Once a universe's resources had been completely mined, there was no longer any reason for that universe to exist.
On to the next.
There were many of these monstrous machines throughout the universe.
Quite a few had been destroyed, but even more machines crawled out, like spiders scuttling across every inch of space.
One day, the machines drew Lord Mi out of his cultivation. They had mined their way right up to him, and his anger reached heights it had never reached before.
He had been on the verge of a breakthrough.
He had planned to make a single leap beyond the Master-level. He had seen the path.
But it had been forcibly interrupted.
Unforgivable. Unforgivable.
In his fury, he tore the mechanical monster apart, then found the Wei Luo Civilization and set out to destroy it. But there, he discovered something shocking.
The Wei Luo Civilization was connected to Lu Yin.
They had calculated their own impending doom and transferred their fate of destruction to Lu Yin.
Lord Mi saw this record in the Wei Luo Civilization. It also made him realize why his breakthrough had been interrupted. It had not been a coincidence. It had been inevitable.
The Wei Luo Civilization had transferred its fate of destruction to Lu Yin, but he had gained Lu Yin's power. As a result, some unseen connection had formed between him and the Wei Luo Civilization.
In other words, he had taken the blow meant for Lu Yin—the doom engineered by the Wei Luo Civilization.
This discovery doused him like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing his fury.
A technological civilization could actually use algorithms to calculate its own doom, then find a way to transfer it to another life-form.
How was that any different from devising the Mitian Grand Plan and