[Everything was ready, yet you did not seize the opportunity to enter seclusion and cultivate.]
[At this point, even cultivating with your life on the line would earn you no more than a handful of additional levels in foundation establishment limit-breaking.]
[Against the endgame you were about to face, that paltry improvement was a cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood—utterly meaningless.]
[What truly kept you from acting was the message of divine sense sent by "Old Self"—]
[One year at most.]
[After one year, that higher-dimensional method would fail, and your sealed memories would surge back like floodwaters bursting through a dam.]
[Faced with this warning that sounded like an ultimatum, you remained expressionless, offering only a deathly silence.]
[You entered the [Dream Realm]. This time, you had come not to wander, but to slaughter.]
[Apart from the forces of the [Immortal Palace], which remained intact, you regarded everything else as fuel for your cultivation.]
[With "Old Self's" tacit permission, you harvested the Dream Realm bare. Vast quantities of experience points and attribute points poured into [foundation establishment limit-breaking] like rivers flowing into the sea.]
[Under the terrifying amplification of [purple talent: Heaven Rewards Diligence], your cultivation soared all the way to [foundation establishment limit-breaking, level 9,100]!]
[Your great Dao foundation reached ninety-one million five hundred thousand zhang, towering like an impassable natural barrier.]
[Yet not the slightest ripple stirred in your heart.]
[Too weak.]
[To you now, it was nothing more than psychological comfort, barely better than nothing.]
[You left the Dream Realm and descended upon the [Taiyin Sacred Land], confronting the [Taiyin True Lord] directly.]
[Over the years, she had kept such a low profile that she was almost invisible, showing no sign of anything unusual.]
[Whether you examined her past or used the