Only upon becoming eternal did one learn just how deep the waters of this Void truly ran.
Existences at the level of High Myth and above could vaguely sense the predicament facing this Void. The Sea of Nothingness, where nothing existed at all, enveloped their Void. They were like an isolated island amid a boundless ocean, liable to be swallowed by the tidal surge at any moment.
...Especially after they discovered that the nothingness was gradually devouring their Void.
Although the rate of devouring was slow—perhaps only a few hundred kilometers every few centuries or millennia—the devouring itself was still happening.
Given enough time, no one knew what the future would become.
In fact, as early as the era of the World Guardians, their powerful worlds had joined forces to explore beyond the Void. Yet in the end, those explorations had come to nothing.
—Within nothingness, nothing existed.
There was no time, no space, no matter, no energy... Once one lost their direction in nothingness, even a Myth might not be able to find the way back.
They had conducted experiments. A Myth who had completed the construction of his Mythical Body could only endure two hundred years within nothingness before he had no choice but to return because his body had become void.
...And constructing a Mythical Body was the minimum requirement for entering nothingness.
Even Myths were like this, let alone anyone else.
After realizing this, these Eternals had all become rather disheartened. One Immortal Venerable from the Immortal Realm had refused to accept it and ventured alone into the depths of nothingness in search of a path... Yet even now, more than a hundred thousand years later, he still had not returned from nothingness.
Even as Eternals, the highest combat power, they still felt powerless before the