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Southern Dragon Palace.
Within this palace, Li Chunjun communicated with Supreme Sage Wu Chen through the False God Realm.
"Is the Star Gate repaired yet?"
"No, but several true dragons are working tirelessly on the repairs. They estimate it will be fixed within ten days at the earliest, or half a month at the latest," Supreme Sage Wu Chen replied promptly.
Even across the False God Realm, his gaze toward Li Chunjun remained filled with awe.
Everyone outside the True Dragon Great World knew that Li Chunjun had slain the four dragon kings and breached the Four Dragon Palaces. How much more so the Supreme Sage who had been with him in the True Dragon Great World?
Though the battles against the Great Sun Dao Lord, Wu Tongtian, and Yuan Guiyi had already given the Profound Yellow Sect's Supreme Sage a thorough understanding of Li Chunjun's power—his crushing dominance over the Dragon Clan and his sword's suppression of an entire world...
It still left him deeply incredulous.
Especially the rumors circulating in the False God Realm about Li Chunjun being the world's foremost powerhouse, which momentarily reminded him of a joke he had once made with the Sect Master and others: "The First Person Below Dao Unification."
Given the current trajectory...
Swordmaster Li, Li Shengsheng, seemed truly poised to achieve his goal.
"Not repaired yet?"
Upon hearing this, Li Chunjun showed no urgency. Instead, he smiled faintly. "Good. It's better that way."
"Sword Master?" Supreme Sage Wu Chen was momentarily taken aback, but he quickly realized what Li Chunjun meant, his pupils contracting. "You mean... they haven't given up?"
Yet disbelief followed. "With the power you've demonstrated, even ten Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivators would be throwing their lives away. Even if a dozen of them joined forces, you could retreat unscathed even if you couldn't defeat them."
The Supreme Sage frowned. "In the future, unless those dozen Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivators stay together constantly, you could systematically eliminate them one by one if you sought revenge. Under these circumstances, why would they still dare to attack you?"
"Perhaps out of resentment, or perhaps they believe they still have hidden trump cards. Even if I truly possess a million units of combat power, they might still believe they can prevail."
Li Chunjun spoke casually, "If they're determined to seek their own doom, let's grant them their wish."
"Swordmaster Li, are you... certain?" Supreme Sage Wu Chen asked, his voice filled with apprehension.
"Go and urge the true dragons to repair the Star Gates immediately," Li Chunjun instructed. "Report any unusual activity to me at once."
"Yes, sir!" Supreme Sage Wu Chen replied promptly.
In the True Dragon Great World, the ancient dragons, heavenly dragons, and true dragons scattered in panic, fearing Li Chunjun would slaughter them all. However, their own actions had caused the interdimensional Star Gates to malfunction, trapping them within the True Dragon Great World for the time being.
Yet, within the vast expanse of the True Dragon Great World, these ancient and heavenly dragons, intimately familiar with the terrain, could easily conceal themselves. Finding them wouldn't be an easy task for Li Chunjun—at least not in the short term.
This proved to be a stroke of luck amidst their misfortune.
With the ancient dragons, heavenly dragons, and most true dragons dared not show themselves, Supreme Sage Wu Chen could guard a single interdimensional Star Gate without worry.
Li Chunjun confidently ended the communication and settled into the Southern Dragon Palace to await further instructions.
While waiting, he continued to explore the changes his Life Level increase had brought to his two great dao bodies.
"The interference between laws has indeed diminished to an absolute minimum as my Life Level has risen," he mused.
Li Chunjun extended his hand.
The power of laws surged within his palm.
But these were not the Void Law or the Destruction Dao.
Instead, they were the chaos law, flowing light law, yin-yang law, Creation Law, Life Law, soul law...
He had studied numerous void refinement methods from Liu Yu's collection, each employing various great dao laws.
Previously, mastering these techniques and their corresponding laws had been a struggle. But since breaking through to Life Level 41, cultivating any law had become effortless, like building a house with perfectly fitted tiles.
Now, over a dozen laws flowed and transformed within his hand. Though some remained slightly unfamiliar, the transitions were seamless, without the slightest hesitation.
"If I were at the Dao Unification stage, with access to Immortal Artifacts for study, I could likely master a second, third, or even fourth, fifth, or sixth great dao law in rapid succession. This would allow me to quickly become a Supreme Sovereign and lay the foundation for becoming an Ultimate Powerhouse in the future!"
This transformation didn't significantly increase his raw combat power.
However, by enhancing his understanding of all laws equally, it allowed him to better know himself and his enemies, anticipating the techniques his opponents might deploy based on their mastery of specific laws.
This predictive advantage far surpassed what mere combat power metrics could measure.
"If I had to quantify it in combat power terms, leveling from 42 to 43 probably added another 100,000 points! This is only because the time was too short for me to properly cultivate other great dao laws. Otherwise, the potential for improvement would undoubtedly be far greater."
Li Chunjun's thoughts flowed: "Though this kind of advancement requires accumulation, it has also allowed me to develop numerous composite techniques..."
With a mental command, leveraging the resonance between laws, the more obscure and challenging laws among the forty-nine—causality, reincarnation, and time—manifested in his palm.
Everything in the world is interconnected.
Laws and laws, great Daos and great Daos, are no exception.
By linking the laws of causality, life, and soul, Li Chunjun traced the bloodline of the Southern Dragon King directly from artifacts left behind by the dragon king.
Originally, he had no intention of exterminating all the ancient dragons, having promised the Great Void Ancestral Dragon to spare the other ancient dragons and heavenly dragons.
But...
With the four dragon kings of the True Dragon Great World already fallen and the remaining ancient dragons terrified, they should have repaired the interdimensional Star Gate as quickly as possible, eager to send him away.
Yet the Star Gate remained under repair...
This undoubtedly proved that the ancient dragons had received an order from someone they couldn't defy.
This undeniable figure, as anyone could guess, was none other than the Great Void Ancestral Dragon of the Supreme Research Institute.
Since the ancestral dragon spoke one way to his face and acted another behind his back, Li Chunjun felt justified in hunting down and exterminating every last ancient dragon in the True Dragon Great World.
Through the miraculous synergy of these linked laws, he had already sensed the bloodline auras of tens of thousands of dragons.
Slightly stronger than the others, three ancient dragons stood out. Two were extremely distant, their presence faint and indistinct, clearly beyond the True Dragon Great World.
But one of them was relatively close to Li Chunjun's current location.
"It's not just the Southern Dragon King's relics that can trace his bloodline. Some of the gifts offered by subordinate ancient dragons in his treasury also carry causal connections that can lead me to their lairs."
Li Chunjun sensed the causal resonance between the artifacts in his hand and the ancient dragons and heavenly dragons, quickly gaining insight into their hiding places.
"Though they've scattered, there seem to be only a few truly secure locations within the True Dragon Great World. That means over ninety percent of the ancient dragons are concentrated in just three places... This makes things much easier."
Li Chunjun leaped into the air, tearing through the Void.
Considering the Dragon Clan's likely surveillance throughout the True Dragon Great World, he activated his Void Dao Physique, attempting to conceal all fluctuations of his great dao laws.
However, this time, as he activated the Void Dao Physique, he felt an unsettling sensation—as if all the great dao laws were rejecting him.
No!
It wasn't rejection!
Rather...
The power of the Void Dao Physique was spontaneously evading and nullifying the operation of all laws.
Previously, Li Chunjun had little understanding of laws beyond the Void and Destruction Dao. But as his Life Level continued to rise, his comprehension of laws deepened, became easier, and expanded to encompass more types. This sensation gradually grew more pronounced.
Following this feeling...
Beyond the Three Realms, outside the Five Elements?
The phrase surfaced in Li Chunjun's mind.
But he immediately realized it was inaccurate.
The correct description should be: All laws cannot touch me.
Evading all laws, enduring all laws, nullifying all laws.
Thereby causing himself—and ultimately everything—to cease to exist entirely.
Is this the final form of the Void Dao Physique after its transformation into the void great dao...?
Li Chunjun fell into a brief silence.
These characteristics indeed encompassed the Void and Destruction Dao.
But compared to the Void, which contained all things, and Destruction, which annihilated all things, the void great dao seemed far more thorough.
It erased everything that possessed the concept of "existence."
To make all things cease to exist.
"Dao unification, in a sense, grants immortality. However, over vast stretches of time, certain experiences or realizations can suddenly make them feel that their existence in the world is utterly meaningless, leading them to self-annihilation—the collapse of their Dao hearts... But if all Dao unification cultivators possessed unwavering resilience and maintained a positive, vibrant will to live, their existence would theoretically endure as long as the heavens and earth, shining as brightly as the Cosmos itself..."
Li Chunjun felt a glimmer of understanding.
But this was clearly wrong.
If this trend continued unchecked, the number of immortal and indestructible Dao Venerables would grow exponentially until one day, every corner of the world would be filled with immortals and eternal beings.
This was clearly wrong.
Therefore, the Cosmos must possess a counterbalancing mechanism.
This mechanism...
"Transforms existence into non-existence," Li Chunjun said.
Was this the very Dao he had ultimately forged?
Li Chunjun's thoughts lingered on this for a long while.
But when he emerged from this contemplation, his mind had regained its tranquility.
Does it matter?
Where would the path he forged lead the Cosmos? Did it matter?
No!
All that mattered was...
achieving that goal!
If achieving that goal required reducing everything to nothingness...
He would not hesitate to push forward, to execute it!
Whoosh!
Li Chunjun's figure streaked through the Void, a blur of motion.
Having activated his Void Dao Physique, he seemed to vanish from the perception and even the awareness of all living beings, becoming virtually undetectable by any means.
At least, not by seventh- or eighth-tier creatures, none of whom had even reached the Ninth-Tier.
Under these circumstances, when he arrived at the ancient dragons' first hiding place, none of them received any advance warning whatsoever.
Even many ancient dragons with exceptionally high Mind Realms failed to sense his approach.
This was because mental warnings, to some extent, rely on a subtle application of soul and causal laws.
It wasn't until Li Chunjun manifested his Sovereign Dharma Manifestation, unleashing a sky-devouring sword qi storm, that the ancient dragons jolted awake in terror, scrambling to flee.
But...
It was too late.
The sword qi storm engulfed the stronghold, annihilating all thirty-odd ancient dragons within, including several heavenly dragons and true dragons.
(End of the Chapter)
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