The Heaven-shattering: I and Wu Shi compete for the throne

Chapter 451 Current State of the Universe
Deep within the Wuji Sacred Court, Li Daoming and Wushi sat facing each other.

"Have you decided to enter the strange world in your true form?" Li Daoming asked in a deep voice.

Today, he is nearly 47,000 years old.

Nearly six or seven thousand years ago, Hunming's three lifetimes were exhausted, and he was cut off from his cultivation laws and Dao. He started cultivating again. Because of the suppression of the Great Dao, and in order to consolidate his foundation, it took him nearly a thousand years to cultivate back to the Great Emperor realm.

Of course, he did not reconnect with the Heavenly Heart Mark.

More than 1,600 years ago, Li Wuhen and Li Wuyou used the True Phoenix Nirvana Technique one after another, living out their third life. In doing so, they severed their connection with the myriad paths of heaven and earth, and in the eyes of the world, they had already perished.

More than 1,300 years ago, Ye Yixian's lifespan was exhausted. Using the Dao-Severing and Returning to Origin technique he taught her, she severed her cultivation laws and Dao, and all her shackles and fetters, and was reborn. She also experienced the "Dao Fall". Later, she cultivated again to the Great Emperor realm, but she did not reunite with the myriad Daos of Heaven and Earth.

Less than a century after Ye Yixian's "Dao Demise," Li Daoming and Wushi, following their pre-arranged plan, also devised ways to "demise" their Daos within a span of two hundred years.

Thus, the human world entered an era without emperors!

Over the past ten thousand years, the suppression of the Great Dao has become increasingly terrifying due to the successive "fallen" of Great Emperors, making it unprecedented and unparalleled.

For beings in the universe, breaking through cultivation levels is becoming increasingly difficult. Apart from those who have already broken through, newly born beings find it extremely difficult to even reach the realm of a Dao-Slaying King or a Saint, let alone the realm of a Celestial Platform.

As time passed, the cultivators who had been born before, at the level of saint or above, either died of old age or sealed themselves away.

The entire universe has undergone a great change. Apart from the Wuji Holy Court, saints are extremely rare and almost impossible to find. The grand scene of the Wuji Holy Court ruling the world more than 10,000 years ago, when saints were everywhere, can no longer be seen.

This also had a very serious impact on the Wuji Holy Court: the number of qualified geniuses that could be recruited was decreasing, and the Great Array of the Heavens in the Chaos lacked a strong person to preside over its operation, relying only on Li Daoming's faith body and a few other strong people.

Li Daoming didn't care much about the decreasing number of talented individuals he could recruit, but he couldn't ignore the fact that the great formation in the chaos lacked a strong presiding expert, as it concerned the amount of Emperor Blood he could obtain.

The Emperor's Blood was extremely useful to him and many other powerful figures in the Boundless Holy Court. For example, it was used to condense the Chaos Body Blood Essence, the Innate Holy Body Dao Embryo Blood Essence, and the Chaos Holy Body Dao Embryo Blood Essence, in order to comprehend the mysteries of these three physiques.

Another aspect is condensing the Heavenly Emperor's Heart to prepare for unforeseen circumstances. For example, when he faced the Emperor, he relied on the Heavenly Emperor's Heart to restore his depleted essence, successfully defeating the stronger opponent and nearly killing him.

Later, in order to solve these problems, Li Daoming came up with a solution and spent a considerable amount of money to build an ancient road through the starry sky.

This ancient starry road has only thirty-six levels. Levels one through nine are for cultivators below the Saint level, levels ten through eighteen are for Saint level cultivators, levels nineteen through twenty-seven are for Saint King level cultivators, and levels twenty-eight through thirty-six are for Great Saint level cultivators.

Along the ancient starry road, Li Daoming's arrangements attracted the essence of heaven and earth and the primordial chaos energy transformed from chaotic energy, making the laws of the Great Dao extremely active and easier to comprehend. He also left countless opportunities along the ancient starry road: such as scriptures and secret techniques, rare and precious materials, traces of ancient sages, and imperial blood...

In some places, special arrangements have been made to prevent them from being affected by the suppression of the Great Dao, making it easier for them to break through their cultivation levels.

They set up the ancient starry road that could cultivate strong people in the era of suppression of the Great Dao, but in the era of suppression of the Great Dao, how many people could cultivate to the point that they could leave their planet and embark on the ancient starry road?
Not many!

Li Daoming also had a solution: he set up five-colored altars on many ancient life stars and, every so often, sent powerful individuals to these ancient life stars to recruit a group of people and send them to the ancient star road.

As a result, the number of saints in the universe has finally increased again. Although it is still not comparable to the number before the emperors "fell from grace", it is still enough to barely maintain the operation of the great array of the heavens in the chaos.

Moreover, with these sages operating the grand formation, transforming chaotic energy into the essence of heaven and earth and primordial chaotic energy, the ancient starry road could become self-sufficient. This drastically changed the situation of the universe!
Until Li Daoming's "passing away," the situation remained largely unchanged, so he didn't pay much attention to it anymore.

He was more interested in another place: the strange world!

More than a thousand years ago, he and Wushi died one after another, and each hid for a period of time until they came out again more than a hundred years ago.

All the great emperors gathered at the Boundless Holy Court to discuss and expound the Dao.

After discussing the Dao, Wushi suddenly suggested that he wanted to explore a strange world and asked if he wanted to come along.

Having a good understanding of the strange world and knowing that it's easy to enter but difficult to leave, Li Daoming naturally didn't intend to enter it himself.

However, he was also very curious about the strange world and wanted to obtain its Dao and Dharma.

So he discussed it with Wushi and decided to send his Dao body and his incarnation in separately.

They also devised a method for communication in advance, so that the Dao body and avatar in the strange world could send back messages from that strange world.

Li Daoming's Yin-Yang Dao Body, a special incarnation of Wushi, has been in the strange world for over a hundred years, so naturally there must have been some news about it.

On the contrary, they brought back a lot of news, giving the two a considerable understanding of the strange world.

The situation in this strange world is very complex, which can be roughly summarized as one superpower and four strong powers, with countless large and small forces intertwined.

The strange world is different from the world of Shrouding the Heavens.

The powerful beings in the world of Shrouding the Heavens not only have short lifespans, but also become emperors in their lifetimes. After an emperor attains enlightenment, he will suppress others so that they cannot attain enlightenment. After his death, he will be subject to the restriction of the Great Dao.

Because of the existence of some immortal substances, the lifespan of powerful individuals at the same level in this strange world is many times longer than that in the world of Shrouding the Heavens.

For example, in the world of Shrouding the Heavens, a quasi-emperor only has a lifespan of eight or nine thousand years, but in the strange world, a supreme being equivalent to a quasi-emperor can live for more than a million years.

The Celestial Venerable, whose realm is comparable to that of the ancient emperors of the world of Shrouding the Heavens, has a lifespan of millions of years.

In addition, without the restrictions of a single emperor for each generation or the suppression of the Great Dao, even a Celestial Venerable can seal himself with the Immortal Source without severing his own life, resulting in a great number of powerful beings in this strange world.

There are more than 250 publicly known Celestial Venerables, but no one knows how many are hidden in secret.

Moreover, this was after a long period of fighting among many Celestial Venerables, resulting in the deaths of many; otherwise, the number of Celestial Venerables would have been even greater.

There are more than two hundred Celestial Venerables, or even more. Below the Celestial Venerables, there are even more Supreme Beings. Although no one has kept count, the number is definitely over two thousand.

As for those below the Supreme level, it's impossible to count them all, but what is certain is that even under the rule of the Boundless Holy Court, at the peak of the Shrouding the Heavens world, they were far inferior.

(End of this chapter)