Chapter 405: The Dead End of Idealism

Li Heng began to laugh.

"It seems you are truly very confident now."

Su Xian smiled nonchalantly; although his skeleton body had not yet evolved flesh and blood, his aura surged violently, instantly leaping to the previous Creation Realm.

"I implore the senior to make a move and test me."

"If I can defeat the senior, it proves the senior's words are true, and I shall naturally break the barrier of the Tianjian Sect to wage war against the Calamity and the monsters. But if I lose, it proves the senior's words are false."

Li Heng shook his head upon hearing this.

"The moment you are still verifying truth and falsehood, you have already lost."

Su Xian was startled, then spoke with deep emotion.

"Indeed, I should not have hesitated; the senior is right to lecture me. Then now, I will not believe that I can lose; I ask the senior to grant me instruction!"

His aura surged again, and Su Xian's strength began to leap upward.

It continued to rise from the ordinary Creation Realm.

If divided according to the Heaven and Earth tribulation crossing previously mentioned by Xuanyang, Su Xian's current strength had already surpassed the First Tribulation, reached the Second Tribulation, and was approaching the Third Tribulation Heaven and Earth!

Li Heng nodded; Su Xian was cultivating this Way of Idealism quite well.

To be able to erupt with power approaching the Third Tribulation while at the First Tribulation realm.

He was not surprised that Su Xian would challenge him; on the contrary, this was within his expectations. After all, walking the Way of Idealism in a world of objective Reality is somewhat "mad," making it difficult to measure with ordinary logic.

The Black Fog face to the side was terrified at this moment.

He had originally treated Li Heng's words as a joke, thinking them nothing more than delusional ravings. Believing one could live just by thinking one could live, and believing one could solve the Calamity just by thinking one could solve the Calamity?

What kind of joke was this?

If there were such a good thing, the True Realm would not have fallen.

But when Su Xian was awakened by Li Heng's words, and his strength suddenly surged and continued to skyrocket, he was dumbfounded—had he failed to understand the logic of a madman?

Why could a string of delusional words allow someone to break through?

He expressed his lack of understanding; both of these people were madmen!

Who exactly was the monster here? He wailed in his heart.

"Come, senior, make your move!"

Su Xian was in high spirits, condensing an Original Qi Sword in his hand.

Li Heng smiled and shook his head.

"Not enough, still not enough; you cannot beat me right now."

Su Xian was stunned—cannot beat him?

He clearly felt that he had surpassed his former self; he was confident he could kill even the Evil Demon that had previously wiped out the entire Tianjian Sect with a single sword strike.

This level of power was actually not enough to beat this senior?

How could that be?

Yet this senior did not look like a cowardly person.

He shouldn't be afraid of me, which is why he said those things, right?

"I ask the senior to grant me instruction," Su Xian said respectfully.

"Your perspective is still too small, and your imagination is still too low."

"Do you think your current power can save the True Realm? Can it destroy the Calamity? Or to be more specific, can you destroy the Endless Galaxy, and can you tower above the Time-Space River of the Great Void?"

Li Heng asked with a smile.

"In the Way of Idealism, once the heart is small, the power will also be small."

"Do you understand this point?"

Su Xian fell into deep thought.

He reflected in his heart; perhaps the senior was right.

Because when he wanted to become stronger just now, what he longed to possess was the power to kill the Evil Demon that had destroyed the Tianjian Sect.

But was that Evil Demon the strongest?

No matter how he thought about it, that was impossible.

"But what does this have to do with me being able to defeat the senior?"

Su Xian pulled his thoughts back and asked in confusion.

"Then how strong do you think I am?"

Seeing that Su Xian was not easy to fool, Li Heng asked back with a smile.

"In any case, weaker than I am now."

Su Xian said firmly.

"Since you think so, then let's see."

Li Heng said calmly.

People these days are not stupid; the effect of empty talk is limited.

It is more practical to just take action.

He pressed his palm down, and infinite pressure instantly acted upon Su Xian's entire body; Su Xian instinctively erupted with power, wanting to repel the pressure, but the next moment he was completely suppressed by this pressure and could not move.

"Do you think you are very strong now?"

Li Heng asked the suppressed Su Xian.

He was not the same as those in the Creation Realm of the Immortal God system; strictly speaking, he was still in the Dharma Aspect Realm, his own Dharma Aspect Realm, only he possessed the great power of the Creation Realm of the Immortal God system.

And his Creation Realm was growing at every moment.

If one were to describe it using the size of Heaven and Earth.

At this moment, it has already surpassed the scale of the Galaxy and is developing toward the Observable Universe; if placed in the Physical Universe of my past life, that would be the destruction of galaxies with a mere wave of the hand, with the Great Dao itself being ground away.

If viewed through the lens of the levels of Heaven and Earth undergoing tribulations.

Li Heng estimates that he is at least a Seven Tribulations Heaven and Earth.

Su Xian is silent; he suddenly feels that he is a clown.

The power he thought could slay the Evil Demon that destroyed the Tianjian Sect was instead easily suppressed by this senior, so what does that make him?

The Black Fog face can no longer be described as merely terrified.

He simply could not have imagined that Li Heng would be this powerful.

His strength, which had not even been elevated, suppressed him firmly; now that his strength has increased to the point where he could kill him directly, the power is terrifyingly immense.

Yet he was suppressed so easily by this outsider.

Does that not mean that for this outsider, killing him is also effortless, perhaps even just a matter of a single thought?

He suddenly recalls Li Heng's earlier words.

"The Tianjian Sect is my word alone."

The Black Fog face feels that this statement is very reasonable and deeply regrets why he spoke up just now; he hurriedly makes himself quiet, neither moving nor making a sound.

"What, have you lost your confidence now?"

"Is this your 'firm belief that you will not die'?"

Seeing Su Xian sink low, his previously soaring power beginning to slip away, Li Heng speaks indifferently.

"I..." Su Xian opens his mouth to speak.

He wants to deny that he has lost his confidence, yet in his heart, a sense of powerlessness rises, extremely weak.

"Since that is the case, then I shall take back the Tianjian Token."

"You do not have the qualifications to be the Sect Master of the Tianjian Sect."

Having said this, Li Heng is about to take back the Tianjian Token.

"No, you cannot take it, I am the Sect Master!"

Li Heng's action causes an inexplicable rage to rise in Su Xian; he grips the Tianjian Token tightly, his aura erupting once more, his declining strength beginning to skyrocket: Second Tribulation, Third Tribulation, Fourth Tribulation, Fifth Tribulation...

Finally, it even surpasses Li Heng, arriving at the Nine Tribulations Heaven and Earth.

However, Li Heng's expression remains calm.

He looks at Su Xian, who has become like a flower in a mirror or the moon in the water, and sighs aloud, "If you still wish to continue existing, then stop."

At this moment, Li Heng does not speak of living, only of existing.

But Su Xian turns a deaf ear.

Relying on extreme idealism, relying on that nameless rage and unwilling obsession, he forcibly passes the final tribulation: Nine Tribulations Great Perfection, about to break through to the Creation Realm Above, transcending the true Time-Space River within the Da Xu Kong.

Then, the next moment, he begins to be corrected.

Just like a comic book character being erased by the author with an eraser, Su Xian's form and his own existence begin to slowly disappear; that so-called Nine Tribulations Great Perfection, the power transcending time and space, is also like a flower in a mirror or the moon in the water, unable to be utilized.

This is objective Reality correcting errors.

Li Heng sighs with emotion.

Cultivating the path of idealism, especially extreme idealism, results in only two outcomes: either, as it is now, being corrected by objective Reality and turned into nothingness, or completely attaining Transcendence.

But clearly, Su Xian does not have that luck; his current realm does not even touch the edge of Transcendence before being corrected by objective Reality, leaving no chance of survival.

His Visualization Divine Ability must symbolically collect Source Power.

How could it be possible for Su Xian to become stronger without paying any price?

It is just that, why did Su Xian not stop just now?

Li Heng is very curious.

Then he sees Su Xian looking at him with a smile.

"Senior, I would like to offer a great gift, and make a trade."