Translator: CinderTL
"You wish to witness the true mysteries of the Void Great Dao? Your wish shall be granted."
Facing the giant of light, Li Chunjun abandoned any notion of confronting the Quasi-Tenth-Tier Divine Emperors head-on.
He activated the profound power of his innate Void Dao Physique.
Instantly, he vanished into the Void, utilizing the Dao of Void to traverse the Void with uncanny stealth. He launched a series of swift assassinations against the Quasi-Tenth-Tier Divine Emperors, who had merged with the World Will to form the giant of light.
Earlier, after learning of Li Chunjun's mastery of the Void Great Dao, Tai Chu, Xu Yun, Tian Heng, and others had offered a candid assessment:
A born assassin!
Though Li Chunjun didn't fully manifest the Void Great Dao's mysteries by invoking the Source of Time, his previous experience with Void Power had deepened his understanding to the point where he could now open the Void Great Dao at will.
Even with only the nascent mysteries of Void Power, neither the Quasi-Tenth-Tier Divine Emperors nor the Divine Emperors of the Divine Race could detect his presence. They stood before him like living targets.
Each time he materialized, a Divine Emperor inevitably fell.
By the time the Divine Emperors reacted and swarmed him, he had already vanished without a trace, reappearing elsewhere to deliver another fatal strike.
Even when occasionally cornered by the Divine Emperors, Li Chunjun could effortlessly cut his way out using his own power, vanishing from everyone's senses in plain sight.
No matter how fiercely the Divine Emperors amplified their Mind Power, activated their detection dao techniques, or unleashed their Dao Artifacts to their limits, they couldn't find a trace of him.
Under this near-unilateral slaughter, the Divine Race had lost two to three tenths of their forces in short order.
Yet despite such devastating losses, these Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Ninth-Tier Lifeforms showed no fear or panic. Instead, they continued to fight Li Chunjun to the death with a resolute, fearless determination.
Their purpose...
was to probe Li Chunjun, forcing him to reveal more of the void great dao's mysteries so that the god above gods could find a way to counter it.
Even if each breath of this probing cost the lives of one or even several Divine Emperors!
Finally, after dozens of breaths of this relentless, death-defying combat, with Li Chunjun having cut down over half the Divine Emperors using the elusive power of the void great dao, the Great World of the Gods' World Will seemed to reach the peak of its hostility and loathing toward him.
In that moment, Li Chunjun suddenly felt the Great World of the Gods' World Will rejecting him—a rejection that even his mastery of the void couldn't completely evade. After all, he hadn't truly established his Dao yet, and his void great dao remained incomplete.
The instant the World Will's rejection registered, a colossal mental power descended from the Nine Heavens.
The Void seemed to cheer at its arrival, and all creation sang its praises.
This power and will instantly enveloped the giant of light formed by the four surviving Quasi-Tenth-Tier beings and over one hundred sixty Divine Emperors, attempting to seize control of the construct.
This level of will...
"God Above Gods!"
Li Chunjun's mental processes faltered momentarily, but his movements remained swift. He once again traversed the void, unleashing a sword qi storm that swept away two more Divine Emperors.
"Finally decided to show yourself? Feeling confident you can handle me now?"
Yet the God Above Gods, manifesting through its Avatar, showed no reaction. It merely distributed its power evenly across the giant of light formed by the four Quasi-Tenth-Tier beings and one hundred sixty-three Divine Emperors.
Empowered by his strength, the combined might of the four Quasi-Tenth-Tier and one hundred sixty-three Great Divine Emperors was reforged.
Especially after sensing the descent of the God Above Gods' power, the surviving Divine Emperors were seized by fanaticism, unleashing an even more ferocious battle spirit.
Guided by the God Above Gods' consciousness, the giant of light swelled to fifty thousand kilometers in height. Its radiant, scorching brilliance resembled the burning intensity of a sun or star. Every ray that struck the earth transmuted mountains and plains into metallic glass.
At that moment, Li Chunjun felt he was confronting not a living being, but a Great Sun—a Great Sun suspended in the Heavenly Vault above the Great World of the Gods.
Under this omnipresent, scorching light imbued with the Great World of the Gods' rejection, even as he channeled his Void Power to its utmost, striving to diminish his very concept of existence, he felt utterly exposed, with nowhere to hide.
Having lost this "untrackable" quality, the giant of light swiftly gathered its power. Its six palms converged, and a terrifying beam of energy erupted from the joined hands.
The immense power contained within the beam of energy far surpassed that of any supernova explosion.
Along its path, every planet and star would be instantly pierced and annihilated by this terrifying beam of energy.
"In addition to the thirteen great daos—soul, chaos, time, source, and others—these Divine Emperors also wield the power of other rules, such as Yin-Yang, order, truth, curses, and slaughter..."
Li Chunjun quickly realized the profound mysteries hidden within these "beams of light."
Although he possessed a deep understanding of the great daos of soul, chaos, time, and source, allowing him to easily evade their influence using his knowledge of self and opponent, the other thirty-six rule-based powers proved far more difficult to ignore.
This was why even activating his innate void dao body couldn't completely shield him from the "beams of light."
However...
His initial strategy of targeting the Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Ninth-Tier beings in the Great World of the Gods had been solely because the god above gods had yet to reveal himself.
Now that he had finally appeared, and seemingly believed he had deciphered the secrets of Li Chunjun's void great dao...
There was no need to continue fighting these Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Ninth-Tier Divine Emperors at such a low efficiency.
With a thought, Li Chunjun activated one of the many Sources of Time he had stored.
This time, as the Source of Time activated, Li Chunjun, drawing on his profound understanding of the Great Dao of Time, clearly sensed how this extraordinary artifact worked.
Time!
Just like light, time was never linear. Instead, it propagated in discrete packets, like particles.
The Source of Time's function was to project these fragmented temporal snapshots, allowing cultivators to shift their consciousness from their current state to a future state.
However, this future state was not absolute.
The future was constantly in flux, subject to change.
These projected visions were less glimpses of the future and more extrapolations of possible timelines based on the continued flow of time.
Yet these extrapolations possessed a degree of authenticity, granting cultivators access to the power of the "future" era.
It was precisely because of these uncertain existences that the Source of Time could easily alter the future. However, changing the past was exponentially more difficult, potentially disrupting the very fabric of existence.
This was because the past was fixed.
To understand the workings of the great dao of time, imagine an unfinished house. You can modify it however you please. But if you recklessly alter a completed house, the entire structure might collapse.
As his thoughts raced, Li Chunjun once again entered that future-state.
This time, he clearly sensed a difference compared to his battle against the Great Void Ancestral Dragon.
"Besides the void great dao... the great dao of the soul!" he murmured.
He had devoured the great dao of the soul.
The realization stunned him. He nearly dismissed it as a hallucination.
But when he focused his senses, he confirmed...
It was true!
He had indeed used the void great dao to devour the great dao of the soul, causing all Dao Venerables on that path to perish.
His purpose...
It was all merely to completely unravel the mysteries of the great dao of the soul and discover the truth behind reshaping souls.
This revelation left Li Chunjun in a moment of silence.
Having already attained the ability to sever his connection to the Dao and enter the Void, why had he chosen not to sever his connection and instead hastily confront the God Above Gods of the Divine Race?
Because the God Above Gods possessed an astonishing mastery of the great dao of the soul.
Because a lingering sense of dissatisfaction still burned within him.
He sought to understand the limits of the great dao of the soul through confrontation, combat, and even devouring and refining the God Above Gods.
Could it...
Could it reconstitute a being whose soul had not yet dissipated into the cosmos?
If so, he could not only swiftly achieve Heart's Perfection but also unhesitatingly embark on the path of body-soul unification with the great dao of the soul.
If not...
The Source of Time revealed itself.
Since the great dao of the soul had proven useless, he would simply devour it!
He would pit the Void against the soul, hoping to ignite a different kind of spark.
Boom!
A blinding light, piercing through heaven and earth, slammed into Li Chunjun's body, threatening to annihilate him completely into nothingness.
Yet Li Chunjun remained utterly still, allowing the energy blast—powerful enough to carve a straight line several light-years long through the Cosmic Void—to pummel his form.
As the energy surged through him, his figure grew increasingly ethereal, rapidly transforming from solid to void.
He tilted his head, gazing at the God Above Gods, who was manifesting his Avatar to command the giant of light formed from four Quasi-Tenth-Tier and one hundred sixty-three Ninth-Tier Venerables.
That single glance sent an inexplicable chill down the spine of the God Above Gods, who was present only in Avatar form.
It felt like being targeted by an unprecedentedly terrifying lifeform, reduced to mere prey.
This realization struck the god of the divine race as utterly absurd.
He had already deciphered the mysteries of Li Chunjun's Void Power, locked onto his form, and swiftly combined forty-nine great daos to form an attack that should have shattered this Avatar. Yet...
Devour the great dao of the soul, Li Chunjun murmured inwardly.
If this is the path I must take... then so be it.
As long as I don't limit myself or confine myself to one place, solutions will always outnumber difficulties.
With this thought, Li Chunjun tapped into the profound mysteries of the great dao of the soul. By tracing the power of the God Above Gods' Avatar, he sensed the location of its True Body.
This time, when using the Source of Time, his mastery over this power had surpassed even his control over Void Power and destruction power, making it second only to the void great dao in his arsenal.
Harnessing this soul power, he took a single step into the Void and vanished from the Great World of the Gods in an instant. After several swift transits, he found himself in the vast starry sky.
Here, concealed within layers of Void, lay a divine temple.
At the temple's center, bathed in golden light, stood a figure...
The supreme ruler of the Great World of the Gods.
The god of the Divine Race.
"I've found you."
(End of the Chapter)
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