Chapter 1288: On the General Trend of the World, Only My Buddhist Path

A wave of fear spread throughout the entire universe.

The Sages were terrified, and the common people were also plunged into unease.

The weak common people do not contend for the great era of the universe, nor do they seek opportunities, but they cannot escape the great calamity. Regardless of the changes in any era, it is ultimately the lowest stratum that suffers.

When the populace thrives, they suffer; when they perish, they also suffer.

Yet, the "mortals" here already refer to the ninth-tier Dao-achieving civilizations within the universe... As for eighth-tier gods, or true mortals, they are not even considered ants.

Year 102 of the Myriad Worlds.

The era began with prosperity, though in higher dimensions, it was only a century.

All major universes became completely interconnected.

The multiverse accelerated its fusion.

Countless cosmic ships set sail from beyond the chaotic heavens, ushering in the early stages of a prosperous era.

Shrouded in chaotic mist, along the coastline, a large number of Sages from other dimensional civilizations descended.

They illicitly entered these universes, recruiting talents everywhere, inviting young ninth-tier Dao-achieving civilizations to become their crew members.

It was a time of plundering and invading.

Talent had become the most crucial scarce commodity of this era.

Building universes, deducing eras, hoping for prodigies who could predict the future—all these required talent. This era was clearly a struggle for talent.

Even Gu You began to open his doors wide, announcing in the nine major multiverses that he would recruit heroes and elites from all corners, inviting them to join his sect with the possibility of becoming direct disciples.

"I wish to open doors across the world and accept disciples from all beings!"

And Gu You's reputation soared completely!

Because he had mastered stable cosmic channels, many universes drew near, causing numerous entities to choose to seek refuge with him.

"Let nature take its course."

Xu Zhi's true body sat in an orchard in Dongxiang, a rural part of Earth, eating fruit. "Those universes are another type of Zerg life... They, like Caroline and Di Qi, don't know they are Zergs. They believe they are free, living in a sandbox... Naturally, they also follow their biological instincts to approach habitable areas."

Xu Zhi could naturally stop those cosmic life forms. But why stop them? Letting nature take its course—that's the law of the universe. Interfering wouldn't that expose himself? Gu You would just punch him to death! He couldn't afford to provoke them... Xu Zhi was well aware of this.

To this day, Caroline and the others don't know they are Zergs. And while these intelligent universes are also part of the Zerg, Xu Zhi has never, from beginning to end, had any intention of letting them know their origins!

"The greatest recluses hide in plain sight; the whole world is my child... How could such an ultimate cosmic secret be casually revealed??" Xu Zhi leisurely took a bite of an apple, looking completely at ease.

Xu Zhi had ultimately grown corrupt, becoming the person he once hated most. As the saying goes: Gaze long into an abyss, and the abyss will gaze back into you. Thinking about it now, the same applies to Old Wang. But he had no awareness of this. Xu Zhi turned around, looked at his latest modification, and mumbled, "Is this thing still a Zerg, though?"

The second update for the Zerg Mother Queen had appeared, and it was completely unrecognizable. Xu Zhi had transformed the original Zerg Mother Queen's shell to be entirely different. If previously the scattered components were everywhere, now they had become a cohesive whole! The Zerg sub-brain had become a pulsating "universe" life form. Within this cosmic life force, Xu Zhi had incorporated various unnamed components, the Heavenly Dao Piano, and other accessories.

The operation was simple. It was just a small step forward. But fundamentally, it was still made of scattered parts, though at least externally, they had merged.

"By the second version, I had already transformed the Zerg sub-brain into a cosmic life form that could reproduce. If the first generation Zerg Mother Queen appeared now and saw her own body... she probably wouldn't even recognize it, having been twisted into some unrecognizable form by me." Xu Zhi's expression was very calm.

Clearly, he had embarked on an unprecedented path. But precisely because it was unprecedented, Xu Zhi himself couldn't foresee what it would evolve into in the future. What form would the Myriad Worlds ultimately take? He didn't know! At the very least, Gu You's move left Xu Zhi bewildered. But Xu Zhi was not anxious at all. No matter what happened, the other party would eventually help him complete the laws of the universe; he just needed to sit back and watch.

Xu Zhi glanced at the players. On Earth, the atmosphere in the forum quickly grew excited.

"Now, following Zhang Youling, we've taken control of seven large ships! In the future cosmic era, we'll be known as the 'Seven Vajras' in historical records!"

"Isn't it the Seven Warlords of the Sea?"

"But when we followed them to other universes, illicitly landing, we found that our game bloodlines from our original universe were unusable in those other universes!"

"That's too difficult! Do we have to re-cultivate?"

"Yes, between each parallel universe, bloodlines are not interchangeable!"

"Right, if this continues, wouldn't all the super heaven-defying bloodlines we previously deduced become useless?"

"All our efforts would be for naught!"

They grumbled with bitter complaints. Under these circumstances, composite Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodlines, composite full-race bloodlines, and the Great Octopus Death God bloodline could only be used in their original universe, unusable in others... This significantly reduced their functionality.

Just as everyone was discussing heatedly, Mount Akina Speed ultimately stepped forward.

"Don't panic, everyone!"

"Our bloodlines aren't useless! It's just that the era has changed, and the way they're used has become different!"

Mount Akina Speed said, "That Gu You is indeed formidable, monopolizing the structure of the Myriad Worlds. However, to tell you the truth, I have found a way to break this deadlock!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately felt it was incredible. That was quite a boast. Even the Sages across the entire universe felt surrounded by crisis and couldn't find a solution to break Gu You's strategy, yet Mount Akina Speed had found a way? Was Mount Akina Speed really that fierce? Could he even contend with these ancient Sages? They had also heard about the previous great war. Even old monsters who had lived for hundreds of millions of years came out of seclusion, joining forces to demand an explanation, but they were all suppressed and killed. That battle was earth-shattering.

But Mount Akina Speed remained very calm.

Mount Akina Speed: "First, let's address everyone's primary challenge: bloodlines!"

"Everyone's main concern is probably—have the bloodlines we've evolved become useless?"

"I can tell you, in other universes, they are indeed useless!"

"Moreover, it's not just us facing this dilemma. With the changing era, other multi-dimensional Sages also know that their bloodlines might also be starting to become useless..."

Everyone nodded. They were indeed at a disadvantage. But weren't other Sages in the same situation? Once the structure of the Myriad Worlds descended, on the Chaos Sea, the bloodlines of any universe would become useless! Everyone would be rendered useless! In fact, Gu You and Zhi Ji would be the most miserable.

Mount Akina Speed: "To be honest, this is an unprecedented variable! The original combat power system has been overturned, so what will the future combat power tiers be measured by?"

Everyone couldn't help but fall into contemplation, and some began to discuss:

"In the Myriad Worlds, each world is a universe. Combat power within a universe will probably still follow the old bloodline system. However, once you leave your universe and enter the Myriad Worlds, combat power changes. Everyone meets on the Chaos Sea, piloting universes into collisions, competing to see whose universe is stronger?"

"In the future, it won't be about bloodlines, but about whose universe is stronger?"

Just as everyone was discussing, Mount Akina Speed provided the answer:

"You're not wrong, the future will be about competing with universes! But it will also be about bloodlines. Don't forget that current universes all have a characteristic: they are bloodline cosmic life forms. Since they are life forms, don't they have bloodlines?"

Everyone seemed to grasp something. They also had bloodlines. Their bloodline was the Grand Dao Atlas.

Mount Akina Speed: "I'll put it simply: Since a universe can be compared to a person, possessing bloodlines... then why can't we change its bloodline to our Nine Revolutions Profound Art?"

Everyone trembled. To make this cosmic life form cultivate the Nine Revolutions Profound Art— No! It's to make this cosmic life form *possess* the Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodline, and then cultivate it? They shivered. Was this like piloting a super mecha into battle? Or rather, piloting a cosmic giant into battle?

Indeed, it's about looking at the problem from a different angle. If you don't treat them as universes, then the algae, conchs, fish... in front of us are also species living in the sea. What if we make these "marine animals" evolve the bloodline of the Nine Revolutions Profound Art...?

Mount Akina Speed said, "So, is it hard to make a life form evolve the Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodline?"

"The answer, of course, is very, very difficult!"

"But for us, it's not impossible! We've previously used countless life forms to evolve the Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodline, and even created composite types. Just because this current life form is a bit special, does that mean we can't do it?"

Mount Akina Speed's words completely galvanized everyone. They vaguely felt a surge of excitement. But if the Grand Dao Atlas became the bloodline structure of the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, could living beings still exist in that universe? What would the ecological environment truly become? What would its structure be?

Mount Akina Speed continued, "I won't bother with the deductions; I'll just give you the answer. In the future era, we will use our bloodlines to evolve universes, making them the cosmic dojos of our bloodline!"

"Then, like a cuckoo taking over a magpie's nest, we will seize the universe's will and replace it, becoming great cosmic life giants possessing the Nine Revolutions Profound Art ourselves!"

"What does this situation equate to? We will possess a super transformation giant form; we will become giants! And we will still have the Nine Revolutions Profound Art!"

The more he spoke, the louder and more impassioned his voice became, "In the future, we—or rather, the entire universe—the landscape will still undoubtedly be a battle between life forms, a competition of bloodlines... except these life forms will be universes!"

"And how do we seize control of a universe's will and treat the universe as our own body? It's not impossible! Caroline and the Three Pillar Gods have already achieved this with their own bloodlines!"

"We can go find Caroline and the others, borrow their bloodlines, and then follow this path! We will replace the universe, then use cosmic life to complete its DNA bloodline, transforming it into our own Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodline!"

"We are simply transferring our bloodlines from our current bodies to another body. Our previous efforts won't have been in vain! It's conceivable that in future battles between cosmic giants, we too will utilize the Nine Revolutions Profound Art—this Myriad Worlds life form—to sweep through an entire era!"

Mount Akina Speed's words filled everyone with delight. What would the interior of a universe, evolved into a super bloodline life form of the Nine Revolutions Profound Art, look like? What would the environment of this cosmic life form be like? What would its structure be? They couldn't guess any of this! However, with the Grand Dao Atlas's infinite potential for completion, it was indeed possible to achieve this.

Although Mount Akina Speed said all that, he knew that while their Nine Revolutions Profound Art was incredibly potent, other Sages would sooner or later learn from them and transfer their own racial bloodlines into a universe. Turning a universe into their own bloodline dojo. Then, with all the heaven-defying bloodlines from the nine multiverses transferred into individual universes, battling each other—who would win, and who would lose? It was hard to imagine. But it would undoubtedly be an unprecedented era of prosperity.

"That's the first problem: the inheritance of our bloodlines," Mount Akina Speed said. "The second problem is how to break the opponent's monopoly!"

"Mengmei and I have also discussed this problem and found an answer," Mount Akina Speed stated. "Reproduction! Make universes reproduce!"

Make universes reproduce? What kind of solution was that?

"Currently, universes don't possess reproductive capabilities because their DNA—the Grand Dao Atlas—is incomplete... However, some advanced universes now have fairly complete atlases and have grown to develop intelligence and Heavenly Dao will... So, after developing intelligence, if we continue to complete the Grand Dao Atlas, can we enable universes to reproduce?"

"Remember, the growth of a life form involves developing intelligence, then physical functions maturing, reproducing the next generation, and then aging and dying..."

Everyone was stunned by this imaginative idea. But that wasn't all.

Mount Akina Speed continued, "We don't have to view it just as a universe; we can treat it as a life form... The DNA bloodline sequence of a universe has infinite potential, and we can evolve it... If it can't reproduce, we'll change the evolutionary life structure of the universe, consciously influencing its atlas to give it the characteristic of being able to produce offspring!"

Everyone's minds shook, as if facing an abyss, treading on thin ice. At this moment, they could almost imagine a glimpse of the universe's future! There were infinite possibilities! Because everything was still blurry and needed to be completed and verified!

A universe, possessing the Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodline, could produce offspring... Wouldn't those offspring also have the Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodline? Giving birth to one cosmic life form after another with the Nine Revolutions Profound Art bloodline, eventually forming civilized settlements, even establishing nations... Wouldn't these universes be equivalent to ancient humans? Bloodlines could be inherited, they could reproduce, forming communities! The lifestyle of these universes was already similar to that of ordinary individual life forms!

"They aren't exactly ancient humans, that's for the future! Right now, it's more like a population of conchs, a breeding school of fish... roaming the Chaos Sea."

Mount Akina Speed's elaboration allowed everyone to envision an inevitable future era of grand development. Vast and magnificent, it would undoubtedly be a scene beyond the most incredible myths, impossible to fully describe! The Myriad Worlds! This was the Myriad Worlds!

Mount Akina Speed: "Honestly, before, even if reproduction were possible, newly born small universes couldn't survive because young universes were too fragile to resist cosmic assimilation! But now, with the rules changed, perhaps they can survive!"

Everyone nodded. The conditions for reproduction were now met, and newborn young universes also had an environment in which to live.

Mount Akina Speed: "However, we don't need to panic. Currently, these new currents are still spreading, much like the splitting of the ancient multiverse. It will take a long time to completely permeate every part of the Chaos Sea." After all, the splitting of parallel universes back then also took a long time before the plates completely shifted.

Mount Akina Speed: "But we don't need to panic. We can go to their source region to reproduce, where assimilation is minimal. We can raise our newborn small universes there and then leave... Their place would essentially be a maternity ward!"

A maternity ward? Everyone looked blank. That analogy was very fitting. Was this about freeloading on someone else's hard-earned enlightenment resources, having children, raising them, and then leaving?

The players immediately began to express their opinions:

"Looking at it this way, aren't they still in control of the vital points? Nothing has changed, has it?"

"Are you silly? Of course there's a change."

"Yes! They relied on that source region to attract and assimilate wild universes, potentially monopolizing a hundred thousand out of 120,000 universes! But now it's different, because we can also reproduce!"

"Right, with the ability to reproduce, we can also have a large number of universes. They can only absorb wild universes; although their numbers are also high, they won't be able to monopolize!"

"Besides, this 'maternity ward' is too vast. Hundreds of millions of black holes are spewing outwards; he can't stop us from secretly approaching."

"Why do you guys sound like you're talking about Pokémon? Collecting cosmic 'Pokémon' everywhere?"

Everyone couldn't help but laugh. This time, it was their turn to seize the initiative! So awesome!

Perhaps other Sages also saw this future. They also saw how cosmic reproduction could break the monopoly, and even how the bloodlines of universes could be integrated and improved with their own bloodlines. But was merely seeing it useful? The players were undoubtedly the fastest. Sages had to start from scratch with their deductions, but players possessed mature evolutionary knowledge, allowing them to evolve cosmic bloodlines and reproductive mechanisms the fastest.

There was also a second challenge: finding a way to seize control of a universe's consciousness. Otherwise, you might just be doing all the work for someone else; once the cosmic will becomes powerful, it might not listen to you. And they possessed both conditions!

"Hahahahaha!"

"Awesome!"

"Who else but us will seize the next big opportunity?!"

"Ultimately, we hold the initiative. We were at a disadvantage before only because we weren't fully aware, but now, the second major opportunity belongs to us!"

"Hahahahaha, watch me give birth to ten treasures at once and strive to become the master of the universe!"

Cough, cough, cough. Mount Akina Speed coughed twice, signaling for silence, then added a few points: "In the future, when Sages attempt to seize control of universes, the native universes will likely form their own settlements, becoming hostile towards us... Both sides will form two distinct factions."

Everyone understood this statement. It was estimated that among the 129,600 Myriad Heavens, a portion would consist of the Heavenly Dao wills of native universes, hostile towards the Sages' wills that sought to seize control of universes. The two sides would form two camps.

Hearing this, everyone felt the situation becoming clearer and burst into laughter, "Mount Akina Speed is truly amazing!"

"Yeah, to think he could see this far!"

"No, Mengmei is also amazing! They deduced this together, only able to see it through internal information!"

"Other Sages, however, can't see it at all!"

"We've broken the deadlock, we're the first to do it!"

Facing these endless praises, Mount Akina Speed's expression grew serious:

"Honestly, other Sages can't do this because for them, it's an unprecedented path—the study of life evolution... We, on the other hand, can see and react quickly because we specialize in this field."

"All our previous evolutionary accumulations were laying the groundwork for this moment! Others are frantically busy, everyone is trapped in a predicament, but we have already emerged... Is it because we are powerful? No! It's not. Even the cleverest cook cannot make a meal without rice! This is probably also training prepared for us by the Super Ancient Gods..."

"He had long foreseen that the era of the Myriad Worlds would be the era of life evolution, and he knew that we would face such evolutionary dilemmas, not just now, but many more in the future... Therefore, he created 'Spore Evolution' to temper us to this day."