A new universe!
The moment those three words were spoken, all the surrounding phenomena, including space itself, vanished.
Everyone's breathing grew exceptionally heavy.
Even some of the elders' projections seemed on the verge of collapsing.
We're in a new universe?
It was the first time everyone present had heard those three words.
Did that mean there was also an old universe?
Such a thought rose in Gu Yuan's mind, leaving him deeply shaken.
But how could one travel between the new and old universes?
Why had there been no news of the old universe all these years?
And just how powerful was the old universe?
Could the great being who held the Heavenly Prodigy Tournament also have come from that old universe?
There was far too much they wanted to know, yet they also understood that even this Grand Elder likely did not know the answers.
After all, he was merely an ordinary cultivator at the Great Perfection of Return to Unity, one who had not even reached the Five Declines Realm.
Beyond the Five Declines?
Or beyond even that?
Perhaps only beings at such levels could truly answer these questions and bring everyone to true understanding.
"Old universe."
Gu Yuan softly repeated those words. For some reason, they made him think of Earth.
Could Earth be in the old universe?
"Enough. Don't dwell on it. Your current cultivation is only at the Nine Tribulations Realm; knowing this much is already your limit."
"If you want to know more, you must go farther in the future, perhaps even achieve a good ranking in the inter-universe Heavenly Prodigy Tournament."
"That being once said that the tournament would not necessarily involve battle."
"Therefore, even the sect does not know what form this one will take."
"There is not much the sect can