Ji Jingqiu suddenly turned around!

The Dao, sensed by all above the Heavenly King, trembled, spreading along the Dharma Realm, and in an instant, it spread deep into the endless Boundary Sea.

Infinite realms, the myriad daos of the heavens, all swayed and trembled because of it!

This feeling, this phenomenon, was exactly like when Chao Ge was forced to break through to transcendence all those years ago!

The Vast Boundary Sea, boundless and endless, where even a True Saint appears insignificant as dust and light, yet at this moment, a figure burned like a blazing torch, fiercely igniting, illuminating the darkness, becoming the sole dazzling existence in the limitless universe.

Chao Ge gazed at the radiant brilliance, with a trance-like expression, complex and indescribable longing floating in her eyes, softly whispering:

"Daoist Shouzhen’s method of ’Doing subtraction to become empty’ is truly enviable, severing all karma related to the Netherworld, allowing him to proceed unobstructed to the depths of the Sea of Realms to verify the Dao."

"Even if it results in failure, it would absolutely not implicate the Netherworld, affecting not the slightest bit. If only I had..."

If he had mastered this method back then, perhaps the Chaohua Realm would not have been destroyed?

Regrettably, in the Sea of Realms, there are no "what ifs".

Chao Ge collected her thoughts, restored her essence, qi, and spirit, glanced at Ji Jingqiu, and sighed deeply:

"Daoist Shouzhen likely foresaw something in advance and deliberately sent you away."

Ji Jingqiu looked into the distance—not toward the direction of the Heavenly Saint Lake, but beyond the Netherworld.

He suddenly asked, "Is transcendence truly so enticing? Even if there’s only a faint glimmer of hope, one must plunge headlong, leap with abandon, unafraid of death?"

Chao Ge nodded without hesitation:

"The splendor atop the Dao, just a glimpse, is enough for our kind to rest peacefully!"

"In this vast Boundary Sea, there are too many True Saints, yet most cannot even reach transcendence, let alone see the path ahead, which remains exceedingly difficult."

"And those who hope to advance further, constrained by the context of Heaven and Earth, even after enduring great hardships to reach True Saint Perfection, can only gaze at the Heavenly Pass they do not know how to cross, remaining silently for a long time."

Ji Jingqiu gently nodded, gazing distantly at the... tomb.

That figure, burning like a torch, shone brightly enough to almost scorch the ancient darkness, like a flame reaching its zenith.

Yet, before the supreme Daoist barrier, there remained an insurmountable wall.

The more fiercely the flame burned, the more the barrier appeared severe and cold.

At this moment.

The radiant blaze collapsed inward, condensed, as if forcibly compressed before the intangible barrier, converging into a single point.

When the blazing flame illuminating the endless Boundary Sea waned, Shouzhen’s breakthrough inevitably moved toward decline.

That last flicker of light resembled the collapse of a star, its brilliance reaching an extreme, yet it was fleeting, lasting only a moment.

Then—

The glorious figure illuminating the Endless Boundary Sea dimmed and silently annihilated.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no world-ending ripple, only a pervasive "nothingness" spreading.

As if it never existed.

In the depths of the Boundary Sea, the aftermath of the Dao tremor gradually subsided, the Daoist rules that swayed the Ten Thousand Realms regained stability, only in that intangible void, it was as if another lonely grave appeared.

Ji Jingqiu remained silent for a long time, gazing at the chosen tomb of Ancestor Shouzhen, speaking softly:

"Is this the end of the Dao?"

Chao Ge closed her eyes, then opened them again, her eyes as calm as an ancient well.

"No, this is not the end of the Dao."

"For us seekers, the Dao never has an end. There is only... pioneering!"

Ji Jingqiu did not speak.

Strictly speaking, he was initially opposed to the Heavenly Saint Lake; he personally killed a Daoist of the Heavenly Saint Lake on the Ancient Road. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

But in a twist of fate, not only did his clone join the Heavenly Saint Lake, but he also became Shouzhen’s chosen heir.

Today, witnessing the passing of Ancestor Shouzhen in pursuit of the Dao, his heart was deeply moved, indescribably.

At this moment.

Chao Ge suddenly said in a deep voice: "Shouzhen caught a glimpse of a transcendent vista at the last moment. The method of ’Doing subtraction to become empty’ indeed worked. In his final moments, he chose to strike once. Where it landed, unknown—"

Before her voice trailed off, a beam of divine skill, seeming neither black nor white, neither void nor solid, forcefully slashed from the endless void!

It disregarded the boundaries of time and space, transcending the barriers of Taoist Rules, as if cutting through from ancient times, or slashing from the Epoch End, resolute and unwavering!

Where it passed, all ten thousand daos retreated, rules turned void.

The Dharma Realm that existed eternally within the Netherworld fell silent under this beam of Taoist light, and a domain belonging to ’nothingness’ descended upon the Netherworld—

Within the domain, there were no Tao, no law; all existing knowledge, predetermined order, even the foundational existence of this vast universe itself became blurred, vaguely hollow, with only the most primal, genuine ’self’ manifesting.

"’Lawless’..."

Ji Jingqiu was moved on the spot, recognizing this divine skill!

This was none other than Ancestor Shouzhen’s ’Lawless’!

He, too, had once comprehended it, but he never expected that once this divine skill was fully deduced, it would be so unparalleled!

"What this divine skill directly points to is..."

At this moment, not only Ji Jingqiu and Chao Ge, but the True Saints within the Netherworld also closely followed this divine skill’s light, observing it come from the Outer Realm, crossing endless time and space, straight into...

"Burial Sea!"

Ji Jingqiu moved at once, only to see a beam of light, smaller than the divine skill’s light falling into the Burial Sea, shot straight toward him.

Feeling the aura belonging to Ancestor Shouzhen, Ji Jingqiu did not hesitate and reached out to catch it.