The piercing taunts and overbearing declarations echoed between heaven and earth, relentlessly battering Lin Feng's mind and Dao Heart.
Lin Feng remained silent. He neither argued nor roared.
By then, he had cast aside every distracting thought, immersing himself completely in the duel of life and death. The cries of millions fighting below rang in his ears; the world-ending devastation wrought by the ferocious beasts filled his vision; and the unwavering resolve to protect all living beings formed the great Dao within his heart. The utmost pressure of life and death, the depths of desperate peril, and the ultimate gamble for survival continually scoured his Dao foundation, honed his Dao Heart, and tempered the origin of his great Dao.
He could clearly feel the cultivation barrier that had kept him at the peak of Mid God Emperor for so long trembling violently, showing faint signs of loosening.
The shackles that neither years of secluded cultivation nor mountains of resources could shake were now developing unprecedented cracks under the crushing pressure of this bloody fight for survival.
On the path of cultivation, prosperity tempered the self, adversity revealed the Dao, and desperation broke through realms.
Secluded cultivation in peaceful times could ultimately only accumulate reserves and stabilize one's cultivation. Only desperate combat on the razor's edge of life and death could shatter those shackles, touch the origin, and break into a new realm.
Brilliant light flashed in Lin Feng's eyes as understanding suddenly dawned within him.
The final opportunity he had always lacked was never rare God Crystals, Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, or an ancient inheritance. It was a desperate bloodbath in which he could find life only by embracing death, a life-and-death struggle against a Peak God Emperor, and an invincible Dao Heart that feared neither life nor death