The depths of the universe were utterly black.
There was not a glimmer of light, nor any visible matter—deadly still, bone-chilling, empty.
Qin Heng and the others had teleported directly from the Ten Emperors Hall to the border between the Old Universe and the God Nation Universe. This place belonged neither to the Nine Great God Kingdoms nor to the Old Universe; it was merely the dividing line between two different eras.
Meng Xing said, "The universe's evolution is divided into eras by the passage of time. Each era lasts roughly 150,000 epochs. The Old Universe encompassed two developmental eras and gave birth to more than thirty True Gods. Our Nine Great God Kingdoms currently share one era, and we are still in the middle stage of this Cosmic Era. There are still more than fifty thousand epochs before the era reaches its end."
Qin Heng had heard this before.
A Cosmic Era lasted around 170 billion years. During the initial several billion years, virtually no life was born; it was a stage of starry-sky evolution. Galaxies and stretches of world-soil slowly took shape as time passed. Only upon entering the middle stage would the myriad races rapidly multiply, giving rise to existences at the levels of Star Lords, Eternals, and Supremes.
By the end of an era, the universe's fortune would fall into exhaustion, and the starry sky of that era would take its final shape, no longer expanding. The living beings of that era, as well as those born afterward, would be unable to touch upon the realm of True Gods, stopping at the peak of the Saint Emperor realm.
Living beings from different Cosmic Eras possessed an instinctive resistance toward one another. They simply could not stand the sight of each other, and whenever they met, they