Chapter 874: Chapter 547: Cosmic Edge, Great Realm of the Universe (Ten Thousand Words) (Part 5)
Over the past three hundred years, the structure of the Great Universe has undergone earth-shattering changes.
The Immortal Court, this colossal entity, has expanded at an astonishing speed, constantly integrating itself with unstoppable montum. It has entirely suppressed the Star Moon Ancient Clan, which originally ranked third, and now firmly occupies the third position on the Great Universe’s power ranking.
However, this third place title actually carries imnse weight.
The present Immortal Court, with its overflowing sharpness and formidable power, can almost be on par with the Martial Pavilion, whose roots are unfathomable. In many aspects, it even presents a competitive stance, showing no clear distinction of superiority.
Wherever the decrees of the Immortal Path reach, the Ten Thousand Sects follow in admiration, and its influence is all-pervasive.
More striking, and causing extre unease among the other ancient clans, is that the forces of the Human Race, after the Immortal Court’s iron-fisted integration, have fully consolidated into two towering giants.
The Martial Pavilion and the Immortal Court rank second and third, respectively.
This ans that among the universe’s top powers, the Human Race exclusively holds two seats, both of which are the most active and expansionist Taoist Orthodoxies.
This undoubtedly imposes unprecedented heavy pressure on the other ancient clans, a sense of crisis perating the hearts of many ancient clans.
The Star Moon Ancient Clan bears the brunt of it, suffering the enormous humiliation of losing the title of the third ancient clan. The aggressive posture of the Immortal Court caused the relations between the two sides to plumt to freezing point, and the shadow of friction and conflict is growing increasingly intense.
Over these three hundred-plus years, Chu Zheng has not intervened much in the disputes of the Great Universe’s central regions. He spent most of his ti reclusively cultivating in the chaotic and dangerous environnt of the Cosmic Edge, but on several occasions, he ventured to stealthily slip into the Vast Universe connected with the Spiritual Remains Realm.
He needed to personally investigate the specific environnt within the Vast Universe at this ti, also preparing for future plans.
The current Vast Universe, compared to the era he ca from, doesn’t show an enormous difference in its overall structure.
It is still controlled by the twenty most powerful Ancient Ancestors who divide and rule the 128 Divine Mansions, forming the basic power frawork of the Vast Universe.
Each Divine Mansion is vast and rich in resources, but also filled with endless slaughter and chaos.
However, compared to later generations, the Ancient Ancestors of this era’s Vast Universe, due to lacking the boundary that spanned the two worlds, are restless.
Having lost this solid barrier, the Border Desolation of the Great Universe seems like an unguarded treasure trove in their eyes. They often can’t resist organizing their underling evil demon armies to launch assaults on the border areas of the two realms, attempting to expand their territory or simply to satisfy their desire for slaughter and seize Yang Qi.
Thus, the large-scale conflicts and wars in the border areas between the two realms can be said to be commonplace, occurring with unusual frequency.
In such extrely intense wars, where Ancient Ancestor level beings often personally co to clash, even the Ancestral Realm is not absolutely safe.
Therefore, the positions of the Ancient Ancestors in the Vast Universe often see turnover; today one might be a powerful Ancient Ancestor dominating a region, but tomorrow they might fall in a sudden cross-realm war, and their Divine Mansion is imdiately divided and replaced by other Ancient Ancestors or their ambitious generals.
Through several covert observations, Chu Zheng clearly realized that at this stage, the combat strength of the Cosmic Ancestor Realm Level in the Vast Universe is noticeably weaker compared to the ancient ancestors of each clan in the Great Universe.
There are mainly two reasons for this disparity: firstly, due to fundantal flaws, the Ancient Ancestors in the Vast Universe suffer from severe mory loss.
This results in a huge discontinuity in the inheritance of advanced artifact refining thods.
Their ans of forging Ancestor Weapons are extrely crude and primitive, relying more on the strength of the materials themselves and brute force infusion.
Even if they fortunately succeed in forging, the spirituality of their weapons, their compatibility with the Heavenly Dao Laws, and various mysterious transformations are relatively inferior to those Ancestor Weapons refined and perfected over countless generations in the Great Universe.
A good Ancestor Weapon can significantly enhance the strength of an Ancient Ancestor level existence.
Besides these, there’s another crucial reason.
In the Great Universe, there is an unspoken rule adhered to by all ancient clans.
If an extrely powerful or uniquely significant Ancient Ancestor unfortunately falls, regardless of their originating clan, once their demise is confird, several well-connected or duty-bound Ancient Ancestors will join forces, sparing no expense, to penetrate deep into the Vast Universe and execute a cleansing mission.
Their target directly points to the Burial Valley and the Soul Origin Pool.
These two places are extrely special sites within the Vast Universe, greatly associated with reincarnation and rebirth.
Many Ancient Ancestors of the Great Universe must ensure that the residual souls of the fallen Ancient Ancestors in the Vast Universe are sent to reincarnation as much as possible, absolutely not allowing them to remain in the Vast Universe to be eroded by evil qi and turned into evil demons to grow.
This is to completely nip all potential future threats in the bud.
After all, a powerful Ancient Ancestor, even if fallen into the Vast Universe, will still beco strong once grown, which is undoubtedly catastrophic for the Great Universe.
Precisely because of these two major reasons, the disparity in strength between the top-tier forces of the two worlds is very apparent.
The Great Universe holds a certain advantage in top-level combat power, but this advantage is far from capable of completely conquering the Vast Universe. Moreover, the Vast Universe boasts a large number of evil demons with strong adaptability, giving them better positioning in combat within the Vast Universe, forming a prolonged tug-of-war.
These three hundred-plus years have flown by amidst the intertwining of bloody battles in the Border Desolation and exploratory adventures in the Vast Universe.
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