1959

**Chapter 1959: Elder Xing's Apocalyptic Words**

Elder Xing laughed, his smile somewhat peculiar.

He looked up at the sky, which reflected the light of the Sea of Laws, hazy and resembling a starry sky, dotted with countless points of light. Then, a star map appeared in mid-air.

Lin Moyu had seen this star map before; it was the star map of the inner domain.

It marked the positions of various races, the size of their occupied star domains, and their spheres of influence, all clearly detailed.

Then the star map began to expand, growing larger and larger.

As the star map expanded, the proportion of the inner domain's star domain became smaller and smaller.

Lin Moyu was greatly astonished. He had imagined the outer domain to be vast, but he hadn't expected it to be this vast.

As Lin Moyu was shocked, the star map continued to expand until it filled the entire top and finally stopped.

At this point, the proportion of the inner domain's star domain was less than one percent.

Ninety-nine percent of the entire star map was outer space.

Elder Xing smiled and said, "Do you think the outer space is just this big?"

Lin Moyu whispered, "Isn't it?"

Elder Xing laughed heartily, "Of course not, it's far from it. In fact, no one knows how big the outer space is."

At this point, Elder Xing drew a range on the star map with his hand, roughly several times larger than the inner domain's star domain.

Elder Xing explained, "Our inner domain's starry sky, at its longest diameter, is no more than 2 million light-years."

"In ancient times, the inner domain's space was even larger, with a diameter of about 3 million light-years."

"Don't be fooled by the small increase. At that time, 3 million light-years was the territory of our Human Race, so the alien races were all outside this 3 million light-year range."

Lin Moyu was astonished. Within a 3 million light-year range, how many star systems, resources, and populations must there have been?

It was an incredibly vast number.

Looking at the current star domain occupied by the Human Race, it barely exceeded 500,000 light-years.

Compared to ancient times, it was a world of difference.

Elder Xing continued, "The ancient wars were very brutal. Countless star systems were destroyed, resources became scarcer, and the star domain shrank."

"But this had no impact on the outer space."

Finally getting to the main point, Lin Moyu perked up his ears to listen carefully.

"You also know that the Human Race once occupied multiple worlds. The Human Race extracted the origins of these worlds and invested them into the Great World, causing the Great World to continuously expand."

"But the expansion speed of the Great World was too fast, far exceeding the expansion speed of the Human Race."

"And the birth of resources takes time. These resources haven't had time to be born and are not suitable for living beings to cultivate and grow, which is the outer space."

"From ancient times to now, the star domains suitable for cultivation and growth have become smaller and smaller, but the expansion of the Great World has never stopped. Who can know how big the outer space is?"

Lin Moyu was astonished, "So the Great World has always been expanding."

Elder Xing said, "The area I marked is the farthest region the Human Race has ever reached, about 1 million light-years from the inner domain."

"You reached there this time due to the space turmoil, perhaps even exceeding the 1 million light-year boundary."

As the distance increases, the volume of the starry sky increases exponentially, making it almost impossible to explore every region.

Lin Moyu knew that even in ancient times, no Celestial Sovereign had fully explored the outer space. Perhaps only by becoming the master of the Great World could one know all the details of the outer space.

Even if he fully mastered the laws of space, he might reach the world's boundary, but that would only be a temporary boundary.

Because the world is still expanding, the current boundary is not the true border.

Lin Moyu asked, "Since resources can regenerate, why has our star domain been shrinking from ancient times to now, while the outer space remains desolate?"

Elder Xing rolled his eyes at Lin Moyu, "How would I know? I'm not a Celestial Sovereign."

"Resource regeneration is just a record from ancient times. I haven't seen it with my own eyes."

"But I can tell you that over the years, our star domain has been gradually shrinking."

"Apart from the reasons of war, resources are indeed decreasing, and the occupied star domain is also shrinking."

"I've calculated that in the last 100,000 years, our star domain has shrunk by about 100,000 light-years."

Currently, the entire star domain is about 2 million light-years, and in 100,000 years, it has shrunk by 100,000 light-years, losing 10,000 light-years every 10,000 years.

Lin Moyu was shocked, "At this rate, in another 2 million years, all resources will disappear?"

"Almost. It won't take 2 million years. I estimate that in another 100,000 years, the Great World will be in complete chaos."

"All the strong races will take action, but the first step will definitely be to eliminate the small races."

"The strong races will hoard a large amount of resources for themselves."

Lin Moyu could imagine that in the absence of resource regeneration, various cultivation resources would be the first to be seized.

At that time, the first to fall would be the small races, who have no future and can only become the fish and meat in the hands of the strong races.

At that time, there would be no sympathy, and the small races would face extinction.

Elder Xing continued, "Then, as resources become scarcer, wars will break out among the strong races. But the wars won't happen within star systems; they will occur in the void."

"There will still be some tacit understanding among the strong races. The losing side's resources will be plundered, and their population will decrease."

"From strong races to small races, and then from small races to extinction."

Elder Xing described a cruel reality, a reality that is highly likely to happen in the future.

Lin Moyu asked, "But even if there are more resources, they will eventually be exhausted. What will happen then? What's the difference in the outcome?"

Elder Xing laughed, his smile somewhat eerie.

His voice became low and deep, slowly uttering a sentence, "The world will be reborn!"

"If we can survive the most difficult period, after the world's rebirth, we might gain new life."

"Laws will be reshaped, rules will be rebuilt, and anything is possible."

Listening to these words, Lin Moyu inexplicably thought of the almost collapsing Great World runes.

He suddenly realized that the world might not be reborn.

The inability of resources to regenerate might be related to the severe damage to the Great World runes.

If this is true, the world will not be reborn.

Not only will it not be reborn, but the world might even perish.

At that time, all living beings in the world will die, with no escape.

But this was just Lin Moyu's speculation, and he didn't dare to say it out loud.

He tentatively asked, "Is there any other possibility?"

Elder Xing said, "Of course there is, but the possibility is low."

"One possibility is that the Great World, during its expansion, encounters a new world, and we annex the new world."

"Just like in ancient times, we seize the origin of the new world and incorporate it into the Great World. We can also obtain all the resources of the new world."

"But this possibility is too small. Even if we encounter it, can we win? We don't even have a Supreme now; we'd more likely be plundered."

Lin Moyu knew that in ancient times, even the weakest worlds had one or two Supremes.

Now, without a Supreme in the Great World, encountering such a small world would be a disaster, not a plunder.

Elder Xing said, "Another possibility is that a Celestial Sovereign is born here, which might activate the Great World. But now that the Divine Path is broken, let alone a Celestial Sovereign, even a Supreme can't be born. This possibility is even smaller."