Chapter 532: The Calamity of Heaven and Earth

Could it be that there is something special about the Black Hole Demon?

If we are talking about something special, the Black Hole Demon's predecessor, the Black Hole Essence, was created by him using Source Power; perhaps that is what is special, as the Black Hole Essence is a creation of Source Power.

Li Heng pondered for a moment, seemingly having locked onto the answer.

But he also knew that all of this was merely his own speculation; perhaps there were other special aspects, or perhaps the origin of this matter did not lie with the Black Hole Essence, but rather with the root of the power that allowed the Calamity and the monsters to appear.

Li Heng thought for a moment and couldn't help but shake his head. At present, there was truly a lack of evidence, making it difficult to glimpse the essence of the monsters and the Calamity. It seemed he would have to become stronger before proceeding.

Without strength, everything is vanity.

He also had to clean up the mess left behind by the Black Hole Demon.

As a Calamity monster, the Black Hole Demon's power was indeed terrifying. Even though it had now perished, the doomsday process for countless worlds and countless living beings had not stopped; instead, it had accelerated.

It was quite like the sentiment: "If I die, you shouldn't have it easy either," intending to make these worlds and living beings be buried along with the Black Hole Demon.

Xuanyang and the other two, who had initially been incomparably happy to see Li Heng destroy the Mother of Black Holes and had marveled at Li Heng's power, now also sensed that the doomsday process of countless worlds had not stopped.

Their happy hearts immediately stiffened and sank.

Could it be that this doomsday process truly cannot be stopped?

This damned black hole monster, does it still have Pollution even after death?

The three cursed inwardly.

Especially Shen Nu Tian Yao, who at this moment wished she could tear the Black Hole Demon into ten thousand pieces, if the Black Hole Demon still had a complete corpse left. After all, the fact that countless world civilizations and living beings were heading toward doomsday was actually harming the interests of her, the Heavenly Dao, and would ultimately damage Li Heng's interests and plans; this was something she absolutely could not tolerate.

"Rest assured, I will resolve it."

Li Heng comforted the group and spoke calmly.

He did not expect the three people before him to be able to resolve the doomsday Pollution left behind by the Black Hole Demon; if they really could resolve it, that would be strange—it would be considered cheating.

After all, the doomsday power possessed by the Black Hole Demon was a higher-level force. If not for him possessing Source Power, perhaps even he himself would be unable to handle it, and could only watch helplessly as these worlds and living beings headed toward doomsday, on the verge of extinction.

With a slight movement of his mind, Source Power was consumed, and the laws operated accordingly.

As the saying goes, the Great Dao is formless, and the greatest sound is silent.

Therefore, although it looked calm and without ripples at this moment, as if nothing had happened, Li Heng's power to correct the doomsday process had already spread to the ten thousand worlds.

If nothing unexpected happened.

All doomsday processes would stop and return to normal.

But since it was "if nothing unexpected happened," then something unexpected did happen.

However, this unexpected event was not because of any Calamity or monster, but because of a thought that had temporarily occurred to Li Heng.

He suddenly thought of a point: eternal longevity, living on forever, might not be a good thing for a collective, such as a civilized world.

Because for most living beings, immortality might be the greatest pursuit; once immortality is achieved, most living beings will use it for pleasure and will not truly strive for progress.

In this way, most living beings would fall into a "mental twilight" due to the issue of longevity and immortality, lose variables, and finally completely lose their vitality, becoming rigid and dead.

This was a situation Li Heng was unwilling to see.

However, Li Heng also knew that things were not as exaggerated as he thought. After all, infinite space-time meant infinite worlds and infinite civilizations; many things could be overcome through infinity.

Anyway, as long as the total base number is large enough.

There will always be civilizations and worlds that can escape the trap of longevity.

Therefore, Li Heng had never paid much attention to this matter. After all, one couldn't just strip people of their right to immortality; they had, after all, worked hard to cultivate to immortality.

He wasn't a pig farmer.

But now, such an opportunity had appeared.

There is no need to strip others of their immortality; one only needs to exert force on the objective external environment, making their immortality no longer "immortal," bringing down various ends to the doomsday, and pushing them forward!

Li Heng's eyes lit up; this was perfect for an experiment.

An experiment on how tribulation pushes civilization.

Of course, he was not some deranged, mad scientist. The tribulation he intended to impose was implicit, not using suddenly descending natural disasters to force civilization to progress.

That is a twisted melon—it is not sweet, and he does not like it either.

As for how "implicit" it would be, a standard had already vaguely appeared in Li Heng's mind: by imposing a tribulation through a predestined fate.

Just like the law of entropy increase in the Physical Universe of Li Heng's past life: within an isolated system, it will always transition from order to disorder. This law also contains the fate of the universe—no one is immortal!

As for the specific method, for example, one could allow for infinite lifespan, but the lifespan of Heaven and Earth is not infinite; it is no longer eternal, and sooner or later, it will return to Emptiness and restart everything.

If, within the time it takes for this Heaven and Earth to return to Emptiness, no one can achieve Transcendence, and they always like to rely on the trait of infinite lifespan to indulge in pleasure and internal strife.

Calling out some guys who have management authority but like to engage in internal strife.

Then, these guys will return to Emptiness along with Heaven and Earth.

As for those transcendent existences who have transcended the timeline? The setting of the End Tribulation of the epoch simply won't be changed, at most it will be delayed a bit, so that these guys don't always like to infinitely restart the timeline.

Li Heng nodded with satisfaction; no sooner said than done.

And so, in every timeline of the Present World, the doomsday process of the ten thousand worlds and heavens stopped, and the Immortal Gods who were originally facing the Five Decays of Heaven and Man, and the worlds that were in the process of formation, abiding, decaying, and emptiness, immediately recovered.

Countless living beings were shocked, and then overjoyed.

Although they did not know what exactly had happened.

But it seemed they had all escaped a tribulation?

Still on that very thick timeline.

Those transcendent existences gathered together.

But before they could figure out why the End Tribulation of the epoch had appeared, they discovered that the End Tribulation of the epoch had been delayed, and the doomsday aura permeating the ten thousand worlds had also dissipated.

These transcendent existences were greatly astonished.

"What is going on? Has an existence of an even higher realm intervened? Although the End Tribulation of the epoch still exists, it is now very far from the current Node and is no longer a certain-death situation."

A transcendent existence was ecstatic.

He had only just attained the Dao; he did not want to die.

"Does this mean that there is more than one existence at that realm?"

Another transcendent existence speculated.

"Perhaps that is truly the case; could the End Tribulation of the epoch be the manifestation of the struggles of such existences? But why do I have a feeling that this thing called the End Tribulation will very likely not disappear?"

"This thing might continue indefinitely, becoming normalized..."

Once these words were spoken, many transcendent existences fell into silence.

All this time, they had viewed the myriad worlds as a playground; if they ruined it, at worst, the timeline would reset, and they would open Heaven and Earth once more.

But now, it seemed it was no longer just a playground; if they wasted time and waited until the End Tribulation of the epoch, existences like them would also die!

Involuntarily, these transcendent existences, who stood above the timeline and had always held sway over the possibilities of the past, present, and future, felt a vague sense of urgency rise within their hearts...