The Ancestor God's devouring of the Heavenly Dao was in fact extracting the Origins energy and Origins laws of a Great World. And without them, the Great World would slowly decline.
The Sinkhole had already begun its decline after the ancient war hundreds of millions of years ago. There were even signs of independent worlds dying in the Sinkhole. For example, the Azure Wood Great World, where Yi Yun obtained the Azure Wood Divine Tree back then, was already a half-dead world. The Azure Wood Great World would completely collapse in another few millennia.
It was not limited to the Azure Wood Great World. Even the entire Sinkhole would only last another two to three billion years. After that, the Sinkhole would slowly die.
It would gradually lose Heaven Earth Yuan Qi. The land would become barren, the oceans would dry up, and the ground would be filled with Apocalyptic Fumes. When that happened, even survival would be difficult, much less practicing martial arts in the Sinkhole.
Two to three billion years was considered a long period of time. At the very least, it was impossible for the Sinkhole's contemporary warriors to live that long. The Sinkhole's Heavenly Dao was missing, but it only severed their path to becoming a Godly Monarch. As for the future destruction of the Sinkhole, it had nothing to do with them.
Unfortunately, the Ancestor God had once again devoured the Sinkhole's Heavenly Dao centuries ago after he awoke. This time, the Ancestor God devoured it even more thoroughly!
Ninety-nine percent of the Sinkhole's Origins energy and Origins laws had been snatched away by the Ancestor God. This could no longer be described as draining the pond to catch a fish. The Sinkhole's backbone seemed to have been extracted. The basic laws of the Great World were beginning to collapse!
Over the past hundred years, the Sinkhole's decline was discernible to the naked eye. It could be said that it was a different state every year.
The destruction of the Small Worlds began decades ago. The countless Small Worlds were like the cells that formed the Sinkhole Great World. One cell after another died, spreading out like specks of dust.
The Sinkhole warriors that lived in the present era were undoubtedly in pain and despair!
Before they could grow up, before they could enjoy their wonderful lives, they had to face this declining world. The greatest sorrow of a martial artist was not to be stuck in a certain realm, unable to break through, but to have their martial path cut off by others.
And even more tragic was that the Sinkhole warriors were unable to leave the Sinkhole.
The Sinkhole was located rather far from the other Great Worlds. And the Sinkhole's Godly Monarchs, other than Bai Yueyin, were all Godly Monarchs with incomplete realms. They were weaker than Godly Monarch Divineheart.
Under such circumstances, it was too difficult to cross the Multiverse Gap.
Years ago, even Yi Yun nearly perished when he left the Sinkhole for the Chaos Heavens. If not for him infiltrating the Taixia Ancient Mining, it was difficult to say if Yi Yun would have survived.
Therefore, the entire Sinkhole, from the Godly Monarchs to the mortals, was like a prisoner trapped in a cage of despair. They had nowhere to go, and not only that, the cage was sinking into a swamp.
However, even in the midst of despair, there would always be people struggling with all their might. Even their efforts would only serve to prolong their feeble existence.
The entire Sinkhole's Yuan Qi was being drained. The Sinkhole's experts began setting up massive array formations to protect some of the Small Worlds. They sealed the Heaven Earth Yuan Qi there, allowing these Small Worlds to have perfect laws. At the very least, they could allow the younger generation to cultivate there.
Such a small world could maintain prosperity for millions of years as long as there was a constant supply of Godly Monarch Immortal Jades.
Such a place was known as the Land of Hope.
The entire Sinkhole, along with the 12 Empyrean Heavens, had established many Lands of Hope. And there were sixteen of them that were the strongest.
These sixteen Lands of Hope belonged to the various large sects, divine kingdoms, and other super factions. There were all sorts of Martial Dao heritage placed in the Lands of Hope. There were mighty figures that imparted knowledge, and there were also all sorts of land for trials. The benefits for young warriors to cultivate there were obvious.
However, it was precisely because of this that it was even more difficult to enter the Lands of Hope to cultivate. The limited spots were taken by the various large factions themselves. It was nearly impossible for other warriors to squeeze their way in.
Without entering the Lands of Hope, even the most peerless of geniuses were destined to waste their lives.
However, when the gods sealed off all paths, they still left a tiny bit of light for mortal warriors.
One of the 16 Lands of Hope was completely prepared for mortal martial artists.
It was the Mirage Sea Realm.
It was established by Huan Chenxue. What was unbelievable was that Huan Chenxue was said to be a mortal. She had never cultivated in any Martial Dao her entire life.
However, such a mortal had immense prestige in the Martial Dao world. Even the powerhouses of the various large factions had to treat Huan Chenxue with respect.
The establishment of the Mirage Sea Realm's Land of Hope had the help of a reclusive Godly Monarch. Apart from that, the White Lunar Divine Empire and a mysterious tribe in the Sinkhole — the Nine Li Magus Clan — were also involved.
Although many factions and important figures had paid a great price to establish the Mirage Sea Realm's Land of Hope, the final owner of the Mirage Sea Realm was still Huan Chenxue.
Huan Chenxue had no attachments and was never biased when it came to recruiting disciples. Every three years, the Mirage Sea Realm would hold a grand entrance test.
The qualifications to enter the Mirage Sea Realm depended on one's talent! Without enough talent, it was useless even if one was an elite from a large faction or a princess or prince of a country.
Therefore, the entrance test that happened once every three years was a gathering of countless elites. It wasn't even enough to describe it as an army crossing a single-log bridge.
At that moment, it was time for the Mirage Sea Realm's entrance test.
The Mirage Sea Realm was located in the periphery of the Sinkhole. The location of the test was not in the Mirage Sea Realm, but in an independent world that bordered the Mirage Sea Realm.
This world was created by the reclusive Godly Monarch. In order to test so many elites fairly, he had set up a large number of array formations in the independent world.
As the test approached, spirit cruisers after spirit cruisers tore through the void and arrived in this independent world.
These spirit cruisers also belonged to Huan Chenxue. They were sent to various parts of the Sinkhole, as well as the 12 Empyrean Heavens to recruit elites. It was to give every commoner warrior a fair chance.
"It's finally time for the entrance test. It's just too difficult to obtain this ticket …"
On a spirit cruiser, there were three youths, two men and one woman. Through the spirit cruiser's window, they looked out into the universe. The land that was shrouded in fog was where their final test would take place.
These three youths came from a middle-level world in the Sinkhole. The three of them were the top geniuses of that world.
One of them was dressed in azure-colored clothes and looked a little older. He was the senior brother of the trio.
As for the other man and woman, they were a pair of brother and sister. The younger brother was only sixteen years old. Even among the commoner martial artists on this ship, the clothes of this pair of brother and sister were quite simple. They almost didn't have any artifacts on them, and their clothes were the most common hemp clothes woven by mortals.
"Senior … Senior Brother Qin, will we really be selected?"
Asked the linen-clothed youth weakly when he saw the dense number of spirit cruisers docked in the independent world.
Without coming to the Mirage Sea Realm, it was unknown how big the world was.
Just the spirit cruisers in sight numbered more than a thousand!
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