Nie Li now knew very clearly that Emperor Kongming and the Book of Time and Space Spirit must have an immense connection.
And when he placed his hand on the part of the Stone Stele that had not been scratched out...
His soul suddenly entered a space, where he saw a figure from behind and heard a voice.
"Who am I? Where, exactly, did I come from? And where am I going? Wherever my gaze reaches, countless lives fade away, while countless more are born. Humanity ceaselessly pursues the path of the strong, but what lies at its end? What makes the Way?"
Nie Li smiled as well. A question like this could hardly stump an old monster like him.
"Existence itself is the Way."
He understood now. Emperor Kongming must have grasped the meaning of the Way here. Yet among tens of thousands of years of records, there was not a single mention of this existence beyond Legendary. Had he gone somewhere else after his enlightenment?
Emperor Kongming stroked his white beard and recited the Ten-Character Mantra.
"Wuji has no beginning; only the beginningless has no end."
Nie Li merely heard that one line, yet both his Soul Force and his Demon Spirit grew stronger.
And he had only scratched the surface?
To have reached such an understanding of the martial Way while still at the Legendary stage, Emperor Kongming could not possibly have been an ordinary man.
Then why had Nie Li never heard of this astonishingly brilliant expert in his previous life?
Emperor Kongming explained that, through the Great Change Heavenly Calculation, he had foreseen five people obtaining his Cross True Formula. Each would understand it differently, and those five would fight one another to the death. Ultimately, one would devour the other four's understanding of the