"The path of Heaven and Man was, for Jiang Wang, a road that had run its course."
"Are you prepared to derive the Dao just like this?"
"Whether the Son of Heaven of the Six Directions or the Great Accomplished Supreme Sage, both are the strongest things envisioned by those before us but never realized. I think that if there is a strongest version of me in the long river of history, he certainly would not exist within anyone else's imaginings."
"Perhaps it still isn't enough!"
"I haven't worked hard enough... nor am I strong enough."
That was Jiang Wang's final thought.
His Dao body took on the state of the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and plunged sharply downward, while his consciousness instantly sank into oblivion.
Wu Daoyou and Ji Jinglu, watching this battle from the sidelines, both acted at the first instant. Wu Daoyou was even far faster than Ji Jinglu. In a single thought, he stepped through the [Dao Realm] into the heights of the ultimate pinnacle, flipped his hand, and drove a seal toward the imprisonment formed by the exterminating power of the four races.
But he also understood that he was already too late!
A method like the [Heavenly Edict Sin Fruit] meant that once it appeared, the result was already determined.
Li Yi, the sole True Lord who had entered the battlefield in time, was also blocked by the Emperor Devil Master—facing a Devil Master powerful enough to contend for the title of strongest across the myriad heavens and worlds, Li Yi found even self-preservation difficult, much less doing anything for Jiang Wang. Only because he was in the Present World, supported by Humanity's Torrent, could he still draw his sword.
As for Dou Zhao, Chongxuan Zun, Zhong Xuanyin, and the rest,