The years flowed on, aging men in the flick of a finger.
In the blink of an eye, Carefree Heavenly Venerate was already over twelve thousand years old and had reached the twilight of this life.
He no longer looked as he had in his prime. His hair was gray, his blood sluggish, his flesh slack. He looked no different from an old man in the mortal world.
Yet the profound gaze revealed whenever he raised his eyes, and the terrifying scenes of galaxies flickering into extinction and space and time shifting within them, all showed that even though the years had brought him low, this old man was still the Carefree Heavenly Venerate who had once stood invincible throughout the universe.
At that moment, he rose inside a simple, ancient Daoist temple. With a single step, he reached the utmost speed in the universe, instantly crossing an endless sea of stars, sweeping past the Cosmic Frontier, and entering the chaos.
A single casual step truly brought the ends of the heavens within arm's reach. Such was the fastest man of all time. Even in the infinitely distant future, no one would surpass Carefree Heavenly Venerate in this path.
Though Carefree Heavenly Venerate had grown old and frail, and had not concealed his Extreme Dao might, the beings in the universe capable of detecting his movements remained few and far between.
Across the entire starry sky, only those Extreme Dao factions and a handful of high-ranking Quasi-Venerables could detect Carefree Heavenly Venerate's movements in that instant.
In their eyes, Carefree Heavenly Venerate had likely exhausted his lifespan and was heading into the chaos to find a burial ground for the body of this life. Perhaps before long, they would feel the Heavenly Heart tremble.
Meanwhile, Carefree Heavenly Venerate had