Chapter 733: Everything Has Meaning

"Li Heng, that is enough!"

The Ultimate Dao Lord could not help but reveal himself.

"Oh, I wonder what the Dao Lord means by this?"

Li Heng raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"Do you know how many King-level powerhouses you have killed?"

"Adding them all up, there are over thirty thousand! Do you really know what you are doing? These are King-level powerhouses; in their respective eras, they were all supreme existences, but now they have died like cannon fodder, like ants."

The Ultimate Dao Lord frowned deeply.

"And what of it?"

Li Heng asked in return upon hearing this.

"Dao Lord, you opened this Zhanchang and have operated it for nearly countless ages. The number of King-level powerhouses who have bled and died here is far more than just tens of thousands, isn't it? I fear it is in the hundreds of millions."

"That is different. They died in the process of selection, died in chaotic battles among their peers; their deaths had meaning, rather than being hunted down by someone with immense power, with no ability to resist!"

The Ultimate Dao Lord said coldly.

"In my view, it is all the same. Think about it, the number of King-level powerhouses in the Zhanchang is far more than a million, yet the high-level Dizhe selected are counted in single or double digits."

"How many times over is the gap between them?"

"Since that is the case, what does it matter if a few tens of thousands of King-level powerhouses die? You don't actually think that among these fools who took the initiative to attack me, there is anyone who could ascend to become a high-level Dizhe, do you?"

Li Heng spoke eloquently, remaining calm.

"Furthermore, I do not know what you are worried about. Are you worried that if I kill too many, the Zhanchang will lack people? But as the Ultimate Dao Lord, you should know better than I the vastness of the Great Void; besides this Reality of ours, there are Duochong Xianshi."

"In such a vast Great Void, let alone hundreds of millions of King-level powerhouses, I feel that even countless King-level powerhouses could be produced!"

The Ultimate Dao Lord was slightly stunned upon hearing this.

He had not expected Li Heng to know about Duochong Xianshi.

"You do not understand; you have still killed too many."

He remained silent for a long time, but in the end, he could only say this, though his words were very pale and lacked persuasiveness.

"Whether I have killed too many or not depends on the perspective from which one looks. I believe that if viewed from the perspective of that supreme Dao Lord, perhaps everything within the Great Void beneath the Dao Lord is meaningless, nothing more than duckweed flickering on the ocean of the Void."

"Is that not so? Am I right?"

Li Heng looked at the Ultimate Dao Lord and said calmly.

From the moment he first came into contact with information about the Dao Lord, he began to speculate on what kind of existence the Dao Lord was. At first, he thought that no matter how strong the Dao Lord was, they would not be too much stronger. But now this conclusion had been overturned, overturned completely by more and more information.

The Infinite Transcendence who returned from Wuqiong Weizhi was suppressed by the Dao Lord. The Upper Realm, which should contain the Great Void and the Dao Lord, was extinguished in an instant under the Dao Lord's thought.

Such deeds were too inconceivable, too illogical, and contrary to common sense, but this was a fact. Li Heng had probed with Source Power; it was a true fact!

At that time, he began to doubt: for the Dao Lord, does anything beneath the Dao Lord truly possess meaning? Beneath the Dao Lord, are those existences that are said to be infinitely close to the Dao Lord truly close?

The answer was pessimistic.

King-level powerhouses and Dizhe are supreme in their respective eras; they are the origin, the First Cause, the Omniscient and Omnipotent God. Yet the Great Void can give birth to countless such powerhouses, as if they were mass-produced cannon fodder, without any meaning. It seems the appearance of these powerhouses is like a game to the Great Void.

And for the Dao Lord, the appearance of the Dao Lord is extraordinary.

There are currently only nine Dao Lords.

Not only are they limited, but they are also as low as a single digit.

For the infinitely mass-produced King-level and Dizhe powerhouses, how transcendent the Dao Lord is—transcendent to the point that their numbers are limited to only nine. Transcendent to the point that the entire Great Void is divided into only two classes: the Dao Lord and those beneath the Dao Lord, with a gap that is too terrifying.

With such a transcendent Dao Lord holding the authority of the Great Void, could the Dao Lord also be capable of mass-producing King-level and Dizhe powerhouses? Perhaps all existences beneath the Dao Lord are merely symbols in the Dao Lord's hands that can be altered at will.

"You are quite right, if it were in the old era."

The Ultimate Dao Lord smiled bitterly.

"If it were in the old era, that would indeed be the case. But now it is different; the Dao Lords do not exist, at most leaving behind a trace. Like me, I am nothing but a Dead Remnant."

"But this does not hinder the fact that the gap is too large. Moreover, even if such a transcendent Dao Lord only has a wisp of a remnant soul left, to other living beings, it is still incomparably powerful and supreme."

"One divided by infinity is still infinity."

Li Heng said indifferently.

With Source Power protecting his body, he was not afraid of the Ultimate Dao Lord suddenly attacking him; he could just take this opportunity to probe the bottom line.

"The era has changed; it is different. In the past, you truly had no meaning, but now someone has endowed you with meaning. This meaning is something that even I, in my peak Dao Lord period, could not erase."

The Ultimate Dao Lord shook his head.

"Someone? Who is that?"

Li Heng frowned.

"Who knows? Perhaps it is you, perhaps it is me, or perhaps it is all the Dao Lords, or even the entire Great Void and all living beings. In any case, after all the Dao Lords have passed away, everything has gained meaning, even the finite facing the infinite, the weak facing the strong."

The Ultimate Dao Lord responded with vague words.

"Why do you think I established the Zhanchang and called for powerhouses from various eras to come? If you had no meaning, why would I do this? It is precisely because you have meaning; even if you are only finite individuals, finite in number, you can still trigger variables we cannot anticipate, no longer being mere illusions."

"Precisely because of this, I cannot sit idly by and watch your actions. Every living being has meaning; they each symbolize a certain possibility, and the death of a living being means the passing of a possibility."

"And you have killed too many, and you killed King-level powerhouses at that. Who can guarantee whether there was any special meaning in these dead powerhouses that could save the entire Great Void and resolve the Disaster of the Calamity? I cannot, and neither can you."

The Ultimate Dao Lord shook his head.

"So it is this kind of possibility?"

Li Heng spoke, lost in thought.

"Now you understand, right? Originally, I did not want to discuss these things with you, but now I have no choice but to speak."

The Ultimate Dao Lord felt a sense of relief in his heart.

He should not have promised Li Heng a quota for killing. But this reason should be able to convince him, right?

"Then what if I can guarantee that among the more than thirty thousand King-level powerhouses I killed, not a single one possessed the possibility of saving the Great Void or resolving the Disaster of the Calamity?"

"Or even say that their possibility was to die at my hands."

Zhongjie Daozhu was so amused by these words that he laughed.

"Did you not hear what I just said? I know you are mysterious and possess unfathomable means, but you are speaking too wildly. What qualifications do you have to know things that even I do not? If you can truly prove that you can guarantee it, what would it matter if I gifted this Zhanchang to you!"

"Very well, let us confirm them one by one!"

Li Heng smiled slightly and waved his large hand.

Source Power began to evolve into tens of thousands of futures...