Author: Three Hundred Jin's SmileCategory:Last Updated: September 7, 2020Chapter Word Count: 5508 characters
A day passed.
Under the guidance of Female Yi, time accelerated rapidly. Saints began to attain enlightenment, completing the rules of the era after the Longevity Realm. The Longevity Realm marked a significant turning point in history. However, due to its cataclysmic eruption and the earth-shattering bloodbath, the rules of the Nine-Origin Universe were established too hastily and needed gradual mending and restoration. In other words, the preceding period of only 600 to 700 million years was too short; a longer era was required for Saints to refine the universe through their experiences. This was like a porcelain vase that had emerged as a completely formed rough draft, but now was the time to polish away its imperfections.
Although the speed here was incredibly fast, the Heavenly Sound Dao Sect continued to observe and make corrections at a rate of a hundred years per day.
Whoosh.
Xu Zhi slowly descended, carefully sensing the Grand Dao Map.
Female Yi emerged and respectfully addressed the God of Destruction: "We have proceeded with enlightenment and planning according to the contemporary Grand Dao Map you provided.... Although we don't know the specific sequence or the order of the Grand Dao Map's divisions, we simply needed to attain enlightenment based on it."
The God of Destruction nodded, observing that the map now resembled the current universe, and spoke with a cold, serene voice, "You've done very well. Sixty percent of the Grand Dao seats are already filled."
This situation mirrored the current state of the greater universe outside.
"However, nothing significant has happened in the entire universe yet...," Female Yi observed the nine chaotic continents and the cosmic Chaos Sea from the chaotic sky, noting that everything remained calm.
"Continue to let people attain enlightenment," Xu Zhi said.
"But, the map you provided has been fully realized. What about the future map...?" Female Yi hesitated. How could he have a map of the future? Xu Zhi wasn't truly from the future.
"At this stage, a map is no longer needed...," the God of Destruction said indifferently. "Just continue to complete it based on the remaining incomplete patterns." The remaining parts were minor details; no complex thought was required. It was like looking at a large tree and simply filling in any missing branches. The remaining rules were inconsequential.
"Yes," Female Yi nodded.
Soon, under Xu Zhi's guidance, the universe's rules were completed to the seventh layer.
Still, nothing happened.
Xu Zhi frowned, thinking, "Our current universe is at the sixth layer. The seventh layer would be billions of years in the future, at least. Has nothing happened in the Chaos Sea by then?" Indeed, he realized he was not an inevitable historical pattern.
Female Yi also expressed some doubts.
Xu Zhi remained calm. "Continue to complete it. Modifying the rules doesn't necessarily mean things will unfold as I saw them in the future. My future might not occur, but we should continue with the deductions."
Female Yi continued to have beings attain enlightenment, completing the universe's rules. Throughout this process, the Longevity Dao Palace remained dormant, never awakening. The Saints who had appeared throughout history to investigate, finding everything orderly and without incident, continued their slumber, continuing their covert passage.
The Grand Dao continued to be perfected. Even when the universe's rules progressed to the eighth layer, everything still seemed calm. Even Xu Zhi began to feel suspicious. "The Grand Dao's rules are almost completely perfected... heading towards a truly mature era, soon entering the Age of Dharma Decline. At that point, Saints will no longer exist, making enlightenment impossible... Could it be that the era of Saint contention in the Chaos Sea never actually happened?"
"Is the universe destined to reach its final maturity in an incomplete state, with the Chaos Sea full of cosmic debris? The Grand Dao completed, the tenth-tier seats closed?" Xu Zhi found this thought somewhat absurd!
But soon, his brow twitched slightly, and he suddenly looked towards the Chaos Sea, discovering that it had undergone a subtle, imperceptible change. It had become clear. The previously murky and chaotic waters had extremely low visibility, appearing as a thick, hazy grey, like a rain-stirred lake, full of silt. But now, it was becoming clear.
"The Chaos Sea clearly has no rules being perfected for it, yet it's becoming clear..." Xu Zhi felt this was a unique change.
Female Yi quickly noticed this peculiarity, her face filled with surprise, and then began to deduce, "Incredible! Incredible! The water is becoming clear... This must mean the rules of the nine cosmic continents are being fully perfected!"
"Oh?" Xu Zhi's tone was faint.
"Is this the future of the universe, God of Destruction, that you saw?" Female Yi found it incredibly exciting; the universe was so profound, nature so wondrous. "I see it! So that's it! The previous murkiness of the Chaos Sea was due to the incomplete rules and disordered laws of the nine cosmic continents, and the substances they ejected... An ocean where the laws of nine universes intertwine would naturally be turbid, chaotic, and violent!"
"But now, it's completely different!" Female Yi exclaimed, "As the universe matures, becoming almost perfectly complete, the waters ejected by the black holes of the nine cosmic continents naturally become orderly. The nine sets of rules within the Chaos Sea have become regular and perfected, and the Chaos Sea is no longer so chaotic; it has become clear!"
Xu Zhi quietly watched the Chaos Sea, now clear and deep blue, as if it had truly transformed into a vast ocean. It had become orderly and well-regulated... Even the ocean currents became rhythmic, as if it truly were a beautiful sea.
Of course, with this vast ocean's clarity, one could increasingly see the debris, ancient artifacts, and refuse floating within it, having accumulated over countless years into a colossal waste pool.
Female Yi attempted to touch the water, but quickly recoiled, murmuring with a frown, "We still can't touch it. Even Saints who have attained enlightenment in all nine universes simultaneously still cannot touch the Chaos Sea water. Although it has become more orderly, it's only relatively so... The intertwining rules of the nine universes still prevent us from making contact."
Female Yi was very excited, walking and researching along the 'shore'. Finally, she couldn't help but look at the God of Destruction and ask, "With the water changing like this, what will truly happen in the future of the universe?"
Xu Zhi was silent for a moment. He already sensed something terrifying incubating within the water.
"Is this the true prevailing trend?" Xu Zhi closed his eyes, feeling a hint of fear.
Whoosh.
Xu Zhi extended his hand, causing a protective barrier to appear. Without explaining, he slowly led Female Yi into the Chaos Sea, eventually arriving at a certain corner.
"What will happen in the future, you should have figured out long ago," the God of Destruction said, opening his eyes faintly.
"We... should have known?" Female Yi pondered. Following the God of Destruction, she slowly entered the now clear Chaos Sea, surrounded by deep, dark blue, with countless ancient artifacts floating around.
"First, the Chaos Sea is a sea. Do you know what an ocean is? What is the most important significance of an ocean?" The God of Destruction turned and looked at Female Yi with utmost calmness.
The important significance of an ocean.... Instantly, goosebumps covered Female Yi's body. As the oldest Saint to have attained enlightenment in the rules of life, she naturally knew with absolute clarity: the ocean is the origin of all life, the source of life, the mother of life. The most important meaning of the ocean is to foster life.
This was one of the universe's most crucial rules.
"Then... then!?" Just as she stood in shock, the God of Destruction had already led her to an ocean current in the deep Chaos Sea. Here was a deep blue vortex. Azure currents slowly swirled within it.
Almost in the very next second, Female Yi suddenly witnessed a scene she would never forget. The differing rules of life from the nine universes were slowly merging here, creating a miraculous chemical reaction. Spores of life... were gradually incubating within the Chaos Sea.
"The origin of life!"
"These are the life rules of the nine universes that I created back then, and which have since changed, now autonomously..." At this moment, Female Yi only vaguely felt an unnamed terror.
She trembled all over, looking at the God of Destruction beside her, whose expression was cold and majestic.
"This is the grand trend; I should have realized it... But no one could have, because this is the future." Female Yi felt an overwhelming sense of destiny, as if an inevitable era in the Chaos Sea, a colossal trend ordained by fate, was quietly drawing its final curtain beneath the Chaos Sea.
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