"Oh no! Am I still going to follow in the Third-Generation Sea Emperor's footsteps?"
Li Chen was startled, and the many legends of the Blue Sea Water Realm he had learned in the past flashed through his mind.
Only now did he realize that the historical records might contain errors born of unfounded assumptions. The Blue Sea Water Realm had not been destroyed by some outside enemy, nor had it fallen to a calamity descending from the heavens.
The Third-Generation Sea Emperor himself had been the source of every disaster!
He had not expected such a development after successfully using an incarnation to isolate his True Spirit from contact with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth and achieve Void Refinement and Dao Unification.
But on second thought, it was not entirely unexpected.
He had already considered what form he might take after becoming the Heavenly Dao.
He had also learned something of the Third-Generation Sea Emperor's endlessly expanding corpse and speculated that it might be a normal process in the evolution of Heaven and Earth.
In fact, an outcome in which he only expanded after using his power, and did not expand when he left it unused, was already remarkably favorable. It gave Li Chen ample time and opportunity to study the underlying patterns.
He decided to calm down and stop frightening himself for now.
This was not necessarily all bad. There were benefits, after all.
The growth of his Law Domain's reach and his magic power was real. If he wished, he could now continue expanding exponentially, rising by several powers every second, and surpass an ordinary Primordial Spirit cultivator by hundreds of millions of times in a single day!
But he also understood that, at this level of cultivation, simply comparing the reach of one's Law Domain