Inside a spacecraft, a loud voice announced, "Everyone, up ahead is the Umbral Universe. Lord Lu once fought a sequence-rule expert in this universe, a man named Mo Shang. He was eventually executed by Lord Lu during the Heavens Sect's martial declaration. The man…”
This vessel was specifically making a trip across the Endless Frontier. More than 10,000 people were on it, all of whom wanted to visit locations that had once been avoided.
The Endless Frontier had been a nightmare for the people of the Sixverse Association. No one wanted to go to that battlefield, as there was no way to ensure survival after entering. However, it had become possible to freely enter and travel across the Endless Frontier and see places that had once only been known by those who had endured the horrors of the battlefield.
There was a person at the front of the spacecraft who was narrating their journey.
At the back of the ship, people excitedly chatted among themselves.
"We’re back in the Umbral Universe. I never thought that I'd return to this place while still alive, let alone in this manner."
"Have you been to the Umbral Universe before?" someone asked in surprise.
"Heh, it was a long time ago. Back then, I was fighting against Aeternus and the Umbrals in an endless darkness. Everyone was an enemy, aside from yourself, and every second felt like a year. The Umbrals never distinguished between friends and enemies, and I even suspected them of colluding with Aeternus.
"People fell one after another. The war here was brutal."
"For you to have survived this place and returned, you must be a hero," someone commented admiringly.
Someone else agreed, "Yes, a true hero!"
"We came to see the Endless Frontier and the places where countless human elites have shed their blood. We want to remember the past."
"I'm no hero. Only someone like Lord Lu can be called a hero. He’s the reason why Aeternus is no longer a threat, which is why we can now visit the Endless Frontier."
"Of course, Lord Lu is everyone's hero!"
…
In one corner of the vessel, Yu Leng was calmly staring out at the stars, a cold glint in his eyes.
Heroes? Where in this megaverse are there any heroes? They’re nothing more than people who are struggling to survive and scramble to the top. Lu Yin, if you could do it, then so can I! Yu Leng touched his cosmic ring.
"I wonder if any Nests will be found on the Endless Frontier. Has anyone ever found one here?" someone asked, catching Yu Leng's attention.
Someone else replied, "No, I don’t think so."
"Hey, you at the front! Have any Nests ever been found on the Endless Frontier?"
The enthusiastic tour guide for the Endless Frontier paused. "Nests? No, but this place is still a key area that the Heavens Sect searches through."
"It would be great if there was a Nest here. Finding one is a quick path to the top, and it might even be possible to see Lord Lu himself!"
"You’d definitely get to meet Lord Lu. Nests are simply too important to the Heavens Sect. Just thinking about those rewards is enough to make me drool."
"Stop talking! I don’t even want to sightsee anymore! I just want to find a Nest."
"Do you know how many people in the megaverse have gone crazy searching for Nests? Everyone’s desperate to find one, but that depends entirely on luck. While many Nests have been found, given how spread out they all are, there might not even be one in every parallel universe. How big is a universe? Take this Umbral Universe as an example—even if there is a Nest here, it would take countless years to completely search through this place."
"True, it all comes down to luck."
"Everyone, it’d be great if we can find a Nest, but it’s normal not to. Next, we will be entering the Big Stone Universe. That parallel universe…"
Yu Leng calmly stared out at the stars as he absentmindedly stroked his cosmic ring.
He had no plans to nurture his Nest for the time being. The Heavens Sect was cracking down too hard right now. The moment any insect appeared, it would be discovered. The reason why Yu Leng had joined the tour of the Endless Frontier was precisely because of all the insects searching for him.
The Heavens Sect was not able to locate Nests, but the insects could.
Staying in one place only ensured that these insects would eventually find him, and Yu Leng had no interest in such a death sentence, no matter how desperately he wanted to cultivate his Nest.
Yu Leng had actually been pleased to see more and more Nests discovered. If the day came where he was the last person in the megaverse with a Nest, then given enough time, he would be able to fill an entire universe with his insects and force the Heavens Sect to submit to him. He would become the next Aeternus.
The Endless Frontier? It was possible that this slaughterhouse might appear once again.
Yu Leng's expression grew even colder.
In the Heavens Sect, people had been studying the Rivers and Mountains Painting for quite some time.
"How strange… Why can’t we use it? We can’t control this thing’s sequence particles at all. Is it possible that only people who have cultivated the same sequence particles can control the sequence base?"
"Impossible," Progenitor Chen stated. "Yuan Qi was able to control it, and he clearly didn’t cultivate the Law of Near and Far."
"Zhan Yan didn’t cultivate that law either," Lu Yin added.
"Forgotten Ruins God wasn’t able to control this sequence base, and neither can any of us. It’s quite odd."
"Is it possible that the Spirit Nidus has a unique method for controlling their sequence bases?"
"They must."
"The entire Rivers and Mountains Painting is composed of sequence particles. What sort of unique method could they possibly have? Unless…"
Everyone fell silent, exchanging glances.
"Why didn’t Yuan Qi use the Rivers and Mountains Painting when fighting at the Immemorial Citadel? Even if his opponent was Mister Mu, he could have given the sequence base to someone else. There couldn’t have been that many Ortusers on that battlefield, right?"
"The Rivers and Mountains Painting is a powerful weapon. The fact that Aeternus never used it must be because they aren’t able to."
"There’s no connection between the megaverses. When the Boundary Guardians leave ours and then come back, they are able to sense creatures that don’t belong to this megaverse. There must be a reason for that." Lu Yin suddenly remembered something.
"Are you suggesting that the sequence particles could be different?"
"Possibly."
"Then how do you explain your master? Mister Mu also isn’t from this megaverse. If the sequence particles were different between megaverses, he would have told us."
That was certainly a problem. If there were differences between sequence particles from different megaverses, then Mister Mu and others who were from other megaverses definitely would have noticed it and warned Lu Yin and the others. The same was true of Great Elder Shan Gu and Progenitor Xi.