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Buzz! Passing through the Eternal Gate, Yaoguang quietly sensed the fluctuations of the surrounding Grand Dao power. He could tell that following his slaying of the Yongsheng Sect's Void Dao Lord stationed at this Star Gate, many Grand Dao powers were stirred into turbulence. Some of these Grand Dao powers had even begun congregating toward the direction where he was about to emerge. Those were Dao Lords of the Yongsheng Sect. However... They did not seem to realize the gravity of the situation. Although traveling from the Eternal Star Gate to the Yongsheng Sect headquarters was the fastest route, one still had to pass through three more Star Gates in total. Yet judging by the Yongsheng Sect's posture, they seemed intent on setting up an interception point at every single Star Gate. Was this not simply feeding him their forces wave by wave? The correct course of action would be to concentrate their power and wait in full battle array at the exit of the final Star Gate. Yet on closer thought, he could understand their reasoning. Who would want an intense Dao Lord–level battle fought right in their capital? Keeping the enemy outside their borders was naturally the preferable choice. As he pondered, Yaoguang already felt the void energy ahead gradually subsiding. Stepping forward of his own accord, his figure traced the power of the void directly across the Star Gate's exit, effortlessly bypassing the formation that had already been activated there, and arrived placidly in the sky above an extraordinarily bustling starport. And here... Eight Dao Lords were already waiting. Furthermore, if his senses were not mistaken, six more Dao Lords were rushing toward the location at full speed. "To dare slay a Dao Integration elder of our Yongsheng Sect! No matter who you are, today you must pay in blood!" The instant Yaoguang appeared, the leader among the eight Dao Lords—a Dao Lord who seemed to possess peak combat power—shouted harshly and struck out decisively. Such decisiveness showed clearly that he had no intention of giving Yaoguang any chance to defend or explain himself. However... Yaoguang had never intended to explain himself either. His purpose in coming to the Yongsheng Sect had always been very precise: Sweep away the Yongsheng Sect, and then extract enough information about the Immortal Realm from them. He firmly believed that the Yongsheng Sect's ability to maintain its status as cosmic overlord had to be closely tied to the Immortal Realm. Quite possibly... When immortal spirits from the Hunyuan Realm entered the Ancient Immortal Realm, their primary choice of infiltration had been the Yongsheng Sect, and precisely because of this, the sect had managed to flourish without decline. "So... if everything goes smoothly, I might even capture a few immortal spirits and obtain not just information about the Immortal Realm from them, but intelligence on the Hunyuan Realm as well." Even as these thoughts crossed his mind, his movements were not delayed in the slightest. Facing the peak Dao Lord who boldly launched an attack against him, he directly stirred the power of the void. As the Grand Dao of the Void was fully mobilized, a Great Void Art crashed down with a roar. Seeing Yaoguang casually unleash an immortal art-level offensive, the peak Dao Lord's expression changed drastically. Yet he reacted swiftly, summoning a natural treasure steeped in Dao rhymes to amplify his own Dao art, intending to release a quasi-immortal art strike to meet it head-on. However, upon seeing that the material in the man's hand could be used to forge an immortal artifact, Yaoguang stimulated his soul power once more. Veiled beneath the Grand Dao of Darkness, this soul power silently seeped into the peak Dao Lord's mind, causing the slightest hesitation in his movements. With the might of the Yongsheng Sect, who would dare provoke them? Could there be some misunderstanding here? Or perhaps some faction has grown envious of our recent vigorous expansion and wishes to borrow a knife to kill? Perhaps it would be better to question him clearly before dealing the fatal blow. And in that single moment of distraction, Yaoguang's Great Void Art had already descended upon him with explosive force. By the time the Dao Lord regained his senses, the power of the Great Void Art had already erased him completely. This scene instantly struck terror into the remaining seven Dao Lords. "An immortal art?! Are you a Dao Sovereign?!" "To execute an immortal art-level technique, he is at least an invincible Dao Lord carrying supreme treasures!" "Tie him down! Send word to summon reinforcements from the sect's other elders!" The divine senses of the seven Dao Lords converged, instantly reaching a consensus. The seven of them rapidly shifted positions, faintly coalescing into a defensive formation. Such combat resolve, speed of reaction, and seamless coordination fully illustrated the difference between the Yongsheng Sect's Dao Lords and those of the Wuguang Alliance and Star Slayer Alliance from before. Unfortunately... The present Yaoguang was far from what he used to be. Setting aside the boost to his strength brought by slaying over a hundred and fifty Dao Lords in the battle at Beihai Star, the number of Dao Lords he had eliminated along his journey alone was no fewer than forty. Once he had completely cast aside notions of good and evil or right and wrong in his heart, arming himself at all costs, he was growing stronger with every passing moment. Under these circumstances, even with the seven Dao Lords arrayed in a formation, they still could not withstand a single exchange from him. Particularly when he brought forth the Grand Dao Pagoda, sweeping all seven Dao Lords inside and annihilating them, they were unable to send out even a shred of subsequent information. Furthermore, the power of the Time Orb within the Grand Dao Pagoda obscured the ripples of Grand Dao resonance in this area. Though all seven Dao Lords had been slaughtered down to the last man, not the slightest Grand Dao tremor emerged. It was as if those Dao Lords were still alive. "So, even the people of the Yongsheng Sect are somewhat unable to discern what a true Dao Sovereign is?" Yaoguang stepped into the void, unleashing the Sky-Rift Streaming Light as he rushed toward the next astral gate at top speed. At the same time, he could understand why the Yongsheng Sect lacked the ability to distinguish Dao Sovereigns. "Dao Sovereign" did not designate a cultivation realm. It was merely an honorific given to those who were powerful beyond the level of Dao Lords. So long as one did not fear gossip and ridicule, even a newly ascended Dao Lord could call themselves a Dao Sovereign. Therefore, unless one witnessed them demonstrating power that transcended Dao Lords with their own eyes, nobody knew whether such a Dao Sovereign was genuine or false. "Right, my cultivation realm in the Void Dao... should be reaching the threshold." After shuttling for a moment, Yaoguang seemed to remember something. With a thought, he focused his mind on the branch of [Dao Integration: Void]. The progress of this branch had previously advanced from 811/10,000 all the way to 985/10,000 during his journey here, and now having "hunted" nine more Dao Lords... Radiance flowed. The energy belonging to the branches of [Demon Hunting] and [Merchant] poured into [Dao Integration: Void] once more. In an instant, the progress was pushed above 1,000. And when his Void Dao progress crossed into the domain of one-tenth of the Grand Dao of the Void, he clearly felt his perception of Void Dao Lords become far more precise. In addition, he was gradually able to glimpse the true countenance of the Grand Dao of the Void. Using the power of the Grand Dao of the Void, he seemed on the verge of being able to "see" the entire Ancient Immortal Realm clearly. Naturally, to achieve this, he would need to immerse his mind completely in the Grand Dao of the Void. The more detailed and comprehensive he wished to observe, the deeper his immersion would have to be. A single lapse in concentration carried the risk of Dao assimilation. "This 'full-map vision' shares some of the profundity of Higher-Dimensional Cognition..." Yaoguang mused, his mind stirring. He channeled a portion of the remaining energy into the [Artifact Crafting] branch. As the [Artifact Crafting] branch was activated and grew, his "vision" was indeed rapidly elevated, soon expanding beyond this starry sky and continuing to climb toward the entire Immortal Realm, the Ancient Immortal Realm, and even the gray mist shrouding the entire Immortal Realm—the Hunyuan Realm. Yet this time, influenced by the power of the "Void," he seemed able to control his "vision," allowing himself to look down upon the starry sky he inhabited from an elevated perspective. This feeling... Was very strange. It was like a person who could look up and see the cosmic starry sky suddenly shifting to look straight ahead, narrowing his vision to merely a few dozen li. He was even gradually lowering his head to focus on the trees and mountain forests before him, ultimately looking down at the tirelessly bustling ants and insects upon the earth beneath his feet. Which is to say... The Dao Lords within this starry sky! Every single Dao Lord! As well as the resonances between the Dao Lords and the Grand Daos! Furthermore, when he gazed ahead with even greater detail at that colossal Star Gate drawing closer to his true body, various records and details regarding this Star Gate involuntarily surfaced in his mind. This information and these records did not originate from himself, but from the construction process of this Star Gate, recorded with a kind of... Recorded with the entire void as its medium. Yes, the void. Just as the "Grand Dao of the Void" possessed memory and the ability to record information, when he projected his "Higher-Dimensional Cognition" toward this starry sky and focused on this Star Gate, he could naturally flip through the book of the "Grand Dao of the Void" to peruse the information and data concerning the construction of this Star Gate. At this sight, Yaoguang finally realized a truth. "Higher-Dimensional Cognition! Is this how the data gathered by my Higher-Dimensional Cognition came about?" Yaoguang murmured to himself. Higher-Dimensional Cognition viewed things from a much higher plane than he did. Right now, he was treating the "Void" as a book, flipping through the records of this Star Gate's construction from the perspective of the "Void." Yet his "Higher-Dimensional Cognition" treated the entire Ancient Immortal Realm directly as a book, examining every detail recorded within the pages of the Ancient Immortal Realm. Naturally, in the beginning, his ability had been limited. The book perused by Higher-Dimensional Cognition had likely only contained content centered on the Yaoguang Realm and Cangwu Realm, spanning Beihai Star, the surrounding starry sky, and a small part of the Immortal Realm. That was why he had seen the core legacy techniques of the Heavenly Dao Sect and the Mystic Origin Creation Technique widely circulated by the Creation Group. Now, as the ancient tree within his spiritual world completed its metamorphosis into the glazed treasure tree... He seemed able to see higher and farther. Thus, he had seen the entirety of the Immortal Realm. When the [Artifact Crafting] branch grew to Level 19, its gaze had even encompassed the entire Ancient Immortal Realm, flipping bit by bit through the records on [Artifact Crafting] within the book of the Ancient Immortal Realm, taking note of them, and then transmitting them to him. "Higher-Dimensional Cognition! So this is Higher-Dimensional Cognition?!" Yaoguang's mind trembled with an overwhelming sense of wonder. The Ancient Immortal Realm... Was a book?! Time, space, and all the myriad changes of the universe could all be viewed and browsed like a volume of writing... Such power had definitely transcended the concepts of time and void. It even surpassed the scope of the Grand Daos of Time and the Void as he understood them. That cognition placed him as though in another dimension, his gaze capable of crossing all gradations of time and void, understanding everything before him with a mindset of "curiosity." At this moment, a thought surfaced in Yaoguang's dazed trance... His Higher-Dimensional Cognition was not limited to seeing only this information. It was not limited to seeing what already existed in the past and the present. It should also be able to... See the future. Just as a person reading a book could skip the current plot and look directly at the grand finale of this world of the Ancient Immortal Realm. If only he could master the method. Just like grasping keywords such as [Artifact Crafting], [Demon Hunting], [Merchant], [Formation], and [Dao Integration: Void] to search for their corresponding information—if he could find that method.