Heaven's course was constant, and time marched on. It did not endure for the Heavenly Emperor or cease for Gu Cang.
Though the Heavenly Emperor was wise and virtuous, and Gu Cang was a tyrannical Great Accomplishment Sacred Body, neither could change the passage of time or the fundamental laws governing Heaven and Earth's motion.
Twenty monkey-years passed in the blink of an eye.
Ten thousand years rushed by. Heaven and Earth remained the same; the Dao Realm remained the same. But the people were no longer the people they had been.
Rumble!
At the Cosmic Frontier, a terrifying Emperor Tribulation roared, its pressure blanketing the Ten Directions.
A towering man in a qilin robe fought amid the Thunder Tribulation, battling through blood to ascend the imperial throne.
Great stars exploded, and galaxies crumbled to dust, but that mattered little.
No living beings had inhabited the Cosmic Frontier for a long time. Most had moved toward the edges or the central regions.
The stars and other celestial bodies destroyed by the Emperor Tribulation would return to the Universe's primordial matter and continue evolving within it.
An Emperor Tribulation held both destruction and creation. It was a tribulation sent down by the Universe itself, and belonged to the Universe. Naturally, it would not erase the Universe's natural matter completely.
So although undergoing a tribulation was immensely destructive, as long as no living beings were caught in it, those natural celestial bodies would only disappear temporarily.
The same held true of battles. However fiercely the people of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands fought, they would not kill Heaven and Earth outright unless they destroyed the Universe itself.
Provided they did not deliberately set out to destroy it completely.
In the future, the primordial matter left when celestial bodies were shattered would