[Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking Thirty-Thousandth Layer, an Unexpected Speed of "Assimilation," a Seal?]

[Age 52]

[You had spent all this time developing, or rather, letting the "talented ones" of the Heavenly Gate develop.]

[The Nascent Soul True Lords you had devoured before had all gradually been replaced.]

[Meanwhile, a full six Nascent Soul True Lords had broken through to the [nascent soul middle stage].]

[The power of this rule-type ability, the [Fate Demon Dice], had grown increasingly formidable...]

[Naturally, you stood on no ceremony. You grabbed them outright and refined them in an instant.]

[Your foundation establishment cultivation instantly reached the [foundation establishment limit-breaking nine-thousandth layer].]

[Your qi refining cultivation reached the [qi refining limit-breaking thirty-three-thousandth layer]!]

[Aside from your foundation establishment limit-breaking cultivation approaching ten thousand layers again, which would make you undergo another assimilation by "heaven and earth,"]

[You no longer worried about anything else...]

[Of course, you did not forget to send those "other selves" out to preach.]

[Yet throughout this entire year, your [golden talent: Listening] had barely triggered any useful intelligence!]

[Apart from that one piece of eight-ring intelligence, the others had peaked at just three rings. It was utterly agonizing...]

[Sometimes, you really wanted to confront Zero. Just how much of your intelligence had that fellow "pocketed"?!]

[But there was nothing you could do. Circumstances were stronger than you, and Zero now had the [Infinity Rules Mask] empowering him.]

[With one-twentieth of the mighty power, he could interact with reality more strongly than ever before!]

[Although he was bound by the rules of [colorful talent: Ten Gates],]

[And could not strike at you, that did nothing to stop him from laying his plans...]

[You had no idea what he had gone off to do after orchestrating everything and abandoning his identity as "Present Li Ping."]

[But whatever he sought next was certainly no small thing!]

[Still, without