Chapter 1142: Strange Life

Author: A Three-Hundred-Jin SmileCategory:Last Updated: 2020/07/15Chapter Word Count: 5006 words

Xu Zhi now clearly understood that Abyssal Blue Heavenly Venerate was not wrong. When all the rules of the universe are completed, and when supreme Tenth-Tier beings integrate with the Dao, leaving no part of the universe incomplete, then the gate to the Tenth-Tier will close! The universe will then transition from its growth phase, passing a turning point, and enter its declining phase.

Even those who have studied Earth's history know that the universe, at just over 14 billion years since the Big Bang, is indeed still in its growth phase. It likely has tens of billions of years of growth and prime ahead, during which countless supreme Tenth-Tier beings can still emerge. However, its growth rate has already slowed significantly, approaching maturity. After all, in this cosmic era, the core, powerful rules have already been perfected.

"This means that beings of this era, if they were to attain the Dao, could only prove minor, peripheral rules, possessing less than one percent of the combat power of the top experts from the ancient universe!"

Xu Zhi took a deep breath. "Time flies, and one could say they were all born at the wrong time... But it's already quite good. As the timeline progresses, in the future, the Tenth-Tier gate will close, the universe will age, the Age of Dharma Decline will arrive, and even the concept of the Tenth-Tier will cease to exist. That's when geniuses born in the Age of Dharma Decline will truly be miserable!"

In that era, cultivators would consider Ninth-Tier Dao Attainers, capable of distorting the universe's laws, to be at the pinnacle of cosmic cultivation. That would be the most tragic thing.

"Even further, when it fully enters the age of decline, even Ninth-Tier Dao Attainers will no longer exist. People will believe that Eighth-Tier gods are the pinnacle of the universe... Because by then, as the universe becomes more complete and flawless, it will mean that powerful beings can no longer distort rules, and Ninth-Tier Dao Attainers will not be able to emerge...."

Xu Zhi felt a profound sadness.

"Everything seems to be an inevitable destiny. When supreme Tenth-Tier beings completely fill in the Great Dao of the universe, then Ninth-Tier Dao Attainers will no longer be able to manipulate distorted rules, and the Ninth-Tier will also begin to close off...."

He felt as if a mighty torrent of destined time was sweeping in, irresistible to anyone. Even the greatest and most exceptional cosmic beings could not reverse this vast destructive flood.

"Perhaps this is destiny; time is the universe's greatest weapon."

Xu Zhi's expression was calm as he looked at this new universe, where even dimensions had not yet been born, and already he foresaw its future decline. Only someone like him, who had personally witnessed the beginning of everything, could clearly sense the future of its end.

In the universe's Age of Dharma Decline, the Tenth-Tier will vanish, and the Ninth-Tier will vanish. Towards the very end of the universe, beings of that era will tragically believe that Eighth-Tier gods are the strongest in the universe, forming a cognitive barrier, like fish in a well gazing at the sky. They will be completely unable to comprehend what kind of dimensional cosmic beings Ninth-Tier existences are.

"This is the significance of creating the sandbox. From the observed parameters and records, one can deduce the ancient and modern developmental history of the entire universe."

Xu Zhi's expression was very calm. "Although all of this is my deduction, some powerful and profound Tenth-Tier ultimate beings and overlords of the universe should also be aware of these historical processes."

As he pondered, he watched the universe expand, moving towards peace and stability, and continuing to evolve naturally. In reality, even if no one were to complete these Great Daos, attest to them with their bodies, or merge with them as gods, they would still naturally complete themselves over time. It would simply take an extremely long period.

"It's time to try distorting the time of the entire universe...."

Xu Zhi silently sensed everything, then began to work on this core set of laws. After all, a sapling had just formed, its branches tender and fragile. He could extend his influence without merging with the Dao, attempting to directly use his profound knowledge to twist some shapes of the main trunk. His consciousness began to fully immerse itself in the Great Dao Atlas, attempting to reform it. At this moment, he was like a true Creator God, beginning to try to distort the core rules of the universe.

One day. Two days. Xu Zhi quickly discovered something was amiss. "Although I can transcend the universe's time limit, I can only reach a thought process equivalent to a thousand years per day... It's not that it can't be higher, but the repulsion is growing stronger and stronger... It's the limit my Great Dao Piano can continuously withstand."

"Perhaps, in this future land, someone needs to prove this aspect of the law, which could reach a higher level, possibly even ten thousand years per day... Moreover, as my resistance to the power of the greater universe increases, bearing its pressure, there might even be a slight chance of reaching a hundred million years per day!"

Xu Zhi considered a hundred million years per day to be very slim, as it would require a truly independent greater universe with its own rules to achieve. However, ten thousand years per day still seemed possible.

"A thousand years per day, I'm practically accelerating the aging of this entire universe...." Xu Zhi suddenly sighed with emotion. A hundred years per day before was already exaggerated; now, a thousand years per day made him feel like he was becoming even more ruthless, like a tyrannical landlord. Previously, a god could at least live for over two months; now they would die in just one week....

As Xu Zhi remained calm, time flowed rapidly, and the world began to settle into peace. In the early stages of the universe, life naturally forms over hundreds of millions of years... Xu Zhi naturally wouldn't wait. Instead, he released spores, allowing them to enter the Creator God's time flow, spreading throughout the entire universe.

However, in this chaotic universe where even rules were incomplete, the reproduction of spores became extremely difficult. They experienced countless mass extinctions, yet still showed no sign of life.

Xu Zhi frowned and said, "This is troublesome... The entire universe doesn't even have complete life laws. Zerg spores are a complete life evolution chain built upon the mature life laws of the greater universe... Now that they've come to this universe, where not even evolution rules have appeared, how can spores take shape?" He felt a bit vexed.

Spores are creations based on the complete life rules of the greater universe, products formed under the frameworks of rules and parameters set by ancient existences, originating from over ten billion years in the future. The rules for the DNA gene sequence were likely also complete parameter rules established by some future Great Dao Primordial Saint who merged with the universe to perfect life forms. This means that life in this era doesn't even have DNA. Who knows what structure the earliest life in this universe had? In this era, spores simply couldn't take root and sprout. Did he have to wait for the universe to naturally evolve for hundreds of millions of years, until life rules naturally formed, before there was a chance?

"This is the first time there's a species that spores can't evolve..." Xu Zhi pondered. "But it seems they are merely unable to evolve for now; the spores are adapting... After all, it's almost the same kind of universe. Even without complete life rules, primitive life rules should be enough." Xu Zhi could sense that the spores were making progress; it was just that the difficulty of evolution was unprecedented. At the same time, the evolving species conformed to the most primitive life of this universe, lacking even the basic life forms of later eras, making Xu Zhi quite curious.

Days passed. On the fifth day, which marked the fifth millennium, the first spore displayed a life form. Xu Zhi found himself inexplicably looking forward to it. After all, five thousand years, in the past, would have meant nearly two months just to evolve one spore. This amount of time spent was unprecedented.

However, when Xu Zhi descended into a patch of irregular meteoritic soil and saw the first life form of this universe, he was utterly shocked. "What in the world is this?"