Chapter 778: How Difficult is True Transcendence?

"A hole? What is that thing above?"

Li Heng frowned and muttered to himself.

Immediately after, the scene changed again; this Pioneer Dao Lord used a Supernatural Ability, left behind a clone here, then leaped upward and vanished from the scene.

"What a pity."

Li Heng shook his head.

His method of tracing used this pavilion as a base point, not the Pioneer Dao Lord himself. Therefore, once this Pioneer Dao Lord left the pavilion, he could no longer trace him.

Naturally, if he wanted to continue tracing, he still could.

He just needed to add Source Power online.

But currently, his Source Power had bottomed out.

At this moment, the figure beside him frowned deeply, lost in thought.

"Looking at this scene, I seem to remember a little more."

"Remembered what?"

Li Heng hurriedly pressed for an answer.

"After the Pioneer left, for a period of time, my connection with him was not severed; from time to time, he would transmit signals to me, such as 'everything is fine,' 'calm,' 'strange,' and so on..."

"But in the end, the last time he contacted me, he seemed to be warning me, or perhaps warning everyone, not to continue ascending further, and then the connection was severed."

The figure said slowly.

Li Heng frowned slightly, feeling somewhat strange.

"But aren't you letting the pavilion continue to ascend right now?"

The figure shook his head.

"The current ascent of the pavilion can only be called a pseudo-ascent; this is something this pavilion and I are capable of. But the ascent the Pioneer spoke of is a true ascent, referring to something neither I nor the pavilion can achieve, the act of truly stepping out of this realm."

Li Heng suddenly understood and nodded.

This situation was similar to that of the old man of Infinite Transcendence from before; the core was even exactly the same. But it was not surprising, after all, the Pioneer Dao Lord had switched paths halfway through.

"But in that case, the Pioneer was worrying unnecessarily."

"After all, if you can't do it, how could you ascend?"

Li Heng smiled slightly; this might be a contradiction.

"Perhaps, but it could also be his most sincere last words. During that last contact, he had become extremely weak, ethereal, and now even more so..."

The figure's voice gradually became faint, and he fell into silence.

The meaning behind his words was self-evident.

But soon, he raised his head again and looked at Li Heng.

"Although I do not know how you arrived here, please go back; do not continue to ascend. Although I do not believe you can reach that level, to avoid potential risks, you must fall back into the Great Void."

"This is the mission I stand here for."

"What if I insist on ascending?"

"Then I can only stop you with my life, no matter the cost."

"But didn't you say your life is already gone, that you are dead?"

Li Heng continued.

The Pioneer should be dead.

Then, as the Pioneer's clone, was the figure considered alive or dead? He did not know the specific answer either. But without a doubt, the figure's state was very poor.

"Since I have recalled the past, I must at least try."

The figure replied, his expression complex.

He naturally knew that the Li Heng before him was extraordinary; with just a few words, he could evoke memories that should have been forgotten for eons, and he could even keep up with the ascent of this Dao Lord's creation, the Infinite Pavilion, and even trace the past of a Dao Lord that should have turned into Emptiness and ceased to exist.

Possessing such god-like methods...

Then he might no longer be this person's match.

But duty is duty, and it cannot be changed.

"A meaningless obstruction. I am leaving."

Li Heng shook his head, leaped lightly, and vanished from the pavilion.

The next moment, the figure reacted, looking at the empty space before him, and was instantly lost in confusion. How, what happened? He couldn't help but look up and discovered Li Heng's figure above him.

He sighed and reached his hand outside the pavilion's coverage.

In an instant, his skin withered, his flesh and blood shriveled, revealing bone claws, and finally, they turned into bone powder that filled the air and dissipated. But the next moment, as if shocked by electricity, he pulled his hand back into the pavilion, and his flesh, bones, and skin gradually regained their form, recovering as before.

This was not because he was afraid.

It was because just as he reached out his hand, wanting to step out of the pavilion and continue the pursuit, Li Heng's figure had completely disappeared and could no longer be seen.

He fell silent.

This pavilion was already at the maximum degree of Infinite ascent, yet it could not keep up with this person's speed of ascent? In just a single instant, he had been left behind to the point of being invisible!

What kind of person was this?

"Forget it, forget it. Do not do meaningless things."

He spoke with emotion, standing quietly in the pavilion...

Li Heng was at an even greater speed of ascent, continuing his Infinite ascent. With his current connection to that position, he naturally could not make the speed of ascent faster than that pavilion.

But he tried it using Source Power.

Source Power combined with the power of that position had great compatibility, exerting an effect where one plus one is greater than three; by using only a small portion of Source Power, he directly left that pavilion and the Pioneer Dao Lord's clone behind.

As for why he did not fight the clone figure.

That was naturally because it was meaningless.

Although he could likely obtain a considerable amount of Source Power by completely annihilating that human figure, he could also generate that same amount of Source Power within a period of time by utilizing his current Source Power Authority.

It was not particularly important.

Moreover, that human figure was not some Disaster monster; killing it would likely not grant any Source Power Authority and would only waste time, which was inefficient, so it was better to simply skip it.

"True ascension, stepping out of one's own realm..."

Li Heng muttered to himself.

He was currently still in a state of infinite ascension and had not yet hit the ceiling. In other words, the current level was still within the scope of what he could achieve; he had not yet stepped out of his own strength, his own realm, his own box.

"Stepping out of one's own realm, how difficult it is."

He sighed with emotion.

When he first met and spoke with that old man of Infinite Transcendence, he had been somewhat dismissive of this true transcendence of stepping out of one's own realm, as he had not experienced it after all. But now, he suddenly discovered that this matter indeed possessed a certain degree of difficulty.

After all, once one truly steps out of their own realm, it is equivalent to everything one has mastered becoming ineffective or too low-level within the deeper Unknown.

In that case, on what basis could he continue to transcend and ascend?

In the vast Unknown, no matter how strong you were before, you are now nothing more than a babbling infant, forced to relearn these Unknowns from the very beginning.

Under the requirements of such true transcendence.

Things like infinite transcendence in a single thought, absolute invincibility upon a whim, or being Omniscient and Omnipotent basically do not exist; more often, one cannot even manage to transcend, or even if one does transcend, one might die in the process of transcendence.

Even all the halos one previously possessed become useless.

Unless you are walking on a higher level, or on a path paved by predecessors for their successors, where the speed of transcendence is extremely fast, covering a thousand miles in a day, just like that Great Dao Road the old man encountered back then.

And as it happens, Li Heng has just such a path.

It is called Source Power.

"The more I transcend, the more I can feel the limits of transcendence; therefore, I shall cheat!"

Li Heng moved his mind, pouring all Source Power—whether ordinary Source Power or Golden Source Point—except for that portion used to ensure his own life, into this Infinite Transcendence.

In an instant.

At the next moment of the previous moment on the psychological temporal level.

Li Heng hit the ceiling and arrived at his destination.

He saw a massive hole...