[You used the Return to Truth Card to enter the ancient universe, which has been named "The Site of the Past".]
[You're lucky to have found your way into a relatively desolate star system. Although there are over 30,000 people in total, they appear very small when crammed together; to the vastness of space, they're practically a speck of dust.]
[You explore the future and discover that most areas of this universe are relatively remote, and there are no Gilded Beings from outer space.]
Those who sought to complete the final piece of the extraordinary system of authority were mostly gathered within the protective perimeter established throughout the universe.
They are only responsible for the reconstruction, and once it's finished, they leave. They generally don't venture into those desolate areas or disturb the "natives" of this universe.
After all, cultivation must adhere to fundamental principles. Some extremely remote places have insufficient spiritual energy concentration and very few time-related resources. Most importantly, those places lack protective barriers.
The "protective zone" can be understood as a man-made safe zone in this universe.
[A protective ring exists; as the name suggests, its purpose is to protect lives.]
[Because Daojun Anxiu and his forces are not the rulers of this universe, their development of the Ancient Site has not reached 100%.]
[In this universe exist some "Ancient Evil Gods" that they neither wish to provoke nor want to provoke. These beings are similar to beings governed by the laws of nature, existing only within the ancient universe, and possessing almost no emotions; they are akin to a kind of intelligent program based on the laws of nature.]
Those ancient evil gods weren't necessarily stronger; some were only equivalent to hundreds of millions or billions of Resonance True Immortals, but they were able to traverse timelines.
Although the timeline is limited to this universe, it is still extremely troublesome. They are impossible to kill or destroy completely. When the fully-formed universe lords from the outside world come to this universe, they are only True Immortals at the level of 27 billion, and they will suffer losses at the hands of these evil gods.
However, that was a long time ago. Later, Daoist Anxiu and that group of chaotic evil gods reached an agreement through communication.
Those evil gods are similar to the maintainers of order in this universe. Although they are detached from emotions, they are not stubborn and inflexible. After analyzing the pros and cons, they allowed the outsiders to carve out a concession area to produce perfect true immortals.
[Outside the concession lay the realm of the cosmic natives—the evil gods.]
"Even if those second-generation universe dwellers enter this universe, only a very small number of them with an adventurous spirit will wander around recklessly."
You thought to yourself, "But the vast majority of people, including those universe lords and true immortals who guard this universe, rarely move outside the protective perimeter."
"They were terrified of inadvertently incurring the wrath of the evil god. The agreement was already signed, and they had gotten everything they wanted; there was no need to provoke him further."
Although Anxiu is nominally the master of this ancient universe, that was a long time ago, and he only oversees the general distribution of permits; he is unaware of the specific details, such as the situation within the "Old Site."
For example, you'll have to find out that several nearby areas belong to the territory of the evil god after you arrive at the old site.
[You tried to directly attack the evil gods, but when they did appear, they surged forth in massive hordes, like the gaping maw of an abyss being torn open, from which endless, twisted shadows surged wildly.]
We can't beat them, we really can't.
Even if you manage to catch one and strip away its essence to read minds, you can only see things like contracts or cause and effect—the cause of this moment, the effect of the past.
[After destroying one, Dao principles will dissipate, but the dissipated Dao principles are not the same as the old Dao principles.]
After numerous failures, you decide to integrate into this universe, act according to its rules, and acquire the power of the Old Ones through certain methods.
And so, you arrived in a world not far away.
A strange change is about to occur in that world.
【God's End Continent.】
This is a shattered world, as if it were once burned to the ground by a great fire, and now only a sprout has emerged from the ashes, much like a monkey digging up relics from the ruins of human civilization.
You saw many traces of fire, many remains and ashes, but they were all buried at the very bottom of the God's Ash Continent.
In this world, magic prevails, but there's no fully developed battle aura; all that exists are flashy, elaborate spells.
[Well, battle qi does exist, but it's extremely weak. The inheritance of the battle qi system has been lost, and for thousands of years, no peerless genius has filled in the gaps in the cultivation path. As a result, according to the local level classification, battle qi can only be cultivated up to level 5 at most.]
A level 5 battle qi warrior is roughly equivalent to a martial arts master, at the peak of the zero realm, not even reaching the first realm.
However, their mages can cultivate to level 8, which is said to be the realm of an ancient god, with actual combat strength around the mid-stage of the Celestial Realm.
Unfortunately, neither of these systems seems to have anything to do with the "old days."
But you know this world is connected to the "old days."
[Because you've seen it in the future; three years from now, the world will undergo a tremendous change, a kind of fated cycle.]
[You tried to break the cycle of fate, but the result was interference from the ancient evil gods. They swarmed in, and you couldn't overwhelm them even with your primal rewards and punishments, nor could you use your summoning ability to send massive bricks flying and wipe them out.]
[You attempted to participate in that cycle of reincarnation, but after participating, a blank screen appeared—because in that cycle, you might have... traveled back to the past.]
That "past" is something you cannot see in the foreseeable future.
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