The starry rivers turned, and great eras changed. Once cultivators grew powerful enough, even their perception of the passing years seemed to gradually blur.
After Heavenly Venerable Duan, Duan De of the Human Race, passed away in meditation, the decline of this universe did not ease. The vital energy of heaven and earth dried up, the laws of the myriad Daos receded, and the universe continued developing in a direction unfavorable to cultivation.
This process continued for another twenty thousand years.
For cultivators on the various stars, those twenty thousand years were undoubtedly an exceedingly long time. Cultivation grew visibly more difficult, and the number of Great Saints actually fell by nearly half again during that period.
Under such conditions, many powerful members of the various races thought of the Myriad Races who had sealed themselves away long ago. They wanted to do the same, only to discover that, with heaven and earth now withering, there was no longer enough divine source liquid.
People could sense that these changes in the laws of heaven and earth were making even the mightiest beings within the Life Forbidden Zones increasingly restless. Heavy breathing had sounded from both the Saint Spirit Ancestral Land on Big Dipper and the Tyrant Body ancestral star in the cosmos. Although it quickly subsided, it still left many people terrified.
Some speculated that, one day, those Forbidden Zone Supremes who could no longer sustain themselves would go berserk and unleash turmoil regardless of the consequences.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
More than twenty-one thousand years after Duan De passed away in meditation on Big Dipper, a thunderous Dao Sound suddenly rang out from the depths of the starry sky. It was as though a True Immortal in the Immortal Domain were beating a war drum. Its boundless resonance set one