Fourth Step, Ultimate Dao Lord
In a Void River.
A silver-clad Silver-robed Dao Lord wielding a long spear moved with the force of a dragon, surging towards the Sect Master Jiu Chen.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Sect Master Jiu Chen managed to resist for a moment with a long staff, but ultimately escaped the Silver-robed Dao Lord's attack range in Immortal Body.
"Haha, Jiu Chen, you lasted a full hundred moves this time, you've improved again!" Ji Ning laughed as he flew over.
"Beiming, I'll take that as a compliment!"
The Sect Master Jiu Chen smiled wryly. Although fighting these Silver-robed Dao Lord always helped him a lot, the feeling of being humiliated every time was really unpleasant.
"Haha!" Ji Ning smiled, then said, "Watch me, this time I'm going to challenge four Silver-robed Dao Lord!"
"Hmm, Beiming, you've made great progress too!" Sect Master Jiu Chen nodded slightly.
"After all, we've been fighting here for nearly 30,000 years. These Silver-robed Dao Lord are powerful enough, much stronger than the Puppet that were once the four Holy City Lord Level. They always push me to my limit!" Ji Ning smiled.
"Yes, it's been 30,000 years," the Sect Master Jiu Chen suddenly said, sounding a little strange. Upon hearing this, Ji Ning was slightly taken aback, but he quickly realized what was going on.
The Sect Master Jiu Chen was referring to his master.
"It is indeed very strange!" Ji Ning nodded.
He only maintained a hundredfold acceleration, but within a few thousand years he had tasted the Dao of many sovereigns. After all, he wasn't directly learning the Dao of the sovereigns, but merely borrowing their mysteries, so it naturally didn't take much time.
Zhou Zheng, however, has maintained a thousandfold acceleration for a full thirty thousand years, yet he is still cultivating!
"Could it be that Dao Lord Cheng Tian has suddenly gained some enlightenment?" Sect Master Jiu Chen asked with some doubt.
Peak Dao Lord, especially powerful peak Dao Lord like Zhou Zheng, should have reached the end of the Dao before achieving Dao Merge. Even if they occasionally comprehend new things, they usually cannot form a system, so they shouldn't waste too much time.
It is indeed strange that he has suddenly gone into seclusion for so long.
"Um"
Ji Ning didn't speak; he suddenly had a guess.
And what followed was excitement and disbelief.
"Don't think too much about it. You'll know when my master comes out!" Ji Ning suppressed his guesses. This matter was too incredible. Even though Ji Ning that his master Zhou Zheng's talent was terrifying, he didn't dare to be sure.
After all, how long has it been since Zhou Zheng broke through to the Dao Lord realm?
Without further hesitation, Ji Ning flew directly towards the Xis Race army.
After Ji Ning and the Sect Master Jiu Chen realized that Zhou Zheng's seclusion had lasted for far too long, Zhou Zheng still showed no intention of emerging from seclusion for a considerable period of time afterward.
In the blink of an eye, another 50,000 years Past.
At this point, including the time Time Acceleration, Zhou Zheng had been in seclusion for a full 80 million years.
On this day, Zhou Zheng was sitting cross-legged on a star, finally opened his eyes.
At this moment, his eyes were filled with endless colors, and his heart was filled with a sense of liberation.
"With this breakthrough, the Dao has reached its ultimate state!" Zhou Zheng said softly.
A sudden realization often comes very suddenly.
Breakthroughs are achieved naturally after a moment of enlightenment.
Upon receiving the Dominator's inheritance, Zhou Zheng initially didn't gain much insight, but it wasn't until he began to carefully savor the Dao of each ruler that he truly understood.
These different paths are like tributaries, describing the rules of the ocean of 'Tao' in the entire Chaos Universe.
Zhou Zheng suddenly had an epiphany, and thus began a seclusion that lasted for eighty million years.
This period of seclusion also allowed Zhou Zheng to complete his final breakthrough before achieving Dao Merge.
The Ultimate Space-Time Dao has finally reached its fourth level!
This Ultimate Space-Time Dao at this level has undoubtedly reached the end before the Dao Merge; it is the pinnacle of the Dao at the Dao Lord level.
This level of Dao is only half a step away from the Dao of the Sovereign, and is comparable to the most powerful Holy City Lord.
"My current level has probably surpassed what it was before!" Zhou Zheng felt a slight sense of awe as he experienced the various aspects of the fourth level of the Ultimate Space-Time Dao.
Previously on the Origin Continent, although he could unleash the power of Universe God, that was with the help of the Thousand Worlds Seal; his true realm was actually the Chaos Realm Ninth Layer.
This level of attainment may surpass the Ultimate Dao of the third step, but it is probably inferior to the Ultimate Dao of the Fourth Step.
But that's normal. This Ultimate Dao is only one step away from becoming a master, and the level is already very, very high!
Zhou Zheng's breakthrough this time was far less smooth than before, which proves this point.
Guided by the Supreme Dao, Zhou Zheng spent five hundred million years in the land of the Xis Race without making a breakthrough. It was only in the Eternal Kingdom that he suddenly had an epiphany with the help of the Dao of many sovereigns, and finally took this step.
This demonstrates the difficulties involved.
Of course, while the breakthrough to the Ultimate Space-Time Dao in the Fourth Step is difficult, the mysteries within it are also incredible.
Taking the "Infinite Body" as an example, this move only helped Zhou Zheng form Space-Time Immortal Body. As he continued to break through, it only made the Space-Time Immortal Body more and more perfect.
But this time, upon breaking through to the fourth level, Zhou Zheng's Immortality Body not only became countless times more perfect, but more importantly, he could use this move to merge with 'space and time' at any time.
This is a special kind of 'escape technique'. Although it has never been used in actual combat, Zhou Zheng estimates that once he merges into spacetime, unless he is a ruler with extremely powerful detection abilities, it would be difficult for an ordinary ruler to detect him after he merges into spacetime.
Moreover, after merging with spacetime, Zhou Zheng's speed of travel will undergo a qualitative change, whether in the surface spacetime or the deep spacetime, which is simply incredible.
Of course, the changes in the "Infinite Body" are only one aspect.
After the breakthrough, the other four moves underwent tremendous changes. This was not just a transformation in power, but more importantly, they all became more mysterious and unpredictable.
"Hahaha, this breakthrough is truly exhilarating!!" Zhou Zheng couldn't help but laugh, while at the same time, a thought stirred within him.
In an instant, boundless power from the outside world was stirred up.
Rumble!
A massive amount of power entered Zhou Zheng's Divine Body, and the Dao Tree within him began its final transformation.
The limit of the Divine Tree of the Three-step Dao Lord is 96,000 zhang, while that of the Four-step Dao Lord is 108,000 zhang. Most Four-step Dao Lord need a long period of accumulation after breaking through to allow their Dao Tree to grow to 108,000 zhang, but as soon as Zhou Zheng broke through, his Dao Tree immediately headed straight for 108,000 zhang.
The Dao Tree absorbed Zhou Zheng's insights and grew very smoothly, while Zhou Zheng's Divine Body also began to transform rapidly.
At this moment, Zhou Zheng's Divine Body had completely surpassed that of peak Dao Lord and was beginning to advance towards the Divine Body of an Eternal Emperor, at the level of the City Lord Feixue.
Of course, the Divine Body of the Eternal Emperor all possess an aura of "Eternity," while Zhou Zheng's do not. Therefore, his Divine Body is merely powerful and vast, quite different from Divine Body of the Eternal Emperor.
Just as Zhou Zheng was breaking through, a voice filled with astonishment and confusion Zhou Zheng rang in his mind.
"Cheng Tian, Cheng Tian, why do I feel like you're breaking through?"
"Haha, I am indeed breaking through!" Zhou Zheng replied with a smile.
"You were already Four-step Dao Lord, and you weren't in the process of Dao Merge, so what are you breaking through to?" Black Bird Xuan Ling felt increasingly puzzled.
"Haha, who told you I was Four-step Dao Lord before?" Zhou Zheng said directly.
"When I first met you, you were only Two-step Dao Lord. After that, you only broke through to the third step. Now, you are only Four-step Dao Lord!"
"You were only Two-step Dao Lord back then?" Black Bird Xuan Ling was even more confused, but Zhou Zheng didn't say anything more, instead giving him time to digest the information.
Anyway, the facts are right in front of him, and he has no choice but to believe them.
PS: Third update.