Translator: CinderTL
"Great Void Ancestral Dragon," Li Chunjun murmured, his expression shifting slightly upon hearing Liu Yu's words.
Yet, he quickly realized it made perfect sense.
The gap between a Dao Venerable and a Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivator was simply too vast.
Even an Avatar of a Dao Venerable descending into a Great World would be an insurmountable foe for 99.9% of Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivators. The remaining fraction might, through various means, manage to preserve their lives before such an Avatar, but victory? That was an unimaginable prospect.
If a mere Avatar possessed such overwhelming power, the true body's strength was beyond comprehension.
It was the difference between a lifeform bound by the laws of reality and one that transcended into the cosmic realm.
The sheer scale of the Dao Venerable's true body, revealed through dao unification, rivaled that of a small Realm Region. This alone would instill despair in any Supreme Sage, let alone a Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivator.
Li Chunjun himself, powerful enough to effortlessly slay Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivators, could only resort to hiding and evading when faced with the Dao Venerable's true body. Without wielding the Source of Time, he stood no chance against such a being—one who had achieved body-soul unification with the Dao, embodying the very order of the Cosmos.
If the foremost figure among those below dao unification faced such dire straits against the Dao Venerable's true body, what hope could an ordinary Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivator like Liu Yu possibly have?
Therefore, upon learning that the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's true body had descended upon the True Dragon Great World, Li Chunjun would have breathed a sigh of relief even if she had merely escaped from that world.
"The Great Void Ancestral Dragon is no longer a threat," Li Chunjun declared, pausing for emphasis. "And not just the Great Void Ancestral Dragon. For the foreseeable future, all my troubles should be resolved."
"The Great Void Ancestral Dragon is no longer a threat?" Liu Yu blinked in surprise, but she remained cautious about his claim that all his troubles were resolved. "You defeated the Lord of Sumeru, the Lord of Divine Visage, Dao Lord Lu Wu, and other top Quasi-Tenth-Tier experts in a joint assault, proving yourself to be the strongest beneath dao unification. No Quasi-Tenth-Tier expert will dare to target you now. But... to say all your troubles are completely resolved is overly optimistic."
She continued solemnly, "The power you've demonstrated defies conventional understanding. I fear that more dao unification experts will now turn their attention to you, seeking to understand how you've surpassed the limits of the Quasi-Tenth-Tier realm."
"Dao unification," Li Chunjun nodded. He understood Liu Yu's concerns.
Not long ago, Li Chunjun had been deeply troubled by this very issue.
But now...
"They won't."
"They won't?"
"No."
Li Chunjun explained calmly, "When these dao unification experts realize that their target is utterly invincible, impossible to capture, and even impossible to locate—and that any attempt will cost them their lives—they'll naturally stop bothering me."
"Invincible, impossible to capture, and even impossible to locate..."
Liu Yu's gaze at Li Chunjun turned peculiar.
Li Chunjun smiled, making no attempt to conceal anything. "Would you like to know how I escaped the True Dragon Great World with the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's true body personally present?"
Hearing this, Liu Yu's curiosity was piqued.
"Is it something you can share?"
"Of course."
Li Chunjun replied, "The truth is simple: I erased the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's existence. Naturally, I was then able to safely leave the True Dragon Great World and return here."
"Erased the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's existence?"
Liu Yu frowned. "What do you mean by 'erased the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's exis—'"
Suddenly, she realized something.
Spirit-type life forms have always possessed exceptionally keen senses.
Previously, she had been entirely focused on the battle between Li Chunjun and the Great Void Ancestral Dragon, her attention never wavering from the dao unification expert and Li Chunjun himself. While her perception of the Great Void Ancestral Dragon hadn't been noticeably distorted, Li Chunjun's sudden mention of the matter made her realize...
She had gradually been forgetting peripheral details about the Great Void Ancestral Dragon.
Though she knew he was a powerful dao unification expert and that his personal descent into the True Dragon Great World posed a threat to Li Chunjun, her understanding of the Great Void Ancestral Dragon's growth, his history, and minor details had become increasingly hazy.
This sudden realization, even for a spirit-type life like her, triggered an inexplicable surge of panic and fear!
Her memories...
Had they been tampered with?!
"This... how could this be...?"
A sudden unease gripped her.
At that moment, the profound yellow spirit seemed to receive some kind of message. Even as a spirit-type life, intense emotional fluctuations surged through her.
"This... how is this possible...?"
In the next instant, her gaze snapped to Li Chunjun. "You... achieved dao unification?!"
Her voice rose another octave. "And you even slew the Great Void Ancestral Dragon?!"
"Hmm?"
Li Chunjun looked at Liu Yu, puzzled by how the profound yellow spirit had suddenly accepted this truth without needing his explanation. Before he could react, Liu Yu waved her hand, projecting a newly released announcement from the Immortal Alliance.
"After a century of arduous cultivation, he has finally proven the Dao. With a single sword strike, he shattered the Nine Heavens. The Immortal Alliance's thirty-six senior councilors, six hundred and three councilors, and thirty thousand member organizations extend their heartfelt congratulations to Li Chunjun, the Divine Sage, for achieving body-soul unification and ascending to the rank of Dao Venerable!"
This announcement...
Compared to the usual fanfare for dao unification, it seemed rather meager.
On one hand, the Immortal Alliance hadn't been fully prepared for this event and had to rush out the announcement.
On the other hand, Li Chunjun had already been classified as an innate divine being in the Human Race's understanding—a progenitor divine being who had pioneered a new great dao.
Until they could fully determine Li Chunjun's ultimate allegiance...
Or rather, until the leaders of the Nine Great Institutions declared their stance on how to treat this progenitor divine being, they couldn't afford to lavish praise on Li Chunjun's achievements with flowery language and extravagant proclamations, as if golden lotuses were blooming from the earth and heavenly flowers were raining down.
This was evident from the Immortal Alliance's announcement, which mentioned only his ascension to Dao Venerable but omitted his creation of the void great dao.
For various reasons, the Immortal Alliance's message appeared somewhat concise.
Yet despite its brevity, the direct announcement from the Immortal Alliance ensured that everyone learned of it immediately.
As a profound yellow spirit with immense computational power and a constant vigil over any news or developments concerning Li Chunjun, Liu Yu was naturally among the first to receive the news.
"Oh, the announcement has been released?" Li Chunjun remarked, showing no surprise whatsoever.
The birth of a dao unification cultivator was an earth-shattering event.
Even within the vast life pool of the Human Race's three thousand Great Worlds, spanning the entire Human territory, the emergence of a dao unification cultivator typically required hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.
In other words, many Void Refining, Dharma Aspect, and Supreme Sage cultivators might live their entire lives—spanning 129,600 years—without ever hearing of a dao unification cultivator's emergence, let alone witnessing such an event firsthand.
Under such circumstances, the Human Race would inevitably announce the birth of a dao unification cultivator to the entire world.
The Immortal Alliance was the first to announce this news simply because Li Chunjun had chosen to join them among the Nine Great Human Race Institutions.
Before long, the other eight institutions would follow suit and release their own announcements.
Even without the official announcements from the other eight institutions, it was clear that this news would soon trigger an unprecedented uproar throughout the False God Realm.
"Now that the announcement has been made, I imagine you no longer doubt it," Li Chunjun said, looking at Liu Yu. "Whether you interpret it as dao unification or the slaying of the Great Void Ancestral Dragon, either understanding is valid."
After seeing the announcement from the Immortal Alliance's False God Realm branch, Liu Yu was already half-convinced.
Such an authoritative institution would never joke about such a momentous event.
Now, with Li Chunjun's confirmation...
"Dao unification! Dao unification! Dao unification!"
Even as a spirit-type life form, Liu Yu felt her spiritual fluctuations violently dispersing from her body.
Without needing to sense it, Li Chunjun could clearly "see" the emotion of shock radiating from her.
Reflecting on his interactions with this profound yellow spirit...
In high spirits, he watched her reaction with amusement.
This outpouring of spiritual energy persisted for quite some time before Liu Yu finally regained her composure.
She stared blankly at Li Chunjun.
Even when she had speculated that Li Chunjun might be an innate divine being, she had anticipated this day. But she never imagined it would arrive so swiftly.
"So soon... he's already achieved dao unification."
Dao unification!
Throughout the Profound Yellow Supreme's immeasurable lifespan, spanning billions of years, he had accepted no fewer than several dozen personally tutored disciples, and countless Official and Nominal Disciples—thousands, even tens of thousands!
After all, the Profound Yellow Grotto-Heaven had only been forged by the Supreme Sovereign in the last few tens of millions of years. Before that, his disciples had likely died through hundreds or even thousands of cycles. The 3,611 mountain peaks within the Grotto-Heaven did not represent the total number of disciples the Supreme Sovereign had ever had.
Yet among all these disciples, including the Supreme Sovereign's own Supreme Disciples, not a single one had ever achieved dao unification.
This alone demonstrated the immense difficulty for a Supreme Sage or Quasi-Tenth-Tier cultivator to attain dao unification!
But now...
Li Chunjun, this innate divine being, had been under the Supreme Sovereign's tutelage for barely twenty years!
And in the blink of an eye, he had already achieved dao unification?!
The profound yellow spirit remained dazed for a long moment before finally accepting the reality before her.
"Dao unification!"
She gazed at Li Chunjun, then rose solemnly and bowed deeply before him. "Profound Yellow Spirit Lapis Jade pays homage to the Dao Venerable! Congratulations on achieving the Great Dao and attaining eternal life!"
Her bow was not merely a gesture of respect for Li Chunjun as an individual, but also for the Dao he embodied.
It was the reverence of all living beings for the Cosmic Great Dao.
Having merged with the Cosmic Great Dao, he had become an integral part of the Cosmos's functioning. Every living being in the Cosmic Void owed him their existence.
Therefore, regardless of their previous status, the moment he achieved dao unification, any non-dao unification life form standing before him was obligated to bow in reverence.
This was a tribute to the Dao cultivator who had attained the highest achievement—the one who had proven the Dao!
It was also a tribute to the immortal who had finally reached the end of the path—the one who had attained eternal life!
(End of the Chapter)
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