Translator: CinderTL
It doesn't care.
These four words brought an indescribable humiliation to every Dao Venerable, Supreme Sovereign, and Ultimate Powerhouse present.
Yet, after the humiliation faded, what lingered in their hearts was an unspeakable coldness and deathly silence.
This brief description—devoid of pity, hatred, curiosity, or even the condescension of "contempt"—left them utterly disregarded.
Their displays of shock, sudden enlightenment, indignation, resentment, and even the poignant realization that "to hear the Dao in the morning, one could die content by evening" were dismissed without a second thought.
A declaration of war?
A notification?
A judgment?
None of these. It was like a rule itself!
The heavenly dao, transcending all else!
It shattered the instinctive recognition of other "living beings" inherent in all sentient life, tearing apart the dignity of civilization, moral superiority, and the ambitions of great clans, leaving only naked and icy absolute dominion.
Under this chilling influence, the Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse, who had first encountered Li Chunjun and understood him best, was the first to lose his Heart's Perfection.
With a sound like cracking ice, something within him shattered.
"Myriad things return to void, myriad things return to void! Hahaha..."
The Ultimate Powerhouse of the Supreme Research Institute laughed wildly. "So you intend to make myriad things return to void, devour all Grand Dao Power, collapse the Cosmos, reduce all material existence to nothingness, and then restart the Cosmos?!"
The other Ultimate Powerhouses stared at Li Chunjun, feeling the oppressive force emanating from him—a force so potent that a mere glance could pierce through their bodies and reveal the flow of energy within them.
An unprecedented sense of despair washed over them.
The First-Tier had been merely a warm-up.
In the Second-Tier, they had poured out all their strength, yet they had still glimpsed a glimmer of hope for victory.
But now, in the Third-Tier...
The true great unification realm?!
Or even beyond—the supreme cosmic realm?!
A suffocating pressure!
A suffocating power!
How could they fight this?!
How could they possibly turn the tide and reverse their fate?!
They couldn't. It was utterly impossible.
"Li Chunjun!"
At this moment, even the Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling seemed unable to maintain his Heart's Perfection. "You intend to make myriad things return to void and restart the Cosmos..."
A flicker of mental collapse surfaced in his Divine Sense: "What do the countless living beings in the Cosmic Void matter? What do the billions upon billions of flourishing civilizations matter?! What do we cultivators matter—we who have toiled tirelessly to become Dao Venerables, Supreme Sovereigns, and Ultimate Powerhouses! What does our centuries of hardship, our desperate struggles, our billions of years of pursuit and transcendence, even mean?!"
Li Chunjun remained silent.
How could he possibly answer?
He wanted to speak, but the words caught in his throat.
Aside from a select few, who would care about the background lore of a virtual world?
Who would be interested in the life stories of NPCs?
So he said nothing.
But his silence was the most accurate answer.
Nothing.
Void.
Worthless.
"Hahaha! Nothing matters! Nothing means anything!"
"Li Chunjun, what about you? As the Executor, as the one who disregards the magnificent civilizations of the vast Cosmos, as the driving force behind the Cosmos Return to Void, indifferent to billions of living beings—what do you matter?! What could you possibly matter?!"
The boundless supreme expert couldn't help but ask, "What do you consider yourself to be?"
Li Chunjun repeated, "What do I consider myself to be?"
"Exactly! What do you consider yourself to be?! Do you truly intend to push the Cosmos toward the Great Return to Void, destroying all civilizations, powers, races, and living beings within it?! Even if you don't know most of these civilizations, powers, races, and beings, and have no connection to them, surely you've had family and friends in your life?"
Heng Guang Supreme Powerhouse quickly added, "Let's not even talk about the distant past. What about the people of the Profound Yellow Great World? What about those you met in the Azure Star Minor Realm? If you let the Cosmos return to void, you'll be personally pushing them toward death, burying their brilliant futures forever!"
"Li Chunjun, the purpose of innate divine beings is to perfect the Cosmos and promote its growth. Yet, because of us, these innate divine beings have either been refined or driven away. Now that we understand this problem, we must find a solution."
The boundless supreme expert spoke earnestly, "We can sit down and talk this over properly."
"Sit down and talk properly?" Li Chunjun's gaze fixed on the boundless supreme expert.
"Yes! Talk properly!" the boundless supreme expert replied quickly. "We can find a solution together. You've already attained the great unification realm. You could pass down the cultivation method of Great Unification, allowing all of us to comprehend it. Wouldn't the power of the great unification realm be far superior to that of those progenitor divine beings who are merely quasi-supreme powerhouses at best?"
Li Chunjun glanced at the boundless supreme expert.
That look...
It made the boundless supreme expert uneasy.
He knew his proposal was somewhat fanciful.
But if Li Chunjun were truly rational and unwilling to see all things return to void, merely being swept along by the void great dao toward the Cosmos's reboot, this method might actually work.
"Before I established my Dao, if you had been willing to talk properly and pool your wisdom, there might have been a sliver of reason to continue this discussion. But now..."
Li Chunjun spoke.
The moment he established the void great dao and plunged into the void, the process of myriad things returning to void had already begun.
From that moment onward, existence and void became like the two sides of a cosmic scale.
Either existence would overwhelm the void, or the void would devour existence.
There could be no balance.
Moreover, those who wielded the void would eventually be consumed by it.
Nothing in this world is eternal.
Whether existence or void, both would cycle endlessly through reincarnation.
Therefore...
"There's no point in talking anymore," Li Chunjun said, his expression calm.
He could already sense the effects of Void Power on him after achieving true Dao establishment and body-soul unification with the void.
The karmic threads were dissolving.
Things that had once seemed crucial to him now felt less important.
He could no longer afford to wait.
"If... the great return can revive her and allow me to end all this, that would be good too."
After all, strictly speaking, he had lived for over sixty years.
Not a long lifespan.
But...
Not short either.
Compared to dying on that night at eighteen, the life he had gained was already more than enough.
Especially considering everything he had experienced in the decades since...
There was nothing to regret.
Nor did he have any right to regret anything.
Heng Guang, Boundless, Supreme Lawbringer, Pan Wu, and the other Ultimate Powerhouses seemed to sense Li Chunjun's resolve.
They also recognized his unwavering determination.
Reflecting on Li Chunjun's life...
He was too young.
A sense of helplessness washed over the Ultimate Powerhouses.
Why must such immense power be entrusted to a young man whose heart was still incomplete and whose character remained immature?
Yet...
If one followed the karmic threads, only a "young man" with virtually nothing to lose and no attachments could truly be suited to initiate the myriad things' return to void and restart the Cosmos.
"It seems this was the ending you desired all along," Heng Guang Supreme Powerhouse said with a bitter smile.
"This is the ending I desired," Li Chunjun affirmed.
The moment he spoke these words, every Ultimate Powerhouse and Supreme Sovereign felt a sudden tremor in their hearts, as if sensing something profound.
"The great dao river!" the Order Ultimate Powerhouse warned.
At that moment, whether they were Ultimate Powerhouses, Supreme Sovereigns, or even Dao Venerables currently within the great dao river, all could clearly sense a terrifying force surging toward the nearest great dao with unimaginable speed.
That was...
"The great dao of the soul!" the Supreme Lawbringer suddenly declared. "Li Chunjun's newly established void great dao... is devouring the great dao of the soul! Once he consumes it, the very concept of the soul will be utterly extinguished. The Cosmos will never again give birth to new sentient beings, and Cultivators will be unable to gather the souls of the deceased to reconstruct their physical bodies and resurrect them..."
"The great return has begun," Heng Guang Supreme Powerhouse said bitterly.
"Even knowing we cannot win, we must still act," Panwu Ultimate said solemnly. "Whether it's the great unification realm or the supreme cosmic realm beyond it..."
All eyes turned to Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse.
The supreme powerhouse's eyes were vacant, his spirit shattered. Not a trace remained of the dignity befitting his status. His mind had been utterly broken.
Yet even without Tian Wen Supreme Powerhouse to coordinate the formation, Panwu Ultimate still took command of the Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine Boundless Tribulation Formation.
As he unleashed his initial strike, the other Ultimate Powerhouses and Supreme Sovereigns coordinated with him, conjuring another illusory Great World. Within it, the interwoven Daos formed a resplendent river of light, aiming to crush Li Chunjun.
But...
When this force truly struck Li Chunjun's body, all the earth-shattering, heaven-rending momentum vanished completely.
As if it had never existed, the moment it touched Li Chunjun, it dissipated into nothingness.
The Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine Boundless Tribulation Formation proved utterly powerless against the true void great dao and the great unification realm.
Even though they had anticipated this outcome, the Ultimate Powerhouses and Supreme Sovereigns still felt their Heart-Minds tremble when the brutal truth unfolded before them.
Supreme Powerhouse Gui Ling, who had already suffered repeated mental blows, trembled violently. "How is this possible...?"
Their combined power couldn't even make Li Chunjun flinch?
How could the gap widen to such an extent simply by achieving dao unification?
Was this truly the difference between a Supreme Sage and one who had achieved dao unification?
Li Chunjun offered no response.
Nor did he make any unnecessary movements.
Li Chunjun didn't even bother resisting the attacks from the Ultimate Powerhouses and Supreme Sovereigns, who had formed the Heavenly Evolution Forty-Nine Boundless Tribulation Formation.
He merely activated the Void Power to surround himself, ensuring immunity to all attacks below the great unification realm.
His focus remained entirely on the great dao river.
As the Void Power eroded it, the great dao of the soul, which bore the brunt of the assault, gradually became enveloped.
Portions of it began to dissipate, vanishing into the great dao river.
"I..."
Among the crowd, a dao venerable of the great dao of the soul, originally from the Starry Sky Group, let out a bitter laugh.
His position within the great dao of the soul happened to coincide with the segment Li Chunjun was devouring and dissolving.
As the great dao of the soul collapsed, the foundation of his existence crumbled, and he vanished on the spot.
A Dao Venerable had fallen.
Not through direct annihilation, but by having the very foundation of his body-soul unification—the great dao of the soul—erased.
And...
This was only the beginning.
As the void great dao's erosion and envelopment of the great dao of the soul deepened and widened, more dao monarchs who had achieved body-soul unification with it perished in shock, panic, and terror.
Many didn't even understand why they were dying.
In that moment...
The fall of Dao resembled a rain of stars.
(End of the Chapter)
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