Translator: CinderTL
"Li Chunjun, what are you doing?!"
The Sundial, dragged into the battlefield by Li Chunjun's Immortal Artifact-driven Grand Dao Power, flashed with fury. "We're on the same side! We were hidden, waiting for the perfect moment to ensure your mission's success. We're not your enemies!"
"Enough with these empty, unconvincing sentiments," Li Chunjun said coldly. "Let's see what your great dao of time is truly worth."
Turning to Primordial Origin, the Supreme Council Guild Master, he added, "Pioneer of the Great Dao of Darkness? You can join in too. It'll help verify my understanding of the Great Dao of Darkness."
"Li Chunjun, we're not your enemies," Primordial Origin said gravely, watching the Sundial being swept into the great dao of time. "Not only are we not enemies, we share a common foe! Your current situation isn't good. The Supreme Council is stirring, even planning to convene a Supreme Council meeting. I don't know all the agenda items, but one will undoubtedly be dealing with you..."
"No need for 'undoubtedly,'" Li Chunjun interrupted. "This Supreme Council meeting is being convened specifically to target me."
Primordial Origin was momentarily taken aback by Li Chunjun's interruption.
Though he doubted that the Supreme Council's many Ultimate Powerhouses would mobilize against a single individual like Li Chunjun, he immediately seized the opportunity to press his point. "Since you know the Supreme Council's Ultimate Powerhouses and Supreme Sovereigns are targeting you, you must realize you need allies in this situation!"
He declared emphatically, "And the Supreme Council is your natural ally!"
Li Chunjun's gaze lingered on Primordial Origin for a moment before gradually shifting away.
"It seems you know nothing at all."
His great dao of time clashed repeatedly with those of the Thousand-Eyed Dao Venerable and Sundial Supreme Sovereign, suffering constant setbacks.
However, Li Chunjun's mastery extended beyond the great dao of time alone; he also wielded the power of other great daos.
The forty-nine great daos cycled endlessly, functioning as a unified whole.
Even as his great dao of time was shattered, the great dao of the soul, the void great dao, and the great dao of destruction bought him precious moments.
Immediately afterward, the shattered great dao of time was swiftly restored through the cyclical nature of the Great Unification realm and hurled back into the fray.
Throughout this exchange, Li Chunjun's expression remained unchanged.
"As I suspected, the Supreme Council is nothing more than a petty, insignificant faction," he said calmly. "You overestimate yourselves, believing you can seize a seat in the Tenth Human Race Institution. In reality, the other nine great institutions barely acknowledge your existence! Your actions are too narrow-minded and lack the scale to achieve any real influence."
These words seemed to strike at the pride of Primordial Origin and Sundial.
Sundial, who was currently engaged in combat with Li Chunjun, erupted in fury. "Li Chunjun, you insolent fool!"
His time power surged, conjuring countless visions of the future that intertwined to reveal the trajectories of Li Chunjun's impending attacks. Sundial preemptively crushed these attacks in their infancy, forcing Li Chunjun's great dao of time into a purely defensive posture.
"Do you truly believe we can't function without you? The defining traits of your void great dao are concealment and assassination. Now that you've been completely anchored, do you honestly think you can stand as equals with the Supreme Council?"
"Come," Sundial Supreme Sovereign roared.
"Then come," Li Chunjun replied directly. "Use your power to shatter my great dao of time."
"Enough, Li Chunjun! Stop this! We shouldn't be enemies, no matter what!" Primordial Origin said sternly. "Our goal is to eliminate the Thousand-Eyed Dao Venerable. Let's finish him quickly. He's with the Starry Sky Group, which has immense projection capabilities. If we don't act swiftly, their reinforcements will arrive soon."
His expression grew grave. "At this critical moment when the Supreme Council is convening, if the Ultimate Powerhouses learn we're annihilating a Starry Sky Group Dao Venerable, they'll unleash a thunderous counterattack. The Supreme Council might even turn against you prematurely."
"Spare me your words," Li Chunjun said, waving a void hand. "You're next."
The Great Dao of Darkness materialized at his fingertips, infused with subtle devouring power and Void Power, surging toward the starry sky where Primordial Origin stood.
The darkness seemed intent on freezing and devouring the entire starry sky where Li Chunjun stood.
"Li Chunjun!" Primordial Origin's Heart-Mind turned icy.
This unrestrained audacity finally enraged the Supreme Council Guild Master, a reserve-level Ultimate Powerhouse.
With a wave of his void hand, Primordial Origin, wielding absolute control over the upper reaches of the Great Dao of Darkness, effortlessly stripped away the Grand Dao Power Li Chunjun had summoned.
"You haven't even achieved dao unification, let alone possess an Immortal Artifact! What makes you think you can contend with my Great Dao of Darkness?!"
Having crushed Li Chunjun's darkness, the Supreme Council Guild Master pointed into the Void.
A black light erupted from the Void, expanding at an unimaginable speed.
Blackness, by its very nature, is the antithesis of light. Theoretically, it should not emit light.
Yet under Chairman Primordial Origin's command, this darkness not only radiated a blinding brilliance, but as its light fell upon Li Chunjun, he felt all his senses—his perception of the world and everything within it—being stripped away.
This was the Great Dao of Darkness.
Its defining characteristic was the stripping away of perception, plunging beings into infinite darkness and utter oblivion.
In a way, this great dao resembled the void great dao.
However, darkness, ultimately, still retained the concept of "darkness."
Even with the Supreme Council Guild Master wielding the power of the source of the great dao of darkness, he couldn't truly replace the void with darkness.
He couldn't completely strip a person, a living being, of all perception of the outside world.
Li Chunjun exploited this weakness. From darkness, he derived chaos, then divided chaos into Void, life, and soul. Using Void, life, and soul, he created a World of Light, accelerated its development with the great dao of time, causing it to rapidly illuminate, dispel the darkness, and safeguard his own territory.
"This is..." Primordial Origin murmured, his heart filled with astonishment.
How many great daos is he using?
In that brief moment, Li Chunjun had already wielded the power of six great daos.
Though none of these six great daos had reached the Dao Unification Realm, his mastery and understanding of them rivaled that of a Dao Venerable.
This demonstrated the profound depth of his cultivation realm.
Especially his command over the great daos associated with Immortal Artifacts, such as Void, soul, chaos, and time...
By leveraging Immortal Artifacts to manipulate the great daos, Li Chunjun was able to unleash power rivaling that of Dao Venerables and Supreme Sovereigns who resided in the upper reaches of the great dao river.
This method...
Could it be true, as rumored, that the void great dao's greatest strength isn't concealment or assassination, but compatibility? Its inherent void nature allows any of the forty-nine great daos to be inscribed upon its surface, enabling Li Chunjun to leverage the void great dao to wield the power of all other great daos!
Primordial Origin felt a surge of alarm.
He could see that as Li Chunjun used these great daos to counter his Great Dao of Darkness, he was simultaneously analyzing and comprehending every nuance of the Great Dao of Darkness.
While comprehending the Great Dao of Darkness Primordial Origin had unleashed, Li Chunjun even employed time acceleration, pushing his perception of time to its absolute limit.
A single minute might have stretched into a day, ten days, a month, or even a year.
Under these circumstances, Primordial Origin could sense Li Chunjun's mastery of the Great Dao of Darkness growing exponentially with each passing moment.
This manifested as his increasing difficulty in suppressing Li Chunjun's World of Light, a realm constructed from the four great daos of Void, Life, Soul, and Creation, using only the Great Dao of Darkness.
"Guild Master, he's using us as sparring partners!"
At that moment, the Sundial Supreme Sovereign finally grasped the situation and exclaimed in shock, "I understand now!"
Primordial Origin's expression was grave.
It wouldn't have mattered if Li Chunjun was merely using them as sparring partners. The real problem was his astonishingly rapid growth—so fast it defied belief!
"Let's go! This battle is pointless. Continuing will only draw the attention of the Nine Great Institutions' powerhouses, who will intercept us. We need to retreat immediately!" the Supreme Council Guild Master declared decisively.
The Sundial Supreme Sovereign nodded, immediately preparing to withdraw his great dao of time power.
"Do you think you can escape?"
Li Chunjun's figure materialized within the creation world woven from four great daos.
"Even with Tian Wen and the reincarnated body of Return to Zero joining forces, and thirteen foreign race dao harmonization experts providing support, only Tian Wen managed to escape with his life when facing me. All other beings perished. You, Primordial Origin, might be slightly stronger—let's assume you possess the combat power of Return to Zero's reincarnated body. As for you, Sundial... you're no match for the combined might of those thirteen foreign race dao harmonization experts."
His mental power reverberated through the Void, but the information it carried...
sent a chill down the spines of Primordial Origin, Sundial, Thousand-Eyed, and the others.
"How is this possible?!"
"A return-to-zero reincarnated body?! You... you killed the reincarnated body of a Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling?! And with Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse present?! This is impossible?!"
Two top experts from the Supreme Council were shocked and terrified.
Their disbelief was compounded by a primal fear that sent chills down their spines.
"That's why I said you know nothing!"
Around Li Chunjun, the region that had formed the World of Light now radiated a myriad of great daos.
"You don't even have the qualifications to force me to reveal my trump cards. With such limited power and understanding, how do you expect to contend with the Supreme Council's Nine Great Institutions?"
Gradually, the entire World of Light transformed into a great dao light net, expanding outward from him as its center.
As the net spread, Primordial Origin, Sundial, and even the Thousand-Eyed Dao Venerable became prey ensnared within its luminous strands.
"Not good!"
Sundial Supreme Sovereign immediately activated his Immortal Artifact, triggering a thunderous resonance of the great daos as he attempted to break free from the net.
Yet despite his desperate struggles, he not only failed to tear the net apart but found himself sinking deeper into its grasp.
Primordial Origin fared no better.
He could feel the net's binding force tightening around him, with ever-increasing Grand Dao Power encircling him, threatening to capture him like a tightly wrapped dumpling.
He fought back with all his might, but every attack proved futile.
The forty-nine great daos formed a self-sustaining cycle, endlessly tightening their grip, far beyond his power to break free.
"This isn't just the application of Grand Dao Power... Even the most powerful beings wielding dozens of great daos couldn't bind me so completely!"
Primordial Origin's eyes widened in sudden realization.
"The great unification realm! The great unification realm! This is the power of the great unification realm!"
At that moment, the Supreme Council Guild Master finally understood that Li Chunjun hadn't been joking.
When he said the Ultimate Powerhouses and Supreme Sovereigns had convened the Supreme Council to deal with him, he hadn't been exaggerating in the slightest.
The great unification realm!
This was the power of the great unification realm!
Li Chunjun...
Had actually elevated his cultivation to such an unimaginable level?!
Li Chunjun exchanged no further words with them.
The great dao light net expanded to its limit, ensnaring Primordial Origin, Sundial, and Thousand-Eyed, before abruptly contracting. In the end...
The World of Light formed by the forty-nine great daos was compressed into a single luminous sphere.
Li Chunjun held it casually in the palm of his hand.
The battle was over.
(End of the Chapter)
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