Lin Jun pulled himself together.
"This world was born with an inexplicable power of attraction, constantly drawing Small Worlds toward it. Rather than saying the Interworld Domain was brought by us, it would be more accurate to say that after our worlds gathered together, it formed naturally. Heaven and earth sought grand unification. That was the trend—an unstoppable trend."
"Heaven's Will, put plainly, was a living creature. Before Heaven's Will, this world had already given birth to many beings similar to it, creatures you call demons and devils."
"It was like this world's test for us. To this day, no species has been able to pass it."
The old man spoke slowly.
"I only learned these things after coming here. Clearly, we too failed the test set by this heaven and earth. We... are already extinct."
The old man spoke sorrowfully. This had been both an opportunity and a desperate gamble, one that wagered the survival or extinction of an entire species.
This world was far too ancient. Too many stories had unfolded here. Time and space were like dust here, not worth mentioning.
"Young brother, you are human, but you are not from the world I came from. If my guess is correct, your world should have been drawn here by this world as well. Yet for some reason, your original world did not come. Only you came alone."
"How strange, how strange..."
Lin Jun's mouth twitched.
"Perhaps the world I came from was too large. So large that... this world could not contain it."
Lin Jun thought of the world he came from, a world whose observable radius exceeded forty billion light-years and was still expanding without end.
The planets within it—in other words, the worlds of this place—were even more countless beyond measure.
Though this world was