"Is never a bad idea to have a backup.

After all, apart from the Venerables I already told you, there are also many Venerables which were directly raised by Heavenly Court.

They, at difference from us, have other aims, some truly believe in Fate's supremacy, some others only use Fate as a medium to extend their influence, and so on.

Hell, there's a troublesome fellow, ehem, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, who even though cooperated on our goal at the beginning, now is trying to take that matter on his hands.

For this and for other reasons I need a backup, Dio."

Limitless said calmly, he took a sip of the jar and sighed softly.

Dio smirked, at this point he had already familiarized with his surrounds and thus, he felt confident enough to make his own schemes.

Open schemes, though as Limitless could hear his thoughts, but who cared about those minute details?

"Hah, hah, hah.

The tale of that Red Lotus truly moved my heart, but, there's something I still don't get.

Fang Yuan was given a lot of time to prepare himself on his 500 years of life, and he was also given Spring Autumn Cicada, so what do I get?"

He looked at Limitless with a slight smile on his face.

"Hah, I already gave you the equivalent of Lifespan Gu, Fang Yuan was given.

Whilst your attainment is also comparable to his, as due to your Heavenly insights you're a Master on over a dozen of paths, and due to your experiences as a Vampire a quasi-Grandmaster on Strength and Blood path..."

Attainment, Dao, comprehension.

The further you went on your comprehension of your path the more abilities you'd be able to acquire, you'd be able to affect your surrounds more precisely.

When you become a quasi-Master on a path you become skillful enough to create your own personal techniques and Killer Moves with your personal Gu's.

On a Master level your comprehension reaches the level where you can even intuitively perceive everything related to your path.

This can be looked through the perspective of a Mathematician.

Someone who doesn't understands equations and simply writes them and calculates them blindly has a null attainment.

Those who are a step further and comprehend the meaning of what they calculate but are unable to create their own equations or alter the existing equations, have a merely ordinary attainment.

Whilst those who manipulate and move equations to their liking are quasi-Masters on mathematics.

A master however, is an expert on all related fields, be it topology, trigonometry, probability, he knows all fields, all equations and even if he doesn't knows one, he can intuitively deduce it on a matter of seconds.

If you take this an step further you reach the level of quasi-Grandmaster & Grandmaster.

This realm consists on the direct ability to mimic the effect of other paths through your own.

It would be like a physicist using their extensive knowledge on atoms, to calculate chemical reactions and to recreate the biology of a living organism.

A complete qualitative change.

On the case of Dio, he could smell the blood of a person and determine their health condition, gender, age and other details.

if he took two drops of blood from two siblings, he'd be able to perceive the relation between them.

"Yes, I know that.

But, as you said, you're all helping Fang Yuan from the background, besides, I am a greedy man, I require more power to achieve my ambitions."

Dio looked at Limitless once more.

Who simply shrugged and replied.

"Fine, I suppose is just fair, furthermore I owe you a favor for allowing me to save so many rank 9 materials."

"How so?"

Dio asked, curious.

"Well, as one of my special wills has informed you, a Dao Lord is a creature who controls each and every single Dao mark of their respective path.

But this power is only accessible for as long as you have a rank 9 body or aperture and a Supreme Grandmaster attainment.

And to be a Supreme Grandmaster on your path you must know everything about your path.

Everything that the Heavens knows, that anyone has ever known, as any natural phenomena that has occurred and take your own steps even further.

Spectral Soul, well, he has been Cultivating Soul path for over a hundred thousand years, even after his death he has been strengthening his Soul by eating well, every soul on the door of the life and death.

The place where all souls rest.

But, due to his obsession with immense power, he forgot about restrains, the only thing that holds its already unstable soul is his power as a Dao Lord which was revoked by your presence.

Because you're a 'Stand user', something that doesn't exists on our world.

Your arrival was quite timely if you hadn't come I had been forced to take matters on my own hands, but as Spectral Soul is already collapsing, he has no other choice but to help us."

Limitless browns lowered slightly.

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"Oh, is the time already set?

Dio, Fang Yuan is about to activate Spring Autumn Cicada, quick follow my steps, if you don't want to be erased by the tides of a time that soon won't exist.

Please, follow me, I'll explain you the rest on the way..."

He stood up and began to walk outside the 'void.'

"Anyway, I have on my 'arsenal' multiple Killer Moves that may interest you, unfortunately a single immortal method is the limit that your brain can handle.

This Killer Move is known as 'Wealth brings Calamity to the door.'

The Killer Move has a pretty simple effect, which is to attract the wrath of the Heavens by burning down multiple Immortal materials.

Then, by setting an specific of order of activation of around 10,000 Gu's, whose ranges vary from rank 1 to rank 5, which must be activated multiple times periodically on various patterns, the Killer Move is activated.

This Killer Move is only usable for rank 6 Gu masters, but, it naturally can be improved, in fact I already have over ten distinct ways to do so, but your brain wouldn't handle this anyway.

Having this said, the Killer Move will sent Tribulations which after being passed successfully will grant some Dao marks which will increase the foundation of the Immortal aperture.

Naturally, the effect of the Killer Move isn't precisely perfect, firstly you require to exhaust Immortal materials for a meager amount of Dao marks.

Secondly, you can only a certain type of material once before it becomes ineffective, so using it any further won't bring you any extra Tribulations.

Thirdly, the more you use this Killer Move the more you'll enrage the Heavens which on turn will increase the number of Dao marks received.

Though, the relation isn't proportional if the number of Dao marks you receive triple you'll have a Tribulation 4 times harder, and if you receive six times the amount you'll have to endure a Tribulation 16 times harder.

Fourthly, you'll only receive Dao marks related to the paths of the Immortal materials you burnt down, so if you burn a water material you'll acquire a water material.

Fifthly, this Killer Move expends not only Immortal Essence but also your own Luck, though on your case the decrease on Luck will be too insignificant."

Dio heard attentively, suddenly a purple ray was shoot on his skull, where Limitless began to impart thousands of times the contents, explaining carefully each of the details of the Killer Move.

Frankly, the Killer Move was simply too much to handle, and it would take Dio some days to fully comprehend.

But, Dio didn't mind this, instead whilst his mind was wandering he asked to Limitless.

"...I still have many questions related to your world, but my biggest one is about the Dao Lords and Gu's.

I mean, why, why would a Dao Lord who controls every Dao mark of their respective paths even use Gu's on the first place, aren't they obsolete to them?"

Limitless smiled lightly, he took a Gu from his phantom aperture.

"Take a good look this is 'Turn to Sand Gu rank 2.'

Then, I'll take a piece of a rock."

A rock was also taken from his phantom aperture.

The Gu shined with a thin dark purple trace, and the rock became onto a pile of sand on his palm.

"This Gu's effect is to convert a pure rock into Sand, simple, easy, and only requires a mere thought and some Primeval Essence to be activated.

Now, to fulfill this same effect an Earth Dao Lord would have to move each particle of the rock and crush each fragment until it takes the desirable shape.

That or create a proper harmony between the surrounding Dao marks which mimics the power of a Gu.

Naturally moving each particle or creating a replica of a Gu is naturally far more mental-expensive, and hence, Gu's are a way to simplify this process.

Also, a Dao Lord is only a Dao Lord of a path, in my case I specialize on Law path, and so I'm unable to exhibit the ability I just explained to you.

If I had been as short-sighted to only focus on my own path how could I have created this?"

The black void vanishes and is replaced by an spectacular image.

Limitless turns his body towards Dio, and throws another purple cloud towards him.

Which slowly solidifies into a thin Han purple mantle which covers him from his feet to his head, leaving only a tiny space from where light can pass through his eyes.

As just the exposure to the Crazed Demon Cave could be lethal for a mortal.

"What the...What the hell is this?"

Dio jaw falls.

Upon him there were countless 'stars' moving dazzlingly at all directions, with their own colors and patterns of movements.

Yet, even through their overwhelming light Dio could vaguely discern surges of Human, Blood and other types of Qi's.

And not only that, Dio quickly realized that the 'light' and the 'stars' were just merely half ot what there was.

At the other side, on half the surface there were multiple 'shadows', which even though were almost impossible to see for the naked eye revealed an interesting sight to Dio.

Mountains, rivers, weathers, for brief periods he discerned those things from above the rest.

They also held their own sun and moons, and even their own 'Laws!'

"This doesn't correlate to the Blessed Lands or Grotto Heavens your secondary special will informed me about.

Don't tell me, you...actually created multiple derived words apart from your own?"

He was completely aghast, truthfully he had some doubts regarding the true power level of this world, he thought that they're mere exaggerations, but now?

Dio was convinced, Limitless was the real deal!

His eyelids twitched, as he saw multiple of those mini-worlds collide with each other, countless of lives were destroyed and a new world was created from the remnants of the previous two.

Dio was completely dazed and amazed by such marvelous creation!

He turned his head to Limitless to praise him, but he noticed his indifferent expression to which Dio sighed.

"Hah, I guess already made this since eons ago, huh?"

Limitless smiled lightly.

"That is just one of the layers of my Crazed Demon Cave, here I've been investigating for millions of years, the power of Heaven, and the form to attain eternal life..."

He sighed once more and added.

"Unfortunately, on the same way you're restrained by Fate's chains, I'm also restricted, the path to the eternal life can only be opened when Fate Gu is vanquished."

Dio quickly glanced at him and said.

"Wait, at the moment I destroy Fate won't you achieve Heaven, then?"

Limitless shook his head.

"I said opened, the path to eternal life and the research results can only be fully deciphered when Fate Gu is gone.

That is due to the power of Derivation Gu, this Gu allows the 'Derivation' of new results, which compares the result from subject A to subject B.

Unfortunately is practically useless on the hand of a men, as even if they could 'Derive' anything more, they could do so regardless of whether they used the Gu or not.

No, no, the true power of this Gu emerges from relying on its primal, most powerful form.

When this Gu hasn't been refined by anyone it contains by defect the will of the Heaven, which means that I can use the external power of the Heavens to complete my results.

Unfortunately, such abilities are impossible to acquire for as long as Fate exists, as it will never allow Derivation Gu to bring me the final deductions...."

Finally when he concluded his speech, Dio realized a small fraction of the truth.

"I get it, those worlds were formed by the power of your 'arrangements' which were basically Gu's.

A Gu affects a law, ten Gu's affect ten laws.

You have been for ages creating simple-small worlds which are constantly colliding or interacting with each other.

This is done to bring the results of 'casualty' and 'causalty' between the two.

Also, through their interaction and derivation you've been purging the worlds who have undesirable characteristics whilst you have increased the amount of those who have favorable characteristics.

Those Gu's and their variety of 'effects' are basically the DNA code and similarly to the DNA each single 'Law' brings a different change.

That and those 'interactions' ensure you comprehend the nature of emergent universes.

As on the same way a watermelon on a caged square-like space takes that shape, you're manipulating them, to see what would be the end result of it.

Basically, you're trying to create multiple pseudo-universes, and forcefully make them 'evolve', to slowly create a more stable universe, which can give you the answer you seek of the 'eternity' you want.

On a way, you seek to create a 'Philosopher stone', a perfect material, a perfect world..."