And at that moment, the Void Dao-Devouring Ban was revealing to him the most fundamental, most secret, most unfathomable Concealment and Annihilation Dao in all the heavens.
Time slowly passed—one breath, ten breaths, a hundred breaths, a thousand breaths.
Lin Feng stood silently at the center of the forbidden domain, his body unmoving, his true heart unchanged, his Dao heart unshaken.
Outside, all lay in age-old silence, while undercurrents surged within the forbidden domain. Countless forbidden powers ceaselessly stripped away the essence of his Dao resonance. His protective imperial domain dimmed completely, the emperor power in his meridians nearly fell dormant, and the Dao patterns on his flesh slowly vanished. It seemed his cultivation was steadily receding, his reserves continually draining away.
Yet no one knew that deep within his dormant Dao foundation, within his Origin Core and Dao heart, an unprecedented transformation of the Dao and the birth of a new secret art were quietly taking shape.
He watched his Dao power being devoured and annihilated, his divine abilities being sealed and rendered useless, his Dao patterns being stripped away and concealed, and finally saw through the ultimate truths of the birth and death of all Daos, illusion and reality, existence and nonexistence, and the transition between survival and destruction.
People feared destruction, emptiness, and nothingness, and thus feared tribulations, prohibitions, and hopeless situations.
Yet the very root of the Dao was existence born from nothingness, reality born from emptiness, rebirth born from destruction, and revelation born from concealment.
Those who could embrace myriad tribulations could achieve myriad Daos; those who could contain myriad destructions could govern myriad lives; those who could relinquish myriad forms could attain the origin.
All at once, Lin Feng's mind shook violently. His Dao heart became clear with complete understanding, and an entirely new