The sky curtain makes you a useless class monitor, yet you act arbitrarily for eternity?

The comments section went silent.

After a long time, someone finally spoke.

[A Drop of Water in the Yangtze River]: "He alone blocked the enemy's strongest fighting force?"

Aikun nodded.

"To be precise."

"He alone dragged the most terrifying things of the eerie plateau down there."

"There may be more than one 'top combatant'."

【Winter Rain in the Ancient City】: "That's not right."

"Then why is our world still being attacked by strange forces?"

"Didn't the Desolate Emperor block the highest combat power?"

Ai Kun rolled his eyes.

"Calling you guys stupid is no exaggeration."

"The Desolate Emperor is betting on the strongest fighting force."

"Not the entire force of the entire eerie plateau."

"Such a large plateau can't just have a boss and no underlings, can it?"

The live chat stopped.

A moment later, a message slowly drifted by.

【Slacking off is awesome】:

"In other words, our ancestors' ancestors were utterly defeated by a few lowly soldiers sent out by the Desolate Heavenly Emperor."

"And then, our ancestors were utterly defeated by their own deserters, who were scared away by those few soldiers?"

Aikun nodded.

"It's a bit roundabout."

"But that's roughly the logic."

The atmosphere in the live chat became even more subdued.

"Why do I feel like those legendary ancestors we're praising now are really something else!"

"Looking at it this way, the Desolate Emperor's strength is truly awesome."

Under the sycamore tree.

The students in Class 9 looked at the comments on the screen with twitching and discomfort on their faces.

The barrage of comments started scrolling again in the sky.

[The End of Nothingness]:

"Host, since the Desolate Emperor is still fighting, who was the Desolate Emperor who appeared in the courtyard just now?"

"A clone?"

"projection?"

"Or is it the original entity at a certain point in time?"

"Also, what does he mean by 'returning from infinite nothingness'?"

Ai Kun was about to speak.

A staff member quickly walked up to him and handed him a document.

Aikun took the document, glanced at it twice, and his expression changed.

The viewers in the live chat quickly noticed something was wrong.

A drop of water in the Yangtze River:

"Hey anchor, what did you see?"

[Winter Rain in the Ancient City]:

"Don't stop!"

[I like the chirping of the little silver fish]:

"Is there more top-secret information?"

Aikun raised his hand and pressed it down.

"It's not top secret."

"This is a complete speculation that the Dragon Kingdom's think tank has just compiled."

He placed the file on the desktop.

"This also supplements the conversation we just had."

The projection behind him changed accordingly.

Three lines of text gradually appeared.

[Under the Dao]

【The Great Way】

[Above the Dao]

The live chat was once again flooded with question marks.

【Slacking off 666】: "?"

[The End of Nothingness]: "Host, I just said I understand."

"You're giving me a new lesson again?"

Aikun stood up and walked to the projector.

"This is the most advanced combat capability rating and guess that the Dragon Kingdom's think tank has temporarily summarized when facing the bizarre system."

He pointed to the first line.

"According to the records, the earliest gods in the ancient Dragon Kingdom may have been transformed from the origin of the Great Dao."

"We will temporarily call this level—below the Dao."

The folding fan was moved down.

"The second level, the Great Dao."

"The complete and original Great Dao."

"Liu Shen eventually reached this level."

Ai Kun continued, "The third level, [Above the Dao]."

This realm is also known as the "Sacrificial Path".

"To reach this realm, one must first have the essential condition of possessing complete Dao strength, and then burn one's own Dao Fruit before it is possible to step into it."

"The Desolate Emperor, and the strongest being on the Strange Plateau, are most likely at this level."

The barrage of comments stopped.

Everyone was waiting for him to say what he would say next.

Ai Kun's voice continued to drop.

"Things will be connected once we get here."

"The Desolate Emperor and the enemy's strongest combat force are locked in a deadlock on the highest battlefield."

"Neither side can directly intervene in the lower world using their sacrificial-level power."

"In this situation, whoever wants to win must break the deadlock."

Aikun closed the folding fan.

"The method used on the eerie plateau is simple, yet also ruthless."

"They don't necessarily have to defeat the Desolate Emperor on the front lines."

"If we can go back to before the Desolate Emperor transmigrated, we can erase the 'cause' that made him the Desolate Emperor."

"There will naturally be no more 'fruits' of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor going to the plateau alone."

The viewers in the live chat immediately understood.

【Winter Rain in the Ancient City】: "So they're after the source of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor?"

[Li Moru from Tsinghua Mountain]: "But they couldn't find the exact time?"

Aikun nodded.

"Based on the current situation, that should be the case."

"They failed to pinpoint the exact time of the Desolate Emperor's journey."

"Instead, we encountered the ancestors of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor."

"Then, they were blocked outside by the ancestors of the Ancient Dragon Kingdom."

Beyond the sky.

Under the sycamore tree.

Yan Cong felt a chill run down his spine.

"Grass."

"Isn't this just killing a baby?"

"If you can't beat a max-level player, you try blocking the login entrance?"

Long Aotian's face also darkened.

"It's just like the behavior of those scumbags in the Alliance of Gods."

"No."

Zhuge Wang also spoke in a low voice.

"Even more ruthless than those things."

"They are not trying to kill a person."

"They want to erase all possibilities of a person's existence."

No one spoke again.

In the live stream room.

Ai Kun continued:

"Now let's talk about the Desolate Heavenly Emperor."

"His way to break the deadlock should be to keep moving upwards."

"From the sacrificial path, step onto the sacrificial path."

"So here's the question."

"What is needed to break through to the level of sacrificial ritual?"

The text on the projection appeared line by line.

【Dao Guo】

[Your True Self]

[All past causes and effects]

[Traces of its existence]

【everything】

Aikun looked at those few lines of text.

"It requires the sacrifice of everything."

"The Fruit of the Path".

"The true self".

"All past causes and effects."

"Not even a trace of its existence can be left behind."

"Everything will eventually return to nothingness."

"So, what we saw of him might just be a fading will?"

The live stream went completely silent.

After a long while, a comment floated across the center of the screen.

[Bedtime Rice Worm]: "In other words..."

"Is the Desolate Emperor dying?"

Aikun nodded.

"That's one way to understand it."

A drop of water in the Yangtze River: "If he hadn't been able to return from nothingness."

Even if the breakthrough fails?

"right."

Ai Kun didn't keep us in suspense.

"Death leaves behind corpses, legends, and karma."

"However, if he fails to break through, then he may not even be able to retain the fact that he has 'died'."

"We will all forget about him!"

This time, even the comments from later generations didn't immediately start flooding the screen.

Many people are still typing, but their fingers are still on the screen.

Aikun said in a low voice:

"Therefore, the Great Way needs a coordinate system."

"And this 'coordinate' likely refers to the live stream we just saw, or rather, the discussion we are currently having."

"As long as there is one more person in this world who still remembers the Desolate Emperor."

"His chances of returning from infinite nothingness will be greater."

The live stream fell silent again.

This silence was even deeper than before.

[Sanyu Eats Fish Cakes]: "Why not just broadcast the story of the Desolate Heavenly Emperor?"

"We all remember him."

"Everyone remembers him!"

Aikun shook his head.

"If it were that simple, we would have done it already."

"The problem is that the data left behind by the Desolate Emperor is too vast and has not yet been fully analyzed."

"What's more troublesome is that the data is disappearing."

"The images will be missing, the text will be blank, and some records will be automatically destroyed after saving."

"In fact, there are some things we just finished analyzing, and then we can't even remember the details."

"Therefore, our live streams are not simply for storytelling."

"We need to find the traces left by the Desolate Emperor in the experiences of everyone in Class 9."

"We must also involve people of this era in this battle."

Aikun looked up at the camera.

"The Desolate Emperor has his own battles."

"We also have our battles to fight."

"Transcending time and space, correcting cause and effect, and preserving disappearing history—these things may all be arrangements left behind by the Great Dao."

There is only one objective.

"To preserve that sliver of hope for the Desolate Heavenly Emperor's return."