320: Chapter 320 Doing Subtraction

[At ten million years old, the current Ultimate Space has reached an unprecedented new height of prosperity and stability.]

[Aside from you, the oldest one of the Paramita, there are a total of nine great existences in the space who have reached the Ultimate Realm.]

[These nine Ultimate ones have different Origins; some are world-consciousness sublimations like the Will of Earth, some are Supreme Experts who finally transcended from the battle of Prodigies across past, present, and future, and some are mysterious beings naturally nurtured within the Ultimate Space...]

[However, ten existences above the level of Chaos Controller are already the limit that the current Ultimate Space can carry.]

[This is a natural Bottleneck determined by the world's own volume and energy level.]

[In fact, based on the space's original potential and volume, it should have been able to nurture and carry as many as eighteen Ultimate existences.]

[But your strength is too great; the weight of existence you occupy is simply too vast and majestic.]

[Your existence alone is like a towering tree rooted in the space's Origin, naturally occupying a "share" equivalent to nine Ultimate existences.]

[Your power invisibly raised the overall upper limit of the Ultimate Space, but it also made the slots for other existences to ascend to the Ultimate more scarce and precious.]

[At one hundred million years old, during this long period of time, you began to use the Will of Earth as the final vessel for "Doing away with the self to seek emptiness," slowly transferring your Foundation of existence, authority, Karma, and even all traces of your past and future to it, like peeling silk from a cocoon.]

[Like a meticulous craftsman, you wove the vast Karma carried by the title of Boundless Creation Heavenly Venerable thread by thread into the veins of Earth's Heavenly Dao, allowing the will of this blue planet to gradually become your only projection and continuation in the world.]

[As for yourself, you only retained the most core embryonic form of the Dao Fruit and pure Origin power, letting yourself gradually return to the profound state of "Emptiness" and "Nothingness."]

[Perhaps because you are a Transmigrator, and there is an unspeakable bond and Karma between your Soul and "Earth," this grand transfer proceeded exceptionally smoothly.]

[Furthermore, because there were no other Paramita Realm cultivators to interfere, you could calmly strip away your self and transfer Karma, meticulously designing every step to push the process of "Doing away with the self to seek emptiness" toward Perfection. Your main focus was a single word: steady!]

[At one billion years old, the Will of Earth finally fully inherited the Foundation of existence you left behind, becoming your only trace in the world.]

[From then on, no one in the myriad heavens and worlds remembered the "world-creating" Boundless Creation Heavenly Venerable; only the name of Earth's Heavenly Dao persisted through time and space, governing all.]

[At the very moment you completely returned to "Emptiness," you suddenly opened the last light in the depths of your consciousness—"Burn! Condense!"]

[Using your supreme Realm at the Peak of the Paramita Realm as a guide, you resolutely shattered and ignited your final innate talent Origin, "Boundless Creation."]

[That Origin was like a brilliant starry sky exploding, its radiance illuminating the past and present. Mixed with the immeasurable Creation Energy you collected from the myriad epochs over these billion years, the two merged and boiled, finally condensing into a boundless "Power of Epochal Cycles" within the void!]

[This power surged like a long river, resembling the Reincarnation of time, carrying the birth, death, and succession of epochs. It was precisely the final fuel needed to achieve the Dao Fruit.]

[As the Power of Epochal Cycles was gradually absorbed by the embryonic form of your Dao Fruit, the Dao Fruit began to grow and transform at a speed visible to the naked eye. Dao patterns interwoven with billions of Great Dao Laws appeared on its surface, and its light pierced through the barriers of the Ultimate Space, illuminating the void outside.]

[You felt that you were about to take that step, transcending this space and ascending to the true Dao Fruit Realm.]

["It has finally come to this moment. What a pity; the limit of my talent can only go this far. My Dao Fruit is ultimately no match for the Dao Fruit in the original work!"]

[Although your performance of strength in the Paramita Realm was no worse than the Paramita in the original work, you knew that the Dao Fruit you were about to achieve had a significant gap compared to the Dao Fruit in the original work.]

[The Dao Fruit you achieved was only one Realm higher than the Paramita, or at most one and a half. But the Dao Fruit in the original work—that unknowable, undiscussable Realm where to speak of it is to err and to think of it is to be mistaken—who knows how many levels higher it was than the Paramita.]

[You also had speculations about this. The reason the Dao Fruit in the original work was so transcendent was that what it transcended was not a single world, but the entire worldview itself.]

[The original work never described what lay beyond the World of Lording It Over All, so transcendence meant jumping out of the framework of all narratives and settings.]

[But you were different; you clearly knew that beyond the Ultimate Space was the void, and within the void, other worlds existed.]

[Therefore, your transcendence was merely jumping out of this world into the wider void, without transcending the constraints of the overall worldview.]

[You were still moving within a large framework, so it was naturally difficult to reach that "Extra-logical" Realm.]

[Of course, you also thought of another possibility: perhaps it was because the Power of Epochal Cycles in the World of Lording It Over All was inherently several levels higher than the Paramita in essence.]

[If your "Boundless Creation" talent had been a bit stronger, enabling you to condense the authentic version of the Power of Epochal Cycles, perhaps you too could have crossed several levels in one step and directly entered that true Dao Fruit Realm.]

[When the last trace of the Power of Epochal Cycles merged into the Dao Fruit, you felt the "Boundless Creation" talent that had accompanied you for countless years completely dissipate, like a spark extinguished in the long night.]

[In its place was a perfect, self-sufficient Dao Fruit with internal radiance, quietly floating in the deepest part of your consciousness.]

[It no longer relied on any external force or any talent; it was self-contained and self-evident of eternity.]

[You finally achieved the Dao Fruit Realm and completely transcended the Ultimate Space!]

[In an instant, you felt yourself freed from the shackles of the world's energy levels, like a fish leaping out of water or a bird flying out of a cage.]

[Before your eyes was no longer the Ultimate Space, but a vast void, where the faint glimmers of other worlds could be vaguely seen, like distant shore lights, flickering in and out.]

[Simulation ended.]