Chapter 1306: True Era of the Chaotic Sea, Monsters of the Deep Sea

This greatly surprised them.

“The Chaos Sea Universe and the myriad worlds before us… this is not the true future of the universe. Instead, it’s a variable caused by observing the God of Destruction descending into this cosmic timeline. So, is this the normal, unvaried future of the universe?”

They secretly felt a surge of urgency. This glimpse of the future held immense reference value! They exchanged glances and ultimately sighed. The Ancient Gods had truly accomplished an unimaginable, astonishing feat for the future destiny and prospects of their Buddhist and Taoist civilization, enabling them to contend for the grand cosmic trend!

At this moment, watching Nv Yi and Mengmei, the Nine-Headed Ancient Mother also whispered to herself that her Universe Garden lineage needed to be informed. “I am one of the three sent in, and I represent my faction. I must constantly stream live to the Evil God, Shi Ji, the Quantum Grandmaster, and His Majesty Renimansiga, reporting what’s happening here!”

On the other side, even the Phoenix, usually detached, felt waves surge in her heart upon witnessing this scene. “This is the truth of the Great Dao, the grand cosmic trend, the pursuit of countless seekers. I must inform our Elemental Race and the people of the Mother River Civilization so they can follow it closely.”

For a time, the three major powers kept a constant watch on this place.

Under their gaze, and observed by the Heavenly Sound Sect, the Ancient God lineage, and all other civilizations, the era iterated rapidly. In their eyes, the Chaos Sea surprisingly began to teem with life. However, it was a different mode of vibrancy compared to the current universe. Although completely different, it appeared incredibly ordinary to all observers—so ordinary it was unnerving.

“This, surprisingly, is the normal evolution of marine life! It’s like an unremarkable, ordinary planet, an ordinary ocean, nurturing life!”

They felt fear, the same kind of fear as Nv Yi. Because in this situation, nothing was more terrifying than “ordinariness.” It was a strange yet intense familiarity, as if everything was a cycle, a strong sense of destiny within the universe. This feeling, even though the universe was now in its late mature stage, was like returning to the familiar scene of the first life emerging in the universe’s first hundred million years. It was precisely this seemingly mundane sight that brought them a sense of upheaval.

The inevitability of the universe. They whispered to themselves, filled with indescribable shock: Had everything begun anew?

As they watched in stunned silence, time did not stand still; everything developed rapidly. Ten million years passed. The birth of life was inherently a miracle. The substances, ancient artifacts, dust, and fragments in the ocean, stirred by currents, underwent a reorganization of inorganic and organic matter, definitively giving rise to life. Primitive plankton began to appear. Another thirty million years passed. Gradually, plankton evolved, and crude marine organisms, algae, and fish emerged. The Longevity Realm, however, still hadn’t noticed.

“How is this possible?” On the other side, Emperor Qi’s voice also grew hoarse. “If there were no interference from the God of Destruction, would the Chaos Sea clear the heterogeneous substances accumulated within it in this manner?”

“Perhaps, from the beginning, our thinking was misguided; we were confined by our era,” the Three Pillar Gods said with a wry smile. “How could these be ‘waste products’ precipitated in the Chaos Sea? In a sense, they are necessary for perfect development. These so-called Chaos Sea ‘waste products’ were ‘intentionally’ left behind; without them, this new era of the Chaos Sea could not have been born…”

At this moment, they deeply realized: The universe is perfect. Its growth process was too perfect. They had once naively believed that all flaws, certain redundant imperfections, were merely inevitable aspects of an era. The grand cosmic trend necessarily includes growth and specific turning points.

“These creatures are very special,” Caroline also noticed some clues and began to deduce and research. “They originate from the rules of nine universes—in a sense, the mixed rules of the Great Dao blueprints of nine universes, from nine different cosmic realms… This has allowed them to form ‘hybrid’ creatures. They are the perfect ultimate beings! Unlike us, who are crippled and incomplete, unable to easily enter other parallel universes or the Chaos Sea… they can freely enter anywhere and everywhere.”

“Perfect ultimate beings!” Caroline closed her eyes.

Meanwhile, Medusa and Shi Ji, sitting on the sofa, were secretly astonished listening to the Nine-Headed Ancient Mother’s words. This truly was the inevitable development of the era. Had the God of Destruction not intervened, this would have been the destined future. Although it was still unknown how these creatures would develop or their attitude towards “old creatures,” they already represented an irreversible trend. Yes, irreversible.

On the other side, Nv Yi also watched with trepidation, shocked by this. “They are gestating and being born within the Chaos Sea, seemingly still very weak… but they already represent a grand trend. Because the Chaos Sea is so vast, the Saints on land are utterly powerless against them, able only to watch them evolve, reproduce, develop, and reach maturity.”

Cosmic Year 48.1 Billion.

Although they hadn't truly lived through such a long epoch, the last group of Saints of this era, based on the maturity of the Great Dao blueprint and ancient historical records, deduced the lifespan of this developing historical era. At 48.1 billion years, the era ushered in an unprecedented grand trend.

The contemporary Saints from various universes, residing along the coast of the Chaos Sea, felt a profound fear. “The Chaos Sea is becoming clear. This is horrifying.” Almost all Saints chose to reside along the coast, not only to acquire ancient artifacts washed ashore and to establish ports for convenient transit to other universes, but also to spontaneously form a protective belt along the borders of their parallel universes, preventing Saints from other multiverses from illicitly crossing over. But at this moment, the mutation of the Chaos Sea was an unprecedented upheaval for the Saints of that era!

“The universe is subtly changing… What’s happening to the Chaos Sea?” These Saints were perplexed. However, their perplexity only lasted for a few generations before they gradually grew accustomed to it. Later Saints even initially perceived the Chaos Sea as always being so clear, though some did vaguely know of the Chaos Sea’s changes through ancient ruins and records left by previous generations of Saints.

Another tens of millions of years passed. The Saints grew accustomed to the clarity of the Chaos Sea, but gradually began to notice something amiss. They vaguely felt that there were shadows moving within the Chaos Sea, not like the drifting of dead ancient objects, but like living creatures gracefully swimming. This brought renewed unease.

“Shadows have appeared in the Chaos Sea. Is this some kind of ancient creature? Impossible! The Chaos Sea cannot produce living beings! No creature can survive in it…”

Yet, there were ancient Ten-Yuan Saints who witnessed, from beginning to end, how the Chaos Sea completely clarified within a mere hundred million years, with shadows lurking within. They felt fear, but they couldn't know exactly what was happening; after all, they were beings living within that era, inherently limited.

“Even the shallow seas have shadows; they’ve already spread throughout the deep sea.” They began dispatching cosmic ships to cross the Chaos Sea and explore its depths, but these ships mysteriously lost contact, as if dragged to the seabed by unknown creatures. And for several more millennia, the Saints lived in terror. They discovered that their connections with other universes gradually weakened; multidimensional Saints could barely illicitly cross over to achieve Dao or emerge. The path to the multiverse began to sever, entering an era of great depression!

Yes. Unlike another flourishing era of the Chaos Sea where Saints would experience a great surge, here it was the exact opposite: cosmic traversal became even more difficult, plunging into unimaginable depression and fear. “There’s something in the deep sea! Connections to the multiverse are weakening. There’s a great terror in the Chaos Sea; several multiverses are becoming isolated islands.” As these reports spread, the Longevity Dao Palace could no longer stay silent and began to emerge, investigating the Chaos Sea.

And yet, an even more terrifying scene unfolded in the Chaos Sea: strange marine creature corpses began washing ashore, and the coastlines revealed algae, shells, crawling creatures, and ancient organisms...

Cosmic Year 48.2 Billion.

A man from the Longevity Dao Palace, responsible for historical records, looked at the Chaos Sea with a horrified expression, revealing an inexplicable sense of dread, and recorded a shocking historical scene. It was a mural, accompanied by an extremely brief inscription:

They are coming ashore.