Cosmic Sea

Biodata

Nature and Access

• The Cosmic Sea lies beyond the Primordial Universe’s membrane and can be reached through fissures around the Toia Black Hole; wormhole clusters can shorten travel, but entering the black hole destroys a clone. 211
• Its ambient pressure is lethal to ordinary Cosmic Sages and can leave Cosmic Overlords unable to move. Chen Hao considers Lord-of-the-Universe-level power the minimum for safely entering. 211
• Chaotic currents pose an additional threat: before reaching Cosmic Sage level, Luo Feng’s Mo Sha Tribe clone would have been annihilated outside the Primordial Universe. 211
• Navigation depends heavily on detailed maps. The Ancestral God Sect’s map and a secret entry route were accumulated through countless cycles and are not to be shared with the human leadership. 163
• Unknown opponents are generally avoided rather than challenged; even powerful beings hesitate to interfere without knowing another traveler’s background or methods. 173

Rules and Restrictions

• The Cosmic Sea’s rule examines beings leaving a small universe to determine whether they remain lifeforms of the Cosmic Sea. 366
• The Supreme Rule does not directly destroy non-lifeforms; enforcement is delegated to the Primordial Universe’s will. 366
• Chen Hao’s Divine Power avatars must remain inside his small universe after he transcends reincarnation, or the Primordial Universe’s will may erase them. His Treefolk avatars receive different treatment. 366
• Powerful returnees from beyond reincarnation are prevented from freely treating the Cosmic Sea as their “backyard”; Chen Hao attributes this restriction to the Supreme. 245

Known Regions and Structures

Ancient History

The Cosmic Vessel originated as a Saint-level mechanical treasure of the Wu Kingdom. During Wu’s downfall, the kingdom’s Grand General led forces aboard it into the Cosmic Sea, where they were attacked by Saint-level enemies. The vessel was damaged, Wu’s expeditionary force was annihilated, and the hostile alien beasts were later exterminated or suppressed by the Primordial Cosmic Will. 394

The Wu Kingdom’s destruction scattered its legacies throughout the Cosmic Sea. The Vessel’s ruins, its Black-Patterned Stone Pillars, and the inheritance routes associated with its crew remained major objectives for later explorers. 173 394

Role in the Story

• Chen Hao obtains the Ancestral God Sect’s secret map and sends his Void and Beast-God clones into the Cosmic Sea with premium supreme treasures, seeking inheritances and will-training sites. 163
• Chen Hao’s Beast-God avatar reaches the Cosmic Vessel after more than a century of travel through wormholes, ruins, and the Sea’s outer regions. 173
• The Black-Patterned Stone Pillar space becomes a central base for Chen Hao’s avatars, supporting time-accelerated cultivation, divine-power conversion, gene research, and secret-technique study. 174 192 261
• Chen Hao’s suppression of the Rampant Demon God in the Black-Patterned Pillar space makes the Sea’s strongest beings wary of provoking him. 254
• The Jin World’s arrival transforms the Cosmic Sea’s political and military balance, as major factions seek its treasures and prepare for the Boundary Beast threat. 254 258 313
• Boundary Beasts repeatedly threaten to consume small-universe origins across the Cosmic Sea. Although its factions fear an incoming Beast Realm army, Chen Hao has already quietly prevented the Beast Cataclysm. 315 344
• After the Primordial Universe’s destruction, the Cosmic Sea’s factions learn that Chen Hao had taken the vanished small universes, though they remain unaware that he had already traversed reincarnation. 389