Chapter 1868 — The One Who Shepherds the Gods
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 3 of 7
Gradually, for billions of years, no new Dao Achievers appeared in the universe.
At the two-hundred-billion-year mark, Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua sought out Young Master Wuji, Taishang, and Taiyi to discuss the universe's future. They persuaded the three to jointly seek out the Elder Without Bounds, and at last came with him to Jade Capital.
The titans of the Seventeenth Epoch finally sat down together to deliberate on how to counter the void's expansion.
"Only by casting aside our prejudices, by imprinting the Dao Achievers' Great Luotians into the Ultimate Void, can we fix the void and halt its expansion!"
The Elder Without Bounds declared: "The Ancestral Court's Dao Realm system is also a Dao Realm system. Jingping's Dao Achievers attain the Dao within—this can be changed to attaining the Dao without, imprinting their Great Luotians into the Ultimate Void. And Young Master Wuji's Way of Guixu can devour the Ultimate Void. With myself and Miro Palace's Dao Achievers added, we can surely halt this expansion."
The titans of the Seventeenth Epoch finally joined hands—the first Miro Palace Alliance in history.
One after another, Great Luotians soared into the sky, imprinting themselves into the universe's Ultimate Void. The mightiest beings of the Seventeenth Epoch attempted to forestall the Great Silence. This was the first attempt.
Yet the Ultimate Void's evolution did not stop expanding as they had predicted, nor was it crushed into chaos by the Dao Achievers.
The void's power pressed on. The Ultimate Void merged with the other thirty-five layers of void. The Great Luotians of tens of thousands of Dao Achievers could not crush the Ultimate Void—indeed, even their Great Luotians were torn, expanding outward with the void's expansion!
At the second Miro Palace Alliance, Young Master Wuji spoke: "Cultivating the Way of Guixu can restrain the void. Only thus can we devour the expanding void and bring its expansion to a halt."
She held nothing back, transmitting her Way of Guixu to all.
The Dao Achievers' second attempt began. Yet when Great Abysses of Guixu appeared in the void, attempting to devour it, those Abysses evaporated and decomposed of themselves.
Seventy billion years later, the second attempt was declared a failure.
At the third Miro Palace Alliance, Lan Yutian spoke: "Jingping attains the Dao within, the cosmos hidden inside. This can prevent voidification."
Yet by now the Seventeenth Epoch's universe had reached the three-hundred-billion-year mark. The spiritual energy between heaven and earth had grown incomparably thin. Not to mention Dao Achievers—even new deities grew fewer and fewer. Divine ability users became the strongest power in the mortal world.
No new Dao Achievers.
After the third Miro Palace Alliance, wars over holy lands erupted once more. At last, the War of Holy Lands ended.
What ended the War of Holy Lands was not the reason of the various titans, but the universe's sheer breadth.
An expanding universe made even waging war impossibly difficult.
The Spirit Energy Teleportation Bridge—that innovation which had once catalyzed Jingping's reforms into qualitative change—became useless too. As the most recent Spirit Energy Teleportation Bridge between two great Heavens was severed, journeying to other Heavens became a vain hope.
The connections between the great Heavens gradually severed.
Despair spread through all the Heavens.
Just then, the Thief Sage sought out Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua and said: "After I was rescued, I once stole many treasures from the Elder Without Bounds and Miro Palace, hiding them in the chaotic space of Chaos. These treasures may emit spiritual energy and power, delaying the Great Silence for a time."
Xu Shenghua shook his head. "No matter how many treasures, they only delay the inevitable briefly."
"What if they are Chaos treasures?"