The battle between the Black-Robed Emperor and the hundred and twenty-nine ended with both sides wiped out and the Supercontinent of the previous Era shattered.
Throughout that history, Meng Chuan had watched their battle and the evolution of Endless Space.
After the Supercontinent was destroyed, a long time passed before the primordial matter scattered across Endless Space by the explosion instinctively gathered together.
After untold Chaos Cycles, Chaos Universes appeared throughout Endless Space.
The nine Chaos Universes combined were far larger than the former Supercontinent.
After all, the primordial matter that formed them had not come solely from the Supercontinent of the previous Era.
In that peerless battle, the Yin and Yang Venerable alone, among the Ultimate Supremes, had used one of the Black-Robed Emperor's treasures—the Boundary-Setting Stele—to protect a remnant wisp of his True Spirit. In a sense, he had survived.
Once the Chaos Universes took shape, that wisp of the Yin and Yang Venerable's True Spirit was reincarnated into what was now the Sith Chaos Universe.
Already an Ultimate Supreme in his previous life, he was naturally extraordinary after reincarnation. He smoothly regained the rank of Ultimate Supreme, refined a Chaos Universe, and became the first Controller in this world.
He was Primordial Beginning.
After that, the Sith Chaos Universe flourished and produced many powerful figures. Primordial Beginning's disciple Iyerre became an Ultimate Supreme and set his sights on becoming a Controller.
That led to his decision to invade the Chaos Universe Ji Ning came from.
Meng Chuan's Imprint, meanwhile, continued to mark its way into still older history.
Before the final battle came the long years in which those hundred and twenty-nine Ultimate Supremes grew to power, one after another.
It was an extraordinarily long span of time—at least several quadrillion Chaos Cycles.
Before the first Ultimate