In the distance, Gu Duanke walked out, his exhaustion swept away. His gaze was deep as he walked towards the top of the Mother Tree.
Lu Yin looked over, and in his eyes, the Sequence of Strings appeared in the cosmos and gathered above the Mother Tree. It was like the Immemorial City of the Tian Yuan Universe, the origin and end of the Sequence of Strings.
In the Tianyuan Universe, the Primogenitors had bitten the Sequence Strings. Here, the miasma should have suppressed the Sequence Strings, but the miasma had been absorbed by Grand Sovereign Lan Ye, causing the Sequence Strings to scatter and reactivate.
What Gu Duanke wanted to do was to make this happen immediately.
The seventh Night Pillar's group continued to kill the Orchid Freaks while the others looked towards the sky, waiting for the reactivation.
A beam of sword light swept through the void, slicing through the heavens and earth. The universe trembled, and the Orchid Freaks that had yet to die screamed in a strange and ear-piercing manner. Dark green miasma scattered in all directions as the Mother Tree cracked open, its bark peeling off. Miasma poured out from within like a dark green waterfall.
Cracks appeared in the heavens as the heavens and earth collided. Parallel spacetime overlapped with each other, creating a compression that shattered the stars and destroyed the universe.
Gu Duanke descended and appeared under the Night Pillar. He raised his sword and slammed it against one end of the pillar, causing it to be sent flying out of the heavens by an invisible force.
Everyone from the seventh Night Pillar chased after it.
Lu Yin raised his brows and looked down. Gu Duanke's slash was very interesting. It wasn't strength, but it surpassed strength. Gu Duanke's sword intent swept past the pillar without hitting it, but the force of the sword intent still landed on the pillar. A single sword intent couldn't shake the pillar at all. Gu Duanke's attack seemed like a single slash, but a hundred sword intents had been unleashed at the same time, pushing the pillar back into the heavens.
In terms of strength, Gu Duanke couldn't shake the pillar, but his sword could cut through everything.
Using sword intent to simulate strength and achieve what ordinary people couldn't. This was the strength of the Nine Firmaments Sword Head.
In comparison, Gu Jing would take a long time to reach this level.
And this was just a casual slash from Gu Duanke.
Aside from Lu Yin, no one cared about Gu Duanke's attack. Everyone looked towards the Orchid Universe to witness the reactivation of the universe.
The universe was rebooted, the stars were destroyed, and everything would cease to exist. The strings of the sequence were randomly stretched, causing the parallel space-time to become chaotic. All sorts of astronomical phenomena interweaved, enough to form innumerable images that were difficult to understand. And these images were the true goal of those who hadn't reached the Great Circle of Crossing Bitter Adversity, but had come to witness the rebooting of the universe.
Humans were born in the universe and died in the universe. Everything existed because of the universe. Everything that appeared in the universe was reasonable. The so-called cultivation was to transfer this rationality to oneself.
The Eternal Life Realm was also the reason why the universe was eternal.
Many people had an epiphany because they had seen the universe reboot. A single epiphany could change their entire life.
Supreme Venerable Lan Ye didn't return. He stayed in the Orchid Universe to experience the restart.
Soon after, another person rushed out of the Night Pillar and headed towards the reactivated Lan Yuzhou. It was another powerhouse at the peak of the Bitter Adversity Realm that Lu Yin had never seen before.
There were many hidden experts in the Nine Clouds Universe.
As that person rushed out, Lu Sizhan, Wan Lou, Jing Lian, Wei Heng, and the others all rushed towards Lan Yuzhou.
Including Luo Ning and Si Jiushi.
Only Progenitors could barely withstand the dangers of the universe reboot. If they encountered a powerful celestial phenomenon, they would die. Those below the Progenitor realm couldn't go at all.
Nearly a thousand people who were qualified to follow the Seventh Night Pillar to witness the restart of the Orchid Universe had rushed out. If they were afraid of death, they wouldn't have come.
Only by experiencing the restart of the universe up close could they possibly comprehend anything.
A group of people also rushed out from the Seventh Night Pillar.
Qing Yun also went. Granny Yin wanted to follow, but she was stopped by Qing Yun. She wanted Granny Yin to find her own insights.
Jian Hong and the Ninth Spirit also went.
Gu Duanke stepped out and also headed towards the Orchid Universe. "Although I've witnessed the restart of the universe, I still have to try."
Lu Yin also headed towards the Orchid Universe.
He hadn't expected to see the restart of the universe so soon.
He wanted to see how the restart of the universe would allow someone to step into the Eternal Life Realm.
After entering the Orchid Universe, the surrounding space was extremely unstable. Void cracks cut through the entire Orchid Universe, and there was almost no place that was intact. A few of the cultivators who had entered had already been devoured. One of them had died from the pressure of two parallel universes, leaving nothing behind.
Lu Yin stood tall in space, black cracks constantly spreading around him, but they couldn't harm him at all.
Thunder boomed above his head, and from time to time, absolute darkness would appear and devour everything.
This was the end of the universe.
The Mother Tree had already collapsed and was floating in space. As the void cracks devoured it, it constantly shattered and shrank.
The miasma was also being absorbed by the void cracks.
As far as Lu Yin could see, the further he looked, the brighter it was. The furthest he could see was a point of light that constantly twisted and changed. The universe seemed to be breathing, and every breath would shatter countless spacetime.
Lu Yin saw Gu Duanke. He was specifically looking for places where spacetime overlapped, as if he was trying to catch something.
Grand Paragon Lan Ye had sunk into the Mother Tree, and the miasma was spreading everywhere. He was also trying to catch something.
That unfamiliar powerhouse at the peak of Bitter Adversity was also doing the same.
Lu Yin's eyes flashed, and a sense of madness surged within him. He saw the Eternal Matter, a dense mass of it. Gu Duanke and the others were trying to catch it.
They could see the Eternal Matter?
No, they could only see the Eternal Matter at the moment where spacetime overlapped, but the entire universe was filled with Eternal Matter, so they couldn't see it.
Lu Yin didn't think about where the Eternal Matter came from. He now knew why Bitter Adversity could break through to the Eternal Realm.
It was because only they could find the Eternal Matter at the intersection of spacetime and grab it when the universe was rebooted. Others couldn't do it. No wonder, no wonder.
But it wasn't enough. The Eternal Matter alone wasn't enough.
Lu Yin stared at Grand Paragon Lan Ye. He had caught the most Eternal Matter with the miasma, and for some reason, spacetime overlapped and kept appearing around him. Could it be because he was compatible with Lan Ye's universe?
Gu Duanke and that unfamiliar powerhouse at the peak of Bitter Adversity combined couldn't catch up to him.
Sometimes, Eternal Matter would enter his body with every breath he took.
Lu Yin also began to catch the Eternal Matter. He couldn't miss such a good opportunity.
He didn't expect that the Eternal Matter he was looking for would appear at the rebooted universe.
Regardless of anything else, he would catch it first.
The feeling of madness allowed Lu Yin to see the Eternal Matter. He could grab it casually, and his speed was incomparable to when he was in the consciousness universe.
In the consciousness universe, the Eternal Matter only existed in the broken world, so he had to find it slowly. But here, he just needed to find the place with the most Eternal Matter and grab it. His speed was several times faster than in the consciousness universe, or even ten times faster.
Lu Yin's eyes were red. The more Eternal Matter he had, the higher his chances of fighting against the Eternal Realm.
Lu Yin was observing Gu Duanke and the others, and they were also observing Lu Yin.
Seeing that Lu Yin could grab the Eternal Matter, they were surprised, especially when Lu Yin didn't grab the Eternal Matter at the intersection of spacetime. They couldn't understand how Lu Yin did it.
This kid had just broken through to the Primordial Realm and hadn't even stepped into Bitter Adversity. Could he directly skip Bitter Adversity and achieve eternal life?
Gu Duanke couldn't understand.
Grand Paragon Lan Ye also saw it. The miasma was his eyes. In Lan Ye's universe, he was like a fish in water.
Seeing that Lu Yin's speed of grabbing the Eternal Matter wasn't any slower than his, he was also stunned, but he quickly calmed himself down and ignored Lu Yin. Breaking through to immortality was the main point.
While Lu Yin and the others were grabbing the Eternal Matter, the others were watching the stars of the universe's destruction and restart. Some had epiphanies, some died, and some were so anxious that they vomited blood.
Qing Yun told Granny Yin to ignore her and to try to break through to the Eternal Realm. Granny Yin only smiled bitterly. She had accepted spiritual cultivation and reached the peak of Bitter Adversity, so she didn't have the chance to enter immortality. There was no need to try.
She couldn't see the Eternal Matter.
Reaching the peak of Bitter Adversity was a watershed. If one cultivated to this point, they could see the Eternal Matter. If one didn't cultivate to this point or used spiritual cultivation to reach this point, they wouldn't be able to see it.
The universe was fair, and there were no shortcuts to immortality.
The universe's restart was a slow process, not an instant.
However, releasing the Eternal Matter would only affect the first few years of the restart, so they only cared about the first few years.
Half a year passed quickly, and Lu Yin's eyes were red from grabbing the Eternal Matter. It was ten times faster than the speed at which the consciousness universe was grabbing the Eternal Matter. How could he not be jealous?
On this day, he suddenly felt something strange. He walked through the universe and arrived at the location where the Mother Tree had collapsed. There, he saw Grand Sovereign Lan Ye.
At this moment, Grand Sovereign Lan Ye was on the verge of death. It wasn't man-made, but rather a backlash from the Eternal Matter.
Lu Yin hadn't thought that the Eternal Matter could cause a backlash.
It was clearly an Eternal Matter, but it could cause people to die. The universe was truly mysterious.
And this step was precisely the step to comprehend the Immortality Realm.
Grabbing the Eternal Matter and using it to cause the physical body to repeat the process of origin and decay. If everything went smoothly, then one could step into immortality. The Eternal Matter would remain in the body forever, and one could see it at any time. The most crucial part of this step wasn't the Eternal Matter, but rather one's state of mind.
The universe's destruction and restart were equal to one's own destruction and restart. If they could be equated, then it would mean that one had achieved immortality.
Lu Yin had thought that there were no shortcuts to immortality, but this was actually the shortcut.
It was too difficult to achieve immortality by oneself, and it was almost unheard of. However, if one could replace oneself with the universe, and one's state of mind was compatible with the universe, then it was possible to take that step. That step was the Eternal Realm.
If Grand Sovereign Lan Ye could be compatible with the Lan Universe's state of mind, then he could leave the Eternal Matter in his body without suffering a backlash and step into the Eternal Realm in one fell swoop.
He was trying to take this step.
This was because the Eternal Matter he had grabbed had reached the point where it could cause a backlash.
Gu Duanke also came over and looked at Grand Sovereign Lan Ye.
"I took this step, but I failed."
Lu Yin looked at Gu Duanke. "How do you feel?"
Gu Duanke smiled bitterly. "If I could feel something, why would I still linger in the Eternal Realm?"