The immortals departed, some taking worlds with them, while others left those worlds in the boundless void. In any case, those worlds would absorb their own vital energy and wouldn't lack any resources.

Whether you place it outside or inside the universe, it makes no difference; in fact, placing it in the boundless void is safer. It would essentially only become a resting place for wandering immortals and wouldn't suffer devastating destruction.

The destruction of small worlds within the boundless void... that would be divinely retributive, an extremely uncivilized, immoral, and utterly despicable act!

[A true immortal, having wandered alone in the boundless sea for a long time, longs to see some life. But facing those unfamiliar universes, it often takes them tens or even hundreds of millions of years to cross the cosmic membrane. Unlike those worlds that are undefended, where one can enter and exit at will, casually coming and going as one pleases.]

[...]

They've finished telling their story; it's your turn.

Let's turn back time ten thousand years.

[The moment you return the entire universe to its true nature.]

The universe suddenly shrank dramatically, and those who were originally on the inner edge of the universe appeared outside of it.

[Except for you.]

"Oh♂?"

[Because you only returned to the true state of the universe, because you didn't return to your own displacement, because you forgot that your current position was at the center of the universe.]

Therefore, after using the Return to Truth technique, when you find yourself standing quietly at the heart of the universe, you feel as if the sky has collapsed.

No, this is countless times more terrifying than the sky falling.

Yun Shou became excited, his eyes shining.

[The previous calculations were flawed. In the final few dozen days before the universe's destruction, its spatial content was compressed to zero. You are now trapped within the ultra-high-density matter of the cosmic membrane, with even every wisp of chaotic matter acting as a shackle—a shackle from the 23.7 billion laws of the universe!]

"Yay!"

You were almost crushed to death!

"That's brilliant!"

You've been cautious your whole life, you've been safe for over a billion years, yet you still met with an unexpected mishap at the very last crucial moment.

"Hurry! Hurry!"

You've overlooked yourself, forgotten that you are at the very center of the universe.

Even the most cautious person can make a mistake.

But tragically, they failed at this crucial juncture!

"How cold-hearted Heaven is towards me! Is it merely because I stole your name?"

Your sorrowful lament.

"It's all my fault for getting a little carried away with my acting and forgetting this detail..."

But you're not in such a rush.

[There are still ten days left, aren't there? As long as you descend ninety-nine times, even if the strength of the cosmic membrane increases dramatically again, you can still easily break through it.]

"...Twelfth Brother, I was wrong."

After all, you're not fighting against the entire universe; you're just choosing to poke a hole in it, that's all!

【Then……】

"Where is my principle?"

"Where are my 2.5 billion+ Dao principles?"

[The more than 2.5 billion Dao principles you copied and pasted into your own Dao Fruit... have all disappeared!]

They spontaneously disintegrated!

When a nation is on the verge of collapse, monsters and monstrosities emerge!

[The universe is nearing its end; the Tao will cease to exist!]

[With only ten days left before this universe collapses back to its origin, all 23.7 billion Dao principles contained within it vanished without a trace!]

[No, even with your Enlightenment Vision activated, you can still see many chaotic Dao principles.]

[To be more precise... the universe underwent a slight parameter shift during its extreme compression and destruction, and its impending rebirth, rendering all the principles you previously comprehended obsolete!]

"Yay!"

"Stop it, you idiot."

The thought of your children outside, surrounding you, weeping and wailing for this impending doom of the universe, sends chills down your spine!

[At that time, you were planning to sneak out and watch them from a distance, just for fun, like attending your own funeral.]

[Observe carefully who cries the most heartbrokenly, who is faking it, and which fake filial sons don't even cry, and secretly note this down, erasing their supposed wisdom.]

[Then, more than ten billion years later, they will announce their return.]

"Damn it, now I've become the source of all the fun!"

"They were all waiting outside, weeping at the grave..."

"I'm just going to sit here and wait to die..."

Five minutes later, you composed yourself and began to carefully consider your survival strategy.

There's no chance of it being distributed anymore.

[It will take seven days for him to recover from his previous state.]

[And returning to one's true nature is practically useless.]

Because you have lost those principles that were replicated.

[Your original 108,000 Dao principles did not include those that could break the speed of light under normal conditions. You will have to recreate them from the chaotic Dao principles here, but there may not be enough time!]

[And even after you finally manage to find the corresponding principles amidst this chaos and replicate them, the parameters might be changed again, rendering all your previous efforts futile!]

Even if all conditions were perfect, even if you descended 99 times, you still wouldn't be able to cross the cosmic membrane within ten days, because the density increases as the universe contracts.

[Even if you descend 99 times today, you can still travel tens of light-years a day, but tomorrow it will only be a few light-years, and the day after tomorrow it will be hundreds of billions of kilometers...]

[And the distance you manage to move away will be pulled back as it contracts, and by the time you return to your original state after seven days, you'll probably only be less than a light-year away from the center of the universe. It will be too late when you return to your original state.]

You also have the ability to jump through time.

[Under the most perfect scenario described above, you swiftly replicated the light-breaking speed rule again. After descending 99 times, with overwhelming power, you could move tens of light-years outward on the first day, and then choose to jump backward more than nine days.]

[Time-space jumps cannot choose a reference point; they directly use the boundless void as the standard—this also indicates that while the boundless void may be constantly expanding outwards, it is not moving; it is an absolutely fixed anchor point.]

[If it were you before, you wouldn't have hesitated. Back then, you would have directly chosen this method: copy the Dao principles, then move, jumping to the moment when the universe was about to shrink back to its origin.]

At that time, you will be in an endless ocean of void, tens of light-years away, where you can shatter the void and escape.

[Not now, because some calculations have gone wrong: your fear about the timing of the universe's destruction is also slightly off.]

[If you jump forward a few seconds too long and are still stuck in space, you'll still be taken in and killed; or if you jump backward a few seconds too long, you'll be immediately confronted by the most powerful cosmic explosion upon emerging, and there's still no way out!]