【"oh."】

She immediately performed the standard apology gesture from the notebook.

"I meant it was normal, don't take it too literally... Never mind, this works too."

Under her barrage of criticism, you realized it wasn't appropriate to stand there in front of others, so you quickly lowered your head, got up from the sofa, and went with her to meet the immortals of the Taiyuan Star Vortex.

The Taiyuan Star Vortex, due to its extremely long existence, has had ample time for people to replicate its Dao principles, resulting in over a million True Immortals at the 18.7 billion level of resonance.

Only a very small minority of them are die-hard fans of the Gray Sphere; the vast majority harbor more hatred and resentment towards it because their path forward has been blocked for so long, and they are trapped in this universe and forbidden from leaving.

The hatred for someone who obstructs your path is worse than the murder of your parents!

The Greyball doesn't understand how to manage subordinates, nor has it brainwashed a group of loyal followers. From this perspective, it's quite simple, only knowing how to use sheer force to suppress any dissent.

Those true immortals who remain loyal to it are either suffering from Stockholm syndrome or are born with unwavering loyalty, stubborn individuals who will never betray their chosen master... even if that "master" is not a good one.

Ten years later, after a farewell party, you left the Taiyuan Star Vortex.

"...You've used up all the time that could have been used to replicate a million Dao principles on this."

"Then you didn't need to lower your head when you said goodbye earlier. Just keep standing with your head held high. Anyway, you'll have to stand like that for the next ten years. Why let people scold you into bowing your head?"

The reason you didn't bring Ranming tea is simple—cause and effect are interconnected.

[Once Fate Old Deng arrives near the Source of Light Dust, he can instantly encompass thousands of levels of space (1e1000 cosmic gap distance). Then, by using the causal interactions between those people in the Taiyuan Star Vortex and Ranming, he can determine her location and discover that you, the interferer, are right next to her...]

[In the boundless void, you stroll towards the location of the Void Gate.]

[These coordinates are actually very difficult to obtain, because wandering immortals in the universe generally only know about the information within their immediate vicinity of thirty levels of space, and even the oldest gods, under normal circumstances, only know about the vicinity of forty levels of space.]

Only a few extremely experienced individuals who have traversed the boundless void for an extended period can possess knowledge of the surrounding fifty or sixty levels of space.

[...Of course, understanding here refers to knowing which universe lords exist within the fifty-level space, and which gathering places of true immortals are located there.]

After all, a typical universe goes through a cycle of trillions of years. In the blink of an eye, it might return to chaos, creating entirely new structures in its original location, making memory unnecessary.

The distance between the Source of Light and the Void Gate is 4e98 gap units. Even if this distance were shortened by a factor of trillions, trillions, trillions, it would still leave 4e74 gap units, and nearby True Immortals would still be unaware of the Void Gate's existence.

Without a guide... the difficulty of finding the illusory gate is unimaginable!

[You obtained the corresponding coordinates from Bai He's mind. As you shattered the void towards the Void Gate, you couldn't help but wonder where you found out the Void Gate's location in the first place.]

"Forget it, never mind. Once I become the future Dao Lord, won't everything become clear?"

"It's not you, it's me."

Yun Shou is the same as Shi Si.

They were both afraid he would die young and afraid he would become the Dao Master.

"Just as Hope Fourteen had become a fully-fledged Universe Lord and was preparing to receive his authority, Gaba was suddenly killed by Old Fate, leaving me with no choice but to painfully inherit his cultivation and avenge him with tears in my eyes..."

[1.08 million years old, 24.1 billion Dao principles.]

You have arrived in a strange universe.

This universe was named "Star" by the disc because it resembles a planet.

【Hmm, a round cake.】

[The "Stars" and the "Nine Heavens" were both edited and modified by the fully-formed Cosmic Lord "Apo," whose image resembled a flatbread.]

Before breaking through to the seventh realm, all life forms in the Star Universe lived within the universe itself, dwelling among the stars. However, unlike the starry skies within other universes, the density of these stars was exceptionally high.

[The vast majority of the universe is extremely empty. For example, your previous life's Earth, and the Milky Way galaxy, which is 100,000 light-years in diameter, if all the matter in it were piled up, would not even reach a light-year.]

However, the amount of planetary matter, and even life-bearing planets, within the "Star Universe" is terrifyingly high!

[Most civilizations are separated from each other by a few million or even tens of millions of kilometers, by another civilization or another planet.]