[Speculation, activating [Golden Talent: Investment], investing a Supreme Fruit Position?]
[Was this a joint extermination by "Heaven and Earth" and the being who created the [Dao of Qi Refining Limit-Breaking]?]
[For a moment, you were even more speechless. What the fuck was all this?]
[So fucking underhanded...]
[And what was true assimilation by Heaven and Earth?]
[You had always believed that what you were experiencing now was the "real thing."]
[Now, it seemed that wasn't the case!]
[But you soon understood and arrived at a conjecture—]
[Could the assimilation by "Heaven and Earth" you were currently experiencing all be passive?]
[Just an insignificant wisp of mighty power?]
[After all, "Heaven and Earth" could scheme, too!]
[Yet whenever you were passively "assimilated," you had never noticed anything of the sort.]
[It felt like genuine "tribulation transcendence," like some rigidly prescribed task.]
[If "Heaven and Earth" were consciously scheming to assimilate you...]
[You couldn't even imagine how terrifying that would be!]
[And just how heaven-defying was that Otherworldly Demon from the Second Era?!]
[They had actually managed to leave behind fruit position mystique at this stage!]
[And what kind of fruit position mystique was carrying out their underhanded attack on you?!]
[That wasn't even the end of it. It would actually alert their past self at the height of their power in the Second Era,]
[Thereby triggering an even more heaven-defying sudden upheaval...]
[All you could say was, "Life is unpredictable; it's all small sausages wrapped in large intestines."]
[Even after all this, you had only gained a little clarity about the enormous pitfall at the [qi refining limit-breaking forty-thousandth layer].]
[You still knew nothing about the foundation establishment limit-breaking side of things...]
[Meanwhile, you refined all nine Nascent Soul True Lords who had broken through to the middle stage in one go.]
[Your qi refining limit-breaking reached the [qi refining limit-breaking