Chapter 1246: The Cosmic Bridge in the Sea

"Feitian" — the "sky" here refers to the universe, to the rules of the Great Dao. Recalling this now, they fully understood the truth: this "Feitian" means flying towards a universe.

All the Saints fell silent instantly.

"But... it's a tenth parallel universe, beyond the ancient nine?"

The expression of one Saint changed. He felt he had never encountered such a fantastical oddity in his entire life. The universe was truly vast and mysterious; even as Saints, they were as laughably insignificant as ordinary people.

A tenth parallel universe—this was terrifying!

Throughout history, the number of parallel universes had always been a constant nine, neither more nor less, perfectly balanced.

"A universe? Is this truly a universe, not a pseudo-universe or a dojo established by a Saint?"

A Saint looked at the blurry image, his excitement growing, and laughed loudly, "This universe is pitifully small! Its external cosmic membrane is only a few thousand meters across! The space it contains is even smaller than the extraordinary world of a Ninth-Tier Dao Attainer!"

The cosmic vessel they had built was truly a ship.

It was exquisitely compact, a great cosmic ferry, only a few thousand meters long, yet it contained a vast, folded-space extraordinary world...

After all, for a Great Dao cosmic artifact of this caliber, its external hull was merely an entrance to a subspace, much like a Tenth-Tier Saint's dojo, whose actual entrance coordinates would not be very large.

Even the super-dimensional ferry they arrived on, capable of traversing two parallel universes, had an actual external size of only tens of thousands of meters.

"It is indeed terrifyingly small! At first, we thought it was some kind of mysterious creature from the Sea of Chaos, and we didn't even consider it a universe because a universe couldn't possibly be this tiny!"

"It's even smaller than an extraordinary world, but now that it has swallowed our kilometer-long ship, it's expanding rapidly." A Saint, his expression calm—a rare cosmic giant after all—quickly analyzed, "But this truly is a universe."

The Saints continued to observe, scanning their surroundings.

Their faces filled with excitement; this unknown signified an immense and rare opportunity!

Such an opportunity was rare even over hundreds of millions of years!

They were incredibly agitated; their hearts, dormant for countless eons, were now almost uncontrollable.

"There's a clear distinction between the dojo a Saint creates, a world-ship of a pseudo-universe, and this universe. The rules were evident at a glance... This was a living universe."

The more this Saint looked, the more terrified he became, yet he laughed, "We can still sense that its Great Dao blueprint is completely different here... It's very eerie and sinister. Moreover, this is the original primordial chaos, and no Saint has ever attained Dao here!"

"A living... universe? How can a universe be alive!" Someone burst into laughter, but their voice was hoarse, making it impossible to tell if it was from excitement or terror.

"It's a living entity, but without self-awareness, like insects or marine animals, instinctively devouring, surviving, following biological instincts," another Saint continued to analyze.

But something even stranger occurred.

They discovered their bodies were mutating: their size was shrinking, and their material structure was changing.

Their cellular structure, DNA sequence, and even various molecular structures were rapidly collapsing, simplifying. Their massive forms quickly shrank, transforming into pitifully small, dark green saprophytic bacteria, their flagella slowly drifting. They were densely packed, their structures instantly simplified.

"This is bad, we are regressing."

"Flee!"

"Where to? We're already inside the giant beast. Outside is the Sea of Chaos—are we looking for death?"

"This is adaptation to the rules of this universe; the rules of our previous universe no longer apply at all!"

"This is an alien universe! In any other parallel universe, the fundamental rules are similar, allowing us to maintain our life structure, but here, it's completely different!"

A gasp of alarm plunged all the Saints from their initial excitement, agitation, and eagerness to explore, directly into panic.

For these ultimate beings who transcended cosmic rules, the simplest bacterial life forms represented the absolute lowest end of the food chain, an extreme contrast to their own existence.

But none of the Saints had any solutions!

In this alien universe, and indeed throughout the Sea of Chaos, they had already lost their connection to rules and regressed to mortals. The principles they commanded were mere illusions; once outside their original universe, they were nothing.

While they could wield power inside the cosmic vessel, they were powerless against the giant beast in the Sea of Chaos outside. Otherwise, this beast might casually crush a Saint.

"We are regressing!"

The Saints felt a growing unease. Their greatest pride lay in their understanding and knowledge of the universe, which was also why they could ascend and re-attain Dao. After all, the rules in other parallel universes were similar, making it easy for them to re-learn... But now, all the rules were different!

It was akin to forging an entirely new path.

"Everyone, don't panic. The rules of the universe are constant."

At this moment, Qiu Mingshan Cheshu looked at the Saints and said, "It seems the biological rules of this universe only support parasitic fungi... But the rules are very incomplete. We can attain Dao within this universe, becoming the first Saints of the Primordial Chaos, and complete its rules!"

Qiu Mingshan Cheshu was quite experienced, knowing the history, after all.

"Attain Dao within the universe... and complete its rules?"

A subtle excitement stirred within the Saints' hearts.

This universe was clearly incomplete, but it was a universe nonetheless!

If they were to attain Dao within this universe, they were unsure what the future held, whether good or bad... After all, this universe was not dead; it was a living entity.

"Do we still have a choice? We can no longer contact the outside universe!" Qiu Mingshan Cheshu asked them. Even his quantum battle body had been distorted into a worm, surprisingly becoming his counterpart in this parallel universe.

He claimed his game avatar couldn't contact his main body, and it indeed seemed to be the case.

However, he had another method: he could still communicate with the outside world by taking screenshots and posting them on the forum!

"This is the authority of the Creator God!" He looked at the bewildered, rustic Saints with pity in his heart, secretly sending a private message to his girlfriend: "Everyone else can only cultivate pseudo-truths within a universe, so rules are not interchangeable. A Saint in one universe is a mortal in another, naturally unable to communicate... But the Creator God is the ultimate truth, and thus can naturally transmit between universes!"

"So that's it! You truly are amazing!" Zhang Tong said with an admiring expression, finding his analysis very reasonable.

Xu Zhi: "....."

He watched their private messages, momentarily stunned.

I also cultivate pseudo-truths.

If I could communicate across the multiverse, I would have already journeyed through the nine universes... It's only because this is the Zerg universe I created that you can continuously "connect online" and link to the outside, right?

But this was indeed a unique advantage.

"Yes, we have no choice. Since we are here, we might as well make the best of it." The Saints eventually fell silent, giving bitter smiles.

"Everyone, as the most ancient cosmic gods and devils, let us create heaven and earth, establishing a heart for the world!" As Qiu Mingshan Cheshu's words fell, the surrounding Saints felt a surge of fervent blood.

Soon, they could only explore, research systems, and forge paths within this place.

With thousands of Tenth-Tier descendants, in addition to a few Saints, how immense was their collective wisdom?

As they moved through this primordial universe, exploring its rules and seeking paths for cultivation, an extraordinary progression soon emerged.

"In this universe, cultivation is also based on bloodlines!"

"Body cultivators and soul cultivators can adapt here; there are even bloodlines! However, these bloodlines seem to originate from the tissues of this universe? Fascia, blood, muscle—integrating into various forms, yielding different bloodlines?"

"Unbelievable! Simply unbelievable! Even with completely different rules, they still fall within the bloodline framework. I am confident I can carve out a new Great Dao of Yang Kang!"

"Hahaha! With this opportunity, why should this old man return to those other parallel universes? To once again attain Dao and become a Saint in this parallel universe would be excellent!"

The countless Tenth-Tier descendants of the Saints grew even more excited. They couldn't help but want to recommence cultivation, breaking through their realms—they might even surpass their fathers!

Within the entire cosmic trilobite, a grand era of primordial creation was about to begin.

All the Saints eyed each other with burning gazes and vigilance. Each wanted to deliver the first stroke to cleave heaven and earth, split the chaos, attain Dao for this universe, and become its very first Saint!

"We can't compete with these 'tool-people'," Qiu Mingshan Cheshu shook his head. "Since they want to attain Dao, we can only watch from behind."

After all, their knowledge level was indeed not high; those were Saints, vying for the top spot, and they couldn't possibly win.

But it didn't matter!

Their immediate task was to provide data parameters. The cosmic data of this trilobite, with thousands of Tenth-Tier descendants, contained an immense amount of wisdom.

"These 'tool-people' represent our greatest possibility for studying a living universe!"

"Because researching a single type of living universe would require countless efforts, but now... we can hand over this research to them!" Qiu Mingshan Cheshu thought secretly. "These Saints have actually covertly joined the Destroyer God's faction, becoming enemies of the Great Universe... The Destroyer God's wisdom is indeed well-calculated!"

At this moment.

The Saints were researching and developing within this universe.

Most of this universe's rules were already occupied, but they quickly deciphered the remaining ones and began attempting cultivation, striving to be the first to attain Dao!

After some more time passed.

As they continued to cultivate, they also explored this narrow, small universe and gradually discovered the life patterns of this mysterious chaotic giant beast.

They were merely bacteria, parasites, within this giant beast's body.

"It's exploring everywhere, consuming ancient artifacts from the seafloor ruins outside! Its size is slowly increasing!"

"Is this the deep Sea of Chaos?"

"Before, it was difficult for us to see such detailed features up close!"

They could vaguely perceive the ocean world outside, with ancient objects floating, vast in number, like endless dust particles drifting up and down in the wind.

They were also very excited, even igniting a hint of ambition: "We can complete the rules of this universe, allowing it to become an eternal treasure-hunting vessel in this chaotic sea region, traversing the chaos between parallel universes to seek the wealth of ancient eras!"

If they could continuously search for these treasures, circumnavigating like a submarine, it would be an opportunity beyond their wildest dreams.

"Wait, what's that?"

Suddenly, they saw an ancient, elongated black arched bridge, trillions of light-years in length, slowly rising and falling in the depths of the Sea of Chaos.

"What ancient ruin is this?"

"At least hundreds of billions of light-years long! Spanning hundreds of nebulae—how is this possible? What era of the universe is this ancient object from? Throughout all cosmic history, there has been no record of it!"

"Indeed, no similar ancient ruin has ever been fished up."

"Ridiculous! Who could possibly fish up such a terrifying ancient creation? If not for this opportunity we have, perhaps no one in the entire universe, even until its end, would ever reach such depths of the Sea of Chaos to witness this scene!"

All the Saints exclaimed in shock.

It was as if they were in an aquarium, gazing out at a dazzling world, unable to contain their awe.

It was too vast.

Too magnificent.

Infinitely more magnificent than ants viewing the vastness of Mount Everest.

At that moment, they seemed to cast aside all their schemes and struggles, rediscovering their most fundamental and pure original intentions, single-mindedly seeking the Dao and pursuing all their ideals.

The Cosmic Bridge!!

Qiu Mingshan Cheshu's pupils instantly dilated. It actually existed!!??

He had already heard Meng Mei speak of this era, but seeing the real object left him utterly stunned.

"This, I'm afraid, is an ancient relic from the Cosmic Bridge era, over ten billion years ago! A world-shaking ancient grand bridge." This plain statement drew the gaze of all the Saints towards Qiu Mingshan Cheshu.

"You know about this?"

The Saints looked on in disbelief.

"Is this also from the ancient murals of Dunhuang?"