Chapter 622: Dao Lord of Dao Integration

If you don't gamble, you won't lose?

Hun Xuan smiled indifferently, not caring at all.

Sometimes it is not a matter of whether you are willing to gamble, but that you have no choice but to gamble. Under the illumination of the Light of Dao Integration, the process of Dao Integration has already begun; no one can withdraw halfway.

Now there are only two possibilities.

Either he succeeds in Dao Integration and usurps the Dao Fruit, or he is instead infected by Li Heng's Great Dao, turned into a Dao slave, and eventually even completely assimilated, reduced to nothingness.

But he had long anticipated the second possibility and had long been prepared for it.

He had begun calculating the Light of Dao Integration a long time ago; it is just that he has only now obtained it.

And his purpose in obtaining the Light of Dao Integration is to achieve Union with the Great Void. Compared to something like detaching from the Great Void to become independent, this is the true goal, the true grand plan!

To be independent of the Great Void and open up a Heaven and Earth of one's own?

Such a plan may seem highly ambitious, but to him, who knows more information, this plan is nothing more than an act of evasion—closing the doors to build a dojo, merely playing king in a tiny place.

The Great Void is not an island in the Unknown Ocean, but an infinitely vast continent; no matter how chaotic or changing the Unknown may be, it still stands firm. How could it be compared to a mere island or reef?

He is very clear that the Great Void is the center of everything, and from ancient times to the present, no one has been able to break this point.

Even if one leaves the Great Void and can avoid the Calamity and monsters, that is only finding peace in a corner; it is nothing more than a slow death, which will only cause one to detach from the high-speed development of the grand stage, to be left behind by the Great Void step by step, and to be swept into the dustbin of history.

As a seeker on the Great Dao Road, he does not allow it.

But the Great Void is currently too dangerous; those Calamities and monsters from unknown origins have spread across almost all eras, and it is only a matter of time before they completely permeate all eras.

He must find a way to resolve this current situation.

At the very least, he must preserve himself.

Therefore, ever since he took office as the Leader of the Multiverse Alliance, he has been actively exploring everything, having come into contact with who knows how many things—for instance, the unknown forces outside the Great Void, the origin and end of the Time-Space Mother River, the origins of the Calamity and monsters...

However, many of these explorations returned empty-handed.

Until, due to an accident, he came into contact with old events from countless ages before the Great Void, separated by a massive Shi Kong Shen Yuan, which had not appeared in countless eras.

That was a history in which the Calamity and monsters had not yet appeared.

Within it was recorded a realm, a type of existence.

This realm is named Dao Integration, and that existence is named Dao Lord; by uniting with the Great Void, one can mobilize a portion of the Great Void's power for one's own use, supreme and peerless.

In that history, the Dao Lord was equivalent to the spokesperson of the Great Void, wielding the authority of the Great Void and operating the laws of the Great Void; they were invincible.

In front of such an existence, even those Great Venerables on the orthodox path of cultivation who claim to be able to exist independently of the Great Void and survive on their own are nothing but weaklings, collapsing at a single touch.

When he learned this information, he was very surprised, even feeling that these were false rumors released by some existences to go fishing; whoever believed them was a fool.

Because the Great Void is not Heaven and Earth, but the sum of everything. One could even say that it is not that the Great Void contains everything, but that sentient beings view themselves, and everything outside themselves, as a whole, and name this whole the Great Void or something similar.

This strange whole formed by mixing in one's own subjective cognition is not Heaven and Earth, not time and space, but a concept; perhaps it could be integrated as everyone's worldview?

A world of Dao Integration, a Heaven and Earth of Dao Integration, a universe of Dao Integration—that is because these things truly exist and have certain rules, but the Great Void is not like this; it has no rules, it is just an integrated concept. How could one achieve Dao Integration with this?

Was it not to have one's own Dao integrated into the Great Void?

Furthermore, as he was exploring various things and matters at the time, he had encountered false lies more than once, such as the claim that the Great Void is a dream and that when people die, they just wake up. Therefore, he was even less concerned with such claims at the time.

Until the second time.

He met a scale that claimed to be a Void Artifact.

That thing told him many things, including those old events from countless ages ago, as well as information regarding that so-called Dao Ancestor.

Hun Xuan could not help but recall that conversation.

"Kid, I didn't expect you to have such affinity, to actually run into old events that should have perished? Forget it, everything in the world is but a false combination of causes and conditions; since there is affinity, I can tell you some information."

"The Dao Lord realm you speak of does indeed exist, but the Dao Integration to advance to Dao Lord is not the ordinary Dao Integration you imagine, but the opposite—something more extreme. You can imagine the Great Void as a piece of white paper, and yourself as a bottle of ink; the process of the ink staining the white paper is Dao Integration."

That Void scale said as much.

"This is to conversely infect the Great Void? But why? The Great Void is just an integrated concept; theoretically, it should be nothing at all. What can be gained by infecting the Great Void?"

He had replied thus, puzzled and uncomprehending.

"No, this can indeed gain things. It is just not the power, realm, cultivation, laws, or Reason you imagine, but three light, floating words: the right of interpretation."

The Void scale answered calmly, then changed the subject.

"However, you don't need to think about any Dao Integration now. Although there are indeed still paths to Dao Integration and things to perform Dao Integration with, the current environment has changed; whoever integrates, dies. It would be better to honestly break through to Great Venerable, to honestly be a prisoner of the Void or an Unknown Outsider; at the very least, that is better than death, isn't it?"

"Why?"

He asked, puzzled and uncomprehending.

"Why? Is the reason not direct enough? Whoever made the Great Void become what it is now, that is the reason. What, looking at your expression, are you truly tempted, wanting to achieve Dao Integration? Tsk, that is truly a dangerous thought, but it is not impossible..."

The scale responded thus, letting him glimpse a corner of the Abyss.

Hun Xuan returned to his senses, calming his mood.

Even now, he does not understand why that scale, which claimed to be a Void Artifact, revealed so much to him, or even revealed the method of Dao Integration and gave him the item for Dao Integration.

Was this wanting to scout the path, or wanting to experiment? That Void scale must have its own purpose; even if they have had a bit of a friendship over these many years, he still has to be on guard.

The him of today is no longer the him of the past, ignorant and unaware.

He had long since prepared to deal with potential risks.

Now, he has used the Light of Dao Integration on this Li Daoren, merely integrating with this Li Daoren's Great Dao, not integrating with the Great Void, so the risks involved will be smaller.

Then, his higher-level preparations can better ensure he is worry-free!

And Li Heng's actions here are very simple.

Adding a bit of Source Power into the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form...