You stand in an endless ocean of emptiness, surrounded by the remnants of a universe.
The Taiyuan Star Vortex has been destroyed.
That was originally a vast universe, and even after the gray sphere discarded a large amount of matter, it still possessed an astonishing size, a weight that you could not bear and could not match.
[But you indirectly destroyed it through the Gray Sphere, which possessed the authority of the cosmic lord.]
[Among the wreckage, some true immortals distanced themselves from you, while others stepped forward to bow and express their gratitude.]
[You see a woman who resembles a human, with pale purple skin, and you are overcome with attraction.]
When saying thank you, remember to—
"Thank you, my benefactor!" she cried, tears streaming down her face. "You've finally freed me from my cage."
"But too much time has passed. Hu Meng (Grey Sphere's real name) has imprisoned me for far too long. My home universe, my family and friends, were probably completely destroyed 170 billion years ago."
Her emotions, suppressed for many years, erupted, leaving her almost completely disoriented.
"I have nothing left. I've lost everything."
Shut up. It's too tragic. It reminds you of your past self. Let her off the hook.
"I hope you will tell me your name and address, senior. After I return and take another look at that newborn universe, I will come to become your lifelong servant!"
【you:"……"】
She offered herself up, so it's not your fault.
In this future scenario, you and she travel together, traversing a relatively long distance, asking for directions several times along the way, until you finally arrive at a void.
[You have seen a purplish-red, placenta-like sphere, only light-years in size, gently pulsating.]
170 billion years ago, a universe called "Frosty Realm" collapsed and destroyed after reaching the limit of its lifespan, coalescing into a single cosmic origin.
Now, that cosmic origin has developed slightly and recovered somewhat.
It cannot yet be considered a universe; it is incapable of supporting life and can only be described as a nascent embryo.
Based on current assessments, it will likely take several hundred billion years for it to emerge as a truly new universe.
[As for now, it is covered by a protective shield comparable to a 16.3 billion Dao Laws-level Cosmic Lord; unless a Cosmic Lord comes, no one can break through it.]
[You won't work either; your inherent reward and punishment system only applies to living beings.]
She gazed silently at the embryo.
You were there to keep me company.
[To keep you company...to keep you company...]
[You're getting a little impatient; the 90-day deadline is almost up.]
But she still looked melancholy and sad, and you felt awkward bringing up anything trivial at a time like this.
[After a long silence, in the final few minutes before you arrived, you left a pressure-relieving mark on her hand, allowing her to infect the mark with her own aura, and then returning the gray sphere's death and her state to their true form.]
"Now we just wait for her to recover and then come to us on her own initiative."
You're lying there so casually.
[Afterwards, you also visited the "Taiyuan Star Vortex," which had lost its cosmic master.]
The true immortals within it finally gained their freedom; many left, while many remained, striving to comprehend the Dao and become the next ruler of the universe.
[After being adjusted by the gray sphere, the Taiyuan Star Vortex will no longer self-destruct, much like a bucket with its holes plugged won't leak, thus becoming an immortal universe.]
[As long as there are no other universe lords suppressing it, it can continuously produce Eighth Realm cultivators—limited to those within this universe.]
"Alas, the invading universes are thriving, while my Light Dust Source Soup is drawing ever closer to its end."
[When the universe's lifespan was reduced to only a million years, besides True Immortals, there were still countless beings within the Light Dust Source Soup who had not been relocated.]
[In the previous 8 million years, the worlds or planes you withdrew from accounted for less than one ten-thousandth of the entire universe. This was even with the vast majority of True Immortals having accumulated over 100 million Dao principles and entered the resonance stage.]
[The sheer number of those worlds is one reason, and the increasingly difficult passage through the cosmic membrane is another.]
[Currently, some newly promoted True Immortals of the First Dao can only reach speeds a few times faster than the current world's limit within the cosmic membrane, whereas originally they could have reached at least several hundred times faster.]
[However, this is just an example. Because with your essential blessing and the madness of the universe's inhabitants, there isn't a single living being in the Light Dust Source Soup whose essence is below ten times its normal value, and whose Dao power has been multiplied to at least ten points.]
Not only do they possess ten times the combat power, but they also consume only a trillionth of the resources—they're a bunch of pure monsters!
[You can already imagine that when you "perish" in the Light Dust Source Soup millions of years later, you are actually going to other places to complete the Dao principles.]
[When you reappear billions of years later, you will give an order.]
[In the boundless void, hundreds of billions of cosmic lords gathered to celebrate the return of the Cloud Father.]
The scene... just imagining it is spectacular!
[Cosmic Lords are extremely rare. On average, the distance between two universes is one gap unit, and there will only be one Cosmic Lord within a range of approximately 3e39 units.]
"The original location of the Taiyuan Star Vortex was 4e39 units away from the Light Dust Source Soup..."
"That gray ball is practically the closest thing to the eternal end of the twelve."
Yun Shou remained silent: "But after receiving the blessing of essence, even if a universe has more than 20 billion laws, they can become one of the universe lords in at most 20 billion years."
"This is truly an explosive growth. In another 10 billion years, the universe lords will be completely worthless. The boundless void is full of universe lords crawling around, dragging their own universes and crashing about."
"etc!"
Yun Shou vaguely guessed a future.
In the original Void Boundless Sea, the number of Universe Lords was extremely rare. The vast majority of Universe Lords, like the Gray Sphere, spent hundreds of billions of years painstakingly extracting Dao principles from other universes to complete themselves.
Most universes are peaceful, but every few hundred billion years, one unlucky universe is chosen to be devoured. The vast majority of universes are not chosen from birth to destruction and rebirth!
But once the number of cosmic lords increases...
The boundless void will become a battlefield!
Countless cosmic lords piloted "cosmic warships," and those colossal structures, whose size was measured in billions of light-years, collided and engaged in chaotic battle!
It will become completely boiling and lively!
[Countdown: 100,000 years.]
[Your understanding of the Dao has barely surpassed 2.5 billion.]
Even so, you still have the highest number of Dao principles among those in the Light Dust Source Soup.
[A countdown of ten thousand years, your children will often come home to visit you.]
[A thousand years have passed, and you suddenly remember that there seems to be someone who hasn't come yet.]
[That's the purple-skinned woman who escaped after you defeated the gray ball and expressed her gratitude to you.]
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