As she watched the darkness leave, Xiang Siyu said arrogantly, "Even if you escape with the Death Universe, where can you go?"
She then turned to Lu Yin, her gaze once again haughty. "She gave you good luck and allowed you to save your civilization, but the universe is fair. Where there's good luck, there's bad luck. Humans once tried to resist and failed. You're not even a seed." With that, she disappeared.
Red Hero also disappeared.
Before Red Hero left, he exchanged a glance with Lu Yin. That glance brought him back to the time when he had betrayed humanity and joined the unknown. To him, it was the glory of escaping death. He actually ignored Lu Yin.
Human civilization should not be left behind.
Only Lu Yin, the old man, and Ji were left.
Lu Yin looked at the old man. "What's going on?"
"I can't explain what happened to Ninth Base. Go back. The Core is in complete chaos. No one knows what will happen to this region."
The old man chuckled. Then he pulled out a portal. "Kid, let me give you a word of advice. Don't ever try to fight against the power of the Lord. Everything you cultivate comes from them." With that, he stepped through the portal and vanished.
Lu Yin's eyelids twitched.
Around him, time and space were in chaos and constantly changing. The Clear Sky Lock Array was shattering.
In the distance, the universe he had seen before was also in chaos. The creatures were sometimes old and sometimes young. Space was constantly changing, leaving scars. Countless creatures died, and the fear brought about by the Karmic Shackles was like heavenly might.
Some creatures were heavily injured but were healed by the white light.
It was as if death was a luxury to them.
At this moment, the Core was incomparably unfamiliar.
Lu Yin.
He looked at Ji. "You're coming with me?"
Ji spoke in a low voice. "I want to go to the Death Universe. Send me to the nearest abyss. Maybe I can be taken away."
"Senior, you …"
"I have my responsibilities. No one knows what will happen in the end. Lu family's kid, live well."
Lu Yin looked at Ji deeply and did not delay any further. He teleported with him and quickly approached the abyss where he had once controlled the Samsara. That place now belonged to Ji.
Ji had already been there before participating in this battle and could use the Death Shift.
After sending Ji off, Lu Yin teleported back to the three universes.
At this moment, the three universes were in chaos. Time, space, karma, and life were all in chaos.
No one knew what had happened.
Even Master Green Grass, Lord Green Lotus, and the others could not explain it.
They tried their best to stabilize the three universes, but the chaos caused by the Master Daoist's power was too much for them to handle.
All objective existences in the universe originated from the power of the Lord. The power of time, which was clearly seen, could also become a sharp weapon to kill the Eternal Life Realm at this moment.
Azure Lotus Defense wanted to stop the karmic chaos, but he ended up vomiting blood.
Mister Mu wanted to suppress the tributary of the Long River of Time, but he had inexplicably aged a lot. Even he himself could not stop it.
Ba Rong jumped up and down, but space seemed to be playing a joke on him, shifting his position to an unbelievable angle.
The Hui Jin Civilization's technological weapons continued to explode.
Space was being squeezed.
No one could escape.
From afar, the three universes were being pulled apart.
The Mother Tree of the Tian Yuan Universe could shatter at any moment.
…
Under the unfamiliar starry sky, everything was also thrown into chaos by the power of the Lord.
Wang Wen and the Art of a Thousand Trickeries
They stood facing each other, watching calmly.
"I haven't played enough yet. What a pity."
The Art of a Thousand Trickeries looked at Wang Wen and stared at him.
Wang Wen shrugged. "Don't look at me. I didn't expect it to be so fast. There must have been an unforeseen event in this battle. In my prediction, the Lord of Death should not appear so soon. It seems that something else has lured him out in advance."
The Art of a Thousand Trickeries looked in the direction of the Death Universe. In this battle, the purpose of the Death Universe was to consume the unknown and buy time. No one knew the meaning of this time except for it and the creatures of the Death Universe. Even the Death Sea's Nether Pressure was not clear.
The unknown's purpose was the Lord of Death from the beginning to the end.
They were also consuming the power of the Death Universe, striving for a decisive battle, and looking for an opportunity to let the power of the Lord of Death descend into the Death Universe.
The Art of a Thousand Trickeries originally thought that the unknown would not be so easy to achieve.
However, it underestimated the determination of the Lord of Death to descend, and it also overestimated the consequences of the Lord of Death's battle at Ninth Base.
Its wrong judgment led to the change of the situation at this moment.
Compared to this, the battle between the unknown and the Abyss of the Death Universe and who lived and who died was really not that important.
However, Wang Wen would not lie. His layout had never been wrong. This meant that there was indeed an unexpected change in this battle, which caused the Lord of Death to appear in advance.
What was this change?
"Alright, we have to go too. No matter what happens, it has nothing to do with us. There's no place for you and me in this vast space. Let's go back."
Wang Wen stretched his back and looked into the distance with a smile. "What a pity, Your Highness Chess Piece, you won't have the chance to take revenge on me anymore."
The Art of a Thousand Trickeries felt that it was a pity that it had not won yet.
However, Chen was placed in the Abyss, so it was fine.
The Lord of Death
Leaving with the Death Universe would also bring the seven Abyss with him. This was also the reason why it did not allow Chen to leave the Abyss in the beginning.
Since it was a bet, how could there not be a winner?
The Lord of Death would not be defeated so easily, and Chen would not die so easily either. There would be a day when they would meet again. At that time, if Chen could really successfully merge the two powers, it would win.
Thinking of this, it looked at Wang Wen, and the corner of its mouth curled up into a smile.
Wang Wen looked at it. "Your smile is making me uncomfortable. What are you holding back?"
The Art of a Thousand Trickeries did not speak. It put its hands behind its back, and its body gradually disappeared.
Wang Wen retracted his gaze, and its body gradually disappeared as well.
Everything was over.
In the end, it still could not find Hong Shuang. Forget it. Since you've taken that path, I'll wait for you at the end.
That's when you'll see what true despair is.
…
Lu Yin returned to the three universes. His consciousness swept through them, and just like the outside world, the entire three universes were changing.
Every minute, every second, there were countless people and creatures dying tragically. There were also countless creatures encountering unforeseen events. Cultivators could no longer control their own cultivation and control their own bodies. Mortals could no longer see the world clearly. The elderly instantly became young, and the young instantly became old. There were even people whose bodies were torn apart as they walked.
The entire universe had changed.
The tributary of the River of Time was boiling and moving towards the main River of Time.
Zhao Ran tried her best to steer the boat, trying to suppress the pulling force.
Lu Yin looked on blankly, feeling a sense of helplessness that he had never felt before. Even when the three universe disasters and those absolute powerhouses had attacked him, he at least had the ability to resist. Even if he died, he could drag one of them away.
However, at this moment, he did not even know where the enemy was.
This was a backlash that originated from the power itself.
Humans were born from the heavens and earth.
They would be taken back.
He heard countless people calling for him, calling for Master Lu, begging him to take action. In their minds, Lu Yin was omnipotent.
However, Lu Yin really did not know what to do.
Suddenly, an incense stick appeared outside the three universes and was ignited.
Lu Yin stared at the incense stick in a daze. What was that?
A figure walked out from behind the incense stick. He could not see its form, but it flickered with a gentle white light, just like the white light that illuminated the entire area.
"I'll burn an incense stick for you. You must not extinguish it."
It was a simple sentence, but Lu Yin was instantly enlightened from his ignorance.
This sentence was not said to him, nor was it said to the three universes. Instead, it was said to the surroundings, to the area that was affected by the power of the Dao of Time.
Some kind of existence was burning incense and worshipping the universe.
Why was it worshipping?
Only when one died would one be worshipped. As long as the incense stick was not extinguished, one's life would not die.
This white light brought about vitality.
However, this vitality was not targeted at life itself, but at the area.
Life could be extinguished, but the area would not.
Why did this incense stick appear here?
This was the bad luck brought about by the Lovesickness Rain.
How could the three universes be protected?
He saw the universes in the distance disappearing one after another. The universes still existed, and everything within them seemed to have been restarted. Even if all life was enveloped by this white light and cured of their chronic ailments, they would soon be swallowed up by time. Even if they missed time, there would still be karma, fate, and everything that could decide their fate.
These signs would soon spread to the three universes.
If not for the many Eternal Realms obstructing the three universes, they would have already fallen to the same state as those universes.
Was there any way to protect the three universes?
What should he do? What should he do?
Lu Yin
Yin's gaze was crazed as he looked at the boundless starry sky. This spreading power had created life, but it was also taking away life.
Human civilization should not be taken away.
Lu Yin realized that this was the truth behind the War of Jiulei.
What allowed civilizations to interact with each other? What was a great threat to other civilizations? These were all fake. At most, these were the triggers for war. They were resentment that had accumulated over countless years, just like how Jiulei had threatened other civilizations by killing the Ten-Eyed Crow.
These were not the true reasons for war.
The true reasons had to be related to the power of the Dao of Time.
That was why the old man had reminded him.
Countless scenes flashed through Lu Yin's mind. These were his experiences since the beginning of his cultivation. Thousands of years passed in a flash, and one scene after another appeared. Finally, it stopped at the scene of Red Hero kneeling in front of Xiang Siyu and Wang Wen's mysterious smile.
Perhaps Jiulei had also encountered a similar situation.
However, while Jiulei had been able to resist, the three universes had been unable to do so.
Patriarch Shan had mentioned in the armor fragment that the War of Jiulei was a battle for the power of the Dao of Time. This should be the current situation, but Jiulei had not been so passive. They had been able to fight for it, but the three universes had not been able to retaliate at all.
Jiulei, Jiulei … Lu Yin suddenly teleported away and reappeared outside Xiang City.
Here, the stone golems were panicking. The more powerful a creature was, the more despair it felt. The more they gained in the universe, the more they would be robbed.
Mortals only had their lives, but Eternal Realms had their cultivation and comprehension of the universe.
The stone golems were like that.
Lu Yin stepped into Xiang City.
Since Jiulei had resisted, Xiang City was also known as the strongest city.
If it could defend against turbid treasures, then Lu Yin would use Xiang City to try and defend it.
He wanted to see if Xiang City could protect the three universes.