Chapter 774: Chapter 774

Mo Xuan liked to think he had gotten used to Li Pin's way of speaking, yet those words still triggered a reflexive urge to argue.

However, remembering how quickly Li Pin had progressed, Mo Xuan held back.

Whether he objected or not, it wouldn't change the fact that Li Pin was going to fight Zi Zaitian, or at the very least, Luo Wuji. He figured it was best to wait until those battles were over before forming an opinion.

With a light chuckle, he said, "Let's hope your strength is as solid as your confidence."

"Alright. The Gate of Time and Space has been opened. This was left behind by Supreme Primeval. Step inside, and you'll return to the moment he achieved Supremacy. You'll get to personally 'experience' the process of a Heavenly Emperor breaking through to the Supreme level," said Mo Xuan.

At those words, Li Pin no longer hesitated. He stepped forward and entered the Gate of Time and Space.

He had long yearned for the Supreme Realm. His countless supreme arts, cultivation methods, even his Phantom Space and other Supreme Techniques all bore the name "Supreme." But in most cases, that name was just a hopeful label, a form of aspiration. It didn't mean they were truly at the level of Supreme.

In fact, it was precisely because they carried that "Supreme" prefix that one could fully understand just how much mortals longed for those who had mastered this realm. It made the path's difficulty all the more apparent.

Now, the Gate of Time and Space placed this pivotal moment right before his eyes, allowing him to witness the birth of a Supreme being from the perspective of someone nearly at that level.

For any cultivator, this was an invaluable opportunity to broaden their horizons and reflect on their future path.

It was no exaggeration to say that anyone granted access to the Gate of Time and Space was, without exception, considered a Supreme seed. They were acknowledged by the Supreme Council of Humanity as having even the slightest chance of reaching that pinnacle.

Of course, there were rare cases when all the Supreme seeds of the current era had already used the Gate, and it temporarily sat idle. In such moments, others outside that category might be allowed through, selected based on merit.

Li Pin clearly belonged to this latter case, selected during a period when the Gate was idle and granted only to those chosen by merit.

The moment he stepped into the Gate of Time and Space, his vision and perception were hit by an indescribable blur.

However, it wasn't actual blurriness—it was that his senses had suddenly expanded to such an extreme degree that he couldn't adapt right away.

Li Pin could distinctly feel that the entire universe had become complete.

Space was no longer some vague, abstract concept. It flowed before him like a calm stream.

Time, too, wasn't just a measure of space and motion; it had become something tangible, something that could be grasped and controlled.

Using space to manipulate time, and letting the two intertwine and depend on each other. This was how spacetime was formed.

The feeling... it was as if the world no longer held any secrets from him. And even if it did, within the framework of spacetime, it would only be a matter of time before they were all laid bare.

In that moment, he felt as if he was both the instant and the eternal.

But then, Li Pin felt the energy within his body stir.

The movement of that energy jolted him out of the illusion of timelessness and reminded him that, at this moment, he was merely attached to Supreme Primeval's body.

That sense of being both instant and eternal was just an illusion.

After all, whether it was time or space, these forces came from the boundless Astral World, the vast universe.

They were not truly his to command. He could only borrow them.

Like flying a plane through the sky—it didn't mean he had the power of flight himself, even if he was soaring above the clouds.

Li Pin steadied his mind and focused once more on the energy surging within him. "Space... time laws..."

Only then did he realize, though the total energy was immense, it wasn't vastly beyond his own as a being of Cosmic Radiance. Follow current novels on novęlfire.net

The key lay in how Supreme Primeval utilized and combined this energy.

Different combinations of matter and energy created varying levels of intensity, leading to vastly different outcomes.

If a Tyrant had a peak energy intensity of 100 million and an energy level of 100, then during the breakthrough process, a Quasi-Supreme like Primeval would be using between 50 million and 150 million units of energy, with energy levels ranging from 50 to 150.

Wait a minute, thought Li Pin. As the final step of breaking free from the Astral World's constraints neared, the energy intensity had already risen to between 1 million and 199 million, with energy levels ranging from 1 to 199.

The average total energy was similar, but through the combination and regulation of matter and energy, the Supreme had used a method akin to accumulation to amplify his energy upper limit to three or four times that of a peak Tyrant.

This was something a Tyrant could never achieve. Even if a Tyrant tried, adjusting their energy and power explosively would take an incredibly long time.

But through comprehension, understanding, and mastery of spacetime, this form of rapid adjustment was accomplished at a mind-boggling speed.

Even if the Supreme lost control of this ultimate eruption and ended up absorbing massive amounts of Eternal Oblivion Force... it wouldn't matter.

The Supreme's goal was to transcend the Astral World, to escape it entirely. As long as he broke free before being consumed by the Eternal Oblivion Force, the force itself would be meaningless.

A sense of awe stirred in Li Pin's heart. Supreme... this is what it means to become Supreme.

Doubling one's strength in battle meant the stronger side could easily take on ten opponents. But if their power increased three or four times, the gap in real combat would be so vast that they could effortlessly handle dozens at once.

In fact, once the gap reached that level, it wouldn't matter whether there were ten, dozens, a hundred, or even several hundred opponents. They'd all fall the same, unless they decided to risk it all by fighting to the death.

With time, moving and striking in cycles, the stronger side could single-handedly wipe out hundreds.

It would be like a brute who could lift 400 kilograms, move four times faster than normal, and had stamina, recovery, and resilience four times greater than average. As long as he fought barehanded, using the terrain and environment to his advantage, he could easily defeat a hundred ordinary people.

Li Pin quietly observed as Supreme Primeval exploded with his full power, taking that critical step toward the Supreme path in a state of ultimate ascension.

It was a step between life and death.

With this burst of energy, he decisively tore through the barrier of the Astral World and stepped into an entirely new domain.

At the very moment he shattered the Astral World, Li Pin also sensed a unique force pushing him forward... or rather, interfering with the Astral World.

It prevented the world from fully suppressing Supreme Primeval, allowing him to succeed in breaking through.

This force... came from the universe.

Having cultivated the Endless Reincarnation Secret Art, Li Pin instantly recognized it.

Fortune! Could this power really be one of the keys to achieving the Supreme?

As Li Pin continued watching, the Astral World's backlash reached its peak. Its method of retaliation was the Eternal Oblivion Force.

The vast and boundless Eternal Oblivion Force eroded Supreme Primeval's body, forcibly tearing his world apart.

It's as though it was telling him that... he could leave! But the energy and mass accumulated within the Astral World had to remain behind.

And Supreme Primeval seemed to understand this and went along with it. Instead of taking that power with him, he left it behind, embedding it in the form of a "small world" within the Astral World itself, suspended in the space between the world and the universe.

That world was the original form of what later became the Primordial World, home to the Humanity Sanctum.

The Heavenly Prison World was also created this way, during another Supreme's breakthrough.

After stripping away all energy, leaving behind only his essence, Supreme Primeval returned to the universe. And then... his essence began to expand at an unimaginable speed.

He was tearing open the heavens, creating a world from nothing!

Li Pin murmured to himself, "Dao begets One. One begets Two. Two begets Three. And Three begets all things..."

The creation of a universe followed this principle.

But Li Pin sensed something was amiss. The Dao?

The first step in Supreme Primeval's universe creation wasn't based on his own essence, but on... rules—the cosmic rules!

Specifically, the rules he had grasped back in the Astral World. Those of time, space, energy, and matter transformation.

He used space to contain energy and matter, and time to rapidly expand them. In an instant, he manifested a vast micro-universe.

As the force of time surged, space, energy, and matter stretched outward at incredible speed, spreading further and further.

But no matter how far this micro-universe expanded, there was one truth that could not be avoided.

It was that Supreme Dao Origin didn't use Dao to beget One. He used his own essence to occupy part of the universal rules. He took a portion of the "One" for himself—then used that foundation to begin the process of Two from One, Three from Two, and the birth of all things.

Li Pin stood frozen. "Why is it... different?"

This was different from what he had imagined.

Using one's own essence to seize part of the "One" was practically the same as merging with the Dao.

Replacing the laws of the universe with one's own essence, carrying out its operations through one's own being.

But... if that's the path taken, then who becomes the true core of the Supreme? The universe? Or the self?

The universe formed from Supreme Primeval continued spreading, occupying more and more of the "One" to evolve into a vaster cosmos.

Its scale could be measured in light-years.

But Li Pin could no longer keep watching.

What he once suspected back in the Heavenly Prison World... he could now confirm with absolute certainty.

"The Supreme... the Highlord path. They're all wrong."