[After about ten seconds, your power dissipated.]

The Yellow-Clad Dragon Lord slowly raised his head, looking at you with fear in his eyes.

[He truly has no idea who you are. From beginning to end, you haven't displayed any Dao power characteristics, nor have you tried to restrain His immortality principle. It's just pure destruction and killing, the simplest physical damage!]

[In ten seconds, I killed three thousand lives of His original form!]

[It directly consumed one percent of its total source energy!]

If such an attack were to occur a hundred times more, He would perish!

[Faced with the terrified gaze of the dragon-headed figure, you coldly snorted and repeated what you had said to your clone.]

"What are you looking at, chicken feathers? Let's set off and return to court."

[Half a minute later, you sit on the imperial throne, with a colossal dragon riding a galaxy before you.]

You squeezed your palms together; it felt good.

[You didn't have any of your adopted sons from the True Immortals who were with you take action, nor did you use your true abilities. You simply relied on the power of the giant brick to fly, winning people over with virtue, and ultimately subdued the Yellow-Clad Dragon Lord.]

[You now have another way to deal with True Immortals when you're alone, and it's a method that will give you a greater sense of accomplishment—a method that's truly your own.]

[When the essential reward and punishment is on cooldown, and you don't want to summon the True Immortal's adopted son every time something happens, you can use this close-quarters combat method to eliminate the True Immortal.]

[At the moment of contact, you will frantically destroy its physical body and soul. Even if it possesses the Dao of Immortality, it will die once you kill enough and exhaust its Dao Source. Even if it possesses the Dao of Concealment that allows it to escape into the second dimension, it will not have time to dodge if you kill it fast enough!]

"The only pity is that this method can only deal with short-lived True Immortals with weak immortality, or novice True Immortals who possess immortality but have less than a few thousand Dao principles."

"The former has too few lives; he'll be killed before he can even react. The latter has more lives, but he's too fragile; he'll also be killed before he can react."

[Take the Yellow-Clad Dragon Lord, for example, whom you subdued with your profound reasoning. On the surface, you reduced his Dao Source by 1% in ten seconds with a single strike. By extension, you could completely eliminate him in less than half an hour with just a hundred strikes.]

However, in a real fight, unless you nerf its essence, that 1% loss of Dao Source will be close to the limit of the damage you can inflict on it.

[Because before you took action in reality, you glanced at the future. In that future, you planned to reduce the Dao Source within the Yellow-Clad Dragon to only one-tenth before letting it go, so that it could experience your personal charisma.]

However, in the teenth second of that future, the Yellow-Clad Dragon Lord snapped out of the relentless destruction and used a Daoist technique to enter a state of ethereal transformation, his body and soul seemingly transported to another dimension.

The power you previously inflicted on Him has been discarded into the normal space, so you can no longer attack Him in his ethereal state; you can only stand still and take the hits.

Therefore, in reality, you precisely control the power injected into the body, timing it precisely one second before it's about to dissipate, causing that damage to dissipate.

On the surface, it seems like you spared his life, but in reality, you prevented him from realizing he could retaliate.

[However, the "counterattack" mentioned here is just a joke, because even if you stand still and take all the hits, the Yellow-Clad Dragon Lord will still be unable to break through your defenses even if he uses all his strength. If you don't want to, he can't even dent a single patch of your skin!]

[...]

"The Nest of the Ancients"—that's the name you gave to this universe teeming with ancient gods.

[The "past" does not refer to the power of the past time of the Dao Lord of the Past.]

Rather, it was "the sun of the past."

"General Jin, the first generation of the Sun."

[Once a true immortal in a certain universe, the "sun" of countless civilizations and beings, this ancient god is what you call the Old Days.]

[The Ancient Nest, existing for only 30 billion years, has already attracted millions of ancient extraterrestrial gods. Do you think this name is very fitting?]

You have remained in the Old Nest for over 70,000 years, replacing more than 60 systems.

[You've been considering reducing your true essence for a while now, otherwise leveling up is too slow. On average, it takes over a thousand years (including the acceleration from your adopted son) to replace a Dao Seal.]

[In the end, you shook your head: "Fine, slow leveling is fine, but the abilities like Descent will improve much faster, and I don't need that little bit of time right now."]

You left your old nest, leaving behind a legend known as the Cloud Father.

[And hundreds of thousands of "new gods" who rose to power during this period.]

"There are countless new gods in the old nests, and more than half of them are cloud B."

After leaving the old lair, you and your escort team arrived at the "Void Gate".

[According to the memories of the fully realized Universe Lord Apo, the Void Gate was created by the Dao Lord of "Proportion" to connect the entire Boundless Sea of ​​Void for easy passage.]

In the boundless void, the average distance between two universes is one gap unit, while a virtual gate is distributed one for every 1e100 gap units.

[The closest illusory gate to the Light Dust Source Soup is 4e98 gap units, which is quite close; the furthest distance is more than ten times that.]

[Any illusory gate in any location is connected to all other illusory gates, including the very center of the boundless void sea, that dreamlike and illusory origin.]

[You don't plan to go directly to the Origin Land, as that might lead you to confront the Dao Lord located there.]

[You plan to have the True Immortal Guardians carry you little by little towards the center, and also search for the primordial universe along the way.]

[As an aside, only True Immortals can use the Void Gate.]

It must be driven by Dao power.

Outside the illusory gate, a large number of wandering True Immortals gathered, along with many Universe Lords who piloted their own universes, forming a vast civilization sphere.

[Nineteen supreme cosmic lords control the void gates, and each possesses over 26.3 billion cosmic laws.]

Other True Immortals need to pay a toll before they can use the Void Gate. This toll is essentially for the True Immortals to do hard labor for them, transporting enough matter to fill their universes.

[Even if a True Immortal were to undertake the entire project, it would take approximately trillions of years to secure a single spot.]

[You've decided to speak politely and exchange your inherent blessing for a spot among the 30,000+ people.]

However, in the future, after experiencing your enhanced abilities, those nineteen Celestial Lords all harbored murderous intent towards you, choosing to capture you and uncover all your secrets.

[You interrupt the future: "You shameless bastard."]

"This is a public, unused gate. It's one thing to occupy it and charge a toll, but they're going to push their luck!"

Nineteen weeks later, amidst chaos, you swaggered into the Void Gate.