Chapter 803: The Dao Lord is Unknowable

If the Dao Lord realm has a height.

Then this height is absolutely unreachable for any living being below the Dao Lord, even if that being is infinitely close to a Dao Lord.

Rather than calling this realm an unknown beyond the known...

It is better to call it an Unknowable!

Therefore, the Dao Lord is powerful, the Dao Lord is supreme, and the Dao Lord is Sacred.

However, this bit of boasting holds little meaning for Li Heng; after all, his ascension at this moment is not a simple progression from bottom to top, but rather relying on the connection to that position to mobilize the power of the Dao Lord, elevating him and guiding him to the level of a Dao Lord!

At the same time, Li Heng feels countless authorities in the Great Void surging toward him, causing the entire Dao Ocean to boil and making the historical sky of the entire Great Void and the Unknown shine brightly.

The Dao Lord is too powerful; even the commotion of their ascension can stir up waves on the scale of the entire Great Void.

Countless living beings and the Unknown tremble, and countless powerhouses are shocked by it.

What kind of power is this, what kind of aura, what kind of existence? Why have they never perceived such a supreme and powerful thing before?

Countless supreme beings who huddled in their shells to create Dao fields, hiding in small towers to rule alone, ignoring the outside world, are now trembling, too afraid to make a sound.

They had originally thought that even if they could not achieve supremacy in the outside world, they could still act as they pleased within their own realms, within their own circles of the known, being Omniscient and Omnipotent, styling themselves as Heavenly Venerable or God, sitting upon divine thrones and looking down upon all living beings.

Even if there were truly powerful existences, once they entered the circle of the known that they governed, within their own World, they would at most be of the same level; they would still hold the home-field advantage, and it would be unclear who would win if they actually fought.

But now, these thoughts have all vanished like smoke.

It turns out there really are beings, powers, and existences that can be terrifying to this degree, ignoring all internal and external forms, even capable of penetrating the absolutely isolated systems they created, shattering their beautiful dreams of being Omniscient and Omnipotent and the meaninglessness of the outside world!

"I don't believe it, I don't believe it, that someone can reach this step!"

Throughout the Great Void, powerhouses who still refuse to admit defeat—those whose strength is absolutely top-tier on the scale of the entire Great Void—roar, attempting to resist the pressure and aura triggered by this Dao Lord ascension.

Some proclaim axioms, creating one powerful and supreme Infinite after another. Some create theology, evolving countless mythological origins, unthinkable and unimaginable; some are rooted in Reality, making everything mundane, claiming that the so-called extraordinary is merely an illusion...

Yet these powers, these models, these Reasonings, and these Great Daos collapse at a single touch under the commotion and pressure triggered by the Dao Lord ascension, becoming nothing but dreamlike bubbles, shattering in an instant.

"How can this be? Someone is this fast!"

Some powerhouses who know the inside story mutter to themselves, deeply puzzled. Especially those in the Reality where Li Heng is located—the group from the Void Balance left over from the Dao Master Era—are now completely bewildered, feeling as if they are dreaming.

Now that the Calamity monsters have not been eliminated and the Pollution is continuous, this is simply not the time for a Dao Lord ascension, nor should there be a powerhouse existing who is powerful enough to be infinitely close to a Dao Lord and now capable of initiating the Dao Lord ascension process.

"Damn it, a step too late!"

Void Balance says gloomily.

He had originally thought that by trading a few Dao Lord Runes from Li Heng, he could get many steps ahead of others on the long journey of comprehending the Great Dao and ascending to Dao Lord.

But before he could even take a step, someone was already standing at the finish line and starting to sprint across it; how is one supposed to fight or play this? This isn't just being a step late; it's losing from the very beginning.

"We can only hope that this powerful existence fails their ascension; the position of the Tenth Dao Lord, the Ultimate Dao Lord..."

The many fellow Daoists and companions of Void Balance sigh.

They are not yet in despair at this moment.

After all, they know the inside story: ascending to Dao Lord is inherently extremely difficult, one could say a possibility within the impossible. And now that the Pollution in the Great Void is so severe, the difficulty of ascending to Dao Lord has risen by more than just a floor.

If not for the fact that they possess the basic qualities of a Dao-seeker, determined to move forward no matter how many dangers lie on the Great Dao Road, they would have started to doubt whether the Dao Lord realm even needed to exist.

"Just a small commotion."

During the Dao Lord ascension process, Li Heng takes in all the commotion of the Great Void. Whether it is the macro level, the infinite Realities, or the micro level, down to every trace of basic Original Qi and basic particles, he traverses them one by one, imprinting them in his heart.

And regarding the reaction of the masses, he evaluates it as such.

"You really are standing there talking without feeling the pain. You have experienced the state Above Dao Lord once, and just now you experienced the power of a Dao Lord again, so naturally, you think this is a small commotion; but for the countless masses of the Great Void, that is supremacy, that is everything, that is the divine throne."

The Great Void Will speaks up.

"Now is not the time to empathize, so naturally I say what I want. But speaking of which, when will the Calamity monsters and Pollution of the Great Void come? I don't feel anything at all."

Li Heng says with a smile.

And then, speak of the devil and he appears.

In an instant, Li Heng's vision is covered by pitch-black, and in the blink of an eye, the Heaven and Earth change; it seems he is no longer in the Great Void, and his surroundings are filled with wriggling, twisting Weirdness, sinking deep into an abyss-like quagmire.

"Is this Pollution?"

Li Heng raises an eyebrow slightly, flames rising around his body, burning the Weirdness, illuminating the darkness, confronting the endless Pollution, and even purifying and expelling it.

But it is meaningless.

Because in the very next moment, the flames are extinguished, and the light is swallowed by the darkness.

"So powerful?"

Li Heng manifests his Heaven and Earth Dharma Form, revealing the Thirty-Six Heavens.

The Supreme Three Pure Heavens, along with the Daluo Heaven that faintly appears above the supreme, bloom with infinite light, manifesting the wonders and aura of the Daluo Heaven to jointly resist the Pollution.

At this moment, he sublimates to the extreme, his power climbing to the pinnacle.

But it is still meaningless.

Although the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form is not polluted, and the might and light bloomed by the San Shi Liu Chong Tian are not swallowed, they bring no help to Li Heng; they are purely glowing ornaments.

Even under the protection of the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form and the illumination of the San Shi Liu Chong Tian, Li Heng can feel himself gradually being polluted, being swallowed by the quagmire, unable to struggle or exert force.

"It truly lives up to the saying that whoever ascends to Dao Lord dies."

Li Heng sighs, finally grasping the weight of this statement. With his personal strength alone, facing this boundless Pollution, he actually has not a shred of room to resist.

Purely being crushed, being subjected to dimensional-reduction strikes.

Just as he is about to use his final trump card, the light sphere of the Great Void Will appears, slightly illuminating the darkness and delaying the speed at which Li Heng is being polluted.

"See, this is Pollution; you cannot resist it."

"I will give you a chance to go back on your word now; as long as you give up the Dao Lord ascension, I can save you back."

The Great Void Will hums.

After all, he is reluctant to lose the power Li Heng has been supplying him.

"You actually couldn't sit still so quickly; I thought you would wait a while, but don't worry, I still have..."

Li Heng smiled aloud; the appearance of the Great Void will was within his expectations, for he did not believe the Great Void will would sit by and watch him die in vain. He was very clear about the temptation those powers he provided held for the Great Void.

Just as he was about to say that he did not need help.

A strange change suddenly appeared.

The writhing mark on his wrist suddenly erupted, blooming with a Weird and Inauspicious aura, merging with the pitch-black Pollution surrounding him.

Laughter echoed in the endless pitch-blackness.

"I didn't expect to find an opportunity so quickly..."