Chapter 1305: Focus on Fate

Woman B clenched her hands, watching the changes in the primordial sea. An inexpressible fear surged in her heart, a strong, primal fear rooted in biological instincts and bloodline.

The Grand Trend.

The vastness of nature, the grand trend of cosmic change. What a captivating and boundless domain. Before the universe's grand trend, any individual, minuscule life is pathetic. They live within their era like tiny floating stink bugs or fungi in nature, as insignificant as a worm on a giant tree. The tree flourishes and grows, while they merely come and go, replaced by others.

"How pathetic we are," Woman B suddenly said, looking down at the mysterious creatures she could barely describe. The spores were coalescing, and she felt a deep, inherent fear emanating from them, along with a sharp, piercing sense of crisis. "The so-called 'man conquers nature' or 'defying the heavens' are laughable concepts... It's hard for us to escape the grand trend of destiny."

"What exactly are they? Will they destroy us?" Woman B's voice was soft and tinged with bitterness. "Will we be eliminated? Will we die? Because the Bloodline Dao-Proving Gate is closed... our bloodline system is about to be phased out. We've entered an age of declining magic, as after we completed the universe using our bloodline rules for cultivation, we became completely useless... But perhaps... this isn't truly the end of all magic, but just the end of *our kind* of magic?"

Xu Zhi remained silent. The power of nature was too vast. The so-called "man conquers nature"? Resisting nature? Simply ridiculous. Even the so-called Sages were merely ants of their era, living at the pinnacle of their human societies. In every stage, humanity has always been weak. Whether it was the primitive city-state era of slash-and-burn farming, Sumerian mythology, or technological civilization, the medieval cultural renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, or even Earth's developed present day, humanity faced everything in nature with a profound sense of powerlessness. Any random planet in the universe is at least billions of years old. Yet, a Tenth-Stage Sage's lifespan is only around a hundred million years, merely a fraction of a planet's age.

"This is the grand trend of destiny," the God of Destruction said softly, observing the spores nurtured by the primordial ocean before him. "It's an inevitable law of cosmic growth, a dramatic change in the era of the primordial sea... Do you understand now?"

"I understand," Woman B replied, her voice now completely heavy.

"Perhaps it can be summarized in one sentence: When the Cosmic Grand Dao Map is fully completed, approaching perfection and reaching about eighty percent completion, the primordial sea also becomes orderly due to the completion of these laws... Its currents, cycles, and regularity will transform it almost entirely into an ocean, causing life to be born within the primordial sea." This seemingly brief sentence contained an earth-shattering secret!

Woman B couldn't help but look at the God of Destruction, bowing deeply, completely convinced. "This is a law that was entirely unexpected yet almost fated to be... Had you not personally deduced the future of the universe and described this moment to us, we would never have grasped its profound impact."

The God of Destruction nodded, his voice indifferent, and chuckled, "The future of the universe is naturally known to me, for I come from the future. But now, I am allowing you to witness everything that is about to happen in the future firsthand!"

"So that's how it is?" Woman B stared intently at the creatures, very surprised.

In reality, Xu Zhi also felt his heart pound with apprehension. It was fortunate he had made his deductions; otherwise... he might have been completely unprepared. Is this, perhaps, the grand trend of the primordial sea within the universe? He had indeed usurped the magpie's nest; the true grand trend of the primordial sea should have appeared much later! Yet, he had appeared early, manipulating the primordial sea, deciding on a "rural encirclement of the cities" strategy, stealing material from the primordial sea, which coincidentally aligned with the core idea... This led the ancient Sages of the Longevity Dao Palace to believe that the grand trend had already arrived. "They've deduced that the grand trend is in the primordial sea, but they don't know... that it's me secretly, putting a hat on the wrong head... the true grand trend is still to come." Xu Zhi looked towards the legitimate entities, the mysterious creatures incubating within the primordial sea.

Like Woman B, he also felt a certain inexplicable, unknown fear. It was as if a lower life form had seen a higher one, as if a lowly insect had witnessed the birth of humanity... It was a suppression of bloodline, no... it was a life form transcending bloodline structures! His most fundamental instincts, written into his very genes, were howling, afraid, trembling, with an overwhelming impulse to destroy the other party at all costs! And these were special creatures that evolved naturally from the universe... Life naturally generated by the universe, akin to the natural workings of the universe, was something he simply could not control.

"You said that in the future, what will they become? What exactly are they?" Woman B asked.

"What happens in the future is not convenient for me to tell you; you can witness it yourselves," the God of Destruction replied, hands clasped behind his back, a look of profound weariness from seeing into the future on his face, exuding an unfathomable divine and demonic aura. "Also, it's time for the disciples of the Heavenly Sound Dao Sect to see this era and begin their research."

"Yes," Woman B nodded.

Everyone in the Heavenly Sound Sect knew there was an ongoing operation. A certain plan was being implemented, but only those directly involved knew its specifics; even figures like Mother Earth Goddess were unaware. They were still deducing and updating species in the "Cosmic Laboratory." Woman B was fully in charge of this matter. As Woman B had already "decayed" and lost the ability to forge new Grand Daos, having contributed her life's worth of established life rules, she had entrusted the other matters to the younger generation, with Moe Girl presiding. She, in turn, came here to oversee what she could.

*Sound of movement* Instantly, the disciples of the Heavenly Sound Dao Sect emerged. They almost never cultivated other rules, focusing solely on studying the Grand Dao Map and the structure of the universe. Observing this new cosmic progression, they couldn't help but be shocked and began their research.

"Is this the future, ten billion years from now?"

"The Grand Dao Map is actually nearing completion! If it were a piece of music, it's heading towards its final movement, completely perfected!"

"Huh? What's this at the bottom of the ocean?"

"What is this? Life spores? The primordial sea has actually become orderly and started incubating life? This is indeed some kind of inevitability, the next cosmic era?"

"The next cosmic era has already appeared. Following this reasoning, the beings in the Longevity Realm should have discovered the changes and should be emerging... As the victors of yesteryear, they're waiting to directly 'smuggle' themselves into the distant future, to the next grand trend of the Longevity Realm! To fight another battle in the future at their peak, heading towards the ultimate gate!"

"Impossible!"

"They won't emerge that quickly, because they can't possibly discover it so fast."

"Life is incubating in the deep parts of the ocean, but they have too many methods to constantly monitor the ocean. One must remember that the primordial sea's vastness is comparable to a multiverse; these scattered points would be absolutely imperceptible to them!"

"They will only detect it once this era is fully incubated and develops to a certain extent."

Woman B watched this scene and sighed softly, "We deduce the future of the universe simply to change the future, and to make this universe real. If this universe cannot become real, we will deduce another one, cycling like this until we figure out a way to truly become a complete grand universe, allowing the God of Destruction to seize the authority of the grand universe... to make us real."

"Yes, it's terrifying; we must keep deducing!" Moe Girl said softly, but her eyes flickered subtly.

Nearby, Nine-Headed Ancient Mother and Phoenix, whose bodies in this parallel universe had already joined the Heavenly Sound Sect and focused on research... Woman B naturally sensed the hidden identities of the two and Moe Girl, suspecting them to be "real beings" from the true grand universe. However, they belonged to the God of Destruction's faction. At this moment, the three of them secretly exchanged glances, revealing immense shock.

"This is it... our universe is in the present, but now, we are seeing the next grand trend of the universe in the future!"

Although they had previously been deeply shocked by the historical truths they uncovered, that shock hadn't reached its limit, because those events were in the past for them, like archaeology or experiencing history. But now, they were living in the current universe while witnessing the future cosmic grand trend... This firsthand experience was enough to make their skin crawl and fill them with immense excitement. Nothing was more thrilling than knowing the future! Moe Girl also began to act covertly. "I must simultaneously notify members from two sides: those from my Earth, and also the Ultra-Ancient Gods, Caroline, the Three Pillar Gods, and... Emperor!"

"We need to report the current universe and its future evolution to them in real time. Their insights are not shallow! This is too important for us; it's a crucial means to utterly defeat those 'country bumpkins'!"

*Sound of activity* On the various large ships in the primordial sea, Emperor Qi, Caroline, and others were busy dealing with the Sages who had submitted from their era, simultaneously managing the nascent universe, gathering a faction no weaker than Gu You's, and also preparing to depart for the God of Destruction's potential arrival destination... At this moment, they received the news.

"The future... of our universe?"