"Haha, it's just that we brothers haven't seen each other in a long time and I missed you all, so I called you over."
Hong Meng answered Roy's question directly.
Hong Meng wasn't lying.
Roy's past life once said: If I had never seen the light, I could have endured the darkness.
Hong Meng felt the same.
Before Roy and Linley entered the Primordial Space, Hong Meng had sat alone for over a thousand cycles of the great epoch. Perhaps he was lonely and bored, but he could endure it.
After Roy and Linley arrived in the Primordial Space, Hong Meng had brothers with whom he could share joy. When Roy and Linley were absent, he found it unbearable to be alone in his solitude.
Roy and Linley were different, however.
Roy's lifespan wasn't much shorter than Hong Meng's.
After all, when Roy was born, Hong Meng had only created the Magic Universe for less than two cycles of the great epoch.
However, what was better about Roy than Hong Meng was that he had hobbies.
He would cultivate according to his own plans, feeling his progress step by step, thus gaining immense satisfaction.
This was true in the Magic Universe, in the Primordial Space, and also in the Starry Sky Universe.
As for Linley, it had only been tens of trillions of years from his birth until he became a Hong Meng Controller, not even a full cycle of the great epoch.
After becoming a Hong Meng Controller, he spent his time with family and friends. For Linley, he hadn't yet reached the point of finding the world boring.
The only one who had felt bored from beginning to end was Hong Meng.
Roy had noticed this, but Linley was unaware.
Regardless, the three brothers were happy to be reunited.
However, reunions always lead to partings. Linley still had his family, and Roy's Starry Sky Universe was also in a phase of rapid advancement.
Neither of them could stay with Hong Meng forever.
Sensing Hong Meng's reluctance to part, Roy sighed.
"Fine, since Hong Meng is my elder brother, let's organize an event where we can all have fun together."
"Big Brother, Third Brother, the Primordial Space already contains the Hong Meng Universe, the Lin Meng Universe, and my Starry Sky Universe. Why don't the three of us brothers hold a universe ranking battle with the beings within these universes?"
"We'll set a period of ten million years. After ten million years, all beings under the age of ten million can participate in this universe ranking battle."
"The ultimate victor will receive a cup of Hong Meng Osmanthus Tea from Big Brother and can make one wish to us. What do you say?"
The osmanthus flowers Hong Meng used to brew his tea were from the osmanthus tree by the stone table, and the water was the Hong Meng Spirit Water condensed from Hong Meng Qi.
For individuals like Roy, Linley, and Hong Meng, this Hong Meng Osmanthus Tea was merely a delicious beverage.
But for the cosmic beings below the level of Hong Meng, it would be the greatest boon.
Hong Meng Qi could evolve universes and was the highest form of energy in the Primordial Space.
Cosmic beings who came into contact with even a trace of it would be completely dissolved and assimilated by the Hong Meng Qi.
However, this was not a problem at all for Roy and the other two.
Being able to fully control Hong Meng Qi, they could evolve the Hong Meng Osmanthus Tea into laws most suitable for the winner, allowing them to gain the greatest harvest.
And granting the winner a wish was even less of a challenge for the three of them.
They had created the universes themselves; what wish could they not fulfill?
Even resurrecting someone whose soul had dissipated could be done by Roy personally, by pulling them from the River of Time and Space within the universe, bringing them out before their soul dispersed.
"Great, I like that idea!"
Upon hearing Roy's suggestion, Hong Meng's eyes lit up.
The competition itself was secondary; the main thing was that by holding this competition, the three brothers could gather once every ten million years, which pleased Hong Meng immensely.
"I agree as well."
With the second brother's proposal and the eldest brother's agreement, Linley naturally had no reason to disagree.
Moreover, he also felt that having such an event every ten million years would inject a lot of vitality into his universe.
"However, it's not right for all the rewards to come from Big Brother. How about this: each of us brothers prepares one prize. The top three will all receive rewards, and they can choose one of the prizes based on their ranking. What do you think?"
Hearing Linley's suggestion, Hong Meng nodded. "Indeed, often being powerful is not as good as being lucky. Just like Third Brother, without this luck, you wouldn't have become a Hong Meng Controller."
"The prizes we three prepare will vary in strength. If luck is on your side, even third place could get the best prize."
Linley chuckled sheepishly.
Indeed, if he hadn't been lucky enough to have Divine Clones of the four elements—Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire—along with a soul mutation, and also received Roy's inheritance, how could he have achieved what he had today?
"Third Brother's suggestion is good. Coincidentally, I also feel that giving out only one wish for a competition held once every ten million years isn't ideal. Once or twice might not seem like much, but after hundreds of thousands of times, the universe would probably be in chaos because of us."
"How about this: for future competitions held once every ten million years, the prizes will be the items we three prepare and Big Brother's osmanthus tea. For competitions held once every trillion years, we'll give the winner a wish as a reward."
"Okay!"
"Mm, Second Brother is right."
"Alright, that settles it. Big Brother, Third Brother, give me some control over your respective universes. I'll directly integrate the laws of time and space from the Starry Sky Universe into the Hong Meng Universe and the Lin Meng Universe. When the time comes, I'll simply transfer the participants from your universes to the Starry Sky Universe for the competition."
"Coincidentally, my Starry Sky Universe currently possesses thirty-four laws, covering the laws present in both Big Brother's and Third Brother's universes. Within the Starry Sky Universe, the people from your universes will be able to fully exert their strength."
"Good."
With the cooperation of Hong Meng and Lin Lei, Roy successfully integrated his laws of time and space into the Hong Meng Universe and the Lin Meng Universe.
From then on, with just a thought from Roy, he could control the flow of time and space in their universes.
However, neither Hong Meng nor Lin Meng showed any dissatisfaction with this.
Even if Roy controlled their universes' space-time, as long as he didn't show any intent to destroy the universes they created, they were content to let him do as he pleased.
"Big Brother, Third Brother, I'll head back now to start preparing the competition venue. You two should also start publicizing it within your own universes, letting the people know that there are universes beyond their own."
"This will also ignite their passion for cultivation. Who knows, perhaps our next brother will be born because of this competition."
"Indeed."
Hong Meng nodded. "My main universe's Heavenly Venerates have all lost their motivation to cultivate. They're either scheming against each other or indulging in worldly pleasures, completely lacking the drive they had before becoming Heavenly Venerates."
"Perhaps letting them know about the realms beyond Heavenly Venerate will help them regain their conviction."
Lin Lei remained silent.
His universe had only been created for tens of millions of years, almost contemporary to Roy's Starry Sky Universe. Within it, apart from the eight great families he personally appointed, there weren't many powerful individuals.
Meanwhile, their Second Brother Roy's Starry Sky Universe had absorbed the eighteen most elite prodigies from the Magic Universe. In just over twenty thousand years, the strongest, Death Sovereign, had successfully Proved the Dao and become an Emperor, his strength not inferior to the Sovereigns in the Magic Universe.
After another tens of millions of years, who knew how far it would develop?
Fortunately, the universe ranking competition occurred once every tens of millions of years, and only participants under ten million years old were eligible.
Otherwise, Lin Lei felt that within trillions of years, his Lin Meng Universe would have no chance of winning.
After returning to the Starry Sky Universe from Hong Meng's small world, Roy disseminated the news that the universe ranking battle would commence in ten million years.
Upon receiving this news, the sixteen major powers within the Starry Sky Universe began focusing on cultivating the new generation.
After all, only beings born within the last ten million years were eligible to participate in the universe ranking battle held once every ten million years.
The competition held once every trillion years, however, had no age limit for participants.
At that time, the victor would be able to make one request to the creator of the universe, a temptation that no one could resist.
Therefore, anyone who harbored even a sliver of hope for that request began cultivating the new generation.
Regardless of whether the treasures obtained by the new generation would be helpful to them, at the very least, they would have a few more powerful subordinates by the time of the universe ranking battle held once every trillion years, greatly increasing their chances of victory.
After spreading the news, Roy's figure dispersed, and he arrived at the most primordial River of Time and Space in the Starry Sky Universe, beginning the construction of the competition battlefield.
Although the universe ranking battle was an idea Roy had come up with to entertain Hong Meng, for Roy, it was also a way for the beings of other universes to learn about the Starry Sky Universe.
Once other universes had a concept of the Starry Sky Universe, if any of them became Hong Meng beings, they would naturally feel a greater sense of belonging towards the Starry Sky Universe. At that time, perhaps above the Immortal Realm within the Starry Sky Universe, there could be a "Hong Meng Realm."
This would serve as the world where Hong Meng beings live!
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For the ranking competition between the three great universes – the Starry Sky Universe, the Hong Meng Universe, and the Lin Meng Universe – Roy did not intend for the participants to truly die.
Therefore, Roy decided to carve out the battlefield for the universe ranking battle directly within the River of Time and Space.
In battles unfolding within the River of Time and Space, Roy could completely rewind time by one second after a participant died, pulling them back from before their demise and returning them to their original universe.
Of course, participants who died in this manner would naturally be considered defeated.
However, with a genuine near-death experience and the experience of being pulled out of the River of Time and Space by Roy, if their comprehension was exceptionally high and they had a bit of luck, their understanding of time and space might even improve.
For the battlefield, Roy set the rules for the initial selection based on his memories from his previous life.
The preliminary battlefield would be a free-for-all where anyone willing could participate.
Thus, Roy designed the preliminary battlefield to be a world spanning a hundred miles in radius. Ten thousand people would be randomly placed within each world, and after a certain period, the world would shrink, until the final conclusion of the world. Those who survived until the end would be the victors.
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