"Chaos God had no restrictions?!"
Mu Qing was shocked once again.
Chaos God—that was the Old Heavenly Emperor.
When he first broke through to the Supreme realm, he had not been subjected to any restrictions at all?
The Supreme Saint nodded and said gravely, "During the Chaos era, how could the universe have known that the emergence of a Supreme would bring such terrifying power?"
"After witnessing the dreadful power of the first Supreme, Chaos God, it must have grown fearful and placed shackles upon all later Supremes."
"In other words, if not for the universe's shackles, anyone who reached the Supreme realm would be countless times stronger than they are now!"
"The Supreme realm is the endpoint. There are no further divisions of realms!"
"Yet the universe set down nine shackles. Even after breaking through to the Supreme realm, most of one's power is sealed by the power of the universe. One can only rely on oneself to break the universe's shackles step by step and reclaim the power that originally belonged to them!"
After hearing the Supreme Saint's explanation, Mu Qing finally understood what the Supreme realm was all about.
Other than the first Supreme, every Supreme who came after had their power sealed by the universe.
After undergoing self-destruction, they would be reborn and possess power countless times greater than what Supremes appeared to wield now. It was simply that, at the moment they broke through to the Supreme realm, most of that power was sealed away by the universe.
The entire nine levels of the Supreme realm were a stage of contending against the power of the universe—breaking the universe's shackles and reclaiming one's own strength.
"If there were no shackles from the universe, would that mean that once I break through to the Supreme realm,