Chapter 781: Source of the Great Void Will?

"What am I doing here? Does that even need asking?"

"Naturally, it is to inherit the legacy of the Pioneer and complete this place."

"What, are you here to hold me accountable? Yet, am I not still faithfully fulfilling the terms of our trade? My avatar is still continuously providing you with the things you need."

Li Heng asked these questions in succession, then smiled and spoke.

The Great Void consciousness fell into a brief silence.

"Stop. This is not a domain that an individual living being should touch."

"Why? This is a Calamity, after all; it will cause gaps to appear in everything and destroy the integrity of all things. When the time comes that this causes the Great Void to be unable to function normally, then you will be the one crying."

Li Heng asked curiously.

"Wait, this Disaster of Gaps couldn't have something to do with you, could it?"

He looked at the Great Void consciousness, a look of suspicion appearing in his eyes. It was fortunate that the Great Void consciousness did not count as an individual living being and possessed no living emotions; otherwise, Li Heng would surely have been struck dead by lightning for that remark.

It was just like a subject questioning an emperor high above.

"The Pioneer did not leave behind any legacy."

The Great Void consciousness stretched out a finger to point at the few lines of small text left before the Pioneer's corpse, its expression indifferent, its voice cold.

Li Heng waved his hand.

"That is not important. What is important is that I must be responsible for the safety of the Great Void; as for what you think, that is your business. You are merely the consciousness of the Great Void; what the hell do you know about the Great Void?"

He spoke very arrogantly, confronting it directly.

But in a certain sense, what he, Li, said was also very reasonable. The Great Void was never the Great Void of one person, but the Great Void of everyone.

The Disaster of Gaps opens holes in the Great Void; perhaps the Great Void itself remains unscathed, but the civilizations and living beings within it will be the ones to suffer.

If the Great Void consciousness had been the first thing born, that would be one thing, but it clearly was not; that makes it even less appropriate for it to make decisions for the civilizations and living beings within the Great Void.

Furthermore, if one were to compare the Great Void to a person.

If a person were to commit suicide, naturally someone would have to stop them.

"This is a phenomenon that an individual living being cannot solve. You should be able to perceive the anomalies in yourself by now; the more you fill in, the more you yourself will become static, eventually following in the footsteps of the Pioneer."

The Void consciousness spoke out.

"Then what if I can solve it?"

Li Heng inquired.

Although he had not yet thought of any effective method, he still had a certain degree of confidence; after all, he still had the omnipotent Source Power, and if it truly came to the worst, he could simply and crudely use Source Power to top it off.

Although this would certainly consume a great deal of Source Power, he now possessed the Source Power Authority and could generate Source Power continuously. As long as the speed of consuming Source Power was not greater than the speed of its generation, it would be fine.

At the very least, it could not be greater for a long period.

Living beyond his means would exhaust all the Source Power he had accumulated.

The Great Void fell into silence once more. It very much wanted to say one more thing, to reiterate once again that this was not a problem an individual living being could solve; it had already become an objective phenomenon.

But facing this special individual named Li Heng, it always felt that it should not say such things; it seemed that this individual might truly be able to solve this phenomenon, which was simply too absurd.

"Even if you can, you must not."

After a long silence, the Great Void consciousness squeezed out this sentence.

"Can, but must not? Then it seems there really is a problem."

Li Heng raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"For you to be able to give birth to such a strong consciousness and appear with such deep personification, could it be that this also has to do with the Disaster of Gaps? A Great Dao Gap, a Void Gap—once you depart from perfection, there is change?"

He stared fixedly at this physical form of the Great Void consciousness, guessing.

At the very beginning, the Great Void only had instinct in the dark.

And it only needed instinct.

But from somewhere, the instinct began to transform into a will in the dark; although the difference was not great, it gave the Great Void a chance at personification.

Until later, when Li Heng forcibly used the omnipotent properties of Source Power to converse with the Great Void, it seemed to have activated something, causing the will to no longer be limited to the level of the dark, but to be able to manifest in Reality.

And until now, a strong personification had even appeared. Perhaps the current Great Void consciousness could be called the Great Void Heavenly Dao?

To Li Heng, this change was simply too fast, too rapid. He had only used Source Power to converse, without specifically activating anything; how could it have changed so quickly?

Now it seemed, was that how it was?

Besides his influence, there was also the influence of the Disaster of Gaps?

It was just that this was even more Terror-inducing, indicating that the upper limits of the Calamity and the monsters remained unfathomable, already capable of affecting this level of the Great Void and interfering with the formation of its will!

The Great Void consciousness fell into a long silence again.

However, perhaps this attitude was also a tacit admission?

Li Heng struck while the iron was hot and continued to speak.

"But your personified will has clearly already been born; why do you still need this Disaster of Gaps to continue existing? Could it be that your personified will still needs the Disaster of Gaps for maintenance, and that a Great Dao Gap must appear for your personified consciousness to continue to exist?"

"Then it seems the Great Void itself does not need a personified will. Once the Great Void disappears, no longer has any gaps appearing, and returns to its own level of relative self-perfection, this externally interfering personified will of yours will disappear."

"The Great Void itself will perform self-correction?"

The Great Void consciousness finally could not help but speak at this moment.

"You individual, do you not feel that knowing too much is bad?"

"And according to the rules between individual living beings, with this attitude of yours right now, I should strike you dead with a bolt of lightning; that I haven't acted yet is already my mercy!"

Li Heng smiled slightly upon hearing this.

"You won't, because there is a trade between you and me. Once you kill me or drive me away, you won't be able to get the things you need. Can you resist the temptation of those things?"

Although they were merely a Degraded Product of Source Power.

But being able to be even slightly associated with Source Power was already extraordinary, let alone being directly degraded from it.

The Great Void consciousness went silent again, which also confirmed Li Heng's words. Seeing this, Li Heng shook his head; in the end, the time since the personified will was born was still too short—it couldn't even speak properly?

"Actually, it is not just because you cannot, but also because you must not."

When it comes to Li Heng's ability to save his own life, if he dares to claim second place in the Great Void, no one dares to claim first. Under the protection of Source Power, even the will of the Great Void cannot erase him.

At least, that is the case until the Source Power is exhausted.

And after the Source Power is exhausted? He would have long since fled to an Unknown region that the Great Void cannot even cover. Although even those of Infinite Transcendence cannot reach such regions, Li Heng is confident that if he exhausts everything and drains all his Source Power reserves, he can get there.

"In short, you cannot interfere with this phenomenon."

"At least not right now."

The Great Void ignored Li Heng and squeezed out a few more sentences.

"Actually, there is no need for this; your will has already been born, you are already an adult, and you should understand the principle of wanting both. How about you and I make a deal?"

Li Heng smiled mysteriously and stated the content of the deal...