Chapter 00142: Abandoned Universe
# Abandoned Universe
Chapter 142
Novel: Abandon The Universe
Chapter 142: Abandoned Universe
"How do you know there are nine continents beyond Yuan Continent?" Liu Li looked at Lan Xiaobu in surprise.
Lan Xiaobu waved his hand dismissively.
"Don't ask me how I know. Just tell me how to get to these other nine continents."
Liu Li replied calmly, "If it were easy to go to those other nine continents, why would those powerful beings still be hanging around Yuan Continent?"
"What do you mean?" Lan Xiaobu asked with confusion.
After a moment of silence, Liu Li spoke slowly, "Do you know what the strongest realm of cultivation is on Yuan Continent?"
Lan Xiaobu answered, "I've heard that Human Immortals are quite strong. But after Human Immortals, there are Earth Immortals, so I guess Earth Immortals must be the strongest, right?"
Liu Li nodded.
"Exactly, Earth Immortals are indeed the strongest. There aren’t many Earth Immortals on Yuan Continent. Moreover, once you reach the realm of Earth Immortal, making any further progress becomes extremely difficult."
Lan Xiaobu frowned.
"If you've reached the strongest level of cultivation, it must be hard to improve any further. That’s just how it is."
Liu Li chuckled self-deprecatingly.
"Heh, actually, for true Immortals, Earth Immortals haven’t even entered the ranks of true Immortals. The founder of our Western Kunlun Sect transcended the True Immortal realm. It is said that our founder’s master could even defeat Golden Immortals. Do you still think Earth Immortals are powerful?"
Lan Xiaobu's mouth fell open.
He thought that having entered the Golden Core realm made him somewhat impressive.
Plus, he was proud of the Soul Thorn; it was an attack his opponents found hard to block.
Anyone with more power than him could still be taken down if they couldn't shield their Sea of Consciousness from his attack.
But now he realized there were so many formidable figures beyond Earth Immortals.
Golden Immortals were obviously much stronger than True Immortals, yet they could still be defeated.
Just how powerful was the Queen Mother of the West?
"By the way, is your sect’s founding ancestor named Du Lanxiang? And isn't her master the Queen Mother of the West?" Lan Xiaobu worried he might have gotten it wrong.
Liu Li's expression turned angry.
"Watch your words! It is Master Du. As for my Kunlun Sect, it does indeed originate from the Mother of the Yao Pool."
Lan Xiaobu pouted.
"Isn't that just the Queen Mother of the West?" But then he thought of something.
Since so many powerful beings existed, why was that Zhou Zheng from Nine Continent Mountain able to dominate the Kunxu Secret Realm?
"Miss Liu..."
Liu Li furrowed her brow and interrupted Lan Xiaobu, "My name is Liu Li, not some aristocratic lady."
"Alright, Sister Liu Li. Have those powerful beings already reached the end of their lifespans and died? Is that why Earth Immortals are the strongest now?" Lan Xiaobu asked, pointing downwards.
Daring to call herself a sister, thinking that being the master of a two-star sect was something special? And to say those powerful beings were all dead showed a lack of understanding.
If she could leave right now, she would turn and walk away without hesitation.
There was nothing to discuss with such a lowly, ignorant, arrogant person.
Seeing that Liu Li didn't seem inclined to respond, Lan Xiaobu sighed.
"If someone else finds this place, I'm going to leave. What about you?"
Liu Li was at a loss and had no choice but to continue, "Because they have long since departed, Yuan Continent is simply an abandoned cultivation world."
"What do you mean?" Lan Xiaobu recalled the Cosmic Wall.
Logically, it was the scientific universe that should be abandoned.
He thought that it was the cultivators of Yuan Continent who abandoned the technological universe.
Because they had been forsaken by the cultivators, those in the scientific universe could not cultivate to higher levels; breaking the Golden Core realm should have been their peak.
Liu Li replied, "I heard that during the peak of cultivation, there were Immortals everywhere. They lived in a place called the Great Wilderness Universe. Later generations recorded the existence of the Xuan Huang World..."
"Wait a minute..."
Lan Xiaobu interrupted, "Where is the Great Wilderness Universe? It is huge, right? Is it tens of thousands of miles across? Is there a place called Earth? No, it seems to be called Land Star?"
Liu Li looked at Lan Xiaobu with disdain, suspecting he had a problem with his intelligence.
Still, she had to answer, "Tens of thousands of miles? Heh. Even the Kunxu area is over tens of thousands of kilometers, and you think the Great Wilderness Universe is just that? From what I know, the Great Wilderness Universe is vast and boundless, encompassing ten continents. Besides these ten continents, there are countless seas. Some islands within those seas are larger than tens of thousands of miles. How big do you think the Great Wilderness Universe is?"
Lan Xiaobu frowned.
The Earth shouldn't be considered part of the Great Wilderness Universe.
The Earth's circumference is less than a hundred thousand miles.
But the Qi-Classic on Earth explicitly recorded: "Heaven and Earth, Xuan and Huang, the universe is vast."
"Then..."
Before Lan Xiaobu could ask more, Liu Li cut him off, "Do you still want me to continue? If you keep asking, I won’t say another word. Think for yourself."
Upon hearing Liu Li's reluctance to continue talking, Lan Xiaobu hurriedly stopped himself.
He truly worried that this proud woman would get angry and refuse further conversation.
Such insights were rare and usually hard to come by, recorded only within large sects.
Inside significant sects, only inheriting disciples like Liu Li could access these records, while general disciples wouldn’t necessarily know.
Seeing that Lan Xiaobu had stopped with the chatter, Liu Li continued, "The Great Wilderness Universe is filled with countless treasures and serves as the origin of chaos, hence there were innumerable cultivators. However, regardless of how grand the Great Wilderness Universe was, and no matter how abundant the treasures were, it couldn't withstand the increasing consumption by those cultivators. This made the resources for cultivation in the Great Wilderness Universe gradually become scarce, and these precious resources were no longer renewable. So some exceptional powerhouses began to think of solutions, believing that they had to reduce the number of cultivators."
"Are they going to kill off some cultivators?" Lan Xiaobu thought.
These Immortals were quite ruthless.
He wanted to be tough, but compared to them, he felt like a kind-hearted little cabbage.
Liu Li replied coldly, "Do you think becoming a powerful being in the Great Wilderness Universe is easy? Everything has its inevitable consequences. If there's too much killing, you won’t expect to achieve success in cultivation. Some among them thought of a vicious plan. They decided to instigate battles between mortal empires to send those Immortals to their doom. With these Immortals dead, the mountains and rivers would empty, and resources would be conserved. They then gave these dead Immortals a nominal title..."
"The God Ranking?" Lan Xiaobu suddenly believed Liu Li’s words.
He finally understood why there had to be such a ranking system.
Liu Li frowned.
"What God Ranking? Is that what it’s called? That does seem fitting."
Lan Xiaobu grew more suspicious that the God Ranking was indeed the story Liu Li mentioned, but he didn’t respond.
It was clear she had no knowledge of the situation on Earth.
Seeing Lan Xiaobu not answer, Liu Li continued, "But those powerful beings evidently didn’t think things through. Although temporarily the mountains and rivers emptied, and the resources for cultivation were saved, they overlooked human progress and reproduction. Although non-cultivating mortals had an average lifespan of less than a hundred years, their descendants were endless, and humans valued their connections."
"No matter how high the cultivators sit, they ultimately have worldly ties. They would take some untrained mortals onto the path of cultivation. Mortals, having more concerns, would bring the people around them to cultivate. Furthermore, beasts in the mountains and rivers could morph into resource-consuming monsters after absorbing the essence of sun and moon."
Lan Xiaobu sighed.
He realized that as long as someone on Earth cultivated, this situation was unavoidable.
"In the end, those supreme powerhouses couldn't bear it any longer, and they prepared to leave. They did not leave empty-handed, but rather, took the entire Great Wilderness Universe with them. They extracted countless planets where mortals lived from the Great Wilderness Universe—these planets were the mortal world. Among those mortal planets was indeed a place called Land Star. Then, they used unparalleled powers to simultaneously shift the rest of the Great Wilderness Universe to the other side of the Chaos while building a Cosmic Wall between their universe and the mortals'..."
Lan Xiaobu murmured, "So that's how the Cosmic Wall came to be."
"You know about the Cosmic Wall?" Liu Li looked at Lan Xiaobu curiously.
Lan Xiaobu shook his head.
"I just heard of it before. I only now understand that there were others abandoned like us. Heh."
He didn’t want to reveal that he came from the universe of mortals.
According to Liu Li, his place was deemed an abandoned universe; if he continued to stay here, if he annoyed a powerful man, he might lose his life.
Liu Li showed a scornful expression.
"Abandoned by us? We are the ones who were abandoned, okay?"
Lan Xiaobu looked at Liu Li in confusion.
Didn't these people isolate mortals on the other side of the Cosmic Wall and thereby abandon them?
Liu Li continued, "When those ultimate powerhouses brought the ten continents of the Great Wilderness Universe, complete with endless seas and islands, to this side of the Cosmic Wall, some felt that the number of their cultivators was still excessive."
Lan Xiaobu seemed to understand something.
He curiously asked, "Could it be that Yuan Continent was also abandoned?"
Liu Li replied lightly, "You guessed it right. Yuan Continent was indeed abandoned by those powerful beings. Since it couldn't allow those abandoned cultivators to go without a place to survive, Yuan Continent was left behind. Why does Yuan Continent have the Western Kunlun Sect? It's because there were disciples abandoned from Kunlun who established it on Yuan Continent."
"After those powerful beings discarded the mortal universe and Yuan Continent, they erected another Cosmic Wall, which is also called the Great Dao Wall. The Great Dao Wall is more vast and immense than the Cosmic Wall separating us and the mortal universe. It cannot be crossed at all, often referred to as the second Cosmic Wall. Thus, the Yuan Continent where we survive, along with the Mortal Universe isolated by the first Cosmic Wall, is all abandoned—part of the abandoned universe."
At that moment, Lan Xiaobu finally understood that where he came from wasn't a true land of cultivation but rather a gap between the first and second Cosmic Walls.
He chuckled; this truly was a poorly amusing joke.
The later performances of these powerful beings were even more marvelous than the God Ranking, yet regrettably, he had not witnessed it recorded.
(End of Chapter)