You casually grabbed a few Sixth Realm cultivators from the battlefield and learned that roughly several billion years ago, the expansion of this universe had begun to slow, clearly taking on the appearance of frail old age. Until three hundred million years ago, its expansion speed had fallen below the speed of light.
Had those True Immortals begun preparing to flee at that time, they could have spent a hundred million years passing through the universe membrane, then emerged safe and sound. They would not have been as anxious and helpless as they were today.
But clearly, they had been unwilling to waste such a long stretch of time merely traveling and fleeing. So they chose to gamble, betting that this universe would not encounter any problems.
Now they had lost the wager, and thus began paying the price for their failure.
"...I'm the most wronged one here. I ran in the wrong direction!"
Though you had originally intended to enter the universe, your route had veered off, causing you to travel a great deal farther!
If your route had not gone crooked from the start and you had reached the universe sooner, then you would have had ample time to cultivate into an immortal during the remaining several hundred million years, then comprehend the Dao all the way and advance by leaps and bounds!
But now you were stuck in the final ten million years. In another ten million years... more precisely, nine million one hundred thousand years, this universe would collapse into the tiniest origin point, bringing destruction that would end everything!
"Still, I should be thankful that I didn't stray too outrageously far."
"If the direction I had traveled had truly been toward the outside of the universe, then I simply would not have had enough time