Elsewhere, in the Void Realm Sea, Nara Dan's soul body gave a muffled groan.
He felt a tearing pain in his internal organs rise from the depths of his soul. His soul body immediately dimmed, and waves of weakness washed over him from within.
Clearly, extinguishing his Divine Thought hadn't come without a cost.
But Nara Dan didn't regret it. If anything, he felt fortunate.
"Good thing I withdrew in time and burned my soul completely."
"Otherwise, if the powerful beings of that world had gotten their hands on me, I'd have been wishing for death and unable to die."
The same fate would have awaited Nara Dan's true body, let alone a mere Divine Thought.
"If they discovered the secret of crossing the Void Realm Sea, they'd most likely use a Divine Ability to trace me back to my true body and try to seize my Cheat System."
"That would be a huge problem."
"After all, even ordinary powerful beings would struggle to break through the limitations of a world and cross the Void Realm Sea, unless they had achieved a Great Encompassing Body—one that unified countless incarnations and transcended the river of time."
Nara Dan realized what an extraordinary opportunity it was to travel between worlds. Countless Transcendent beings and even powerful entities were trapped within their own worlds.
Even with endless lifespans, they would still perish when the apocalyptic calamity of their world arrived.
But seeking resources in different worlds and traveling through the boundless heavens itself laid the foundation for transcendence.
"So my advantage is that I won't be trapped by any one world."
"Once I reach the pinnacle of this world's cultivation, I won't be like its native experts, who can spend countless years searching for a path forward and still find none."
"Just look