My Bottle Cosmos

Chapter 759 704: The Darkest Era

Time flies.

Year 4040 in the Ancient Tree Calendar.

The entire cosmos has entered the most primitive barbarous era, the High-tier Dao is incomplete, the Ancient Gods have secluded themselves, hiding away, even daring not to use the Cosmic Membrane indiscriminately.

The Ancient Gods no longer possess that immense power to drive their colossal divine bodies, they begin to abandon their massive godly forms, transforming back into microbes and ants, descending to the Lower Realm to conserve their energy levels.

Gradually.

The Origin Continent becomes empty of people.

It grows extremely desolate and savage, with no Gods residing there.

In the End of Dharma Era, the Divine Realm is dead!

The Gods have descended to various places to seek refuge, using the various wormhole tunnels opened in ancient times to establish dwellings, leaving behind legends of the All Heavens and Myriads of Realms.

Meanwhile, the living beings always possess a highly resilient adaptability. After this Dark Age subsides, the era gradually revives, entering a retro era.

Because of punishment.

The cosmos lost its natural light, shrouded in darkness, even during the day they had to light various candles and burn wood, though this light was a privilege reserved for the nobility.

The poor huddled in the dark could only longingly gaze at those bright rooms, catching glimpses of sunlight through the windows.

The once obsolete technology and external forces began to rise again.

Many worlds returned to the technological age, with various mechanical creations, mecha, and convenient facilities reappearing in the dense fog corridors.

And at the same time.

After the Twilight of the Gods, the Celestial Humans also suffered massacre.

Though they seemingly achieved immortality, these Undying Level beings nonetheless lacked the power to protect themselves.

The once high and mighty Ancient Gods fell from their pedestals, even the weakest of the Undying Level could abuse them, and their formidable aptitudes became treasures of this age.

The current era has evolved to the point of plundering the aptitudes of advanced powerhouses, angels began to be hunted en masse, the Celestial Human Dragon Species reincarnated from Abyssal Ancient Dragons also faced being hunted.

Angel blood, angel slaves.

Celestial Dragon Treasure Blood, Celestial Dragon Mounts.

These Angel Species and Ancient Dragon Species from Ancient Mythology were hunted madly by the people of the Ten Thousand Realms, and gradually became legendary Divine Beasts, with dragon slaughter and angel murder being occasionally heard in tavern hero tales.

"Hahaha, before the Twilight of the Gods, these were the proudest and most powerful races in the universe!"

"Indeed, each one was among the top Ancient Gods in the cosmos, residing in trees, beneath the Abyss, they once waged unprecedented wars."

"Hahaha, and now aren't they just dogs under my leash, being led by a dog chain?"

"Lend them to me to play?"

This is an era returning to the primitive, but a new form is also germinating and reviving.

...

Li Qing stood high above the cosmos's void, surrounded by nothingness and chaos.

In the Subspace region, it had been a long time since Li Qing visited here, the once thriving areas outside the cosmos now devoid of life.

However, now Li Qing was stealing bird eggs!

He was manning his own theft, boring a hole into the Cosmic Membrane within the deserted Origin Continent, continuously smuggling the cosmos's matter outside.

In ancient times, stealing this way would immediately be known to the entire cosmos.

But with the cosmos shut down now, no one would notice him stealing.

"Seize the moment and steal out a batch of cosmic material to construct a Cosmic Divine Artifact, the Divine Left Hand."

He watched the cosmic matter continuously flow out.

Whoosh.

A huge amount of matter began gathering, transforming into a massive hand covering the sky and earth.

In the future, this hand would be one of his strongest trump cards.

First and foremost, this hand would function akin to an intercontinental missile, ready to penetrate from the outside to strike enemies!

Moreover, this hand could twist the cosmos into a spinning top, spinning relentlessly until it reaches the limit, triggering cosmic collapse, remaking the matter, turning the cosmos into a blender mixing everything inside!

This was Li Qing's world-ending method, commonly known as [Dismantling the Machine].

If in the future, problems arise that even the [Shutdown] of the Great Black Heaven couldn't solve, he plans to use this, if even halting the server doesn't work? He would disassemble the server into pieces! Are they planning a rebellion? Their brains would be turned to mush!

Li Qing was always prudent, naturally preparing various contingencies.

"Let's keep building it here."

Li Qing looked peaceful as he glanced at the massive hand outside the cosmos, and then turned towards the Cosmic Membrane inside, hesitating slightly.

He needed to consider creating a new world that would allow them freedom to develop, but not too much freedom to rebel, a difficult balance to measure.

After a while, Li Qing began to imbue the Crystal Wall with new life structures using new life Authority, updating data and versions.

Time flew by, another century passed.

Li Qing already had a preliminary draft for the Crystal Wall renovation, now conducting final refinements and implementation, actually the process wouldn't take too long.

Soon, the entirely new version of the Crystal Wall was completed.

This time, they couldn't detect anything from the Crystal Wall, even peeling it off wouldn't allow reuse.

He examined the current state of the cosmos,

"End of Dharma Era, the cosmos is dark, but they have learned to evade."

"However, most of the Celestial Humans are also in dire straits, the once high and mighty Ninth Layer Ancient Gods have been besieged and looted by the former low-level cultivators."

Watching for a while, he found something interesting.

The cosmos' realm limit has lowered, making what used to be a 120 aptitude and a 130 aptitude appear similar, top cosmos powerhouses turned ordinary geniuses.

The reason is simple, a university student and a doctoral student doing elementary school homework, naturally, there's no distinguishing upper limit!

Hence.

The higher the cosmic limit, the higher level of genius it could nurture.

Otherwise, in the previous primitive backward cosmos, 120 was sufficient, with no graduate-level work appearing, naturally no need for graduate-level aptitude.

Examining the Crystal Wall's layout, ensuring no issues, he didn't rush to reboot, turning the server on to let the struggling Gods log back in.

After all, his massive hand outside isn't built yet, activating it would let them see him causing trouble.

Additionally.

Since it's already shut down, naturally, he should update the cosmos with a comprehensive version, tackling all aspects, not just the Crystal Wall, but living beings as well.

Li Qing also planned to update the biological entities from the fundamental original code of life.

Otherwise, once the cosmos reboots, and these beings' realms rise, updating would be difficult.

Thinking of this, Li Qing tilted his head, looking towards the Ancient Tree of Origin.

Whoosh.

Consciousness crashed heavily, becoming one of the generations within.

This time was seamless, like returning home, free and at ease, as the Heavenly Dao Will of past generations were all cloned from himself as the Light Ancient God.

"I am the Celestial Dao, also the Light Ancient God!!"

A majestic voice echoed throughout the cosmos.

"The humans on earth are deeply sinful, Judgement Day is over, I shall reopen the heavens and earth for this cosmos."

As these words fell, the hidden tortured individuals revealed a trace of shock, the Light Ancient God... he wasn't dead yet?!

Clearly, his body turned to ashes!

He retains the same former state and tone?

Atabia and Herodotus, they were both stunned, feeling complicated inside, watching the heavens split apart, light pushing back the darkness.

"He is the Heavenly Dao and also the Light Ancient God!!"

Suddenly.

Whoosh.

Space, a simple and conceptually unthinkable light, cut through the darkness, creating a breach in the endless night, turning into a pure white rising sun.

Blazing without burning, it remained far above, soft yet eternal.

"Here comes the light... the universe has finally come back to life..."

Earth wakes in infinite dusk,

Dry land has the sound of crack as the sun rises from within the abyss, from the vastness of the cosmic deep.