The White Nether Ruler stopped, seeming to go blank for a moment. Only after a while did he slowly say, "Just now, a majestic voice rang out in my mind. It told us to choose our hostile universe.
"Among the hostile universes, I chose the 2976th Universe."
As he spoke, he paused slightly before continuing, "Of our two universes, only the victorious one can survive.
"And the condition for victory is to destroy the other side's Cosmos Ruler's Great Thousand World.
"The victorious side can live, while on the losing side, every cultivator will die to the last.
"The current catastrophe is far crueler than before. I think it isn't just our universe facing this. All the remaining universes should have to choose opponents.
"All universes will survive if they win, and after failure, all the cultivators of that universe will die.
"In this way, the cultivators of half the universes will die outright.
"Also, I estimate our previous guess wasn't wrong.
"This time, it should be based on the number of cultivators left in the Land of Ten Thousand Deaths.
"The more cultivators remained, the earlier that universe's turn to choose an opponent.
"And without question, every universe will choose a universe further down the ranking.
"In fact, when we were choosing, there were even later-ranked universes, for example, the 2999th Universe was available.
"However, universes with special numbers like that feel rather unusual, so I didn't choose that universe. Instead, I chose the 2976th Universe."
"That should be it." Song Zhong nodded lightly and said, "If we can avoid choosing those universes with special numbers, then we shouldn't choose them.
"Also, how will the war between us and the other universe proceed?
"How do we get to the other universe? When does the battle begin?"
"In one hundred