A Pact is Made

What Ming said was beyond dispute.

The facts were indeed so... the Great Universe eras before this one had been whole and continuous.

Yet in this era, the first to emerge had been primordial beings.

Only later, when that path proved impassable, did the Great Universe Will change its strategy, allowing living races to appear... There was a massive gap in between!

Though no one knew why Xi had cooperated with It so readily... in the end, It had succeeded.

Yet despite consuming Origin on such a scale, the Great Universe Will had only grown more vigorous, while even the Sea of Law Origins became ever more complete and magnificent...

Naturally, it was because It had absorbed the lingering legacy of the first four eras.

So...

There was really nothing more to say. Chu Yuan could hardly drag out the Great Universe Will and curse It out.

"Take the Fourth Era, for instance.

"The Eerie had always been suppressed. We never even knew such things existed. Only in the later stages of the universe's birth and destruction would they appear, merging the imprints of their era's Sea of Law Origins into this one.

"But in the Fifth Era, the Eerie were accepted from the very beginning...

"Do you know what that means?"

Chu Yuan thought for a moment. "It means the imprints from the First Era's Sea of Law Origins... have fused very thoroughly?"

"Precisely. Not only the First Era—the Second, the Third, and even ours.

"The imprints of the Sea of Law Origins have long since merged into this Great Universe.

"That is why I say the destruction of this era may not be as distant as you imagine."

"Could it be that you can turn from guests into hosts?"

Ming shook his head. "I naturally cannot accomplish that,