Read Novel Full Chapter 834 579: Remote (Part 2)
Chapter 834 579: Remote (Part 2)
Because the worlds are gradually dispersing, occupying these vacant lands, the result is that the entire Hengyu Realm, except for the three continental blocks, will ultimately see the cultivators in the remaining Star Seas forced to move closer to the three continental blocks of the Central Star Sea due to insufficient Spiritual Qi. As prisoners, however, we are not qualified to approach the core areas. And you should know what this leads to."
"Are you referring to cosmic heat death?" Chen Zhixing frowned, feeling odd to be informed about cosmic astronomy by a Celestial Immortal engaged in cultivation.
"Heat death? Close, but this is merely the heat death for us prisoners, because those three blocks are surrounded by the area where the Great Venerable of Hengyu expels Spiritual Qi. As long as the corpse of the Great Venerable of Hengyu does not cease converting Chaotic Qi to Spiritual Qi, the abundance of Spiritual Qi on the three continental blocks will not decrease in the slightest. The amount that decreases will only be the portion for us exiled prisoners."
The voice turned increasingly cold as the residual soul spoke.
"If your sect has a long tradition, you should be able to sense that the concentration of Spiritual Qi within the Hengyu Realm today is nearly half of what it was a million years ago. The reason is that during this period, the Hengyu Realm was expanded to twice its size, yet the total amount of Spiritual Qi absorbed has not changed at all!
"What does this mean? You should understand this. If you can distinctly feel the change over the last million years, then imagine ten million years ago, a hundred million years ago, me living one hundred and thirty million years ago – the richness of Spiritual Qi in your era is entirely different from what it was in mine!"
Chen Zhixing: "..."
Although it sounded terrifying, upon hearing the timescale in millions of years, Chen Zhixing immediately calmed down.
The halving of Spiritual Qi's richness over a million years is entirely acceptable to Chen Zhixing, simply because he doesn't believe his humanity will persist for a million years. Even if it does, Chen Zhixing thinks by then he would long have become a Chaos Divine Demon, and even if the entire Hengyu Realm becomes a wasteland barren of Spiritual Qi, wouldn't he still be able to hide in the Chaos Sea?
But the trace of the conversation changed in the next second.
"In the past million years, the concentration of Spiritual Qi has decreased by half. But don't think this has nothing to do with you. You know, compared to one hundred million years ago, Hengyu's Spiritual Qi nowadays is three times less. Compared to ten million years ago, it's two times less, and just this past million years, it's decreased by half... So when will the next multiplication of decrease happen? A hundred thousand years, or will it be just ten thousand years before it halves again?"
At this point, the voice paused for a moment, seemingly allowing the two to contemplate, before continuing: "I hope you understand, world expansion grows exponentially. If this continues, perhaps in the next hundred thousand years, the Immortal Race lineage of us exiled prisoners will cease."
Cease?
Why would it cease?
Because there won't be enough Spiritual Qi!
If, as the residual soul says, the Hengyu Realm continues expanding, then it might only take tens of thousands of years for a small world like the Celestial Profound Realm to become a Spiritless World due to the rapid drop in Spiritual Qi density!
No other way, if the universe targets the expansion of existence, then its scale of expansion will indeed be exponential!
Because universal expansion begins from a single point explosion, expanding outward, this isn't a punitive comparison by the residual soul, but calculated in another manner.
Under such calculations, the concentration of Spiritual Qi in the universe will collapse into a level that makes cultivation utterly impossible in an extremely short time.
Then, cultivators could forget about practicing. For those such as themselves who have already cultivated successfully, great scarcity of Spiritual Qi will drastically shorten lifespans. In the end, survival itself might become a luxury, as they starve to death due to the lack of Spiritual Qi!
This isn't a joke!
It's something that could truly happen!
The farther from the central position, the sooner this would occur, almost unavoidable!
Unless Chen Zhixing could redirect the Celestial Profound Realm, turning its expansion towards convergence rather than spreading towards the world's edge, otherwise Celestial Profound's decline in Spiritual Qi would eventually lead to the starvation of Star Venerables like him due to insufficient Spiritual Qi, something he could witness within his lifetime.
Just as Chen Zhixing was thinking this, the residual soul suddenly spoke again:
"It seems you understand, even if you're unafraid of dying, how will you cultivate as Spiritual Qi diminishes? Compared to this, if you could reach the center of the vast Hengyu Realm, the abundance of Spiritual Qi there would be four to ten times higher than your current Star Sea location, even more."
"So after saying all this, what exactly are you trying to convey?" Chen Zhixing frowned inquiringly.
"As one of the initial exiled prisoners, I know the precise location of the three continental blocks within the Star Sea. If you could assist me in escaping my current predicament and swear to bring me back to one of the three continental blocks in the Penglai Immortal Realm, I can direct you to where Penglai Immortal Realm is located."
Penglai, Yingzhou, and Abbot are currently the specific names of the three continental blocks in the Hengyu Realm.
And long ago, before the Primordial Continent fragmented, it was named Hengyu!
Hengyu was a whole!
Nowadays, including the three continental blocks, countless stars, and many small worlds, all celestial matter originates from the Hengyu Continent!
And during the Hengyu Continent period, the Spiritual Qi concentration in the Hengyu Realm kept increasing.
Back then, even with numerous cultivators consuming Spiritual Qi on the Hengyu Continent, the total amount of Spiritual Qi there was consistently rising. Cultivation on it was far easier than it is now, even the journey to Golden Immortal was much simpler.
The high concentration of Spiritual Qi brought these benefits.
Yet, the once-wonderful Hengyu Continent was damaged by the conflicts between the Immortals and other native species on the continent, splitting into three chunks, not to mention the majority of fragments became today's endless Star Sea!
And these Star Seas continue to drift farther from the original location of the Hengyu Continent.....
"If you're a prisoner, how do you know where Penglai Immortal Island is?"
"Me? A prisoner?" The residual soul sneered at these words: "If the ancestor practicing Golden Immortal Technique without condensing the supreme form is a sin, then my brother indeed is a prisoner now."
Upon hearing this, Chen Zhixing instantly understood everything.
"It seems the conditions on the three continental blocks are worse than I thought."
"Of course so." The residual soul remarked coldly: "Just because my master's form isn't perfect and his accumulation is insufficient, all of us in this line were exiled from Penglai. What this exile represents, I need not say you also understand, basically, in the current environment, you two have no chance of condensing the Golden Immortal Technique. If you forcibly attempt, what you'll manage to conjure will be less than even my current form!"
"Uh...." Chen Zhixing blinked and looked towards Yimiao beside him.
Yimiao remained silent.
The residual soul continued: "Forget attaining the future path to Golden Immortal, I presume your sect already noticed that for nearly a million years, no matter how you cultivate, none have managed to break through to Celestial Immortal, right? This isn't due to your cultivation technique's flaws, nor your lack of talent, but because the environment, this realm, is too remote, unable to sustain your transformation into a true Celestial Immortal!"