Chapter 2024: Analyzing the World-Ending Divine Power: The World-Ending Demon God

With a thought, the primordial power of the World-Ending Demon God was drawn forth.

Though slight—only a thread—it could, if fully unleashed, elevate an ordinary person to the Chaos Primordial realm, even the Dao Heaven realm.

This is the terror of a Mythic Supreme: a single thread of power suffices to forge a supreme being.

Zhang Taixuan found nothing unusual about this trait.

Because he could do it too.

If he truly wished, in a single thought he could make Huang Rong, Wan Wan, and others reach the Dao Heaven realm, even the Great Dao realm.

But there was no need.

Cultivation must be earned through one's own effort.

Gifts from others, though easier, lack much of the joy.

To him now, the cultivation of all beings was itself a pleasure, even if they could never reach the Mythic Supreme realm.

The scenery along this path was "six-five-three" boundless joy.

If he intervened, he could instantly bring them to the endpoint—but it would undeniably destroy their lives.

As he thought, Zhang Taixuan analyzed the power of the World-Ending Demon God.

Cultivators across the myriad worlds wielded magic power and Dao in countless wondrous ways—born and perished, coming and going, all manner of strange forms.

Yet the World-Ending Demon God's power was pure to the extreme, yet seemed to contain all Dao.

Whatever the gods and demons of the myriad worlds could do, the World-Ending Demon God could do too.

Yet there was a subtle difference.

The World-Ending Demon God's power carried a mechanical quality, evoking a sense of inescapable fate.

"Of course—world-ending and rebooting the myriad worlds is the World-Ending Demon God's fate, written into its magic power and Dao fruit."

Understanding this, Zhang Taixuan quickly grasped the reason.

Unlike him, who reached the Mythic Supreme realm through cultivation, the World-Ending Demon God was a miracle forged by the myriad worlds.

If Zhang Taixuan's existence was like a virus within a body, then the World-Ending Demon God was the antivirus system within that body.

It was fixed.

It was immensely powerful, yet could not escape its fate—unlike the Mythic Supreme realm achieved through self-cultivation.

It could destroy infinite worlds, yet could not transcend.

Even after countless cycles of rebooting the infinite myriad worlds, it could only march forward along its fate.

"All is forged by the myriad worlds; all is naturally bound by them."

The Mythic Supreme realm could destroy the myriad worlds easily.

Yet, seemingly, the World-Ending Demon God was fierce.

In truth, when the myriad worlds rebooted and its fate was fulfilled, its boundless power would be reclaimed.

This was a fate written in stone.

Looking at the thread of World-Ending divine power in his hand, Zhang Taixuan understood much.

It was not that the World-Ending Demon God did not wish to emerge now, nor that it did not wish to extend its boundless power and alter the myriad worlds.

It was that the myriad worlds would not allow it.

One could say, it and the myriad worlds were two sides of the same coin—this was why it could not resist.

One cannot easily oppose oneself.

To the myriad worlds, Zhang Taixuan was the anomaly.

After all, the Mythic Supreme realm could be called a half-transcendent state—the very state the myriad worlds absolutely did not wish anyone to reach.

Like a nation or a corporation, it would never permit a being to rise above it.

"Every time I reached the Mythic Supreme realm, the myriad worlds rebooted—could it be because the myriad worlds activated their antivirus program?"

Zhang Taixuan's expression grew subtle; he had not expected he was, in effect, a virus of the myriad worlds.

"But if that's so, why do the myriad worlds support me?"

Along this path, the benefits the myriad worlds granted him were far from few.

This directly contradicted the collective will of the myriad worlds.

Of course—the collective will!

If the collective will of the myriad worlds did not want Zhang Taixuan to appear, then individual worlds might not agree.

Sometimes, the individual and the collective will were not aligned.

To the collective will of the myriad worlds, Zhang Taixuan was a plague, a virus; to each individual world, Zhang Taixuan was their lucky star.

Like humans, worlds too wished for progress, for transcendence.

They invested in Zhang Taixuan, hoping that when he transcended, he would take them with him.

As for whether the myriad worlds would collapse from their departure—who cared?

After all, when the myriad worlds rebooted, their wills eroded a little more; their interests diverged from the collective will of the myriad worlds.

Realizing this, a flash of insight struck Zhang Taixuan's mind—he now understood why the World-Ending Demon God had sent its World-Ending divine power to him through Zhu Yuanzhang.

The reason was the same.

It did not wish to remain a mechanical tool of the Mythic Supreme—it wished to be a free and unbound Mythic Supreme.

It even hoped Zhang Taixuan would lend it a hand, helping it transcend.

As for what would happen after transcendence—no one to reboot the myriad worlds, plunging them into eternal calamity, endless ruin—it did not care.

In short, it no longer wished to be a tool.

"Indeed, all under heaven bustle for gain; all under heaven scramble for profit. Whether in the mythic world or the human world, the principle is the same."

Where there is profit, even opposing entities will invest in him, hoping he will pull them along.

Zhang Taixuan's expression was subtle; having analyzed the power of the World-Destroying Demon God, the power extending to the myriad heavens and worlds had grown stronger and even more concealed.

As for the thoughts of the myriad worlds, and the World-Destroying Demon God's investment, he accepted them all without question.

As for whether to actually do it, of course, it would depend on the situation.

If it were possible, helping out naturally would not be a problem.

If he could only transcend himself, he could only say he was unable to help.

As the World-Destroying Demon God's power was analyzed and worn away by him, his strength advanced yet another small step forward.

Although it was not much, for him at present, it was an earth-shattering change.