"Gu..."
Elsewhere, Wang Daoming's vast thought-body went blank for an instant, all of his attention turning this way.
And it was not just him. Amid the chaotic battle, all the mighty beings paused for an instant and looked over.
"History is always spiraling onward."
"Heh..."
Some powerful figures let out cold laughter.
"Yet in this tribulation, transcendence may not necessarily lie in the Ten Tribulations!"
"Whether it was the Dao Sovereign of old or the failed Gu, when they fought for the Dao in those years, they were merely at the Nine Tribulations realm."
"Who is right and who is wrong, who succeeds and who fails—until the final moment, no one can be certain!"
"Through eternity, the Dao reaches everlasting nothingness!"
A great lifeform set all its thoughts ablaze at this moment. Boundless light seemed poised to shatter infinite heights, infinite depths, infinite breadths, infinite vastness—the infinite within infinity—and forge true impossibility.
Yet what answered him was a green sword-staff, neither quite bamboo nor quite sword. With one strike, all phenomena collapsed; even the leaping flames of that great lifeform's thoughts were no exception.
"Transcendence! Transcendence!"
"Your obsession runs too deep. You are destined never to reach the highest realm."
Li Qi briefly condensed a form, carrying an indescribable purity and natural ease.
Of course, no one was destined to believe his words.
The weak might have their minds shaken by a few words, but ultimate lifeforms like them had reached true extremes. In every respect, they possessed no shortcomings.
As for why there were still distinctions of strength and weakness, it was only because there were always a few who could achieve partial transcendence atop the extreme.
Yet since the extreme existed, it naturally had meaning. Though there were differences in strength within this realm, even its strongest could