Hearing Nightingale Saint's explanation from within the darkness, Luo Zheng was finally able to connect all the clues from beginning to end.
From the moment he obtained the first chapter of the Supreme Forging Method to when he cultivated the Chaos Secret Technique, all the motives behind it had surfaced...
Gu Bei—the master of the immortal abode and Luo Zheng's teacher—had not thought of the Chaos Secret Technique by chance. According to their deductions, higher-level lifeforms and civilizations existed in this world. It was just that such lifeforms were impossible to fathom; they could not even recognize their forms.
After Luo Xiao was sentenced to death by the Hall of Saints, he fell into a state of half-death...
Among the Saints, there was a saying that as long as the cosmos endured, Saints would never die. To some extent, that was indeed correct.
However, a cosmos was not a world isolated from everything else. No matter how exquisitely and perfectly a cosmos was constructed, its true essence would constantly leak away. Without a Saint to replenish that true essence, the cosmos would eventually wither and be depleted.
Yet North Saint Gu Bei, the wisest of the three, had helped Luo Xiao think of a way to let Luo Xiao's Great Yanyu Cosmos exist forever!
That was the Thirty-Six-Billion-Era Tribulation!
In other cosmoses, there was no concept of thirty-six billion years constituting one evolution era. Likewise, there was no great extinction occurring once every thirty-six billion years!
After a Saint constructed a cosmos, the entire cosmos would become quite stable. As long as it was maintained regularly and breathed in and out true essence, it could keep operating.
But in Luo Xiao's condition, this was impossible. Thus, following Gu Bei's idea, he arranged the Thirty-Six-Billion-Era Tribulation... Every thirty-six billion years, the