The New Century had fully begun.
The Nine Multiverses gradually brimmed with life.
In just a few short years, the lush vitality of the coast began spreading into the barren, deathly silent inland universes, expanding without cease.
Birds, beasts, mountains, basins, rivers.
Everything formed an incomparably magnificent world, flourishing with life.
Viewed from the sky, the nine orderly desert continents had begun to spread threads of green from their edges, like an enormous emerald planet evolving at tremendous speed.
"The vast universe cracked into nine, yet now it resembles a single planet!"
Saints marveled at it. This was a flourishing golden age unlike anything before, something that had once been unimaginable.
"Saints are emerging one after another. Every day, several Saints attain the Dao, shaking heaven and earth. In this age, Multivariate Saints have practically become commonplace!" Some young Saints were equally high-spirited. In the old days, within that desolate, lifeless Chaos Heaven, there had not even been many Saints. They would never have had any chance of attaining the Dao.
A great number of Saints were attaining the Dao, and Chaos Heaven was completely filled with vitality.
Even within the universes, due to a shortage of manpower to develop and manage territory, many Saints descended directly and brought back vast numbers of laborers to build up the land.
First Universe.
Before an ethereal palace at the Ascension Pool.
Splash, splash.
Tenth-Order Saints ascending from the lower realms began arriving upon this land.
"Is this... beyond the universe?"
"Where is this? We only just broke through to the Tenth-Order."
"According to explorations of ancient ruins, once a Tenth-Order civilization appears, it should be completely destroyed. There ought to be a Tenth-Order Black Hand hunting down and slaughtering newly born beings like us. Why is this happening now?"
After ascending, many