This Struggle Has Already Reached Its Conclusion

Gu Chensha's meaning was perfectly clear.

He wanted Nannan to see that if she did not make a choice, there would be only one outcome: everyone she cared about would die.

So Gu Chensha was not using Nannan to threaten Su Mu. He was using Su Mu to threaten Nannan!

"If my guess is correct, you have not completely refined the River of Time."

With his hands clasped behind his back, Gu Chensha smiled at Su Mu.

As long as Su Mu had not completely refined the River of Time, he was destined not to be Gu Chensha's opponent. In Gu Chensha's eyes, all cultivation realms and levels were meaningless symbols.

Su Mu could not see through Gu Chensha's strength, not because Gu Chensha's cultivation realm was too high, but because Gu Chensha had no cultivation at all!

He had long since transcended the very category of "realms." With a single thought, he could forge an entirely new cultivation system and hierarchy of realms. No matter the spacetime, existence, karma, laws, endless cycles of beginning and end, or things meaningful and meaningless alike, in Gu Chensha's eyes, they were all merely dispensable symbols—things that could be created or erased.

His existence itself was no longer that of a living being. Lowly things such as Lifespan and life no longer manifested upon him.

If he wished, with a single thought, he could turn an utterly ordinary Mortal Realm into a divine domain, allowing everyone within it to ascend as immortals and gods!

The countless karmic threads of the myriad worlds were all tied to him alone. He could alter every opportunity in the myriad worlds at will—how an opportunity arose and faded, where its path led, who obtained it—all depended on a single thought from him.

To be precise, Gu Chensha