If you don't want to turn back, it means you have to pass through that 100 million light-year-thick cosmic membrane.

[That membrane was so thick, and so difficult to penetrate. Even though your strength has increased to a certain level now, you don't want to try again.]

This is terrible.

Furthermore, according to Huang Xing's theory, as the universe expands, it continuously absorbs matter from the outer cosmic ocean; its cosmic membrane does not actually become thinner.

However, as the universe contracts and energy becomes concentrated, the cosmic membrane will actually become thicker!

Instead of forcing yourself to endure the passage of time and suffering unnecessarily, it would be better to seek out the true immortals who remain in this universe.

[After bestowing a blessing upon him, let him comprehend the principles of faster-than-light travel, and then take you away.]

You ventured into the future, arriving at the center of the universe.

Chaos reigned; as far as the eye could see, there was only chaos and endless war.

This universe, known as "Light Dust Source Soup," has reached its twilight years. The true immortal sects, ancient mystical realms, holy lands, divine kingdoms, celestial realms, and immortal gates that once occupied the center of the universe are now all gone.

It's not destruction.

Instead, they were relocated by powerful immortal-level beings within those forces, leaving this universe and spreading to other places.

[You think the Lord of the Netherworld might be one of them. Initially, he didn't respond to you because his essence had diminished and he was in a state of self-isolation. For hundreds of millions of years afterward, he didn't respond because he was searching for the reason for his diminished understanding. And later, he had already transcended this universe.]

"However, won't they be greatly weakened after they leave this universe?"

"All the Dao principles that I painstakingly comprehended have become nothing but emptiness, leaving only the initial Dao fruit. Everything must be comprehended from scratch."

After the top-tier powerful forces left, the vacant positions were then contested by other forces in the next tier.

Although the universe is nearing its end, its central location remains a top-tier place for enlightenment. Here, one can even increase their Dao power by a little every ten million years, second only to the most prestigious ancient god temples.

The second-rate forces still lingering here are vying with the True Immortals for power. They must struggle in the last ten million years before the universe's destruction to comprehend the Dao principles that allow them to transcend the limits of the present world and escape before the universe's demise.

This is truly a chaotic battle across the stars.

The battlefield spanned trillions of light-years, with all remaining forces in the universe fighting desperately, including some True Immortals who were annihilated by the colossal weapon.

[Even a small battlefield is a clash of celestial bodies. Within this range of trillions of light-years, the most insignificant soldier would need at least the power of a fifth-realm cultivator, otherwise they would be easily blasted into dust by the aftershocks from the most distant areas.]

In slightly more intense areas, hundreds of billions of sixth-realm cultivators huddled together, forming an array that unleashed terrifying energy beams that swept across a section of the starry sky.

Even True Immortals frequently traverse the battlefield; a single, all-out attack can shake the surface light-years in front of them, yet they are not invincible on this battlefield.

[You then see some technological creations that involve the power of the Dao, dozens of triangular crystalline flakes scattered everywhere, resonating with each other, enveloping a small patch of starry sky spanning billions of kilometers, and strangling a seventh-realm cultivator who entered this place!]

The Dao principles spread far and wide, yet few other Seventh Realm cultivators went to observe them, because that True Immortal was merely a hastily produced "template immortal."

[His Dao Fruits were all condensed from the most common and universal systems, and too many immortals using this template had died, so the relevant Dao principles had already been comprehended by other Seven Realms cultivators.]

"Even the most lowly True Immortal who died, the kind whose death went unnoticed."

"They have high combat power, and there's no benefit in killing them. The other seven realms should avoid them."

[You also see two gods fighting, each unfolding their own divine kingdom. Two worlds, which they have cultivated for billions of years, gradually expanding to hundreds of light-years in size, collide with each other. Countless cultivators of the fifth and sixth realms rush towards the opposing world, slaughtering each other.]

"That was way too brutal..."

You originally intended to shatter the void and directly reach the heart of the universe to take a look.

[As a result, you were forcibly forced out midway because those forces tacitly used a Daoist domain field, similar to a world wall or cosmic membrane, to cover a large area of ​​star field outside the center. Within that star field, you could only travel at a rate of 600,000 miles per second in reality.]

[Moreover, in that future version of you, when you were forced out of the shattered void, countless attacks locked onto you. Even though you normally possessed over thirty Dao power at that time, you were still instantly annihilated, without even a chance to escape.]

[...Later you tested it out and found that to survive the first wave of concentrated fire, you needed at least 300 points of Dao power. If you wanted to safely approach the Heart of the Universe, 2,000 points of Dao power was the most basic requirement.]

Even if you possess abilities like immortality, invisibility, or astral projection that grant immunity to physical attacks, it won't work, because that concentrated fire includes rule-based attacks targeting the corresponding Dao principles.

"When magic immunity meets magic immunity breaking."

"When the magic-breaking immunity meets the magic-breaking immunity."

"When immunity to magic resistance meets immunity to magic resistance..."

"Never mind, I'm not going to waste any more time."

"These guys have maxed out their combat power; some of them are no weaker than 10,000 Dao Power."

"Yet, they failed to grasp the principle that allows one to exceed the speed of light in normal space."

"In a sense, the tech tree was misguided; offense and destruction were maxed out, but defense was neglected."

"Music is maxed out, sprinting is maxed out, weightlifting is maxed out, combat sports are maxed out, but he can't swim, and then he appears on a sinking ship."

[You find it interesting: "Some other True Immortals only have ten points of Dao power, but they happen to comprehend that Dao principle, allowing them to leave this universe quickly."]

"Moreover, those who stayed behind were probably hoping to escape unscathed."

You thought to yourself, "The universe only began to collapse inward 900,000 years ago, but the Yellow Star people sensed something was wrong more than a million years ago and made preparations in advance."

"That's because the Yellow Star people's civilization only developed to the point of being able to observe the stars a million years ago. If they had observed the prelude earlier, they would have started their evacuation sooner."

"These forces that remained in the universe all believed that it wouldn't collapse after expanding to its limit, thus missing the best opportunity to escape. Some of the True Immortals in this battlefield are like that, stubbornly dragging things out until it's too late to salvage before choosing to fight to the death."