Chapter 1771 — Supreme Desolation
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In the final Dao-words of the Eldest Young Master Taishang, a vision unfolded of the ultimate void expanding without limit.
The myriad heavens and countless worlds, the Ancestral Court, the Four Extremes Heaven, the Mystic Capital and the Dark Capital—all of them expanded along with the infinite expansion of the ultimate void, until at last everything was flattened, voided, transformed into a membrane of emptiness possessing neither thickness nor mass.
All matter would decompose endlessly with the infinite unfolding of the void; even the tiniest particles would shatter, and after eight hundred billion years be broken down to the level of Grand Primordium runes.
The Grand Primordium rune was already the smallest structure of the Dao. After eight hundred billion years, even the Grand Primordium runes would shatter with the expansion of the void. With the shattering of the Grand Primordium, all great Daos would cease to exist, and every Dao-art and divine power would be reduced to nothingness!
By then, any who had attained the Dao—their Great Canopy Heavens too would expand infinitely and collapse into ruin; their Dao-trees, Dao-flowers, and Dao-fruits would all become void, never to exist again!
The scene depicted by the Eldest Young Master Taishang was the cold silence that would follow the infinite expansion of the ultimate void.
The myriad heavens and countless worlds, the Ancestral Court, the Four Extremes Heaven, the Mystic Capital and the Dark Capital, all life, all matter—all would become adornments upon that incomparably vast membrane of emptiness, invisible and intangible.
No great Dao would have any place to abide.
Even the World Tree would be voided along with it, endlessly unfolding into the void, ultimately transforming into a massless membrane of emptiness.
All energy in the universe would be extinguished, all mass would vanish.
In the end, even the Great Abyss of the Returned Void would exhaust all its energy, evaporate completely, and cease to exist!
Ultimate desolation.
Shen Mu sat quietly there, not moving in the slightest for a very long time.
The results, deduced by the master of the Miluo Palace and revealed to him by the Eldest Young Master Taishang, very likely would come to pass—one could even say they were certain to come to pass!
Because when Shen Mu had first arrived at the ultimate void, he had discovered that it was constantly expanding and growing on its own!
Moreover, even without entering the ultimate void, one could observe this expansion from the trajectory of history.
In the Primordial Era, the universe underwent the transformations of the Five Primal States, evolving the Ancestral Court and giving rise to the Creator, who dwelt within the Ancestral Court. At that time, whether the myriad heavens and countless worlds or the Four Extremes Heaven, all were very close to the Ancestral Court—the Four Extremes Heaven had even been, in the beginning, four holy lands within the Ancestral Court itself!
In those days, "one could pluck the stars by hand" was no idle jest.
As time passed and the ultimate void expanded, the Four Extremes Heaven gradually drifted away from the Ancestral Court. More and more stars appeared in the sky, the universe grew ever larger, the Mystic Capital expanded without cease, and the cosmos continued to grow.
By the early years of the Dragon Han Era, the territory of the universe was already immeasurably larger than it had been in the Primordial Era!
If one took the Four Extremes Heaven and the Ancestral Court as observation points, one would find that the space between them was still continuously expanding!
The root cause of all this was the ceaseless growth of the ultimate void.
The ultimate void drove the unfolding of layer upon layer of void, and these layers of void in turn drove the continuous unfolding of the entire universe, ultimately causing the spaces between heaven and heaven to stretch endlessly, and the stars to drift ever farther from one another.