Upon the Final Ruins where light and darkness had clashed in the Old Universe and the Great Dao had perished, Ming Xin had already burned away his Authority of Light as the Great Dao's Good Thoughts.
That was not annihilation, but an ultimate sublimation and transformation.
His consciousness had completely fused with the origin of the Primordial Supreme Treasure, the Myriad Laws Bead, entering an ineffable mystical realm.
His divine sense was no longer confined to any single moment or place. Like spilled mercury, it reached everywhere, tracing backward through time.
It spread across those that had already been destroyed, were being destroyed, or had been obliterated beneath the old Order before they could even be born...
The Myriad Worlds, endless spacetime, every trace that had ever existed!
He "saw":
Within those low-level Martial Arts Worlds, the limits of the human body and the ultimate principles of technique contained in every strike and stance; the martial arts state of Formlessness is Superior to Form; and the radiance of humanity in chivalrous hearts and righteous courage.
He "heard":
Within those dazzling Magic Worlds, the whispers of elemental spirits, the sparks of wisdom that pried at rules through incantations, and the unwavering conviction to pursue truth.
He "felt":
Within those magnificent Fantasy Worlds, runes branding heaven and earth, the roaring power of bloodline inheritances, laws woven into a net, and the vast might of experts who could pluck stars and seize moons with a wave of their hands.
He "comprehended":
Within those supreme Immortal God Worlds, the merciless operation of the Heavenly Dao, the Earthly Dao bearing Reincarnation, the Human Dao passing down the Sacrificial Fire, the layered structures of worlds, and the ultimate pursuit of Transcendence and eternity.
Nor were these all. There was also the logic and creativity of technological