For reasons and purposes unknown, he had been concealing it from himself, and even the core generals of the Heavenly Court, those trusted confidants of the Jade Emperor, were also kept in the dark.
Otherwise, if the Jade Emperor were to reveal even the slightest bit of the news that he had successfully transcended, then regardless of whether he wanted to hide it or not...
Even if powerful figures in the Heavenly Court learned of this news and intended to conceal it, they basically couldn't hide it, or couldn't hide it for very long.
Because everyone has known each other for countless years, they understand each other even better than the other person understands them, and any slight difference or clue will be quickly noticed.
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Chapter 316 The Cause and Effect of Yuanhao and Pangu's Fall
The guesses of the powerful figures of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm were quickly confirmed by the Jade Emperor, and they were exactly as they had expected.
At this very moment, the Jade Emperor suddenly appeared in this void, just like the Netherworld Emperor, about to embark on the second step of the path of transcendence.
At the same time, in order to avoid any adverse effects on this infinite and endless multiverse void sea caused by his own transcendence, the Jade Emperor also chose to face the second trial and tribulation from the Great Dao for transcendent beings in the boundless void, after losing the convenience of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm as his home ground, just like the Netherworld Emperor.
However, unlike the Netherworld Emperor, the Jade Emperor did not venture too far into the Great Void, but remained in the surface area of the Great Void, a place that many powerful figures of the Heavenly Origin Sacred Realm could clearly observe.
Unlike the first tribulation of transcendence, which was merely a preliminary touch on the path of transcendence and could be considered a minor setback.
The second tribulation on the path to transcendence, compared to the first step, seems to threaten to destroy everything, leaving no hope of overcoming it whatsoever.
Not to mention that the sheer number of these primordial forces has coalesced into a substantial form, containing an unprecedentedly powerful corrosive force that continuously exerts pressure on those facing the tribulation.
Even the most primal ability of the Taiwu Power to dissolve and assimilate everything has been amplified a thousandfold or even ten thousandfold at this moment. This alone is enough to make even a first-stage Transcendent cultivator struggle to resist.
Moreover, the power of primordial chaos, which had become so dense as to be substantial, had also spontaneously condensed and formed various phantoms of ancient powerhouses, and even supreme powerhouses from before the age of ignorance, launching seemingly endless attacks on the Jade Emperor.
In addition, there are all sorts of trials, numerous and continuous, each one, even taken individually, would be difficult for the first-step transcendent to withstand.
Among them, the test of the Great Dao is the most dangerous. If one is not firm in one's understanding of the Great Dao, or if the Great Dao itself is not strong enough, then it is absolutely impossible to pass the many tests from the Great Dao that are the deepest part of one's own Dao.
While enduring the endless trials posed by the countless multiverses to his true form, the Jade Emperor also passed several tests on his own Great Dao, further solidifying his resolve regarding his path and future.
Then, the Jade Emperor faced a new calamity. In the endless multiverse, the numerous Great Luo Daos accumulated over countless years, along with their interconnected and unparalleled Great Daos, launched an attack.
This even occasionally contained the Dao of those who had completely perished in the endless multiverse, and the Jade Emperor was suddenly plunged into an unprecedented peril.
The Great Luo Dao is already the limit that an infinite and endless multi-dimensional void sea can withstand; even within this infinite and endless multi-dimensional void sea, it is considered top-tier.
It even includes the life of a Grand Luo expert, from birth to death, which can be described as everything and the origin of a Grand Luo expert.
Da Luo is already a super strong person who is qualified to transcend the endless multiverse and has initially touched the path of transcendence.
Even among those super powers that span endless multiverses and possess a large number of transcendent beings, the Great Luo is a core force.
Although the difference between a single Great Luo and the Supreme God of Heaven at this moment is immeasurable.
This also includes the crucial chasm of transcendence, a gap even greater than that between an ant in a small world under the Tianyuan Sacred Realm that has not yet entered the ranks and a seventh-level transcendent Destruction God in the Tianyuan Sacred Realm.
But within this endless diversity, how many great Luos have been accumulated over countless long years, even before the age of ignorance?
Each Great Luo Path is unique to each Great Luo being, possessing its own distinctive characteristics and strengths. There are many Great Luo Paths that even those who have transcended the mundane would marvel at, marveling at the unparalleled talent and genius of the practitioners.
Not to mention the occasional paths belonging to those who transcend, which is what could deliver a fatal blow to the Jade Emperor.
Compared to the Great Luo Dao, which can be engraved and imprinted in the origin of the Great Dao, continuously strengthening the Great Dao itself and enhancing its origin and foundation.
The path of transcendence is different. Ultimately, those who transcend are beings on another level. Transcendence, transcendence, the ultimate goal is to transcend the Great Dao, surpass the Great Dao, be above the Great Dao, or even control the Great Dao.
This is also why those who transcend have always faced many disasters, and the stronger they are, the more cautious they become. The most outstanding transcendents are already approaching that point, and they may perish at any time in this boundless multiverse sea of nothingness.
Of course, these things did not circulate throughout the endless multiverse, or perhaps they only circulated in a small circle among the strongest individuals at the very top.
For at least the long years before his demise, Yuanhao had always regarded this as a rumor and not taken it seriously, which foreshadowed his later misfortune.
As is widely known, the Great Dao is supreme, devoid of emotion and nature, and even lacks its own consciousness; in fact, the very existence of the Great Dao itself is questionable.
The Great Dao is merely a term coined by the initial supreme beings when they pursued higher realms, referring to something or something they could not comprehend or even perceive.
In a supreme Daoist canon passed down from the Supreme Dao Ancestor, which directly points to transcendence, there is a sentence recorded.
"There is something undifferentiated and complete, which existed before heaven and earth. It can be considered the mother of all things. I do not know its name, so I call it—the Way!"
This was also the realization of the Supreme Ancestor over the long years. Although he was occasionally challenged, the Supreme Ancestor did not easily change his previous understanding.
Until Pangu, the Supreme God, and the Daoist of Time and Space, who were on the same level as him, perished one after another within a period of time that would be extremely long for ordinary transcendents but seemed short for beings like him.
It should be understood that for beings like them, apart from a few beings of the same level as them, there are no other hidden beings in this endless multiverse. They can be said to be relatively omniscient and omnipotent to each other.
But it was impossible for them to perish in this way. At least, the Supreme Dao Ancestor did not know how to perish, yet they were all killed in successive great calamities.
If even they themselves don't know how to bring themselves and other beings of the same level to annihilation, then what kind of being could bring them to annihilation?
After much deliberation, the Supreme Dao Ancestor concluded that the only possible candidate was that being that existed before heaven and earth, whom he had forcibly named the Dao.
That's just how they are. With their essence, which is vaguely or even on par with the Great Dao, they still have many chances to start over. Or perhaps the Great Dao itself is no longer able to completely destroy them.
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Chapter 317 The Reason for the Great Dao's Strength
In that calamity, which surpassed the imagination of ordinary transcendent beings and the limits of what the mind could bear.
If it were an ordinary strong person, even one who had already walked a very deep path of transcendence, survived many tribulations of transcendence, and taken several steps on the path of transcendence.