Across the myriad heavens and worlds, after an unknown stretch of time, points of light traveled through space and time from countless planes and converged into a single figure. It was none other than Son Goku, who had become the Great Dao.
"The time has come. I never thought it would pass so quickly. An entire Great Dao epoch is over. Collapse has begun, and the Great Dao cycle is about to begin," Son Goku murmured to himself.
Across the myriad heavens and worlds, Ganges-Sands Worlds began collapsing one after another. Spiritual energy ran dry, and living beings grew violent and slaughtered one another. The mountains and rivers within their planes crumbled as a result. In the end, all life perished, and the planes collapsed.
In the Minor Worlds, spiritual energy dried up, stars shattered and fell, and all life perished. Finally, the planes dissipated and returned to chaos.
Within the Medium Worlds, Minor Worlds collapsed one after another. The mighty cultivators within them fled frantically, but none could escape being reduced to dust. With the collapse of their Minor Worlds, the Medium Worlds also crumbled. Spiritual energy dispersed, mountains and rivers vanished, and the Medium Worlds ultimately returned to chaos.
The same process continued upward, and Major Worlds and even Chaos Worlds began collapsing, though it happened slowly.
A Ganges-Sands World took 129,600 years-one cosmic cycle-to collapse. A Minor World took twelve cosmic cycles, a Medium World took 36,000 cosmic cycles, and a Major World took 108 million cosmic cycles. A Chaos World took even longer: one Chaos epoch, totaling 12.96 trillion cosmic cycles.
The collapse of the myriad heavens and worlds, meanwhile, required 129,600 trillion Chaos epochs.
Such a span was indeed long for ordinary living beings, but for the mightiest cultivators, it might pass in a single