In Yue Luo Liuli's account, the Computation Lord and Darwin, the God of Heaven's Choice, finally learned of the Ancient Dragon Emperor's present condition.
Simply put, the Ancient Dragon Emperor was actually still asleep. What had truly awakened was only an extremely tiny portion of his total consciousness.
For humans, a small portion of consciousness might amount to several scattered thoughts. But for someone at the Ancient Dragon Emperor's level, even a small portion of consciousness was enough for simple thought.
—In human terms, his thoughts were at least clear enough to pass the Turing test.
Yet as he continuously revived, the Ancient Dragon Emperor encountered a troublesome problem.
He was simply too powerful.
That was the only reason.
When the Ancient Dragon Emperor awakened, not all of his consciousness was operating, allowing a trace of his aura to leak out. For an expert at his level, the information contained within a single trace of aura exceeded a mortal's thoughts over an entire lifetime. It was enough to destroy another's will, or even generate a self of its own.
It was the same principle as the tribulation-transference of banished immortals. The Ancient Dragon Emperor was simply far stronger than ordinary banished immortals. What banished immortals needed to retain a portion of their mana to accomplish, he could achieve with nothing but his aura.
Ordinarily, it was not as though he could not restrain it. But the reversed formation had multiplied this mechanism severalfold.
The technique he had originally used to seal himself off had cut off his own aura from reaching the outside world while magnifying external information. But once reversed, it magnified his aura severalfold instead.
Together, the two effects led his already-awakened will to conclude that he could not truly awaken.
If he failed to control his own