Immortal Realm Calendar, year 700 million.
The Three Thousand Universes.
Once a flourishing age had reigned across these universes, where immortals had already emerged. This year, countless man-devouring black holes appeared, and the cosmic rules fell into utter chaos. The powers most adept at exploiting those rules-the cosmic Overlord Clan, the cosmic Immortal Nations, and others-suffered a world-shaking backlash.
Mountains and seas overturned.
The heavens collapsed and the earth shattered.
A cosmic immortal's eyes dimmed as he left behind these calm immortal words: "What does it matter how well we use the cosmic rules? In the end, they are still a cage of rules. Our immortal power is limited... ultimately, we cannot rewrite them."
Once, their mastery of the cosmic rules had brought them boundless glory as they expanded their territories. But when those rules turned against them and came crushing down in chaos, who could escape that vast net?
The voices of many living beings vanished from the universes.
At the same time, far too many incomprehensible, uncanny forbidden zones were born throughout them.
No one knew when it had begun.
The Three Thousand Universes no longer had frontiers, for they were expanding at an astonishing, heaven-defying speed. In this age of vast universes, the resources of heaven and earth were inexhaustible. Wars were few, for whenever a great battle broke out, one side held an overwhelming advantage.
Rumble-
A cosmic star sea collapsed, stirring tides of spiritual energy and becoming a magnificent spiritual-energy white hole. A cosmic immortal ventured inside to explore it and never returned.
Great sun stars expanded without bounds, instantly annihilating the mortal beings of entire star domains.
Massive stars collided violently. Their auroras alone wiped out endless star beings. Cosmic cultivators fled for their lives, while the mighty frantically sought opportunities. Some powerful beings