The "place" where Shi Hao, Ye Fan, Chu Feng, and Ruthless now stood was a necessary stop on the way to Above Sacrificial Dao.
It did not exist only in the Shrouding the Heavens World. More precisely, it was not a physical place, but a kind of "realm."
It was a realm that did not exist until a living being reached this step and discovered it.
One had to sacrifice the Great Dao, the Evolution Path, and oneself, reducing everything to emptiness and consigning everything to eternal silence until one entered a state of complete death.
At the same time, before that final stillness, one needed not only sufficient strength but also the corresponding strength of will.
Only by meeting both requirements—peerless strength and an extraordinary will—did one have a chance of entering this realm.
Without them, one could die a thousand times and still never reach it.
Of course, no one could attempt to break into this realm a thousand times.
This place could not be glimpsed. It existed in no dimension. One could say it did not exist at all; only those who met the conditions within themselves could reach this step.
Whether it existed depended entirely on the living being in question.
It was important to note that reaching this "realm" did not mean one had successfully broken through to Above Sacrificial Dao.
This was merely a place of ascension, a realm where one was elevated—a transitional place.
To truly break through and reach Above Sacrificial Dao, one had to awaken from that final stillness, gather life anew here, and wait to live again and return to the Mortal World.
Only then would the breakthrough be complete: one would attain Chaos and truly stand above all things.
But in this realm, nothing beyond the True Self could