Although Meng Chuan knew exactly what had happened while he was away, Ye Fan and the others still told him about some of it.
They asked for his opinions and advice. After all, someone at a higher level might offer a better solution.
As they talked, Dugu Baitian and Zhong Yue gradually joined in.
"After coming here, everything felt different. The Great Dao that had reached its end seemed to have come alive again."
Those were Zhong Yue's words. This world, after all, would allow him to keep advancing.
Both men also took the initiative to tell Ye Fan and the others about their own worlds.
They learned that, in Dugu Baitian's world, living beings could normally reach only the Near-Immortal level, while an evil Heavenly Dao possessed Immortal-level power. Yet he had carved out a path step by step, breaking through his world's limits by his own strength until he reached a level no weaker than a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
Everyone admired Dugu Baitian from the bottom of their hearts and regarded him with newfound respect.
"Fellow Daoist Dugu truly is a peerless hero."
Ye Fan was the one who said it.
Reaching the Quasi-Immortal Emperor level was hard enough. Countless living beings had existed across the vast Boundary Sea throughout the Past, Present, and Future.
Yet how many Quasi-Immortal Emperors were there?
Harder still than cultivating to that level by an established route was forging one's own path there when no path lay ahead.
The beings of the Boundary Sea at least had a path to follow: Human Dao, True Immortal, then Immortal King.
They could progress all the way to Immortal King before facing the barrier to becoming a Quasi-Immortal Emperor.
For Dugu Baitian, however, nothing lay beyond Human Dao but chaos. He had to carve out the