She had become the ruler and controller of the Space-Time Origin, a kind of Great Dao.
No successor would ever be able to surpass her.
Or even reach the height she now stood at!
Because the Multiverse simply could not accommodate two kinds of Space-Time Origin Rule.
Everyone else within the Imperial Hall remained silent. Though they were not practitioners of the Space-Time Rule, they could understand the sorrow in Vados's heart.
Her path forward had been cut off; Transcendence would forever be beyond her reach.
For a master of the Space-Time Rule like Vados, that was exceedingly cruel.
"That doesn't mean your path forward has been cut off!"
"It only means that someone has already walked this path and left behind an extremely profound imprint!"
Baros surveyed the Boundary Sea. Beneath the Multiverse, all rules and origins manifested themselves. The Space-Time Origin Rule in particular, though not all of it contained the Time King's will, revealed, at its root, a trace of the Time King's image and will reflected across space and time. "The Time King has reached the end of the Space-Time Origin Rule. She represents space-time itself, represents the Great Dao of Space-Time Origin beneath this Multiverse."
An Origin Rule was itself a kind of Great Dao.
There were three thousand Great Daos, but only limited exalted seats.
Once someone achieved the Dao and Transcendence through the Space-Time Rule, it meant that path already had an owner.
Unless a successor was powerful enough to use their own Space-Time Rule to replace the immeasurable space-times beneath the entire Multiverse, and the space-times of countless eras within the Boundary Sea,
no one could attain Transcendence under such circumstances.
Baros had already understood this when he, the Time King, and Dragon God Zalama met above the Boundary Sea and tested