"So fast."
Li Xian slowly drew his mind out of its state of oneness with the Chaos Void.
He vaguely realized how extraordinary this step was.
No matter what stage his previous cultivation had reached, on some level, he had still merely been a living being within a universe.
Even...
Even Dao Masters and Overlords were no different.
Suppose there were no universes around the Chaos Void where they could rest and regain the meaning of "existence." Could they still survive in the Chaos Void?
Perhaps they could endure drifting for ten thousand eras, a hundred thousand eras, or even a million eras.
But what if that timescale stretched to ten million eras, a hundred million eras, or even the entire span of a universe's birth and destruction?
No Overlord could withstand drifting for such an immense length of time.
For their own "existence" still depended on universes. They could not escape the constraints of "existence" and become "existence" itself.
Only by taking another step and becoming an Ultimate above Dao Masters and Overlords...
That realm...
Was the true essence of "existence"!
They alone embodied an "Eternal Existence" that endured through the ages!
Even drifting through the Chaos Void for a hundred million, a billion, or ten billion eras would not affect them in the slightest.
They and the Chaos Void were two sides of one whole.
It was precisely their "existence" that gave birth to myriad things and beings, that gave "void" meaning.
"Whew."
Li Xian slowly exhaled.
At this moment, the direction of his will gave him a new understanding of the "Ultimate" Realm.
The pursuit of the Ultimate Realm...
Was, in fact, no longer about power.
It was about continuing to "exist" eternally.
Never being destroyed or erased by any external environment.
Power...
Was merely a byproduct