The galaxy glittered.
The vortex of stars gradually expanded in the void, forming tremendous inertia as the range it affected continued to grow.
Ning Zheng's Shadow Crocodile was no longer an individual force.
It had become something like a celestial phenomenon—a storm or an earthquake: a Calamity Beast.
It was the vast black calamity formed from the endless mountains of corpses and seas of blood, resentment, hatred, and enmity accumulated during this long war spanning the Myriad Worlds.
Moreover, with the vast amount of calamity qi gathered from the slaughter of the entire era pouring in, the Calamity Power on Ning Zheng was still rising rapidly:
4.41 trillion.
5.74 trillion.
His power seemed to be expanding and swelling without end.
Ning Zheng sat cross-legged within the vortex. Countless profound truths of Heaven and Earth seemed to flash through his eyes, with traces of black light flickering within them.
The surging power of Heaven and Earth's celestial phenomena erupted around him, then continuously condensed and layered together.
"I'm becoming a celestial phenomenon. I'm dissipating into Dao."
"During the process of dissipating into Dao, power will grow without limit, multiplying geometrically, because I'll become part of Heaven and Earth."
"Ji Sui just took the Esteemed Immortal path, and I'm walking it too. But whether I can break through, whether I live or die—that's another matter."
To take this path of dissipating into Dao and becoming an Esteemed Immortal was to stake nine lives against one.
After all, throughout humanity's entire prehistoric history,
there had only been fifteen Esteemed Immortals before this, representing fifteen attributes.
But fortunately, if the process of entering the Esteemed Position failed, only the Shadow Crocodile Esteemed Immortal he had painstakingly accumulated would perish.
He would also gain a vast amount of insights. No matter how he calculated it,