Translator: CinderTL
Over the past six months, Li Chunjun had witnessed firsthand the accumulated knowledge of a dao unification practitioner who had lived for over a hundred million years.
Although the Progenitor of All Demons had only achieved body-soul unification with the great dao of devouring, he possessed a deep understanding of the other forty-eight great daos.
Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.
This was a universal truth among all dao unification practitioners.
For them, knowledge was power.
Even if they couldn't fully master all forty-eight great daos beyond their own, they needed a thorough understanding of them. This was the only way to avoid being caught off guard by related techniques and left utterly defenseless.
Thus, the Progenitor of All Demons possessed an unparalleled theoretical mastery of the other forty-eight great daos.
Desperate to save his life, he poured every ounce of his knowledge into his explanations.
This inadvertently laid the foundation for Li Chunjun's future comprehension of the remaining thirty-six... no, thirty-five great daos.
By now, Li Chunjun's understanding of the great dao of devouring rivaled only his comprehension of the great daos of the soul, Void, and destruction.
As the Progenitor of All Demons continued explaining the relatively obscure great dao of curses, Li Chunjun sensed something.
The Progenitor of All Demons felt it too.
The Demonic Race and Myriad Transformations Race reinforcements had arrived outside the Great World of the Gods.
Each race had mobilized no fewer than three to four hundred Ninth-Tier powerhouses.
While their numbers couldn't match the Divine Race's, this mobilization represented a full-scale deployment of their forces.
Sensing the arrival of these Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Ninth-Tier beings, the Progenitor of All Demons seemed to realize something and suddenly sighed, "It seems my time is running short."
Li Chunjun slightly raised his head, his gaze settling on the Progenitor.
"You knew?"
"Of course," the Progenitor of All Demons chuckled. "After all, you wouldn't even offer a perfunctory promise of sparing my life."
Li Chunjun's expression remained largely unchanged. "Then why did you diligently explain the mysteries of the forty-eight great daos for the past six months?"
"Because I had to."
The Progenitor of All Demons nodded slightly, glancing toward the distant Profound Yellow Great World. "The Human Race is too powerful—so powerful that they leave no room for other races or forces to survive. Even innate divine beings born from the great daos must either submit to their captivity or be killed and refined into Immortal Artifacts."
He glanced at Li Chunjun again. "For a progenitor divine being as powerful as you, there are theoretically only two possible futures. One, to be surpassed, losing your status as a progenitor divine being and becoming an ordinary divine sage. The other, to flee, to escape far beyond the Human Territory."
Li Chunjun offered no response to the Progenitor of All Demons' words.
Nor did the Progenitor of All Demons expect a few words to change Li Chunjun's stance or understanding.
"The reason I've entrusted you with all the knowledge I possess is simply to know whether, in the next few million, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years, this cosmos will witness a grand spectacle of Multiracial Hegemony."
As he spoke, the Progenitor of All Demons chuckled again. "I want the Ultimate Powerhouse of the Explorers Guild to understand that we are not crops they can harvest whenever they please. Our resistance will one day bring them their just deserts!"
"Order all Demonic Race members to enter the Great World of the Gods," Li Chunjun commanded.
"You won't succeed," the Progenitor of All Demons said, staring intently at Li Chunjun. "You know very well that even if you don't covet the Human Race's resources, even if you don't intend to live in the Profound Yellow Great World within their territory, and even if you only plan to reside in the Great World of the Gods you conquered with your own strength, they will never trust you, nor will they ever let you go! To them, anything desirable must belong to them alone! In the end, only one of you can emerge victorious!"
"Is it possible," Li Chunjun asked calmly, "that I am the only true member of the Human Race? The humans of this era have already strayed onto the demonic path, becoming utterly irrational."
"Demonic... the demonic path?" The Progenitor of All Demons was momentarily stunned by Li Chunjun's retort.
You, an innate divine being, are standing before me, a dao unification practitioner of the Demonic Race, and claiming you're the only true human while the rest have fallen to the demonic path?
His expression suddenly turned strange. He stared at Li Chunjun for a long moment, unable to find a counterargument.
"The true Human Race should possess a broader vision and greater ambition, not such narrow-mindedness! Whether divine sages or Dao Venerables, all seek to evolve and transcend their mortal existence. The Human Race's strength should not be built upon the persecution and subjugation of other living beings! They should cultivate a heart that embraces all things, capable of accommodating every system of power!"
Li Chunjun continued, "Only then can the Human Race continue to advance, break free from the shackles of the Ultimate Powerhouse realm, and reach the great unification realm beyond, and even... Ascension to Immortality!"
He declared solemnly, "To become immortals—omniscient, omnipotent beings wielding boundless divine power!"
These words stirred a flicker of emotion in the Progenitor of All Demons.
"But no matter," Li Chunjun said. "They are mistaken, and I will correct them. If they refuse to be part of the Human Race, expelling them from our ranks is a fitting consequence."
He had no further intention of conversing with the Progenitor of All Demons.
The power of the Source of Time once again emanated from his body.
The Quasi-Immortal Artifact he had obtained from the Great Void Ancestral Dragon had been exchanged for a vast quantity of the Source of Time, leaving him with an abundance of this rare Heavenly Treasure.
The more he used it, the greater the impact on himself.
Yet, in a way, constantly drawing upon the Source of Time to prematurely tap into his latent potential was akin to a sudden enlightenment.
His rapid progress in understanding other Daos during this period owed much to the Source of Time.
Seeing the unique power coalescing in Li Chunjun's hand, the Progenitor of All Demons' impassioned expression reverted to a sigh.
"Correcting the Human Race's errors..."
His spirit surged anew. "I had hoped to witness your downfall, or that of the Human Race's Dao Venerables, like stars falling from the heavens. But alas, I won't live to see it..."
As a dao unification practitioner, even knowing death was inevitable, he would never surrender without a fight.
In the next instant, a terrifying devouring power erupted from his body.
He transformed into the Cosmos' most terrifying celestial body—the Great Attractor—attempting to draw in and devour all matter within tens of millions, even hundreds of millions, of light-years.
But...
It was only an illusion.
A dignified dao unification practitioner, on the verge of his final, desperate struggle, couldn't even resonate with the great dao of devouring.
It was as if the great dao of devouring had forgotten him, the dao unification practitioner, completely ignoring his attempts to invoke its power.
This outcome left the Progenitor of All Demons momentarily stunned.
"You've grasped the great dao of devouring to this extent in such a short time?"
"It's not that I've comprehended the great dao of devouring to this level," Li Chunjun explained. "Rather, I've fully understood and mastered the portion of the great dao of devouring that you controlled."
With a flick of his void hand, the Progenitor of All Demons' body began to disintegrate inch by inch, fading away like an image being erased, growing fainter with each passing moment.
"Truly worthy of being called a progenitor divine being," the Progenitor of All Demons' final mental ripples echoed.
Until every trace of him was completely erased and extinguished.
Having annihilated this dao unification practitioner, Li Chunjun couldn't help but examine himself.
"Without the Source of Time, my efficiency in comprehending rules has plummeted. I'm probably on par with an ordinary dao unification practitioner now..."
It had to be said that the Source of Time had both advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage was obvious: it allowed cultivators to drastically increase their power.
The disadvantage, however, was that it completely extinguished any possibility of further growth.
Li Chunjun, who had used the Source of Time extensively, could easily sense his "future" growing weaker with each use.
Theoretically capable of cultivating to the 44th level beyond the Ultimate Powerhouse realm, his potential had been forcibly suppressed to the 42nd level, or even the 41st, after consuming vast quantities of the Source of Time.
This was the consequence of overdrawing one's potential.
However, considering the immense difficulty of comprehending the forty-nine great daos without such methods, Li Chunjun continued to use these Heavenly Treasures without hesitation.
Upon returning, he even planned to procure more Source of Time through the Creation Fortune Merchant Guild's channels, treating it as a standard cultivation resource.
As long as he didn't completely sever ties with the Human Race's high command, the Creation Fortune Merchant Guild would likely continue to fulfill his requests.
After annihilating the Progenitor of All Demons, Li Chunjun waved his void hand.
Quasi-Immortal Artifacts and other spoils of war cascaded into his grasp.
Among these spoils, ordinary Dao Artifacts rarely caught his attention anymore.
Given his current cultivation realm, crafting materials imbued with Dao Rhythm required little effort.
However, Quasi-Immortal Artifacts, capable of channeling the Grand Dao Power, still held considerable value for him.
With these Quasi-Immortal Artifacts, the number of great daos he comprehended would rapidly increase from the current fourteen to thirty-three.
At that point, the void great dao would be one step closer to fully manifesting its divine mysteries.
After storing the artifacts, Li Chunjun took a step into the void, instantly materializing from the land of emptiness formed by the void great dao.
With a swift transition, he entered the Great World of the Gods.
Upon arriving, Li Chunjun immediately sensed the world's faint repulsive force once more.
However, because he was currently in the Source of Time state, the Great World of the Gods' repulsive force, though present, struggled to accurately track his movements.
Moreover, even if he entered the Great World of the Gods in his dao unification form, the great dao light net of this Great World would be unable to find a target for its counterattack.
Activating the perception of the great dao of the soul, Li Chunjun even simulated the soul fluctuations of the God Above Gods, successfully locating numerous Ninth-Tier and higher lifeforms within the Great World of the Gods.
Hundreds of Divine Race members, hundreds of Demonic Race members, millions of Myriad Transformations Race members...
The total number of Ninth-Tier beings exceeded a thousand!
"Enough to advance my Life Level," Li Chunjun murmured, locking onto the auras of each Ninth-Tier lifeform.
By simulating the soul dao fluctuations of the god above gods, he even faintly sensed the World Will of the Great World of the Gods.
Guided by these faint connections, he silently appeared beside Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Ninth-Tier members of the Divine Race, Demonic Race, and Myriad Transformations Race.
As Void Power unfurled, these Quasi-Tenth-Tier and Ninth-Tier Foreign Races were utterly defenseless against the void great dao's erasure, vanishing completely from existence.
Throughout the entire process...
They didn't even notice the Ninth-Tiers beside them rapidly fading away.
In silence, they marched toward nothingness.
(End of the Chapter)
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