In an unnamed city.
At some point, Ziyuan seemed finally to recover.
Collecting herself, she carefully recalled everything she had experienced during this time.
Back then, only her mind had been eroded by the Void; she had not forgotten what had happened. Now, taking a moment to piece it together...
"I actually..."
Ziyuan drew a deep breath, a trace of lingering fear flashing through her eyes.
She had come within a hair's breadth of sinking completely into the Void.
Had Li Xian not appeared in time and taken her away from that Void Tide, she would probably have become part of it by now. "I thought I had already reached great accomplishment in the Great Dao of Nihility, that I was only one final step from understanding Void Power. I never imagined... I would nearly throw away my own life."
She had been too eager for quick results.
Although the Path of Limitlessness was somewhat easier than the Path of Great Luo, which of the three Great Daos-soul, limitlessness, and nihility-did not transcend comprehension, with nothing to draw upon?
Humans, after all, lived in the material world.
The five elements, Yin-Yang, destruction, creation, slaughter, darkness, flowing light...
These Great Daos were all parts of what constituted the world, within easy reach.
Comprehending them naturally meant progressing a thousand miles a day.
Even relatively conceptual Great Daos such as order, karma, devouring, and life were intimately connected to intelligent beings.
They were nothing like soul, limitlessness, and nihility, so intangible and difficult to grasp.
Especially nihility...
If it truly were so easy to comprehend thoroughly, the Limitless Star Palace would not have produced so few Limitlessness True Immortals over its nearly million-year history. "I was too impatient."
Ziyuan closed her eyes and steadied her mind.
In this age, probably only that