[What Was the "Sliver of Vitality"? Reviewing the Clues, the Reincarnation of the First Jade Pool Great Emperor]

[What exactly was the "sliver of vitality"?]

[Once "Old Self" obtained it, he could defeat the strong despite being weak, directly establishing the current state of the game and driving [Supreme Immortal] and [Heaven and Earth] into the [Future].]

[The existence assimilating the [Longevity Realm] seemed to be in the same situation.]

[You did not understand, but surely someone did. For example... the past Li Ping in the memory scene beside you!]

[Surely, no one understood this better than him. You asked:]

["What is the 'sliver of vitality'?"]

["The sliver of vitality?!"]

[Your question clearly caught Past Li Ping somewhat off guard.]

["Why? Did you discover something?"]

[You nodded and explained the eight rings' worth of intelligence you had just heard. Since you were asking him about it, you naturally had to explain why...]

[After hearing it, Past Li Ping clicked his tongue in wonder:]

["From what you've said, this existence assimilating the [Longevity Realm] is quite a figure!"]

["With [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] scheming ahead and [Supreme Immortal] and [Heaven and Earth] plotting behind, they still dared to enter the game themselves, hoping to gamble for that 'sliver of vitality' and take another step forward..."]

[Something seemed to occur to him, and he gradually fell silent. After a while, he finally spoke with the Great Dao's voice, which drifted out of the memory scene:]

["The Great Dao numbers fifty; heaven unfolds forty-nine, and humanity escapes through the remaining one! All things possess a sliver of vitality."]

["This is the deepest underlying logic of every mechanism, an axiom that must exist, the foundation of everything..."]

["No matter how hopeless the death trap, how complex the contest, or how vast the game, even at the endgame, a 'sliver of vitality' will always exist..."]

["This 'sliver of vitality' can be merely