Translator: CinderTL
"Source of Time!"
The Great Void Ancestral Dragon recognized it instantly.
Containing the power of time, it could reflect the future and prematurely unlock a cultivator's potential.
This method, however, would damage the cultivator's potential and make them more susceptible to mental obstacles, hindering the perfection of their Mind Realm.
But...
It could also allow cultivators to experience the power of higher realms in advance, clarifying their path forward.
If one disregarded the potential loss, this rare artifact could even be used to break through bottlenecks in cultivation.
Li Chunjun, an innate divine being, was using this...
Was he trying to glimpse the power of a divine sage ahead of time?!
Realizing this, the Great Void Ancestral Dragon acted without hesitation.
"Your potential and divine sage body belong to me! I won't let you damage them!"
As his Heart-Mind surged, he clenched a void hand.
The Dao roared!
A power infinitely more complete, vast, and overwhelming than the Void Law permeated every corner of the Cosmic Void, relentlessly compressing the space around Li Chunjun.
The Void centered on Li Chunjun rapidly solidified and contracted, instantly transforming into a spatial gem, completely sealed and about to be drawn into the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's claw.
Although he had clearly sensed Li Chunjun's exceptional talent in the Void Dao while in his Avatar state...
But...
Talent is talent, and power is power.
Li Chunjun's talent could naturally manifest its full potential on a battlefield where both sides wielded limited aspects of the Void Dao, with the Void Law as the dominant force, even allowing him to completely suppress his opponent. However, against the true great dao of the void...
Especially against the Grand Dao Power unleashed by a Dao Venerable like himself, any perceived advantage from talent would be utterly crushed.
The battle would end swiftly and decisively.
His only concern was preventing Li Chunjun from suddenly fleeing and hiding.
After all, the man's earlier disappearance had startled him...
Fortunately, instead of running, Li Chunjun had foolishly reappeared. Now, all he needed to do was exercise a little caution, and he could trap him like a rat in a jar...
"What?!"
The Great Void Ancestral Dragon's confident and meticulous thoughts abruptly stalled as he attempted to transform the solidified Void surrounding Li Chunjun into a gemstone and seize it.
He had sealed the space.
He had directly transformed the Void containing Li Chunjun into a spatial gemstone, now clutched in his claw.
But the unexpected truth was...
Li Chunjun wasn't inside the gemstone!
Li Chunjun remained exactly where he was, completely motionless!
He had clearly sensed Li Chunjun's aura when he used the Source of Time, yet his technique to solidify the Void with the great dao of the void seemed to have no effect on Li Chunjun, achieving nothing but a lonely silence.
Especially...
The soul dao power he had activated to lock onto Li Chunjun's soul fluctuations the moment Li Chunjun revealed the Source of Time...
Was vanishing!
Disappearing at an alarming rate!
"Not good!"
The Great Void Ancestral Dragon's heart trembled.
In the next instant, nine Quasi-Immortal Artifacts soared into the air.
He possessed no Immortal Artifacts, after all, being non-human. Even the Immortal Artifact of Destruction he once wielded had been "borrowed" by a Vice Dean of the Supreme Research Institute.
Yet, even these nine Quasi-Immortal Artifacts, when linked together through the power of an Array Formation, could unleash a might comparable to that of a true Immortal Artifact.
"Nine Extremes Heaven-Sealing Array Formation! Activate!"
As the Dao Unification Divine Sage channeled visible Grand Dao Power into the nine Quasi-Immortal Artifacts, the space around him seemed to solidify completely, as if frozen in time.
Within this frozen realm, all material movement, Law Mysteries, Grand Dao Power flow, and even the thoughts of other living beings appeared to be frozen solid.
The world had, in that moment, been put on pause.
The only entities unaffected by this pause were the Great Void Ancestral Dragon...
And...
Li Chunjun's aura grew weaker and weaker, until...
It vanished completely from the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's perception!
"Damn it!"
The Great Void Ancestral Dragon roared, unleashing its mental power. The full force of the Nine Extremes Heaven-Sealing Array Formation converged around Li Chunjun.
The dragon extended its claw again, aiming at the void where Li Chunjun had been, and clenched it fiercely.
As the claw clenched, the Grand Dao surged.
Both the great dao of the void and the great dao of the soul manifested simultaneously.
If a Void Refining cultivator who cultivated these two great dao laws were observing, they would have witnessed the light of the great dao of the void and the great dao of the soul shining with unprecedented intensity around the True Dragon Great World.
It was as if every mystery in the Cosmos was being revealed under the radiant glow of these two great daos.
But...
It was futile.
Despite the Great Void Ancestral Dragon channeling the power of the great dao of the void and the great dao of the soul to their absolute limits, when its claw grasped the space where Li Chunjun had been, it was like trying to catch the moon's reflection in water.
The Grand Dao Power it summoned seemed to pass right through Li Chunjun, leaving him completely unaffected!
This utterly subversive scene sent shockwaves through the Great Void Ancestral Dragon, even though his Heart's Perfection had already reached its zenith. His worldview was violently shaken.
"This is impossible!" he roared in disbelief.
Previously, when Li Chunjun vanished from the True Dragon Great World, the dragon had dismissed it as merely the work of an Avatar. He reasoned that an Avatar's power was limited, making it understandable that it couldn't locate an innate divine being like Li Chunjun.
But now...
Li Chunjun stood before his true body!
When Li Chunjun revealed the Source of Time, the dragon had clearly sensed his presence.
Yet...
Despite unleashing the full might of his true body, he couldn't capture Li Chunjun—he couldn't even subdue an innate divine being who hadn't even achieved dao unification!
How could this not shatter his composure?
"An Immortal Artifact?! The Dao itself?!"
The Great Void Ancestral Dragon's colossal form surged, coiling rapidly around the void where Li Chunjun stood. Simultaneously, terrifying power from the great dao of the void and the great dao of the soul erupted from his body, radiating outward.
"I don't believe you truly possess the power to contend with my dao unification true body! Reveal yourself!"
His colossal form seemed to merge with the very fabric of the Cosmos, his body becoming one with the Dao, allowing him to perceive all the profound mysteries of the universe.
Yet, despite the Great Void Ancestral Dragon unleashing his full arsenal of techniques, Li Chunjun remained unmoved, ignoring his opponent's demands.
At that moment, drawing upon the Source of Time, Li Chunjun's thoughts and consciousness seemed to transcend the limitations of time, space, even destiny and causality, directly reaching a point in the future.
In that future moment, he had already fully comprehended all the profound mysteries of Life Level 44.
The great dao of the void?
The great dao of destruction?
No!
Not just these two great daos!
The great dao of time, enlightened through the Lord of Ephemeral; the primordial great dao, understood using Dao Lord Lu Wu as a blueprint; the great dao of the soul, comprehended through the Lord of Divine Visage and the Great Void Ancestral Dragon; and the great dao of chaos, sensed from Star Lord Taowu and Yuan Taiji...
A full thirteen Grand Dao Powers surged and swirled within the depths of his heart.
Not the nine great daos of an Ultimate Powerhouse!
But thirteen great daos that shattered the shackles of an Ultimate Powerhouse!
Or rather, fourteen!
For he also possessed the void great dao!
Though he hadn't truly undergone the process of "dao unification" due to the Source of Time, the premature glimpse of his future potential had granted him a complete understanding of the Mystical Powers inherent in dao unification.
He now grasped the cosmic-level might that Dao Unification Divine Sages could wield by merging their very being with the Dao.
Yet, compared to the cosmic-level power gained through dao unification, his true core lay in the void great dao!
Even more precisely...
In Void Power!
This power originated from the Dao, yet had transcended it.
Like the two sides of a mirror.
He himself was a conceptual opposite of one of the forty-nine great daos, capable of dissolving any of them.
Before activating the Source of Time, the void great dao and his innate void dao body had merely served as tools to conceal himself—a means to escape the battlefield if outmatched.
But now...
Having achieved dao unification-level comprehension of thirteen great daos, Li Chunjun finally grasped the true terror of Void Power.
"The ultimate form of Void Power... it rivals the great unification realm!"
Li Chunjun watched as the Great Void Ancestral Dragon, now fully enveloped him and entered dao unification, merging with the great dao of the void throughout the Cosmos to hunt him down.
Suddenly, he extended his hand and pointed at the Great Void Ancestral Dragon!
In the next instant, the Great Void Ancestral Dragon recoiled as if struck by lightning.
Its colossal body, dwarfing even the largest stars, twisted through the Void with impossible agility, launching itself backward and retreating half the distance of a Great World in a single, explosive maneuver.
The dragon's eyes snapped to the spot where Li Chunjun had pointed.
There...
A void had appeared!
Though the Great Void Ancestral Dragon swiftly channeled the power of the great dao of the void to seal the wound, the sensation of a part of its being suddenly vanishing lingered in its mind.
And...
Upon closer inspection, it realized that the vanished power was truly gone.
It vanished into nothingness in a way he couldn't comprehend.
Though he had already healed the wound, the lost power remained unrecovered.
It felt as if a portion of his cultivation had been permanently crippled, or as if his maximum health had been forcibly reduced.
"This power... the great dao of destruction?! No, even the great dao of destruction can't achieve such a thing!"
The Great Void Ancestral Dragon's gaze snapped to Li Chunjun. "How could you possess such power?"
"Looks like it's still not enough!"
Li Chunjun took a step into the void.
He currently wielded thirteen great daos, including the Void and Soul daos mastered by the Great Void Ancestral Dragon.
Especially the great dao of the void...
Though he hadn't undergone the "dao unification" process, the "talent" advantage granted by his Level 44 status positioned him at the very apex of the void dao, second only to the Primordial Sacred of the Void Dao himself.
Leveraging this superior vantage point, he stepped directly to the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's location and pressed down again.
Startled, the Great Void Ancestral Dragon surged into motion, rapidly propelling itself away from that region of space.
"Traversing the void before me? Think you can escape?"
Li Chunjun clasped his hands together.
Just as the Great Void Ancestral Dragon had solidified the Void with the Nine Extremes Heaven-Sealing Array Formation, Li Chunjun began to gather all the Void Power in the area.
The difference was that he wasn't freezing space; instead, he was rapidly shrinking the space-time continuum centered around the Great Void Ancestral Dragon.
He moved like a void sovereign, manipulating the dimensions of space with effortless mastery.
Despite the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's desperate attempts to escape, the distance between them continued to shrink, pulling the dragon's colossal, Star River-like body smaller and smaller.
In mere moments, the Great Void Ancestral Dragon had been reduced to a mere ten-meter-long dragon, dragged by the spatial forces right before Li Chunjun.
This absolute mastery over space—a clear demonstration of the Void Dao's high-tier authority over its lower-tier counterpart—finally brought a look of terror to the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's face.
"You—"
"Quiet."
Before the Dao Unification Divine Sage could speak, Li Chunjun reached out and pressed firmly against the dragon's massive head.
The moment their hands made contact, all the Void Power in the dragon's body seemed to be stripped away and nullified.
"Now, answer my questions."
(End of the Chapter)
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