Chapter 4632 - Vastness and Insignificance

Tianming briefly described the dream.

Huang Qi quickly explained, "Emperor, you are simply too small. The scene you described can only be seen from a sufficient distance. Right now, you haven't even left the Chaos God Emperor's mouth."

"Alright."

Tianming nodded in understanding.

Ying Huo immediately burst into laughter. "You really are Little Li! You're not even enough to fill the gaps between the Chaos God Emperor's teeth!"

Tianming promptly dragged the chicken out and beat him up.

Still, he understood Huang Qi's point.

After all, the corpse stretched across ninety-nine billion light-years. Just a single middlekin astron was an entire nova source.

How could he hope to see the whole from such proximity?

As he traveled onward, he sensed traces of Ancestral World's energy permeating the surrounding space, but no nova source whatsoever.

The unfamiliar sensation left him unsettled.

The three continued forward, nothing around them changing except the gate growing more distant.

Had that not been the case, Tianming might have thought they were standing still.

For the first time, he truly felt how insignificant he was.

Zi Zhen and Moran shared his feelings.

They followed beside him, occasionally chatting with each other or discussing their situation, but both were clearly shaken by the enormity of their surroundings.

Eventually, Tianming turned to Huang Qi again. "Weren't you supposed to be our guide? Time to prove it."

Huang Qi replied helplessly. "Emperor, even if I want to help, I can't. At your current speed, traveling is meaningless. If you truly wish to leave this place, you'll need a senior willing to help you enter the Realm of Worldgazing in the true sense."

Tianming frowned.

"In the true sense? Aren't we already there?"

"What you’re looking at is what can be seen with the naked eye," Huang Qi explained. "There is also a part that cannot."

The answer only confused him further, and no matter how much he pressed, he could not get a clearer explanation.

With no better option, Tianming decided to search for one of these so-called seniors. Having come from the God-Emperor Universe, he found himself barely able to move through this vastness.

Yet at the same time, he dared not make too much noise. Who knew what terrifying existence they might accidentally attract?

Thus he continued searching alongside Zi Zhen and Moran while steadily flying outward.

Another twenty years passed. The gate had disappeared by now.

Astralships were useless in a universe of this scale, and even the Flameyellow Divine Path only functioned within the God-Emperor Universe.

At that moment, Huang Qi casually reminded him, "Emperor, you're still near the mouth."

Tianming nearly choked.

His speed was anything but slow, yet after twenty years he was still stuck here.

Bai Feng calmly did the math.

"First, your speed can't exceed light speed. In twenty years, you've traveled less than twenty light-years."

"The Chaos God Emperor's corpse is ninety-nine billion light-years long. By proportion, his mouth alone should exceed two billion light-years. That means you've traveled less than one hundred-millionth of the way across it."

Tianming had not fully grasped the scale before. The math hurt his soul. "Twenty years for one hundred-millionth of the distance? I'd need two billion years just to leave his mouth?"

Xian Xian looked equally devastated. "Two billion years? You'll die long before then! Even primocosmic gods only live a few hundred thousand years!"

Ying Huo lazily waved a wing. "Relax. He's traveling with his wives."

Lan Huang blinked. "And?"

"He can have descendants along the way," Ying Huo explained. "When he dies, his son continues. Then his grandson. Then his great-grandson... It’ll be a generational odyssey!"

"Shut the fuck up." Tianming could not endure the bird's nonsense.

Yet the joke left both Zi Zhen and Moran speechless.

At the same time, it raised a disturbing possibility.

What if they truly couldn't find a solution?

Tianming felt the pressure mounting.

He had hoped to avoid drawing attention.

But after doing the math, he realized that without outside help, he truly could spend his entire life wandering inside the Chaos God Emperor's mouth.

There was no choice.

He activated Skylightsteal, and his soul instantly sensed countless cosmic rays coursing through the Realm of Worldgazing.

Previously, he had never truly understood what those rays represented.

Now he understood that rays capable of piercing entire star ruins within the Realm of Worldgazing had unimaginable power.

With that realization came a completely new appreciation for Skylightsteal.

But now wasn't the time for that.

He fired golden beams into the surrounding darkness.

"If there are any seniors nearby, they should be able to see this."

That was his hope.

Again and again he released the golden light, illuminating the darkness with golden fireworks stolen from the universe itself.

He had been reluctant to take risks before, but now he was forced to.

Then suddenly, a gray beam of light crossed an unfathomably long distance to reach them. Before any of them could react, it fell upon them and swept them away.