Formless Heaven collapsed—
Space in the universe should originally have been empty, containing nothing at all.
Yet at this moment, all matter began to stir.
The Heavenly Demon's wild laughter silently seethed through every breath of qi.
This time, it was no longer the Heavenly Demon that had secretly slipped out before, no longer one that could only invest a tiny fraction of its power.
It was the true, complete Heavenly Demon.
All beings... that was to say, every living creature, every lifeform possessing "emotion" and "higher intelligence"—including highly intelligent AI life, inorganic life, hive minds, and gestalt civilizations, every life capable of thought, from deities down to mortals—
Every one of them felt, at this moment, that their emotions had become far more "abundant."
The universe had always been so vast and magnificent.
Yet many lives could no longer feel joy at those magnificent sights, because they had seen too much and become numb.
We had grown weary of watching the universe produce one magnificent spectacle after another, until we were no longer curious about any wonder at all.
In truth, these cultivators were exhausted beyond measure and no longer held any fantasies.
Over countless hundreds of millions of years, innumerable cultivators had either willingly or unwillingly observed the fates of countless worlds, while also living through their own fates and becoming objects of others' observation.
You watched me, I watched you, and by the end, no one found anything strange anymore.
So many meetings and partings, joys and sorrows, might have seemed novel to the young. But to these immortals, they had repeated themselves too many times to count.
Thus, after living lives of intolerable length, many immortals had even lost interest in pursuing the Dao. They could not be bothered to listen to the universe ramble on