Amid all-encompassing desolation and a sea of chaos, Gu Shaoshang stood with his hands behind his back.
His figure was not particularly tall, yet in everyone's eyes, he seemed as majestic as if he filled the entire universe.
Silence!
The surrounding chaos exploded, Destruction Storm howled, and the scattered divine abilities continued to surge.
Yet Fang Han felt incomparable silence!
And within that silence, his heart inexplicably turned ice-cold, even more terrifying than facing the combined attacks of Hua Tiandu and the Creation Immortal King.
"The supreme Dao is profound and mysterious. After countless searches, its meaning remains elusive... The supreme Dao is as simple as the sun and moon; look up or down, and its radiance can be gathered..."
It seemed like an instant, yet also like a very long time later, Gu Shaoshang lowered his gaze onto Fang Han.
If anyone could look directly into Gu Shaoshang's eyes, they would see obsession, madness, ultimate goodness, ultimate evil... countless extreme lights intertwining within them.
They formed a great net that ordinary people could not perceive, yet which truly existed, enveloping that final thread of clarity.
Primal Chaos was the Dao, and proving Primal Chaos was proving oneself!
Thus, the Dao Tribulation was also a tribulation of the heart!
Any being caught in the Primal Chaos Dao Tribulation would become either supremely good, supremely evil, extremely self-absorbed, or utterly insane.
Whether it was the Daoist method of severing the Three Corpses or Buddhism's great vows, neither could completely avoid this ordeal.
Severing the Three Corpses did not mean one's heart was free of attachments.
Instead, the Calamity of Killing of the demonic path placed everything upon a single word: "kill"!
It was the purest path.
And gradually, it had become the most commonly practiced method of attaining the Dao throughout