No one could count how many years had passed in this world since the creation of heaven and earth.
Heavens rose and fell; great worlds were born and met their end. In the end, all returned to the Sacrificial Sea.
If the Boundary Sea reached its appointed time of destruction, its ruins would drift through Chaos and wander the Void, only to end up in the Sacrificial Sea as well.
The Sacrificial Sea had always existed beyond the Myriad Worlds and Calamity Land. To enter this expanse of nothingness was, in truth, to arrive above the Sacrificial Sea.
But after the destruction of the Heavens, the sea had "hidden" itself, beyond the sight of outsiders. Being unseen did not mean it did not exist.
And besides naturally born worlds, the Inner Worlds of the powerful beings used as sacrificial offerings in one Sacrifice after another would also merge into the sea.
When a powerful being died, their Inner World lay exposed.
More than one Immortal Emperor had died here. How could the vastness contained within a single Immortal Emperor be any less than the Heavens and All Realms?
When an Immortal Emperor died, the heavens within him collapsed. That was tantamount to casting a ruined Heavens and All Realms into the Sacrificial Sea.
The Myriad Worlds converged here. Through the accumulation of endless years, they had formed this boundless Sacrificial Sea.
It could be said that, apart from the very beginning, the Sacrificial Sea had always been larger than the Heavens and All Realms.
And as time passed, the gap between them would only grow.
The Heavens and All Realms had not shrunk. In fact, there were more heavens now than there had been at the beginning.
But the Sacrificial Sea grew faster still.
The Sacrificial Sea was somewhat like