"Taiyi, you actually harbor such a terrifying idea."
After a long while, Jade Origin Daoist finally broke the previous silence.
Reopening Taiji and restarting the Ancient Cosmos were not the same concept.
The restart of the Ancient Cosmos could only be considered a minor cycle within dimensional spacetime; the hindrance it caused was not great.
But reopening Taiji would mean the complete collapse of the entire multiverse, followed by its creation anew.
The reopening of Taiji would involve many things. In that process, all parallel spacetimes would ultimately converge into Primordial Spacetime, where myriad phenomena met. Beneath Immortality, there would be only one end: annihilation.
Even those of Immortality, if caught within the reopened Taiji, would be crushed into ashes and scattered smoke. Only by hiding in the void could they escape unharmed.
For there was no space there in the conventional sense, but rather a conceptual place. So long as the concepts of being and nonbeing existed, the void existed.
However, their true bodies were all slumbering at present, so this posed no obstacle.
The reason Jade Origin called the idea terrifying was because of the price.
When Taiji was reopened, everything destroyed would be charged to the life that reopened it. If that life were powerful enough, reopening Taiji would be merit—a renewal of all things, a push forward for the evolution of dimensions. But if it were not powerful enough, that crushing karma would be enough to cast even an eternal life into endless slumber.
Of course, this price would not manifest immediately. Rather, through the years that followed, this karma would continuously reveal itself.
"Terrifying?"
"Yes, it is indeed somewhat terrifying."
"But without madness, there is no life."
"That future wave of tribulation—even if it is only a wisp—will by no means be anything simple. From