"In the past, the Dao of 'Limitlessness' I sought for myself always broke through first. This time... the annihilation of my will took the lead instead." Li Xian quietly recalled the process of this "annihilation."
It had been truly eternal emptiness and eternal nothingness.
That hollowness and nothingness could devour the mind of any living being, utterly collapse the meaning of its "existence," and leave it forever lost in infinite nothingness and annihilation.
Even he had needed a full thousand years before he could shatter that nothingness and annihilation with a more absolute, more infinite will and emerge from endless sinking.
That process...
He had clearly experienced no battles to the death, no clashes with powerful foes, yet this unseen opponent had been no less dangerous than any opponent he had faced before.
Li Xian even felt some admiration for the Great Truth Dao Master.
He wondered how that Dao Master had endured the trial of annihilation back then.
"Enduring it is one thing. The key is... how to face the self that remains after 'annihilation.'"
Li Xian examined his mental state.
Every time he recalled it, he seemed to feel something indescribable.
It was a fear that would make his hair stand on end and send chills through him even if he fell into it again.
Though he had endured annihilation...
Unless he truly gathered all forms of his will into "Oneness" and completely replaced everything with "Oneness," this feeling would torment him every moment.
What was this called?
A lifelong shadow?
But this shadow...
Was also the method of cultivation for the annihilation stage.
It would remain with the Dao Lords and Golden Immortals who walked this path, eroding their hearts more fiercely each time.
Cultivators would either be utterly devoured by this ever-strengthening Great Annihilation or, through