The streets swallowed every name

Lin Jun said all this, then immediately leaped into the Soul-forging Furnace.

The entire space fell silent, save for the tens of thousands of specks of starlight drifting slowly around them.

"Ah..."

Watching Lin Jun leap into the Soul-forging Furnace without the slightest hesitation, Lao Xu could not help sighing.

That kid will do anything.

"Senior, what is the sovereign doing?"

Quan Yao did not understand Lin Jun's actions. He had wanted to ask earlier, but Lin Jun had acted so decisively that he had found no good chance to speak.

"He wants to refine every trace of energy in this Stone Stele—to take the final laments left by more than thirty thousand eras and make them his own, proving the supreme Dao."

Of course, no supreme Dao existed in this world. Lao Xu only put it that way because Lin Jun really was trying to break beyond Spirit Transcendence.

No one knew what lay beyond Spirit Transcendence.

That was what the Soul-forging Furnace could do. And perhaps only Lin Jun would dare use it for something that looked so plainly like courting death.

"I see..."

Quan Yao murmured to himself. He did not quite understand, but he grasped that Lin Jun wanted to break through the limits of his cultivation.

Lin Jun wanted to leap from having just entered Spirit Transcendence straight into the unknown realm beyond it.

"Could he succeed?"

Quan Yao asked. Lao Xu shook his head repeatedly.

"Nothing like this has happened since ancient times. Besides, we don't even know whether a higher realm exists. For all we know, Lin Jun is wasting his effort."

Spirit Transcendence was already the limit, and even reaching that limit required outside help. What could sustain anything beyond it?

"The sovereign must have thought of that too."

Quan Yao could