[You're not entirely clear on the meaning of "the Dao Lord is finite, but his authority is infinite," but according to Old Deng of Destiny, the past's departure wasn't due to a group attack, but rather because it was crushed by the "current Dao Lord" alone.]
"Could it be that there is a hierarchy among different powers? Is the power of today simply more powerful than the power of the past?"
Magles shook his head with a cold laugh: "He just took a shortcut."
But instead of answering you directly, he extended an aged hand to you: "Come, come home with me first, and I can explain to you slowly later."
Of course, he wouldn't dare explain to you. Even though he had decided to seize your power, he still didn't want you to know what the "trick" the Dao Lord had proposed was.
So what exactly is it?
That's a newbie perk.
"Yay!"
When a power holder breaks through to the complete level of a universe lord and truly grasps the power, they have one opportunity to use the power without any cost.
At that time, they will have an epiphany: "Anything related to this authority... I can do!"
That's not an illusion, but a fact. The first time you use authority, there is truly no cost, and whatever you desire in your heart, that authority can achieve.
The problem is... there's only one chance.
After using up that one opportunity, they will gain another realization: if they want to overuse their power again, they will need to relinquish it, and they will have to pay a corresponding price. The more they relinquish, the greater the price will be, ultimately leading to their demise.
[Fang Ye, the Void Dao Master, used that unlimited opportunity to expand the space of the Origin Land, which was then just an ordinary universe, by 100 times.]
The realization he had at the time made him believe he would be eternally omnipotent, so he didn't immediately create the Boundless Void Sea. Instead, he planned to first expand the space 100 times to test the waters, and if that didn't work, he would continue to adjust it.
[After using that opportunity, I was dumbfounded: you can only use it for free once?]
Fang Ye felt genuinely sorry for him at the time, because the 100-fold increase in space he had created was far too small; it could have been achieved simply by slightly freeing up his authority. Yet, he had used his only chance, a chance without any cost, to kill a mosquito with a cannon.
[The same applies to World Dao Lord Bai Lie; at that time, they had not yet considered establishing the Boundless Sea of Void.]
[Having displayed extraordinary abilities and gradually grown stronger in the Origin Universe, he heeded the advice of his senior, Fang Ye, and created a vast universe.]
However, a universe needs to exist within a specific space; it cannot be born from a realm of "nothingness." The space Fang Ye created for him was limited, therefore the universe Bai Lie created using his unlimited authority was also of finite size.
Furthermore, such opportunities cannot be saved for later use; one must either never use one's authority or use it only briefly, thus using up that once-free opportunity.
The first two Dao Lords merged with Heaven and returned to the Dao. Later Dao Lords, without guidance or instruction, were naturally unaware of their own abilities at the moment of their breakthrough. Their so-called "omnipotence" existed only once.
Therefore, they used it relatively easily, failing to adjust their mindset to maximize the power of their authority.
[The Lord of Destiny became the Lord in the 3e37th year after the creation of the Boundless Void Sea. His first thought was to control the fate of all living beings—and he indeed accomplished that through his authority. At that time, the fate of all living beings in the entire Boundless Void Sea, including the Land of Origin, was under his control.]
However, at that time he was only thinking about all the people who existed "at the moment," not including the newborns who would be born later, the new universes that were still being created, and the new life that was still being born.
"As expected, the Void and the World have thought things through and are sufficiently cautious."
"They have prepared too many precautions. Even if someone wants to destroy an infinitely large world, their concept of infinity may be lower than their higher-order infinity."
"Even if someone wants to destroy all living beings, the boundless void continues to expand outward, becoming countless times larger every second than the last, with infinite universes being created every second, which will evolve into infinite living beings in the future."
"Unless that person's first command is the same as what the two of them thought, and it expands infinitely upwards along with the boundless void sea."
"But if a Dao Lord really started playing around like that right after acquiring power... that's unlikely. Most of them are probably just testing the waters first. Who would immediately use their power to its fullest extent?"
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