Su Mo struggled to raise his hand and picked up the Heaven-Defying Pill.
The Heaven-Defying Pill held Du Pingsheng's lifelong protest against the Heavenly Dao, along with vast, surging Dao Power!
Clearly, like Su Mo, Du Pingsheng had long raged against heaven...
Su Mo raised the Heaven-Defying Pill Du Pingsheng had dropped before his face.
Above him in the void, Du Pingsheng watched Su Mo's movements, his expression steeped in sorrow.
He had already guessed what Su Mo intended to do. The Heaven-Defying Pill held immense plant energy.
Once Su Mo swallowed it, he would forcibly break straight through to Spirit Transformation. By then, even the Heavenly Tribulation would no longer be able to suppress his cultivation back to Nascent Soul.
Yet, though Su Mo would reach Spirit Transformation, he would also face the fully unleashed wrath of the Heavenly Tribulation.
If it could not suppress him, it would erase him...
Then, every means Su Mo had of escape would become useless. Even if he could find a way to flee beyond the world, he would still be unable to escape the Heavenly Tribulation's execution once he returned.
This was a method that smashed the cauldrons and sank the boats, and a road of no return.
"The Confucian Dao lies outside the Six Paths and cannot enter Spirit Transformation..." the Great Calamity had once said.
"The price of reaching Spirit Transformation through the Confucian Dao is enormous. You... cannot bear it..." the Strange Man had once said.
Everyone in the world said, "The Confucian Dao cannot enter Spirit Transformation..."
Those voices lingered in Su Mo's ears, refusing to fade.
His gaze somewhat unfocused, Su Mo looked at the Heaven-Defying Pill in his hand and smiled faintly.
"I don't believe it!"
With that, Su Mo tilted his head back, tossed the