"Worlds that can grow to the size of a small thousand world are rare, but surely they don't warrant that expression, Haotian?"
The speaker was not a Sage.
For any Sage to say such a thing would have been disrespectful to Haotian.
Only this person could say it out of concern for him.
"That wasn't all. Hear me out, Yaochi."
"That world was peaceful only on the surface. In truth, all its people were animals without thoughts! Aside from that Chaos Worm at the Heavenly Immortal realm, every last one of them was insane!"
Haotian sank into his memories.
That day, he had just left the Garden of Eden.
He had traveled through Chaos for roughly a hundred days and nights.
Then, without warning, he encountered an unprecedented surge of chaotic turbulence!
Before his eyes, seemingly endless chaos storms collided with one another, giving birth to one Ganges-Sand Small World after another!
Then those small worlds, born only minutes earlier, burst like bubbles amid collision after collision between chaos storms!
Even Haotian, who had already reached the Hunyuan Taiji Daluo Golden Immortal realm, struggled to withstand those raging chaos storms.
It was not that his body could not endure them.
It was essentially impossible for a Hunyuan Taiji Daluo Golden Immortal to come to harm in a chaos storm!
Just as a whale could not be killed by a storm at sea!
But he could certainly lose his bearings!
So Haotian activated his Sacred Law and, after considerable effort, found a middle thousand world where he could take shelter amid the chaos storms!
That world must have advanced into a middle thousand world only recently.
It was still smaller than Soaring Heaven, one of the Thirty-Three Heavens where Haotian had once lived.
It contained roughly hundreds of millions of living