Chapter 861 - 479: Venerable King and Void, Two Sides of the Same Coin

On this day, someone saw the light of the stars converging from across the Cosmos.

On this day, someone saw the convergence of the stars forming a radiant Giant.

On this day, someone saw the area of the original Cosmic Void instantly cave inwards, collapse, and then gradually disappear.

Nothing was left in place, the Cosmic Void was gone, the foundation of the ritual was gone, and all fragmented spaces torn and dragged by the Cosmic Void were gone as well.

All that remained was the vast emptiness of space, spanning billions of light-years, proving that a cataclysm capable of destroying the Cosmos had occurred here, and nothing else was left.

People looked up at the blue sky, no longer able to see the Great Void filled with stars, and everyone seemed to finally smile.

...

"This is the history of the Venerable King’s birth..." the voice of the God of Order whispered in Xue Dili’s ear.

"Yes, it seems we’ve all been deceived before. The Lord of Mist claims to be the creator of the Venerable King, but even if the Lord of Mist is Fuge, the relationship between the Venerable King and her is more akin to that between Tiga and Nagano Hiroshi," Xue Dili quipped.

God of Order: "?"

It couldn’t understand what Xue Dili was talking about, but it might have inferred that the Venerable King only shared a name with Fuge and nothing else.

In fact, the Venerable King didn’t have as large a connection with Yi Shan or even the 13th Expedition Team as imagined.

But indeed, it was the 13th Expedition Team, and all the previous expedition teams, that collectively constructed the foundation for the Venerable King.

The Venerable King was the sacrifice of billions and the wish of the stars. It was that unreserved, sacrificial love for protection, and the united wish of all life in the universe amidst desperation, that created this singular miracle.

For Xue Dili, he couldn’t discern the last scene, for his computational and observational abilities were far inferior to those of the God of Order.

But the God of Order saw the birth of both the Venerable King and the Void.

The Cosmic Void had no entity; it was "nothing," a natural disaster, a fracture of the Cosmos, or put more personified, merely the manifestation of the Cosmos’ created wounds.

It was originally just a vast hollow wound, an "emptiness" with nothing.

But the Void was not like this, and the miracle it gathered and formed was the first thing the newly born Venerable King did, which was to forcibly conceptualize the "nothing" of the Cosmic Void into a "presence" of the Void.

That is, to transform the Cosmic Void into a tangible, conceptual state, and elevate it to exist like the Venerable King.

Thus, the Void was born.

Therefore, the monsters of the Void were also born.

However, the concept of the Void did not represent intense desires; over time, this concept of the Void gradually adhered to its true essence, becoming a passive concept with an attitude of "living or dying, it doesn’t matter."

Even regarding its own expansion, the Void had a nonchalant, laissez-faire attitude, summarizing the complete alienation of Nihilism into one word.

Let it be!

When there’s a chance to expand, it would casually expand; if there’s no chance, then let it be without concern.

This also turned the once Cosmos-spanning Cosmic Void into the nearly absolutely neutral Void we have now, a domain that, although harmful and highly polluting, and even capable of releasing disasters like cosmic-level void monsters.

But compared to all sorts of chaotic entities, the Void almost counts as a neutral entity.

Perhaps this was the Venerable King’s ultimate plan—to transform the Cosmic Void into the Void, achieving the purpose of sealing, containing, and managing the Cosmic Void.

And the current universe is thus; the Void acts fairly, without causing any significant disturbances, and even any newly formed Cosmic Void is swiftly detected and mended by the Interstellar Corps.

Those tainted by the Void gather together, their daily thoughts focused on living happily.

As for the unfortunate ones completely consumed by the Void...

I guess they ended up exactly like those who once fell into the Cosmic Void and became "nothing."

For them, it’s a blessing, whether for the God of Order, or for the Interstellar Corps and the Cosmos.

Meanwhile, Xue Dili also understood much.

The former Cosmic Void is now the KBC Region, where within its 2 billion light-year radius, only the Milky Way Galaxy exists.

And the Solar System happens to be near the center of the Cosmic Void.

According to current calculations, the Milky Way Galaxy should belong to the galaxies attracted during the last expansion of the Cosmic Void; however, just as it was attracted, the Cosmic Void was resolved.

Thus, the Milky Way Galaxy could only drift along, slowly sliding into the region of the former Cosmic Void.

As for why Earth became the location of the Magic Element Beacon...

Four billion years ago, Earth was called "Dead Star" by the United Front.

At that time, even water on Earth was scarce, likely a newborn planet covered in sulfur and smoke; the pioneers saw it and casually left behind a Magic Element Beacon.

Though for the pioneers, it was an effortless act, according to Earth Mother, four billion years ago something terrifying collided head-on with Earth, nearly knocking Earth Mother off course, creating a fragment that gradually became the Moon.