Yang Yuan’s heart was shaken: "What kind of powerful being requires the Game Government to act like this? Since you know there is a strong enemy, why not unite? I feel that internal strife is so severe, the consumption of the strong is massive, and the number of strong beings ultimately nurtured is probably less than those consumed, right?"

Zhao Tianya took another sip of tea, his eyes carried an inexplicable smile: "Unite? Do you know what unity means?"

Yang Yuan looked at him calmly.

Zhao Tianya continued: "The Game Government is numerous and powerful, so it decided to sacrifice other forces to achieve its own goals. And our Creation Continent... well, now it’s called the Creation Continent, though it no longer exists. Our alliance, and most other places, were treated as sacrificial pawns, we were sacrificed, treated as expendable, or energy sources, to cultivate stronger successors. The Game Government never even consulted us, deciding on its own to sacrifice us. In such circumstances, how do you think we could unite? Or do you think we should also sacrifice ourselves? For the whole universe, sacrificing ourselves?"

At this point, he couldn’t help but chuckle coldly: "Even though we’ve always known there’s a strong enemy, a foreign threat, up until now, I don’t even know who this strong enemy is, and yet we’re expected to sacrifice ourselves. Do you think it’s possible? We don’t even know who the enemy is, and there’s this arbitrariness, why is the cosmos in such a state today? It’s because the Game Government assumed superiority and messed the entire universe up."

Yang Yuan asked in surprise: "You don’t know who the enemy is either? Then you should at least know where the enemy comes from, right?"

"This is a long story."

Zhao Tianya said: "My Zhao family has a long history, back when the universe was still complete, the ancestors of my Zhao family were already around..."

"Wait, what do you mean by a complete universe?" Yang Yuan was puzzled.

"Just exactly as it sounds. The current universe is incomplete, the grand universe you see is, in fact, a very fragmented one."

Zhao Tianya said: "Countless ages ago, my ancestors were just little fellows in the Law Enforcement Realm, naturally, by today’s standards, they would be Earth-level strong, but only at the initial stage of Earth-level. At that time, an unimaginable existence, for its own growth, swallowed half the universe and ultimately transcended completely. That existence took all human race and even all friendly races with it, leaving only a very small fraction of the human race and other races in this universe."

Yang Yuan’s heart trembled, and he didn’t dare interrupt, patiently continuing to listen.

"Nowadays, our universe is itself already at a stage on the verge of destruction, it has been us Demon God creatures keeping the universe operating."

Zhao Tianya continued: "Currently, in the whole universe, there’s an unwritten rule: all Demon God creatures must not settle on Starfall Continent, so our Zhao family had to leave Starfall Continent, creating a big world in the starry sky. Other Demon God level creatures; some created planets, others created worlds, making the originally empty starry sky much improved, planets increased again. And our Zhao family even brought back a once-lost Mother Star ’Earth’..."

Zhao Tianya seemed to be talking to himself, recounting past history with complex emotions: "Such an unimaginable existence, even now, I still find it hard to believe, hard to fathom there would be such a being. But after knowing about the external enemy, I somewhat believe it, yet have never seen it, only knowing the enemy is very powerful. The Game Government aims to cultivate an existence surpassing Demon God to fight against that enemy from outside the universe, they don’t care about the number of Demon God creatures, as their ultimate goal is to cultivate an existence beyond Demon God. Merely Demon God, no matter how numerous, it’s useless, consumes just as much."

An existence beyond Demon God!!

Yang Yuan was shocked: "Isn’t Demon God the highest level of existence? There’s actually something beyond Demon God?"

Zhao Tianya smiled: "Demon Gods are merely the highest existence within the universe. But you must know, beyond the universe, there are even broader worlds. Just like Earth-level beings can barely survive in the starry sky, but can’t traverse it, Celestial-level beings can barely leave the universe but can’t survive outside, in fact, because the rules of Celestial-level beings come from the universe, they can’t be separated from the universe for too long, only Demon God level existences can survive outside the universe."

Yang Yuan couldn’t help but take a deep breath, he thought the universe was already big enough, but didn’t expect there to be even broader worlds outside of it.

"So, what lies beyond the universe?"

"Beyond the universe..."

Zhao Tianya slightly lifted his head, his gaze seemed to penetrate the entire alliance, even through the entire universe, looking beyond, with an inexplicable look in his eyes he said: "Some call it the Cosmic Sea, others the void, because there’s nothing there. Or said, there’s only universe upon universe, our universe is just one among the Cosmic Sea."

Cosmic Sea?

Void?

Yang Yuan also couldn’t resist looking up, yet he couldn’t see anything.

He’s only in the late stage of Celestial-level now, not yet transcended this universe, it’s impossible to see beyond.

Seeing the yearning look in Yang Yuan’s eyes, Zhao Tianya chuckled: "Though Celestial-level beings can barely survive beyond the universe, I advise you not to venture there, because the external enemies are extremely formidable, even Demon God level beings are reluctant to go out, relying on the universe to protect themselves. Even I, haven’t left the universe for over a hundred million years, this Primordial Cosmos is a shackle to us, but in a way, isn’t it also a form of protection?"

Saying this, he shook his head with a wry smile, seeming a bit mentally unstable.

In Yang Yuan’s previous life, on Earth, they would describe it as being a bit neurotic.

He laughed saying: "Your talent is exceptionally strong, and being part of the Conceptual System, that’s supposed to be a good thing, but... did you know the Game Government has orders to eliminate Conceptual Superpower Users?"

Yang Yuan’s heart raced: "I was just about to ask the Alliance Leader."

Zhao Tianya didn’t beat around the bush, explaining: "The unimaginable existence back then was a Conceptual lifeform, its growth could not be suppressed, considered a taboo. Eventually, it grew into an existence beyond our imagination, and the universe’s energy couldn’t sustain it anymore, so it devoured half the universe directly, though such existence has extremely high potential, to prevent the universe from suffering again, the Game Government decided to eliminate this type of existence. After all, while this type of existence has sufficient potential, it cannot be controlled. They seek strong beings they can control, not taboo entities that may lose control at any moment."

At this, Zhao Tianya wore a face of sarcasm: "They want to cultivate strong beings to protect themselves, yet fear those strong beings might lose control, it’s ridiculous, if they continue like this, let alone cultivate defenders, they’d be lucky not to end up destroying the entire universe."

Yang Yuan’s eyes flickered as he silently drank tea.

Although he felt that Zhao Tianya probably wouldn’t deceive him, as the other party had neither the reason nor position to do so, what Zhao Tianya said was indeed quite unfathomable.

He hadn’t directly accepted the other’s words at face value, needing to verify it himself. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Thinking about this, he couldn’t help but ask: "Does the Alliance Leader know what means the Game Government uses to turn the world into a game? Behind the Game Government, is there also a Demon God-level conceptual being?"

"Probably not."

Zhao Tianya shook his head: "The Game Government advocates eliminating Conceptual Superpower Users to prevent such universe-devouring beings from emerging again, hence they themselves likely don’t have conceptual beings, otherwise the whole universe wouldn’t agree, and they’d be collectively attacked."

This makes some sense, but it’s not absolute.

Because Zhao Tianya didn’t use a definite tone, but said ’probably’.

So the true nature of things remains to be verified.

"Regarding the means the Game Government uses to turn the world into a game..."

Zhao Tianya paused: "Based on our deduction and speculation, they probably have a unique marvel that surpasses Divine Artifact Level, that marvel, might be a construct, even if not a construct, it should be related to construction."