Inside the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda.
Chen Xun's black hair had gradually transformed into silver, his eyes cold and emotionless, unfathomable as an abyss.
Natural disasters surged all around him, presenting a scene of a world's destruction, yet they could not stir the slightest emotion in his eyes.
He seemed detached from the world, looking down upon the changes unfolding across the first floor of the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda. He did not interfere, nor did he feel any sentiment—there was only boundless calm.
Through Chen Xun's eyes, it seemed he saw disordered Great Dao Chains imprisoning this world of disasters, as well as his own Void Refinement Realm.
"Divine Sense, Primordial Spirit, physical body, acupoints... all have Great Dao Chains. If one enters the Dao Integration Realm, they must sever them one by one."
Chen Xun took out a small notebook and slowly wrote upon it with Five-Elements Power. "Heavenly Gifts, the disordered Great Dao merging into cultivators' bodies. Comprehend the origin of one's own Immortal Path. The stronger one is, the more they comprehend. One must rise another step and perfect one's own Great Dao."
"The weaker one is, the more limited their comprehension. Their path to heaven ends there; there is no need to comprehend more Great Daos. Severing a single Great Dao Chain they have comprehended will allow them to enter the Dao Integration Realm."
"What are heaven and earth... What is the Immortal Path..."
Chen Xun's Five-Elements Immortal Eyes revolved like stars, seeing through all illusions. "There are ten thousand Great Dao Chains, corresponding to everything within oneself, and likewise to the path of the Heaven-Piercing Pagoda. This place likely has ten thousand floors."
"This is the limit of heaven and earth, the limit of the Immortal Path. If one can shatter every Great Dao Shackle of their own