The True Self Has Understood

The deduction ritual began. The Fate Demon God, who had always been so sure of himself, perhaps did not know that he would stumble this time.

A black-and-white chessboard soared out. The Fate Demon God emanated unfathomable mystery from head to toe, looking like an old man, yet also like a child...

The laws of Fate were profound and unfathomable. They could deduce the myriad things of Chaos and control all events destined to occur beneath the Great Dao.

Upon the chessboard, black and white pieces fell one after another, like Chaos beings being casually manipulated in his hand.

The Creation Demon God stood there, quietly waiting.

"Within fate lies fortune, within fortune lies life; life and death are the Dao!"

"Determine the myriad things, name the truth and falsehood of the Chaos races!"

After some time had passed...

At the heart of the Fate Daoist Ground, a bang rang out, and the pieces upon the Destiny Chessboard controlled by the Fate Demon God departed one by one.

"What?"

"Within what is predetermined, there is no life; within the Great Dao, fortune does not arise!"

"This is a variable... not an anomaly!"

The Fate Demon God spoke, his hands trembling and his body shaking as he hurriedly left the place. He laughed, looking at everything around him. "Impossible. How could this be possible?"

Then he widened his eyes and stared blankly at the Creation Demon God. In an utterly ordinary tone, he said, "Chaos... is about to change!"

An anomaly might still be calculated within predetermined fate, but a variable constantly shifted and leaped, making it utterly impossible to deduce.

Upon hearing this, the Creation Demon God froze for a moment and could not help taking two steps back.

"A variable?"

"Nothing is within control; everything lies beyond control!"

The Creation Demon God shook her head. How could that be possible? She controlled all uncontrollable factors beneath the Great Dao—creation opportunities, all things, and all living beings.

Fate controlled the original predetermined destinies of living beings; the plan for their entire lives lay within it. Creation, meanwhile, scattered opportunities of uncertain fate among living beings within their predetermined destinies.

For instance, a Chaos being's fate throughout its life might originally have been one of utter mediocrity.

Creation's role was to grant him an uncertain opportunity during that mediocre life. This opportunity encompassed every uncertain factor. It might be a spiritual treasure, a Daoist inheritance, or perhaps being taken in as a guard by some Demon God... From that point onward, his fate would be altered from its predetermined course.

Fate glanced at the Creation Demon God, feeling somewhat uneasy as well, but there was nothing he could do.

That was simply the situation. As for finding the existence of this variable, other than the Great Dao descending in person, who else could possibly find it?

"Forget it. This god will go take a look at Yang Mei's place!"

Creation's expression returned to normal. After calming herself somewhat, she vanished from where she stood.

Behind her, Fate shook his head, then glanced at his Destiny Chessboard.

"It makes no sense. How could a variable emerge? Even the anomalies have yet to be born!"

While the Creation Demon God visited other Demon Gods, Feng Yue hurried to comprehend his own Dao laws. The Boundless Dao formed through the power of space-time, combined with his supplementary cultivation of the Five Elements Great Dao laws, greedily absorbed all the Chaos power around him.

Even when a Chaos storm passed by his side, he would drag it over and devour it completely, thereby strengthening himself.

The Spacetime Chaos Tree, as his true body, could be said to be the greatest reward of being a transmigrator. By fusing with the Chaos Pearl, it controlled a Dao beyond the three thousand Great Dao laws.

"Spacetime Formation, tenfold acceleration!"

Feng Yue formed hand seals. Countless rune powers formed the power of a grand formation, enveloping a Chaos region spanning hundreds of millions of miles, then accelerating the space-time laws within it. In this way...

One eon passing outside would become ten eons within the formation. Feng Yue's cultivation speed would become even faster, and his realm comprehension would improve ever more swiftly, beyond anyone's reach.

This was the heaven-defying aspect of the space-time laws: they allowed one to cheat in cultivation.

He even twisted and altered the space-time of the surrounding Chaos region, turning it into an entire spherical space that wrapped around him, allowing him alone to absorb Chaos power from six directions at once.

"Argh, I can't take it anymore!"

"Let me out...!"

A living being cried out from Feng Yue's sleeve, periodically releasing lightning power to strike his body. Through his clothes, a burst of numbness could be felt.

"Hmph. A mere Lightning Demon God, trapped by this true self within a two-dimensional space fragment, still dares to resist?"

"Do you not realize that your attacks are nothing more than scratching an itch to this true self?"

As he spoke, Feng Yue lowered his head and drove a strand of Chaos divine soul into the two-dimensional space fragment.

In an instant, divine fire ignited the Lightning Demon God at the center of the fragment. He was like a sheet of thin paper, enduring the tempering of fierce flames and feeling the agony brought by the fire's extreme heat.

Miserable screams immediately rang out. Feng Yue intermittently sealed off his six senses, leaving him to shout as he pleased.

These Demon Gods were all contemptible. When they first encountered him, every one of them had been fierce and imposing, acting incredibly impressive. Yet when they were finally punished, they became pitiful and pathetic, begging for forgiveness.

As Feng Yue continued this cultivation session, time swiftly flowed by. The years were like a song, life like a dream...

From the space-time laws, he comprehended his own Dao. Again and again, he traversed space-time. In one dimension, everything stood still, like a clear mirror that could reveal only one side. In two dimensions, it was like a thin sheet of paper, crossing and leaping from both front and back.

Upon reaching three-dimensional space and layering it with the laws of time, he seemed to traverse the ages and arrive on Earth, where he saw all manner of human figures appearing...

At an even higher dimension, it seemed he stood before aliens. He could see countless spaces overlapping, each separated by a space-time barrier. Though they clearly lived in the same place, they were separated by an immense distance, unable to see or touch one another...

The manifestation of countless dimensions, the traversal of countless ages—space-time black holes, space-time white holes, wormholes...

This enlightenment lasted for a full thirty calamities.

It was also the longest period Feng Yue had ever spent cultivating on his own.

Comprehending the Great Dao of space-time, immersed in the ocean of the Dao, he saw the essence of the universe.

Everything came from nothing.

Everything had a beginning and an end!

Everything was constructed and evolved!

"Time is boundless, space is infinite, space-time is immeasurable!"

"By mastering the complete Great Dao of space-time, one can traverse the ages and reach the ultimate path of all space-time, freely crossing the ultimate reaches of countless years, even finding different living beings in different dimensions and different cosmic spaces!"

"If a Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal merely controls laws, then a Limitless Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal transforms the laws of space-time into their own true Dao, fusing them into one's being. Space-time is I, and I am space-time!"

"When space-time transforms into the Dao of Boundlessness, once I reach the Limitless Primordial Zenith Dao Venerable realm in the future, I will be able to evolve the Great Dao from within my own body, transforming it into a Chaos universe, dividing and gathering universes, creating stellar rivers...!"

"This true self has understood!"

"A Primordial Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal is merely the starting point. To become a true Great Dao, one must evolve a Chaos realm within one's own body!"

"The Immeasurable Space-Time Sutra merely records the divine abilities of space-time laws and understandings of alchemy, artifact forging, and formations. Yet all understanding of a Great Dao must be walked, sought, and achieved by oneself...!"