After an unknown amount of time had passed.
Hong Fei slowly awakened from his immersive transformation.
The energy ripples spreading outward from his body finally subsided, and the infinite multiverse at last seemed to have returned to calm.
Behind Hong Fei, the dragon and phoenix had never been more powerful. After their first ascension, they had finally reached their most complete and perfect peak once more.
Amid the wondrous intertwining sounds of dragon roars and phoenix cries, the dragon and phoenix successively withdrew into his body, and Hong Fei felt that he had reached an unprecedented level of power.
It was a state that had previously been impossible to describe or even imagine.
Only by truly reaching it could one truly understand the power of this level.
Before him, the countless boundless universes resembled floating bubbles.
It seemed that a single thought could pop them.
This was not an illusion.
It was nothing more than his truest understanding of himself.
Hong Fei let out a long breath.
He also felt an inexplicable sense of liberation.
It was as though every version of himself throughout the past had been unknowingly bound by an invisible force. Now that he had broken free, the refreshing clarity he felt stood in stark contrast.
Eternity was still there.
Sensing his gaze, Eternity stood beside him and immediately said, "Though the you of the past was not weak, and your soul was very free, your body belonged to that single universe. You were born in that universe and grew up in it, so you were also bound by it. Even if you leaped and traveled through the multiverse by all manner of means, you would always retain a profound connection to that universe. But now, you have undone the shackles that bound you. The freedom you