[You were somewhat alarmed and uncertain. According to your original plan,]
["Old Self" would fish you out the instant you lost yourself.]
[Yet just now, you had nearly lost yourself completely...]
[It was not because "Old Self" had failed to act, but because his intervention had been useless!]
[Normally, as with your previous two instances of Qi Refining ten-thousand-layer limit-breaking, nothing would happen; once "Old Self" intervened, everything would be fine.]
[But this time was different. You had glimpsed part of the truth behind incomplete heaven and earth.]
[The more clearly you saw it, the harder it became for "Old Self" to fish you out.]
[And this was with "Old Self" already established as the "present," damn it.]
[Without that... the final outcome was all too easy to imagine!]
[The more you thought about it, the more terrifying it became. Although "Old Self" had ultimately managed to fish you out, this was only [Qi Refining thirty-thousand-layer limit-breaking].]
[What if you later reached [Qi Refining forty-thousand-layer limit-breaking], or even [Qi Refining fifty-thousand-layer limit-breaking]?!]
[To take it further, what would happen at [Qi Refining hundred-thousand-layer limit-breaking]?!]
[Wasn't this sheer madness?! Would you glimpse the "great secrets of heaven and earth" and lose yourself outright when the time came?]
[You had a premonition that the further you pushed your limit-breaking, the greater the secrets of heaven and earth you would uncover!]
[Still, you believed you had something else to rely on, namely—]
[[Purple Talent: I Am the Chess Player] and that chaos Supreme Treasure, the [Primordial Chaos Bell]. Presumably, they would play their part when the time came...]
[After dealing with this matter, you asked Past Li Ping what he thought of your limit-breaking.]
[After all, he had once been a mighty [Otherworldly Demon]!]
[He had seen far more than you had!]