Countless thin threads of cause and effect floated and entwined around him, silently linking all things in the universe.
This seemingly shabby scribe is the old friend Thunder Abyss came here to look for this time, Peak Saint Emperor--Saint Emperor Xuantong who is in charge of Great Dao of Karma.
Thunder Abyss raised his eyes and looked directly at the other party, his tone was a bit playful and cold, and he was the first to ask, "What? Are you sure that I will come here on a special trip?"
Hearing this, Saint Emperor Xuantong, who had been closing his eyes to rest his mind, slowly opened his eyes.
He does not have the sharp eyes of an ordinary strong man, nor does he have the power to dominate the world.
A pair of eyes are clear and deep, like a bottomless pool that has been silent for eternity. They look ordinary, but they have a power to attract people's hearts, making people look deeply into them involuntarily, and their hearts Divine Capital are almost pulled in.
But this causal charm that can shake thousands of monks has no effect on Thunder Abyss who is also Peak Saint Emperor.
His Daoist heart was as solid as a rock, unaffected at all, and his expression remained cold and calm.
Saint Emperor Xuantong looked at him with lowered eyes, a faint smile on the corners of his lips, and his tone was still slow and somewhat erratic. "If you are here, then you are here."
It's this kind of ambiguous, pretentious rhetoric again.
Thunder Abyss felt impatient in his heart and completely lost interest in fighting with him.
What makes him most impatient in his life is Xuantong's specious and roundabout speaking style.
He was too lazy to talk nonsense and went straight to the point with a crisp tone. "I came to you specially this time because I have a huge opportunity for you."
As soon as these words came out, Saint Emperor Xuantong, who was suspended in the void, was slightly startled, and a real surprise flashed across his eyes.
He knows Thunder Abyss's temperament very well.
This person is decisive in killing and has an arrogant temperament. Whenever he has a treasure or an opportunity, he always holds it tightly in his hands and hides it. He rarely shares it with others and is very stingy.
Today he actually came to your door and said he wanted to give you a chance?
Saint Emperor Xuantong didn't believe it at all, he had already seen through the details.
Without any detailed deduction, he knew clearly that with Thunder Abyss's character, he would not go to the Three Treasures Palace for any reason, let alone give away benefits to others for free.
Most likely, he encountered a difficult problem that he couldn't solve by his own means, so he crossed the void to seek help from him.
The so-called opportunity is just a polite excuse and an excuse for this guy to find help.
Xuantong had a smile in his eyes and said calmly, "Since this is a rare opportunity, I won't compete with you. You can keep it for yourself."
Seeing that he didn't believe it at all and just shied away, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor immediately snorted coldly, with a firm and somewhat strong tone. "Huh! If you give up like this, you will definitely regret it in the future until your intestines are blue!"
Seeing him speaking so seriously and swearing so confidently, and not looking like a casual lie, Saint Emperor Xuantong's curiosity was completely aroused.
He raised his eyebrows slightly and thought to himself, what kind of opportunity would allow Thunder Abyss, who has always been aloof and cherishes treasures, to travel across countless universes and galaxies to deliver it to him in person?
"Tell me, what do you need from me?"
Saint Emperor Xuantong has a restrained and gentle charm of the Tao of Cause and Effect flowing around him, without any hint of hypocrisy or politeness.
His eyes calmly looked directly at Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor in front of him, his tone was crisp and straight to the point, and he did not beat around the bush at all.
Living to the point where they are Peak of the Saint Emperor Realm, each other's hearts are very clear.
He is very aware of Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor's temperament. This person is domineering and aloof, and he never asks for help in anything.
Today I specially came to visit in person, and as soon as I opened my mouth, I said that I would give myself a great opportunity. There is no such thing as a free pie in the world.
To put it bluntly, this guy just asked me for help, and the so-called opportunity was just a bargaining chip.
When Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor heard this, a meaningful smile appeared on his face. The Dao of Thunder rhyme that was raging around him calmed down a little, and he slowly asked.
"Brother Xuantong, do you think it's really the end after the Peak of the Saint Emperor Realm? Is there a higher and stronger realm than ours in the world?"
Hearing this sudden question, Saint Emperor Xuantong frowned slightly, a clear look of surprise flashed across his eyes, and his heart was filled with confusion.
It's really confusing to suddenly bring up the topic of breaking through the realm while not talking about business.
Do you still need to ask about this?
The answer has long been obvious.
Saint Emperor Xuantong shook his head slightly, with a tone of indifference that had gone through the years, and asked, "We Peak Saint Emperor have spent countless years in retreat, studying and exploring desperately. Everyone is longing for a higher realm, but in the end, who has really seen a glimpse of the path to transcendence?"
This is true.
At their Peak of the Saint Emperor Realm level, they have already stood at the top of this world's cultivation system and have touched the limit of this world's great avenues.
The road ahead is completely blocked, and the practice has come to an end.
No matter how hard you practice in seclusion in the future, no matter how much you comprehend the laws of heaven day and night, you will never make half an inch of progress in your cultivation, realm, or foundation of the great path.
There is no way forward, and it is difficult to walk even half a step.
Saint Emperor Xuantong is even more confused. It is impossible for Thunder Abyss to not understand such a simple truth. It is completely unnecessary to come here to ask himself this question today.
There was a moment of silence, Saint Emperor Xuantong's eyes were heavy, and he slowly opened up the old accounts that had been settled for a long time. "Back then, you took the lead in recruiting a few of us to join forces to kill Willow Deity. Wasn't the purpose of coveting her Saint Emperor origin?"
"You want to seize her unique Great Dao of Life, blend it with your own origin, and try to use this road to break the shackles, break through the limits of the Peak of the Saint Emperor Realm, and reach a higher realm. Am I right?"
Saint Emperor Xuantong was also one of the participants in the shocking battle that encircled and suppressed Willow Deity. The whole process is vivid and has not been forgotten.
And the instigator of that killing was none other than Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor.
It was Thunder Abyss who first discovered the strange peculiarity of Willow Deity Great Dao of Life--
Her origin is extremely heaven-defying, capable of swallowing up all the heavens and ten thousand ways, absorbing all the origins of other Saint Emperor avenues, and turning them into nourishment for herself.
It is precisely because of this terrifying ability that Willow Deity's background far exceeds that of his peer Saint Emperor.
Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor took a fancy to this point and made the ultimate calculation in his mind.
As long as he seizes the Great Dao of Life origin of Willow Deity and blends it into his own thunder origin, he can reproduce this heaven-defying ability.
When the time comes, he will be able to devour the origins of other Saint Emperor's Dao, and use the Dao bodies of thousands of powerful people as nutrients to forcibly build a new path of cultivation that transcends Saint Emperor!
This was his biggest obsession back then, and it was also the fundamental reason why he dared to surround and suppress Willow Deity at all costs!
Hearing this, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor nodded slowly, with a strong sense of regret and unwillingness in his eyes, and his tone was a bit sad.
"It's a pity that we worked together to kill Willow Deity, but we couldn't keep her body."
"In this vast world, we searched Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, void rifts, and all hidden secrets, but we still couldn't find any trace."
After all these years, Thunder Abyss is still full of regrets when he mentions the plan he made back then.
He has imagined countless times that if he had successfully obtained the origin of Willow Deity, he would have definitely broken free from the shackles of Saint Emperor and set foot on a new pinnacle of the road, and would not be stuck in the same place.
Just when Thunder Abyss's mind was wandering, Saint Emperor Xuantong shook his head directly and shattered his remaining illusions with one sentence, his tone was extremely sober.
"Your idea seems feasible, but have you thought about the most critical issue?"
"If this path can really lead to a breakthrough, Willow Deity herself has a complete Great Dao of Life and controls the purest devouring ability. Why doesn't she devour the origins of other Saint Emperors and achieve self-breakthrough?"
This question instantly made Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor speechless.
The reason couldn't be simpler.
In terms of the ability to swallow all the ways and refine the origin, no one can be stronger than Willow Deity, who has a complete origin.
Even if they succeeded in carving up the origin of Willow Deity back then, what they got was only incomplete abilities, and their power was not even one-tenth of that of Willow Deity.
Things that Willow Deity in their complete state don't even bother to do. How can they change their fate and break through the realm with their incomplete fur?
Saint Emperor Xuantong's sharp eyes and clear words completely shattered Thunder Abyss's obsession. "There is only one possibility."
"At our level, the limits of the great avenues of heaven and earth have already locked everything. Even if we have the ability to devour ten thousand ways, and no matter how much Saint Emperor origin we refine, it will not be able to support us in breaking through the shackles."
"That's why Willow Deity never used this ability from the beginning to the end, because it was useless. In this way, there is no difference at all between having and not having this heaven-defying ability!"
Xuantong's tone was unceremonious, and he didn't leave any sympathy for Thunder Abyss.
He confessed that when he participated in the encirclement and suppression of Willow Deity, he had the same delusion as Thunder Abyss, thinking that by seizing Great Dao of Life, he could break through the realm by devouring the source.
But after countless years of precipitation and calm thinking, he had long since figured it out.
These shortcuts that Saint Emperor can think of, how could Willow Deity himself not think of them?
Willow Deity If you don't do it, it's definitely not because you don't want to break through, but because you know clearly that this road is a dead end and your efforts are in vain.
He even secretly speculated that Willow Deity might have tried to refine the origin of others in private long ago. He tried many times, but finally gave up this wrong path after confirming that it was useless.
Relying on their incomplete origins, it is naturally impossible for them to succeed.
After listening to Saint Emperor Xuantong's analysis, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor remained silent for a long time.
Why doesn't he understand these truths in his heart?
It's just that my obsession was too deep and I never really gave in.
He never tried it himself or witnessed the failure with his own eyes, so he always took chances and felt that nothing was certain. What if this road could work?
Only when he personally encountered a wall and completely failed, was he willing to admit that the path he had pursued for half his life was wrong.
After a long time, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor suppressed the surging thoughts in his heart, raised his eyes to look at Xuantong, his expression became completely serious, and he overturned the previous topic.
"Everything you said is right. But I am not here to come to you today for old things, nor for Willow Deity."
Saint Emperor Xuantong There was a trace of doubt in his eyes, and he leaned forward slightly. "What do you mean?"
Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor took a deep breath, and for the first time, unconcealable solemnity and frustration appeared on his face, which had always been unruly and domineering.
Even his voice lowered a bit. "Not long ago, I met someone."
After a pause, he said word by word with a heavy tone, "I am not as good as him. He is stronger than me!"
Boom!
With just one sentence, it was as if invisible thunder exploded among the palaces.
Saint Emperor Xuantong, who originally had a calm expression and no disturbance in his mood, suddenly shrank his pupils, his face was filled with incredible surprise, and he suddenly raised his eyes and stared at Thunder Abyss.
He frowned and even raised his voice, questioning with some disbelief. "Are you deliberately entertaining me? Are you making such a silly joke with me?"
He knows Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor's character very well.
This person is in charge of Great Dao of Thunder, and his offensive power is unparalleled among all Saint Emperors. He has been unruly, domineering and conceited throughout his life, and never admits defeat in his eyes.
In the past, when he fought against other Saint Emperor, even if the battle ended in a draw and both sides suffered losses, he would always be able to force his words and think that he had the upper hand over the opponent, and would never admit that anyone was better than him.
For Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor, who has been arrogant all his life, to say the words "I am not as good as him" with his own words, it is simply more outrageous than killing a Saint Emperor of the same level!
Xuantong couldn't believe it at all and just thought he was deliberately teasing her.
Seeing this, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor looked firm, without any intention of joking, and solemnly repeated again, "I didn't make any lies, and I didn't mean to amuse you."
"I really met a terrifying and powerful man, I am really not as good as him!"
Seeing that his expression was solemn and not fake, the joking in Saint Emperor Xuantong's heart completely dissipated, and all the doubts in his heart turned into extreme seriousness.
He straightened his posture instantly, looked at Thunder Abyss seriously, and waited for the next step.
Immediately afterwards, Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor recounted the entire process of encountering golden phantoms twice in the air and being forcefully repelled by the opponent, without missing a word.
As he slowly finished speaking, Saint Emperor Xuantong was completely stunned after hearing all the details, and his mind was shocked. He couldn't help but take a breath, and his eyes were filled with horror.
"Twice in a row! Through the endless time and space barrier, the opponent can actually attack from a distance and repel you head-on?!"
There was a huge wave in his heart that could not be calmed down for a long time.
Xuantong himself understood Great Dao of Karma. In terms of time and space tracing, cause and effect exploration, and space checks and balances, his attainments are far above those of Thunder Abyss.
But he secretly asked himself, even if Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor tried his best to explore his cause and effect and launched an attack from a distance.
The most he can do is resist steadily, but he cannot defeat the opponent so cleanly and crushingly.
And he could tell that Thunder Abyss was saving face in his words, saying he was repelling him, but in fact he was defeating him head-on.
It's just that this person is too proud to admit his defeat.
Xuantong suddenly had a clear judgment in his heart--
If everything is true, the true combat power of that golden shadow is definitely far beyond the ordinary Peak Saint Emperor!
You must know that the strong men who have entered Peak of the Saint Emperor Realm have already reached the ceiling of their combat power, and the gap between them is extremely small.
Everyone just has different emphasis on the avenue, and their combat power is slightly different.
It's like he's good at causal deductions and good at both offense and defense, but he's not perfect at it.
Thunder Abyss is good at thunderous killing, and its pure destructive power and frontal attack power are slightly better than him.
But it's only a slight difference. If the two of them really fight to the death, it will end up being a 50-50 split, with both sides losing, and no one can crush the other.
According to Thunder Abyss's description, the mysterious golden shadow's combat power is completely superior to that of Thunder Abyss. The gap is huge!
It is real and has the absolute strength to completely defeat Thunder Abyss Saint Emperor head-on!