"Rumble!"
Li Jianshu walked to the end of the long, endless bridge, into a world engulfed in lightning. He had thought he had reached the very pinnacle of the Dao Integration Realm, but he had not.
Everything here seemed untouched by time and space.
The Innate Void Origin he had already refined seemed to sense his summons and appeared before him again.
He looked around, then finally reached forward and grasped it. In his hand, he held the Void Origin of lightning.
He was astonished. Grasping the lightning felt like stepping into an even stronger realm. It was a realm beyond the Dao, yet it was not heaven and earth. He was still far from Mahayana. Even his Dao of lightning had only broken through during these past thousand-odd years, after a mighty lightning cultivator fell on the Northern Border battlefield and he expended vast resources.
Fortunately, he cultivated the Heavenly Condemned Vegetation Divine Art and had refined the Innate Void Origin of lightning punishment. Green Lady had personally replayed her memories of a battle against a powerful being in his soul sea again and again. Only then had he attained the Dao Integration Realm.
The Lineage had always said he was both human and immortal, which was why they had sent him to the Central Plains. Yet he had never understood. He cultivated immortal arts and wielded the Great Dao, but unless someone was a being like the Deep Winter Immortal Lord, they could not distinguish whether he was human or immortal.
As those thoughts passed through his mind,
Li Jianshu's expression changed drastically, and he whipped his head around.
Amid the thunder, the long bridge belonging to the Great Dao was shattering. Only the lightning he clutched so desperately remained.
Fortunately, he could feel that his bodily strength