"If fate allows, farewell."
While Yuan remained baffled, speculating about Gu Shaoshang's origins and purpose, Gu Shaoshang, having stepped out of that world, merely smiled.
His entire body turned into a streak of light, flashing through the endless Infinite Cosmic Sea, traveling through unforeseeable places. Gradually, he leaped free of time and space and entered the boundless Endless Chaos of the Journey to the West Great Universe.
The Chaos Sea was boundlessly vast. Within it, great universes were as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. At every moment, countless great universes were born and perished. Even Great Luo-level beings did not know just how immense it truly was.
Nor did they know how many different worlds lay within it.
Worlds did not exist eternally. They too had lifespans, and when their time ran out, they would ultimately fall into silence and extinction.
Only a very small number of great universes, those ranked at or even beyond seven stars, could transcend the limits of lifespan and remain indestructible so long as no external force affected them.
Of course, as they regulated themselves, the beings within them would undergo one great tribulation after another.
Some called them Epochal Great Tribulations, some called them World-Ending Great Tribulations, and some called them the Twilight of the Gods.
Of all beings existing within these great universes, only those who achieved Great Luo themselves or became followers of Great Luo beings could avoid perishing.
To even stronger beings, however, these were merely units for measuring time.
They called them tribulations, or Immeasurable Tribulations.
Postnatal beings measured time in years, Great Luo measured time in chaos cycles, while mighty figures of the Hunyuan level used tribulations as their unit of measure.
Five billion six hundred million years made one chaos cycle, and one hundred twenty-nine