206: Chapter 206 Extra Chapter 2: Let's call it the Eternal Realm

As his Realm improved and broke through, Xu Jinhuan's consciousness gradually ascended to another dimension, where every mystery of the Heavenly Dao became visible within his field of vision.

The entire Universe seemed to be nothing more than countless threads that could be manipulated at will.

With just a single thought, he could change anything—alter the Origin of matter, change the past of time and space, and even change the ancient Heavenly Dao…

"So, the Origin of the conceptual Universe is this simple…"

Meanwhile, Xu Jinhuan's instincts—his terrifying innate perception that transcended the conceptual Universe—seemed to detect something. In a distant direction, there appeared to be a final secret waiting for him to explore.

Following the guidance, Xu Jinhuan's spirit left the present world and escaped into the vast, ethereal void.

In an instant, he arrived at a brand-new region.

It was a five-meter square space, white and empty, resembling a claustrophobic room.

Only a cluster of light in the center pulsed continuously, radiating a sacred brilliance.

Upon arriving, Xu Jinhuan did not move for a long time, his eyes fixed on the sacred light, time flowing within his gaze as if he were tracing traces that had transcended the shackles of the Heavenly Dao.

Not until the long river of time in his eyes had completely dried up and he had seen the end of time did he realize something; he withdrew his gaze and stepped forward.

At his final Realm, there was no difference between his spirit and Physical Body. Although it was only a soul-wandering form, the sensations transmitted from his skin were exceptionally clear.

Although everything before him was glorious and brilliant, the touch of the vacuum was silent and dim, accompanied by a faint scent of scorched earth.

It was an eerie feeling!

It felt like a devastated ruin!

With every step, Xu Jinhuan could break through fixed time and space, entering one or even multiple strange dimensions and experiencing countless Reincarnations.

Such an experience was exceptionally special and terrifying.

One slip, and he would be lost in the endless Reincarnation, lose himself, and everything would become void, turning him into nutrients and provisions for this mysterious space!

Becoming a pile of ashes before the sacred light!

A fishing boy gradually ascending to become a sage, a desolate demon hunter who fell in love with a fox demon, a vicious tiger lord who ate countless people…

Memories of lifetime after lifetime surged in like a tide, constantly washing over Xu Jinhuan's brain.

The experience of Reincarnation was too terrifying, even possessing a power sufficient to move Xu Jinhuan, capable of influencing the cognition of an Eternal Dao Lord, causing him a moment of hesitation and hallucination.

"Perhaps everything I have experienced is just a Reincarnation…"

"Perhaps I am originally a part of the Universe Heavenly Dao, having reincarnated and cultivated for 129,999 times, and only one last time is missing to complete the tribulation and achieve Eternity…"

Countless sacred rays of light emitting a decaying aura gradually surrounded Xu Jinhuan, like weaving a silkworm cocoon, forming a huge cocoon of light in the blink of an eye, with only a few last rays left to complete it.

However, just as the last ray of light fell, the confusion in Xu Jinhuan's eyes completely dissipated.

"Pah! What Reincarnation! Everything I have seen is real, and all the past is definitely not a delusion! It is certainly not some empty, ridiculous Reincarnation!"

The Eternal Power in his hand instantly condensed into a sword.

With a flash!

In an instant, the entire claustrophobic, decaying space collapsed.

The sacred light also suddenly retreated, fleeing directly to a safe distance.

At least, it considered it safe.

On the spot, Xu Jinhuan himself also broke free from the special power, a trace of lingering fear flashing in his eyes.

"If it weren't for the warning from the System, I'm afraid I would have really fallen for its trick."

Putting away the relief of having survived a disaster, his gaze fell on the sacred light in the distance, and he began to analyze and study it.

"This should be the Highest Heavenly Dao of the entire conceptual Universe. In principle, it should be omniscient and omnipotent within the conceptual Universe, knowing everything and being everywhere."

"But now, it is actually…"

Xu Jinhuan was shocked for a moment.

The Highest Heavenly Dao before him was clearly severely damaged; its supreme authority could only cover a small five-meter-square room, and it couldn't even trap Xu Jinhuan.

This was too strange!

Of course, it was also because Xu Jinhuan was too strong; he was confident that his current strength had already surpassed the sum of the entire conceptual Universe!

Even if the previous sacred cocoon of light could have been completed, he would have had the ability to break it!

After a brief shock, Xu Jinhuan's thoughts shifted.

"Perhaps this is also the best opportunity for me to analyze and study the Highest Heavenly Dao. I can feel that it still hides many things I have never seen!"

Soon, his spirit was immersed in analyzing the Highest Heavenly Dao.

It was not the kind of slow, grinding work of analyzing one Dao after another, following the path of 'quantity,' but rather observing its general direction, understanding its methods, comprehending its Origin, and grasping the most important 'quality'!

One after another, the Domains regarding Dao and Law were conquered by him, and the questions of Origin were answered one by one.

Xu Jinhuan's Realm was still growing at a terrifying speed.

Time passed.

Finally, he woke up from the state of supreme and profound enlightenment and muttered to himself: "My understanding of the Highest Heavenly Dao is probably deeper than its own."

Looking back at the sacred ball of light, Xu Jinhuan finally understood why it had tried to devour him.

"So, I was already enough to make it perish before. It instinctively felt threatened, subconsciously trying to strike first, while simultaneously attempting to devour me to repair itself."

Most of the fog cleared.

Xu Jinhuan felt a sudden sense of clarity; a certain shackle suddenly disappeared, and his whole being ushered in a sublimation.

From strength to mentality, a comprehensive transformation!

Precisely because of this, he faced a serious crisis.

The Highest Heavenly Dao, which had been repelled by him before, had completely finished gathering its strength, locked onto him, transmitted intense hostility, and launched a Dao confrontation once again.

Although they were separated by vast light-years and endless time and space, the authority of the Highest Heavenly Dao was unparalleled.

The runes shining over were still terrifyingly unrivaled; they were destructive natural disasters, supreme Daos, and sharp edges capable of annihilating everything.

Feeling the blade close at hand, Xu Jinhuan became serious and went all out.

However, he was no longer the same as before; he had also reached the level of the Highest Heavenly Dao, omnipotent, perfectly extreme, without any defects or flaws.

On the other hand, the returning Highest Heavenly Dao was already severely degraded and had been repelled by Xu Jinhuan, worsening its damage.

In this respect, Xu Jinhuan had completely surpassed the Highest Heavenly Dao!

Therefore, as soon as the battle started, he gained the upper hand.

A burst of extremely terrifying Dao swept over, turning into Chaos Divine Thunder and world-destroying burning winds to destroy everything.

Xu Jinhuan just raised his hands very calmly and grasped the empty air.

Then, with a clang, a spear of Dao condensed in his hand, flowing with a hazy and terrifying Eternal Power, sufficient to contend with the power of the Highest Heavenly Dao.

"Break!" With a light shout, the spear struck out like a Dragon!

Xu Jinhuan's spear easily pierced through the burning winds and Chaos Divine Thunder, reaching the end of endless time and space, fiercely piercing through that sacred light that resembled a scorching sun!

At the same time, it pinned it firmly to the Chaos vacuum!

Both sides were existences standing at the Peak of the conceptual Universe.

From the start, it was a collision of the Peak, a single blow deciding victory or defeat, life or death.

Clearly, the winner of this battle was Xu Jinhuan.

But looking at the rapid decline of the Highest Heavenly Dao, there was not the slightest joy of victory on his face; instead, there was a sense of horror.

It was not a threat from the Highest Heavenly Dao, but a bad premonition originating from within himself, as if something was about to happen!

"At the Peak of the conceptual Universe, there must be a sole Heavenly Dao. Am I about to replace it?!"

After a brief astonishment, Xu Jinhuan immediately grasped the truth of the matter, his scalp tingling and all the hairs on his body standing on end.

Because he was too powerful, he was actually going to become the new Heavenly Dao of the conceptual Universe!

For this conceptual Universe, the Eternal Dao Lord is the only one, the end of all Laws, the destination of cultivation, and the Universe's will itself.

Once one becomes the sole Heavenly Dao, one must extinguish all emotions of living beings, become selfless and forget oneself, cold and merciless, treating all things as straw dogs, and strictly adhere to the most fundamental rules of heaven and earth.

In other words, if he replaced the sole Heavenly Dao, Xu Jinhuan would lose all his own joys, sorrows, and pleasures, turning into a cold, icy machine!

"This is not what I want!"

Even if this Realm were omniscient, omnipotent, and unrivaled, it still went against Xu Jinhuan's original intention!

Along the way, he had experienced too much, and there were too many things around him that he could not let go of.

He did not want to let go.

And he could not let go!

"If the end of cultivation is a cold, mechanical Dao, then I would rather not have it!"

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"Everything that belongs to you, I return it all!"

With a metallic clang, the Great Dao Divine Spear was hurled once more, but this time its tip was aimed at Xu Jinhuan.

With a *pfft* sound, the spear pierced through his chest, bringing forth a sea-deep tide of blood energy and endless Origin Dao runes.

All these runes and power surged toward the Supreme Heavenly Dao.

Xu Jinhuan was severing himself. He did not want the Eternal Dao Lord Realm that was within easy reach!

One cut, two cuts, three cuts...

Finally, as Xu Jinhuan's figure had grown almost transparent, the long-silent Supreme Heavenly Dao finally reacted. It ceased its decline and extinction, gradually beginning to shimmer with a mysterious radiance.

Cold, emotionless, selfless...

And, supreme, the only truth, the sole existence!

That imminent, icy sense of crisis finally dissipated. The sword of Damocles hanging over his head vanished at last.

Xu Jinhuan let out a sigh of relief.

But his relief was short-lived. Soon after, he let out a soft sound of surprise.

"Hmm? My transformation..."

"...is still continuing?"

Just moments ago, Xu Jinhuan had indeed stepped into the Realm of the Sole Eternal Dao Lord. His life level had begun an irreversible transformation, his cultivation continuously climbing, his entire being undergoing a mysterious Nirvana.

Furthermore, the self-severing just now seemed to have, by some unfathomable means, severed certain shackles, releasing all his potential, talent, and accumulated foundation.

Within Xu Jinhuan's body, an unprecedented, violent eruption and terrifying Nirvana was occurring, one never before seen in the Conceptual Universe!

The Eternal Myriad Dao Art operated at extreme speed. Vast, endless exclusive runes covered the four directions like a dome. The entire Conceptual Universe trembled and roared violently!

"I sought to sever myself, to escape the fate of becoming a machine, but by a stroke of luck, I stumbled onto another path to the Eternal Dao Lord?"

Xu Jinhuan reacted, understanding everything.

"But then, where did that sense of liberation come from? What has disappeared from me..."

His thoughts flowed through millions of permutations in an instant as he tried to find the answer, but for a moment, he could not find the result.

In the end, he could only helplessly give up for the time being.

"When I take the final step and become the omniscient, omnipotent ultimate being, I should have the answer then."

Having made this decision, he gathered his thoughts.

Gradually, peace descended, and his mind became clear.

Along with his Breakthrough, the entire Conceptual Universe fell into an unprecedented frenzy. Countless streams of Immortal Qi and Chaos Qi erupted and spread wildly, nourishing innumerable living beings.

It was like a Spiritual Qi revival!

Far away in the Endless Immortal Domain, his Revered Master, Li Qingyue, felt a sudden impulse. A terrifying fluctuation, far surpassing the Peak of Transcendence, erupted from within her.

The entire Endless Immortal Domain manifested myriad phenomena, and heaven and earth were moved.

She had broken through!

Great Derivation Immeasurable!

After completing her Breakthrough, feeling capable once more, the 'trash fish' Revered Master looked toward the depths of the cosmic void, licked her red lips, and her eyes shone with a loving light.

"Xuan'er, you must come back safe and sound..."

...

The depths of the void.

An unknown amount of time passed.

Finally, Xu Jinhuan abruptly opened his eyes.

As far as his gaze reached, from the Supreme Heavenly Dao before him to the Endless Immortal Domain at the other end of the Conceptual Universe, everything had quieted down.

Within his eyes, bright as the starry river, the confusion and bewilderment of the past were gone.

All that remained was tranquility, understanding, and a new awareness of himself.

Eternal Dao Lord.

No, that wasn't right. Xu Jinhuan had forged a different path, one with broader prospects and fewer constraints!

"My path has no divisions of the Great Dao, no distinctions of Conceptual Universes. It even has limitless room for growth, eternal growth."

"Let's call it the Eternal Realm."

After naming his current Realm,

Xu Jinhuan remembered another matter. His brow furrowed slightly, and a myriad threads of astonishment flashed in his eyes.

"So, the final cut of the self-severing... severed the System..."

For him, the final obstacle on his path to the Dao was the very System that had helped him all along!

Although later on, he had basically stopped using the System.

The few times he did open it were just to check his status panel, using it as a combat power detector.

But there was still that final step missing, that ultimate severance.

At the critical moment of life and death, Xu Jinhuan's instincts and subconscious mind also discovered this, leading to that final cut aimed at the System.

"A truly invincible being, an Eternal being, relies on oneself, on that heart that never admits defeat!"

Xu Jinhuan casually reached out and plucked a Chaos-colored thread from the void. It emitted a sacred radiance—precisely what the System had transformed into after being severed.

"But I never expected that the System, which helped me so much on my path of growth, was actually the culprit restricting my development!"

Looking at the sacred thread in his hand, he let out a soft laugh.

The laughter held a hint of self-mockery and a touch of gritted teeth.

More than anything, it held the relief of a light boat having passed through ten thousand mountains.

The current Xu Jinhuan had reached a Domain where no living being had ever stood. Looking across past, present, and future, no one could stand shoulder to shoulder with him. It was a Realm of desolate emptiness.

At this level, transcending everything, his gaze could pierce through spacetime and the endless future. A single stray thought could mean the birth and destruction of billions of Universes.

Naturally, he could also discern the Origin of the System.

The sacred radiance on the thread was clearly identical to that of the Supreme Heavenly Dao!

The System and the Supreme Heavenly Dao clearly shared the same source!

"All the System rewards from the past were things I originally possessed. I was merely gradually reclaiming them—the Heaven-Defying Comprehension Ability, the Eternal Chaos Body, everything was mine from the start!"

"And the System itself was actually a shackle left behind when I was discovered by the Supreme Heavenly Dao during my Transmigration. It used a great portion of its power to create this restraint, a tool the Supreme Heavenly Dao attempted to use to suppress me!"

"No wonder I had to 'open a woman's heart' to receive rewards. As the saying goes, a woman's heart is as deep as the ocean floor. In the eyes of the Supreme Heavenly Dao, this was the most stringent condition."

"It just never expected that I was exceptionally gifted, possessed astonishing endurance, and knew a thing or two about 'stick education,' beating them into submission by force..."

Shaking his head, Xu Jinhuan gently pushed the thread in his hand.

The shattered thread slowly drifted toward the reviving Supreme Heavenly Dao, merging with it, causing its recovery to accelerate even more rapidly.

But at the final step of the Fusion, it came to an abrupt halt. The thread firmly bound itself to the surface of the Supreme Heavenly Dao like an unbreakable shackle. No matter how the Supreme Heavenly Dao struggled, it was futile.

Xu Jinhuan was not someone who repaid enmity with virtue.

Since you tried to trip me up, don't expect to have it easy!

The very means once used to suppress Xu Jinhuan's talent was now turned back upon the Supreme Heavenly Dao itself!

In fact, Xu Jinhuan had specifically enhanced its potency.

"Hah, all your power has been sealed by me. From now on, you are nothing but an incompetent Heavenly Dao, forced to watch living beings grow, without even the ability to descend a thunderous punishment!"

"This is my revenge!" Xu Jinhuan looked at the violently trembling Supreme Heavenly Dao, his eyes brimming with hatred. If it weren't for the need to keep it in the position of the Sole Heavenly Dao, this thing would have died a hundred times over!

Hearing this, the Supreme Heavenly Dao struggled even more fiercely.

Yet it remained futile.

On the contrary, Xu Jinhuan's countermeasures grew even more solid, unbreakable!

Having accomplished all this,

Xu Jinhuan laughed again, feeling the last vestige of pent-up frustration within him finally dissipate.

He embarked on his return journey, traversing in a single step the vast distance that had once taken him ages to cross.

Returning to the familiar Eastern Emperor Mountain.

Here, the breeze was just right, the flowers were in bloom, and a tantalizing aroma filled the air.

The little chef, Ao Linger, and Feng Lingxi walked out carrying steaming hot dishes, chatting happily.

Suddenly, both of them stopped in their tracks, rubbed their eyes, and then wept for joy.

"Young Master, welcome back!"

The next moment,

All the women on Eastern Emperor Mountain were alerted, flashing over one after another, cheering and calling out.

"Lord, welcome back!"

"Xuan'er, it's good that you're back..."

Li Qingyue, in particular, waved her hand grandly, instantly causing the sun, moon, and stars to vanish.

"This time, your Revered Master will definitely make you pay!"

...

"Wah wah wah~"

Not long after, the proud Revered Master who had attempted to challenge Xu Jinhuan's authority buried her head in the blankets, crying and begging for mercy.

"Xuan'er, I know I was wrong. Please, go bother someone else!"

For a time, the room was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

(Main Story + Extras Complete)