Boom!
Within the void, Gu Hao's fist shot out like a dragon. Its force was fierce enough to shatter existence and pierce nonexistence, while in the unseen beyond, it resonated with some supreme, wondrous truth.
Before I came, heaven and earth had no law. After I came, my Dao alone stood supreme!
Such a fist technique undoubtedly surpassed his former limits by far. This was the terror of a Celestial Venerable Dharma Body. Even though this Dharma Body bore no trace of true existence and was merely an illusory thing temporarily molded by the Dao Lord, it still possessed a fraction of a Celestial Venerable's might.
The title Celestial Venerable might seem like something any formidable person could call themselves, but in distant ages, it was an honor reserved solely for eighth-rank powerhouses.
Judging by the ninth-rank system of the Heavenly Origin era, even the Dao Fruit of a Dimensional Demon God was merely quasi-seventh rank. Its power had reached infinity, but its Self might not necessarily have reached infinity.
Of course, seventh rank was still seventh rank; there was not the slightest deficiency in power. The reason a Dimensional Dao Fruit bore the word "pseudo" was not because it lacked power, nor because it lacked the Great Dao, but because it lacked possibility.
Without breaking through that barrier, seventh rank would be the Dimensional Demon God's limit.
After all, dimensions ultimately represented only "existence." A seventh-rank Dao Fruit was merely the ultimate extreme of existence. Eighth rank, however, comprehended the transformations of existence and nonexistence—from creating something from nothing on the level of energy and matter, to creating something from nothing on the level of information—until one reached the ultimate extreme of nonexistence.
Until, at last, existence and nonexistence were fused into one, achieving grand unification and reaching the