Chapter 651: Evil Demons and Outer Path

"Why don't you reconsider? The Dao Lord transcends eras; how could there be any distinction between past, present, and future, or any theory of era development? The Dao Lord is already the most powerful being in the Great Void."

The Management Hub finally spoke up, advising Li Heng.

"Who knows?"

Li Heng shook his head, but remained noncommittal.

Theoretically, a Dao Lord capable of wielding Great Void Power can truly reach the upper limit of the Great Void's power, but now that things from outside the Great Void have popped out, how can one be certain?

"How about this, I will make a deal with you. I want to borrow your body to temporarily hide my form and obscure Causality, following you back to the external Great Void to prevent Inauspiciousness and Terror from descending. Once you return to the external Great Void, as for matters regarding us of the old era and the Dao Lord, just let things take their course; I won't ask you to specifically search for them. What do you think?"

The Management Hub finally made a concession, appearing helpless.

"Since it is a deal, there must be give and take. What do I gain?"

Li Heng asked; this Management Hub was very cunning, having said such a long string of words just now without even stating its own conditions.

"Regarding the secrets of the old era and various Supreme Scriptures, I can inform you of them all on the road while searching for matters of the old era, helping you take another step forward and sublimate into an Advanced Transcendent. How about that?"

The Management Hub had realized that the guy in front of it was the type who wouldn't release the hawk until seeing the rabbit, and could only propose its own conditions.

"Sublimate into an Advanced Transcendent? Are you sure it's useful?"

Li Heng raised an eyebrow and said.

"Why would it be useless? It's not as if there haven't been Advanced Transcendents in the old era, or even higher. Those guys all achieved it by luckily obtaining the Dao Lord's secret inheritance or Supreme Scriptures."

The Management Hub replied, somewhat self-satisfied. Now, this Primary Transcendent should be able to understand the gap between himself and the Dao Lord, right?

"So that's how it is."

Li Heng nodded thoughtfully.

If one were to go by what the Management Hub said, the Dao Lord was even more powerful than he had imagined. But was this not a bit too much of an overnight success? Leaping from a Venerable to an invincible Dao Lord?

Or was there some trick to it?

For instance, the scale of the integration with the Dao determines the strength of the Dao Lord.

And as for the so-called Dao Ancestor inheritance, the Supreme Scriptures are essentially nothing more than Great Void Power, just manifested concretely through the hands of these Dao Lords; so are these Dao Lords actually just borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha, rather than using their own True Power?

Those in the Hongdao Realm are like people starting their own companies, while the Dao Lord is a "shareholder" or employee of the big company that is the Great Void, naturally able to take resources from the Great Void company and give them to others like a giant rat.

He raised this thought, then secretly shook his head.

This notion was also a bit improper; since the Dao Lord can mobilize Great Void Power, that could also indicate it is the Dao Lord's own power. How can one distinguish so clearly between external and internal things?

After all, even one's own Dao Fruit and cultivation can be stripped away.

What one cultivates oneself is an internal thing, one's own possession. But it can also be forcibly stripped away, making it an external thing; obsessing over these two points will only lead one into an inexplicable maze.

In this way, although this Dao Lord has a clear upper limit, the limit is also extremely high—could it actually be above the Hongdao Realm? Or is it an existence that has walked very far within the upper limit of the Hongdao Realm? It's just unclear how they compare to the existence that opened up the Hongdao Space.

"How do you all determine the ranks among Transcendents? Is it just Primary and Advanced, with no other names? Like 'Hongdao' or something similar?" Li Heng continued to inquire, probing.

"No, no, there are only these distinctions of Primary and Advanced. As for whatever messy terms, the so-called 'Hongdao' you mentioned, I have never heard of it at all. Furthermore, I feel that in my era, no one would care about such Outer Path things and go out of their way to name them."

The Management Hub expressed its disdain.

"Outer Path, what does that mean?"

Li Heng was somewhat surprised upon hearing this.

"What else could it be if not an Outer Path? You Transcendents have all gone to extremes; instead of borrowing Great Void Power, you superstitiously believe in the Wuqiong Weizhi outside the Great Void, abandoning the beautiful world to break away from the jurisdiction of the Great Void. You are thoroughly Evil Demons and Outer Path."

The Management Hub gave a very sharp evaluation.

"I see you have only just embarked on the Path of Transcendence; I still advise you to change your path. This is a dead end. The further you walk to the end, the more you will discover the Terror of the Unknown, and finally be assimilated by the Unknown. Only under the protection of the Great Void is the Absolute righteous path."

"I once heard a Dao Lord's evaluation: the Great Void is the only land, the center of everything. So-called Transcendence is nothing but abandoning the root to pursue the tip, just poor fellows picking up sesame seeds to eat."

This old guy began to kindly advise Li Heng again.

Li Heng's face darkened; this evaluation was truly sharp. However, he had to admit that if it were truly as this Dao Lord said, then what this Dao Ancestor said had some logic to it.

The Great Void is the only stage; if you flee outside the stage, aren't you just a pathetic worm, a loser? Unless you can sublimate yourself from a character within the stage into an audience member.

Otherwise, everything is off the table.

But is the audience necessarily better than the stage?

That is even less certain.

"I think everything you said is correct, which is why the Dao Lord died."

Li Heng cleared all doubts from his heart and said this.

Figures who have reached this realm, which one of them does not have a firm Dao heart, believing themselves to be absolutely correct and absolutely invincible? If they were shaken by these words, they wouldn't be qualified to reach this point.

"Can you not bring up the sore spot?"

The Management Hub was unhappy.

This Primary Transcendent was truly infuriating; back then, it was infinitely glorious, and even Advanced Transcendents had to obtain its consent to enter or exit the Great Void, but now it was helpless.

"Then let me change the term? The Dao Lord has fallen."

Li Heng curled his lips and said.

Management Hub:....... It became somewhat withdrawn.

It also had to admit that the fall of the Dao Lord was a hurdle it could not overcome, which left it incredibly surprised and shocked, shattering the picture of the Dao Lord's invincibility that it believed in.

At the same time, it was even more confused and fearful.

Where exactly did those Inauspiciousness and Terror come from?

How could they appear suddenly and cause the Dao Lord to bleed?

In the end, Li Heng finally agreed to the Management Hub's deal. After all, he was indeed very curious about the old era and the matters of the Dao Lord, and was planning to investigate along the way.

Now that he had agreed, he could still get some benefits; why not?

Of course, before this, he had also predicted that as long as he did not let this Management Hub be exposed to the external Great Void for a long time, it would not attract immeasurable Causality and danger.

It was precisely because he had confirmed this point that he agreed.

He, Li, has always been very steady.

"Tell me, can your Dao Lord's power trace the origin and end of the Time-Space Mother River?" Li Heng asked, chatting idly with the management hub as he brought it back to the surface of the Great Void.

"Time-Space Mother River? What are you talking about?"

The management hub was puzzled and indicated that it was hearing this term for the first time.