"I don't know how things are in other realms. But here in the Upper Origin Realm..." Ji Yuan's voice carried the icy certainty of someone revealing the laws of heaven and earth. "There can only be three Dao Lords!"
She held up three fingers, their tips wreathed in faint purple-gold light.
"You can imagine the entire Upper Origin Realm as a vast lake with limited capacity."
"And Dao Lords..."
She gently tapped the empty air with a fingertip, as if touching the surface of an invisible lake and sending ripples across it. "Are the enormous ships upon that lake, bearing supreme authority."
"The number of 'great ships' that this lake called the Upper Origin Realm can bear upon its 'waters'... is only three!" Her voice rang with finality. "Only when one of them has completely sunk and shattered..."
Her gaze pierced Jiang Tian like a tangible force. "Will the others have even the faintest chance of contending for the vacant... berth!"
"But..." Ji Yuan's voice suddenly rose, carrying an almost cruel mockery.
"Dao Lords... are immortal and indestructible! Those three in the Central Continent attained this position countless ages ago, and have endured throughout eternity!"
"As for trying to defy a Dao Lord with Golden Core cultivation, that's even more impossible."
"Perhaps my explanation isn't entirely precise, but..." She lowered her hand, an air of desolation surrounding her, as if she had seen through fate itself.
"This... is the most fundamental law of this realm!"
"So... that's how it is!" Jiang Tian's heart and mind shook as if struck by a thunderbolt from the ninth heaven!
He had once imagined that, with the help of his mysterious golden finger, he could ascend to the position of Dao Lord within a hundred years and look down upon all living beings... Now,