Of course, there also seemed to be another force preventing him from becoming the Dimensional Demon God.
After becoming a Dimensional Demon God, one would be deeply bound to this dimension. That undoubtedly meant that if the dimension faced a calamity, someone would have to fill the hole—and the Dimensional Demon God would have to charge in first, perhaps even use himself to fill it.
Yet before the Ten Pillars were completed, Zhao Cheng could still change his mind.
But there was another crucial issue: among all the many Dao Fruits, the Dao Fruit of the Dimensional Demon God stood at the very highest, without dispute.
If placed within Earth's mythological legends, the Dimensional Demon God's Dao Fruit would be Pangu's Dao Fruit: slaying three thousand Demon Gods amid chaos, condensing the Dao Fruits of those three thousand Demon Gods, then proving the Dao through strength and splitting heaven from earth.
And it would be the Dao Fruit of a Pangu Demon God who had successfully opened heaven and remained intact—not one who had transformed into heaven and earth, losing himself in the process.
As for every Dao Fruit that came afterward, regardless of its kind—even that of a Dao Patriarch who had merged with the Dao—at its root, it was merely a fragment of Pangu's Dao Fruit.
Of course, if the Dimensional Demon God's Dao Fruit were likened to Pangu's Dao Fruit, then the world transformed from that Dao Fruit naturally would not be some low-budget Primordial Chaos capable of producing only nuclear-bomb Saints. It would be a true mythological Primordial Chaos.
The mightiest stood at the source of time, reversing fruit into cause, transcending causality, rewriting the ages, indestructible and immortal, eternally abiding.
Before completing the Ten Pillars, Zhao Cheng could choose to simply lie flat and quit.