[You randomly grabbed some sixth-realm beings from the battlefield and learned that the expansion rate of this universe began to slow down about several billion years ago, clearly showing signs of aging and decline, until about 300 million years ago, when the expansion rate dropped below the speed of light.]
If those True Immortals had started preparing to flee from that time, they could have spent a hundred million years traversing the cosmic membrane and emerged unharmed, instead of facing such anxiety and helplessness as they do today.
However, it was clear that they were unwilling to waste so many years simply traveling and fleeing, so they chose to take a gamble, betting that the universe wouldn't have any problems.
Now that they've lost their bet, they're beginning to bear the consequences of their defeat.
"...I'm the one who's been wronged the most; I went in the wrong direction!"
[Although your original intention was to enter space, your route went astray, causing you to travel a much longer distance!]
[If your path didn't go astray from the start, and you were able to quickly reach the universe, then you'd have ample time to cultivate to immortality over the remaining hundreds of millions of years, then progress rapidly through enlightenment!]
But now it's stuck in the last ten million years. Ten million years... to be precise, nine million one hundred thousand years from now, this universe will collapse into the smallest point of origin, bringing about annihilation that ends everything!
"But I also have to thank them; it wasn't too skewed."
"If my direction of travel is indeed towards the outside of the universe, then I simply don't have enough time to cross 100 million light-years, and there's a very high probability that I'll still be stuck in the cosmic membrane."
"As I slumber in my little world, I will unknowingly witness the final collapse and explosion of the universe, and be shattered to pieces in my sleep."
"Although it's off course now, it's managed to survive by the skin of its teeth."
The war at the Heart of the Universe continues, now divided into four rings.
[Within the very center of the first ring, spanning a hundred million light-years, beings possessing at least three thousand Dao powers reside peacefully and comprehend the Dao.]
[A hundred million light-years can actually hold a vast number of beings, but the problem is that the more people inside, the more diluted the effect of enlightenment becomes. Therefore, only truly powerful individuals (or those with connections or special privileges) can enter.]
[Next is the second ring, a buffer zone stretching from one hundred million light-years to ten billion light-years. It features a special environment similar to a world wall, where one cannot enter the shattered void and will be forcibly forced into the mortal realm.]
Those who lack the strength to force their way in will be killed at the outermost layer.
[The strong and the chosen ones will have a temporary special channel opened, allowing them to shatter the void within that channel and, in the blink of an eye, pass through this 9.9 billion light-year-long isolation zone to arrive at the heart of the universe.]
[The next stage is the third ring: billions to trillions of light-years outward from the Heart of the Universe, a battlefield of extremely high intensity. Although it is further subdivided into Immortal-level battlefields, near-Immortal-level battlefields, Mythological-level battlefields, etc., they will not be detailed here.]
[The fourth ring region, extending trillions to ten trillion light-years outwards, lies... the rear base of those powerful forces.]
They are vying for the Enlightenment position in the first ring amidst the flames of war in the third ring, while the fourth ring is the home of every faction, where countless planets, worlds, planes, and even giant arks converge.
That is where countless ordinary beings gather, inhabited by common people from various civilizations, reserve forces, and true immortals representing the future of civilization.
Instead of directly engaging in the fiercest battle at the front lines, you chose to wander around this fourth ring area.
You have arrived in a world with a standard cultivation-themed, nested system.
The lowest level is the mortal realm, a planet with a diameter of 100,000 miles. It ranges from the lowest level of Body Refinement to the Nascent Soul stage, but the corresponding power levels are quite low; the Nascent Soul stage is only considered the early stage of the third realm.
"Much stronger than the Nascent Soul stage in Mortal Cultivation Chronicles."
Yun Shou is eating melon seeds.
Even the most basic system with a Dao Seal quality of 1, the Three Realms, can still raze the earth for miles around with a single powerful move, washing away an entire town and leaving no building fragments or living people behind.
He still remembered a passage in the book "The Legend of Mortal Cultivation" that said even a cultivator in the Void Refinement stage couldn't withstand tens of thousands of pounds of force.
This is even worse than the title banning battle... although that's because the author wasn't good with numbers at the time.
That book didn't really produce anything groundbreaking; otherwise, if one were to delve into the details of combat power, one could rival Sugar Mountain.
Moreover, different authors and different books, even if they use the same cultivation system, will have vastly different specific settings.
"In some early cultivation novels, the most a Great Ascension stage cultivator could do was destroy a ten-thousand-foot-tall mountain peak with a single powerful move. And that was only destroying the surface of the mountain and wiping out the sects on it, not obliterating the entire mountain."
"But the other books that follow, like Qi Refining that shakes the heavens and stars, Foundation Establishment that suppresses a galaxy, and Golden Core that transforms into the primordial universe, there are all sorts of versions."
[The Zero Realm corresponds to the most basic Body Refinement and Qi Refinement; the First Realm is Foundation Establishment; the Second Realm includes Golden Core and Nascent Soul; the Third Realm is Deity Transformation and Return to Emptiness; the Fourth Realm is Body Splitting and Body Fusion; and the Fifth Realm is Mahayana, symbolizing the ultimate body below the Immortal level that encompasses all previous systems.]
[However, you've noticed a problem: while the cultivation system here includes the ability to perceive others' emotions with spiritual power, astral projection, and possession... it doesn't possess the ability to read memories.]
They can use various illusions to guide others and get them to say corresponding things, but they just can't directly read the other person's memories!
This... seems to be the rule of the "Light Dust Source Soup" universe.
Not all universes are perfect. Some universes are inherently lacking certain rules. For example, this universe, besides lacking ancient laws, also lacks laws like "mind reading."
[Alternatively, it's not that this universe lacks the principles of mind reading, but rather that other universes lack the principles of "protecting the mind."]
Similarly, aside from the principle of mind reading, there is no principle that makes something "bigger inside than outside."
Space stones do exist in the universe, capable of storing more resources, but this ability cannot be acquired through cultivation.
[They can cultivate abilities like spatial sealing and spatial tremors, and even create worlds, including massive planes hundreds of light-years in size that are impossible to exist in nature, but they just can't create spatial storage devices!]
"I think this is a good thing."
Yun Shou thought to himself.
He was referring to the mind reader.
If this universe possesses principles related to mind reading, then his growth might encounter some setbacks.
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