The Great Dao of the World was both profound and mysterious. It represented the gateway to all wonders.0

This Great Dao could be understood as the fundamental law that shaped everything in existence. It served as the foundation of all cultivation and divine abilities. Every spell, technique, or martial art was rooted in a branch of this Great Dao.0

Its essence was scattered across the heavens and the earth, present in all things. Those who could perceive this essence gained divine power, and those who could touch it stepped onto the path of the Dao. Anyone who earned the recognition of a Great Dao branching from this source became a master of the Heavenly Origin—an eighth-realm Eminent One, a rare existence in the world.1

The next realm up was even more difficult to attain. This was the Profound Realm, an even more elusive stage of cultivation. To reach it, the cultivator had to become one with the Great Dao itself.1

With how the Great Dao was defined, it meant that those who had attained the ninth realm would be undying. Yet, in terms of the characteristics of origin life essence, even ninth-realm beings had a finite...0