"How had this person become more and more dazed?" Xu Zhi sipped tea beside Zhi Ji, utterly speechless.
Zhi Ji, however, was shocked to the extreme.
Even if they could live into the distant future, ride the Eternal Life Ship, and reach the Era of Dharma Decline, they would still face an almost hopeless and thorny problem: the Twilight of the Saints!
It was not only the saints of the entire Nine Yuan Universe who would face the Twilight of the Gods. Even ancient beings like them could not escape it!
What was the Twilight of the Saints?
When the universe's final imperfect rule was completely filled in, it meant the universe had become utterly flawless and complete. It would no longer need saints to supplement its Dao rules, and the gate of Tenth-Order saints would close completely.
Tenth-Order saints would also fall. Once the order of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth became complete, they would directly undergo Dimensional Reduction into Ninth-Order Dao Attainers.
At that time, the highest power in the universe would be the Ninth-Order.
But the Ninth-Order was only a beginning! Ninth-Order beings would rapidly fall to the Eighth-Order as well!
Because once the Great Dao was complete, a Ninth-Order Dao Attainer could no longer distort the universe's rules. Only incompleteness and loopholes allowed such distortion.
It was a very simple principle.
"Only when this perfect vase has flaws and gaps can one distort the universe's rules through those cracks," Zhi Ji said softly. "Then could we deliberately leave behind the final sliver of a gap, so that the last saint does not attain the Dao? That is impossible too!"
Would someone refrain from attaining the Dao just because you told them not to?
Why would they care if a flood came afterward?
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