, he would inevitably grasp the void great dao before Li Chunjun.
Yet now, his absolute confidence as an Ultimate Powerhouse had led him to the brink of annihilation.
"Gui Ling!"
Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse, who had escaped the battlefield, turned back to see Gui Ling's great daos being almost entirely drawn into the void.
Witnessing a peer of his own caliber reduced to such a state sent violent tremors through his Heart-Mind.
Even if...
this was merely one of Gui Ling's reincarnated bodies.
"Get out of here!"
Just as Gui Ling's reincarnated body was completely devoured by Void Power, a final burst of soul power erupted forth.
"The Natural Enemy has emerged! Summon all eternal beings in the Cosmos! Unite against this great foe!"
(End of the Chapter)
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