[845 Ancient]

"It must be over 1 million light-years away, right?"

You remain silent: "Could it be that I've really gone astray?"

[846 Ancient]

"We've moved almost 2 million light-years in one direction already, no, let's try a different direction."

[You weren't foolish enough to turn around and leave immediately; instead, you started heading in the same direction, but the new direction became downwards.]

[847 Ancient]

"No, let's try again, this time to the right!"

[848 Ancient]

【you:"……"】

[Your current strength, converted to True Immortal units, is nearly twenty Dao Power.]

[The external essence is approximately seven million, the true essence is seven hundred million.]

[The movement speed reached one-tenth of a light-year.]

Every hundred million years, the world's displacement reaches tens of millions of light-years.

[The speed might have been slower before, but each ancient eon still covered millions of light-years.]

You're absolutely certain something is wrong.

You started off in the wrong direction!

The distance from the location of the Primordial Heaven to the interior of the universe is approximately 700,000 light-years; this information is roughly accurate.

But if you're moving in the opposite direction, and your destination is beyond the universe, how long would that distance be?

[You actually confirmed this with those ancient immortals.]

[One hundred million light years. 】

[Actually, it's over 90 million light-years, but saying it's 100 million light-years wouldn't be far off.]

"It's confirmed now. The initial direction was straight ahead. The direction I'm moving in front of, below, and to the right correspond to moving outwards from the universe, moving left and right within the cosmic membrane, and moving up and down within the cosmic membrane, respectively."

In the years to come, you decide to move forward evenly in three directions.

Because the diameter of the entire universe is so vast, to move up and down within the cosmic membrane, one would likely need to travel trillions of light-years to break through the tiny curve of this cosmic sphere and successfully escape.

[Or, to put it more simply, imagine building a protective fence around the Earth, with all the interconnected fences circling the entire globe, and each fence being one meter high.]

An ant lived exactly seven centimeters above the ground on the fence.

It offers four directional options: left, right, up, and down.

[If it chooses to climb upwards, it only needs 93 centimeters to reach the top of the railing, which is equivalent to leaving that universe; if it climbs downwards, it only needs seven centimeters.]

However, if it chooses to crawl sideways, it will need to move hundreds or even thousands of meters to navigate the curve of the perimeter fence.

[To use that slight curvature of the Earth to gradually veer towards the edge of the railing...]

Therefore, you must keep moving forward in three directions simultaneously. If you focus solely on one direction, you might spend billions of years merely moving from one side of the cosmic membrane to the other, without actually advancing more than a few light-years inward or outward.

[851 ancient.]

You suddenly wake up.

The alarm system in the small world has been triggered.

This alarm device is for unexpected situations; its main purpose is to surprise yourself.

When the movement speed of the small world reaches 600,000 miles per second or higher, it will immediately stop moving and awaken you from your slumber.

[Because within the cosmic membrane, its speed cannot exceed the limits of the present world.]

Once something surpasses that level, it can only mean one of two things: [that something has happened.]

[One possibility is that you have broken free of the cosmic membrane and entered or entered the universe.]

[Secondly, your small world might have dragged you into a true world similar to the Primordial Heaven Realm, also existing within the cosmic membrane.]

Both the former and the latter are absolutely good news.

You excitedly leave the little world.

With a casual wave of your hand, the void before you was torn apart.

Before my eyes, the stars twinkle.

It's a brand new starry sky!

Amidst the glittering stars, the world rises and falls!

[Incredibly vast and open, yet brimming with vibrant life, a testament to its ever-changing nature!]

Because the speed of light in this world is limitless, you might even witness a battle erupting millions or hundreds of millions of light-years away, shattering galaxies, with each tiny fragment comparable to the explosion of a million supernovae.

"That must be a battle at the Celestial level."

"That means living people, real, living people!"

[All that nauseating, chaotic matter is gone; you've never felt so relaxed and comfortable!]

"Finally out! I've finally escaped that damn cosmic membrane!"

[Your unrestrained laughter, your laughter reverberating for hundreds of light-years, now you are comparable to a true immortal with dozens of levels of Dao power!]

[If it were to descend a dozen or more times, it might even surpass an ancient god like the Lord of the Star River!]

[And if you accumulate all 26 instances of the Descent, you could easily kill the Lord of the Underworld who almost brainwashed you into becoming his lackey with a single finger!]

"I wonder if, after these 26 descents, I can rival the cosmic lords of some weaker universes?"

[After escaping the cosmic membrane, you were so excited that you didn't know what to do for a moment, and just stood there shouting and jumping like a monkey.]

[And because your strength has grown so immensely, you've even begun to aspire to the eighth realm.]

[The power of Bai He to destroy billions of light-years of universes in an instant is truly terrifying. Even if you descended 26 times, you would only possess a few billion units of Dao power.]

[It can destroy tens of thousands of light-years in an instant, and with a little more effort, the damage would be even greater, but it's still far from reaching that level.]

But Bai He is the "Perfect Universe Lord," the strongest kind of eternal being.

There must be some weak universe lords, and you're wondering if you can handle those weaklings.

"The difference between the sixth and seventh realms is already ridiculously absurd, but now I'm thinking of beating up an eighth-realm cultivator... Heh."

Just as you were about to continue, you suddenly felt a pressure.

To be precise, it's a very strong feeling of being pushed back in your seat.

Looking back, you see an endless, colossal wall pushing towards you at dozens of times the speed of light-years, yet it doesn't enter the shattered void.

You and that little world are now pressed against the wall, being pushed forward by that giant wall.

[Wait, this doesn't seem to be a wall.]

You've found a damaged hole in the main wall, and it's still being repaired.

This is... the cosmic membrane!

The cosmic membrane is expanding toward you.

"So I've arrived outside the universe."

You nodded, then turned your gaze back to the distant stars.