In the blink of an eye, several billion years drifted by.
On this day, sensing that the tribulation period of the Primordial World was imminent, Zhang Shuai knew the time had come.
He had no intention of continuing to prolong the Primordial World's life, nor did he plan to take the people of the Dragon Soaring Sect to Infinite Market for refuge. Instead, he came to an utterly empty and stable expanse of chaotic void deep within the Infinite Domain.
"It is time," he murmured. "Dao Fruit... emerge!"
Boom!
Above Zhang Shuai's head, space twisted and collapsed violently, as though a new "singularity" were being born!
Endless seven-colored rosy light and chaotic currents surged from his body, converging upon that "singularity."
The next moment, a lotus began to bloom. In the blink of an eye, it expanded to an incomparably colossal size. Its entire body flowed with chaotic hues, its petals unfurling layer by layer. Dao Runes were naturally born upon it, and it radiated a sacred, ancient aura, nearly identical to the Primal Chaos Azure Lotus within the Annihilation Lotus Pool.
This was the Dao Fruit he had cultivated through endless ages, fused with the origin essence of nearly a thousand Primal Chaos Azure Lotus petals and containing the crystallization of all Zhang Shuai's Great Daos and cultivation!
At this moment, he slowly stripped it from his body using his supreme will and the mighty power of the Great Dao!
For any cultivator, stripping away one's Dao Fruit was a fatal act, tantamount to destroying one's Dao foundation and perishing in both body and soul.
Yet for Zhang Shuai at this moment, it was the only path toward taking that final step and truly ascending to the rank of "Main God"!
He would use his Dao Fruit as the