Cage...
A tremendous roar came from Cangxuan's side.
Cyan Wither-Bloom Vines wove together into a vast net that blotted out the sky and covered the sun, forcibly holding up the blood-colored longsaber Blood Butcher had chopped down.
The shock wave produced by the collision of the two forces tore countless pitch-black cracks through the chaos.
"Daoist Friend Zhou Ming, you have only just stepped into the Great Dao Realm. There are some things you still cannot see through."
Cangxuan's voice transmission came over steadily. He controlled the vines to counterattack again and again, forcing Blood Butcher back.
"Tell me, this boundless Chaos Sea—to us of the Great Dao Realm, what exactly is it?"
Cangxuan's voice rang out in Zhou Ming's mind, carrying a deep sense of vicissitude and helplessness.
"It is an endless land of cultivation," Zhou Ming replied through voice transmission without the slightest hesitation.
"Wrong." Cangxuan gave a bitter laugh, his voice turning incomparably heavy.
"It is a cage."
Zhou Ming's movements abruptly paused.
"A cage?" Zhou Ming did not understand.
"Yes. A huge cage from which one can never break free."
Cangxuan's voice was very calm, yet it carried endless vicissitudes.
"Extreme Dao Stage, Dao Fusion Stage, Unity Realm."
"The Unity Realm is the limit—the Three Thousand Great Daos perfected, the myriad Daos returning to one."
"Once one reaches this step, there is no road ahead."
"Daoist Friend Pangu, Daoist Friend Taiyi, Daoist Friend Taichu—they are of the Five Primordial States, the oldest existences in this Chaos Sea."
"Since the birth of the Chaos Sea, they have been the existences with the highest talent and the greatest strength."
"They were unwilling to be trapped forever in this realm, and wanted to break this limit, to assault the realm above the Unity Realm."
"So they chose to force