Chapter 777: The Pioneering Dao Lord

"You want my life? That won't do."

Li Heng shook his head and said with a smile.

"Why won't it do?"

The figure appeared somewhat puzzled.

"I am a Dao Lord, and only a Dao Lord is qualified to save the Great Void; all existence below a Dao Lord is meaningless. Wait, no, since you are not a Dao Lord, how can you come here? Isn't this a place that only a Dao Lord is qualified to reach?"

The figure thought of some other things and became even more puzzled.

"That is naturally because I am also a Dao Lord."

Li Heng answered with a smile.

However, at this moment, the figure was no longer so easy to deceive.

He shook his head, "That is impossible."

"You must have used some crooked, evil path to reach here. Get down!" As soon as the figure's voice fell, the pavilion instantly vanished, and Li Heng stood once again in this Emptiness.

It was just that he had not been knocked back down, but rather...

He looked up.

He discovered that the pavilion was above him, at an infinite distance.

"Interesting. It seems a Dao Lord can also infinitely expand the upper limit of the Great Void?" Li Heng was not annoyed; instead, he was quite intrigued.

Do not be fooled by the fact that this is just an Emptiness; the Great Void below had already become an infinitely small point, almost invisible, yet this place still belonged to the category of the Great Void.

"It's just a pity that you can't shake me off."

Li Heng shook his head, once again borrowed the power of that position, reached the "highest," and instantly appeared inside that pavilion, face-to-face with the figure.

"You think I am using a crooked, evil path?"

He looked at the figure and said with a smile.

The figure was instantly stunned. What was going on?

Could this creature who was not a Dao Lord really catch up?

Could he really be a Dao Lord?

But there was no aura of a Dao Lord on him.

"What exactly is going on with you?"

The figure finally could not help but speak out.

"I already told you I am a Dao Lord, but you refuse to believe it."

Li Heng shook his head and said.

"But your strength is clearly below that of a Dao Lord."

The figure said very seriously.

"That only proves there is a problem with your judgment. Never mind a Dao Lord; I have even been Above Dao Lord. You speak as if the position of Dao Lord is very noble."

The figure was instantly dumbfounded, carefully pondering Li Heng's words.

"Hmm, what you say makes a lot of sense."

Soon, he nodded and said.

"You really believe it?" Li Heng asked.

"I don't believe it," the figure answered honestly.

"Then why did you say it makes sense?"

"It making sense and me not believing it do not conflict."

"Yo, you don't look like someone who has lost their memory either. Your mind is so sharp; you've even learned to judge matters on their own merits."

Li Heng said with surprise.

"Having no memory and having a sharp mind do not conflict."

The figure emphasized this point.

"Fine, fine, I won't dwell on that point. Looking at your reaction, it seems you really thought of something? Can you tell me which Dao Lord you are? Actually, I already know three Dao Lords, although two of them are completely dead."

Li Heng smiled with his eyes narrowed.

"In any case, I don't know you."

The figure was very objective.

"Not knowing me doesn't prevent you from revealing information to me."

Li Heng waved his hand and said.

"Forget it, it seems I cannot get rid of you."

The figure sighed and looked around the pavilion.

At this time, the pavilion was still in the process of rising infinitely, and he had not brought Li Heng along. But Li Heng was still in the pavilion, conversing with him very calmly.

This could only mean that Li Heng had the strength to keep up with the pavilion's ascent; even if he were not a Dao Lord, he possessed the essence of a Dao Lord!

"Then I am all ears?"

Li Heng smiled.

"Although my memory was jogged by you, it remains fragmented and incomplete, with only some scattered information. If I remember correctly, you can call me Kaituo."

The figure said.

"Kaituo?"

Li Heng was surprised, pondering the meaning behind this title.

"That's right, Kaituo. Just as you see now: expanding the upper limit of the Great Void, exploring the Infinite Unknown, and Conquest of the Unknowable. This is the path of Kaituo and his interest."

"I see, but does the upper limit of the Great Void really need to be expanded?"

Li Heng asked, appearing to be deep in thought.

Based on the information he understood and his personal experience, the level of the Great Void was clearly higher than that of a Dao Lord, perhaps even by more than one level; why then would it need a Dao Lord to expand its upper limit?

"You are quite right."

"That is why I am expanding the upper limit that I can reach."

The figure nodded quite candidly.

"Compared to other Dao Lords, the Pioneer Dao Lord does not walk within the Great Void, but instead remains at the very highest point of the Great Void, constantly expanding the upper limit, and I am merely an avatar he left behind."

"That sounds like something a practitioner of the Transcendence Path would do."

Li Heng said.

"You are not wrong; the Pioneer originally transitioned from the Transcendence Path, but my memories have blurred, and I do not know why he remained so obsessed with this point."

The figure said.

"Then how did the Pioneer die?"

Li Heng asked directly.

"I do not know how he died. But at some moment in the past, the Pioneer separated me, then continued to advance and pioneer toward the Unknown above alone, until finally, he lost contact with me."

"Since then, my power and memories began to weaken and fade, and in the end, I remained numbly stationed in this pavilion until your appearance, which forcibly recalled a tiny fragment of my memory."

The figure shook his head.

Li Heng frowned upon hearing this; an Unknown cause of death?

Or perhaps the Pioneer did not die, but simply lost contact? But if that were the case, what kind of place could it be that would cause a supreme Dao Lord to completely lose contact with his own avatar, and conversely cause the avatar to weaken to this extent?

"It seems I must trace the past."

With a thought, he utilized Source Power to begin tracing.

The figure beside him was also stunned; what was this?

Tracing the past spacetime.

Had the brain of this person called Li Heng been kicked by a donkey?

This place was completely empty, without any spacetime structure; even this pavilion only existed here because it was established by a Dao Lord, so how could one trace the past spacetime?

But the next moment, scenes from the past emerged before him.

The figure fell into silence.

What the hell?

It had actually succeeded in tracing it?

This was not logical, was it?

Tracing out something that should not exist?

Had the Great Void become that advanced now?

If Li Heng knew of this sensation, perhaps he could form a guess: that the Source Power tracing was perhaps not tracing the spacetime axis, but the plot axis.

It was like a book; every chapter, every page, and every word in the book was a plot Node, and no matter what kind of story the book depicted, or whether it destroyed spacetime, the person reading the book could always trace the past by flipping the pages back.

Soon, the Source Power on Li Heng's body hit rock bottom.

However, he had also found that critical point in time.

It was a man with the same build as the figure, his features more concrete, with a face full of a beard, looking very rugged; he stood in the pavilion, looking upward, his face showing a look of worry.

"We're done for now, which bastard poked such a huge hole!"