War.
Gu Jinlai's thoughts gradually fell back into place.
At this moment, he finally understood what kind of predicament he was in.
It was a war between two universes!
This newborn universe intended to devour that ancient universe, becoming more complete and reaching a more perfect state.
That ancient universe, however, was unwilling to collapse and fade away just like that. It hoped to refine this newborn universe and use it to replenish itself, allowing itself to regain its vitality.
"I was sent into this newborn universe as a 'seed' in the first place so that I could use the characteristics of my higher realm to learn how this world's rules operate and 'assimilate' them—in other words, the Three Thousand Great Daos. It's just like how the Evil Gods had to learn before degrading the Three Thousand Great Daos. In some ways, a war between universes is similar."
Gu Jinlai gazed toward the end of the starry sky.
Over there...
Was where the core of the universe lay.
The universal core was the point where this universe came into contact with that ancient universe.
In the early days of this universe's birth—perhaps tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of years ago—there had been no such things as Immortals or mighty figures.
It was precisely because this newborn universe had begun devouring that ancient universe that the lifeforms within it had flourished, and cultivation systems had bloomed in profusion.
Countless lifeforms had benefited from the changes brought about by the universe's devouring, riding the wind as they rose and embarking on the path of cultivation and evolution.
But to the Three Thousand Dao Ancestors, who embodied the authority of the universe, the ultimate purpose of devouring that ancient universe was to achieve their own advancement—not to nurture cultivators like