Chapter 1559: Return to Darkness!

In the void, Lin Yan retracted his flames and revealed his divine form.

This battle, though filled with many twists, and though the shadow's final cards repeatedly surprised Lin Yan, ultimately succeeded in killing the shadow.

This battle was not easy.

It lasted a full thousand years, and had he not burned the Light Supreme Gods, this battle would have been far more difficult for Lin Yan.

It might have taken tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, or millions of years to kill the shadow.

He looked at Xiang Xihua: "How are you?"

Xiang Xihua said: "I'm fine."

Lin Yan pulled out the large Life Jade granted by the Goddess of Life and handed it to her: "Eat it."

Xiang Xihua silently took the Life Jade and swallowed it.

"The Dark Universe may not perish—move all life from the Dark Abyss to it, let its primordial essence slowly grow and develop, just as I did in the Heavenly Realm."

Lin Yan whispered.

Xiang Xihua nodded slightly.

"I'll explore this place further. Rest well."

Saying this, Lin Yan's flames surged deep into the void.

Xiang Xihua watched Lin Yan depart, silently healing where she stood.

Her injuries were not particularly severe.

But her greatest problem was that, to buy Lin Yan time, she had fully merged with the darkness, binding herself entirely to the Dark Universe.

Merging with darkness was not the issue—the issue was that the Dark Universe was about to collapse.

Once the Dark Universe perished, her power would continuously fade, likely retreating from the highest tier down to barely retaining the power of a first-tier deity.

For a supreme-tier powerhouse, this was indeed unbearable.

Her power differed from that of the current Heavenly Realm, and Lin Yan's Light-Dark Laws were useless to her.

So she could only rely on herself.

Lin Yan, meanwhile, pressed deeper into the void, determined to see what lay at its heart.

As for the Heavenly Realm, Lin Yan was not worried.

Soon, a hundred years passed.

Xiang Xihua left the void and returned to the Dark Universe.

She spent another hundred years returning to the Dark Abyss.

At this time, many Supreme Gods in the Dark Abyss had dispersed.

Venerable Tianlan had already received Lin Yan's message and ordered these Supreme Gods not to gather here.

Xiang Xihua gazed at the Dark Abyss.

If the Dark Universe perished, the Dark Abyss, deprived of its source, would eventually be worn away entirely by the Heavenly Realm.

This was not subject to Lin Yan's will—it was the tide of the world.

Then, the great transfer of the Dark Abyss began.

Xiang Xihua extracted the two latest Dark Supreme Gods born within the Dark Abyss, and with their aid, along with numerous Law Lords, began relocating the Dark Abyss's dark creatures into the Dark Universe.

It was a grand, sweeping transfer.

The entire relocation took thousands of years and remained incomplete.

At the ten-thousand-year mark, Lin Yan finally returned from the void and reappeared in the Heavenly Realm.

At this time, the Heavenly Realm had grown even more prosperous; the starry heavens were being further developed, and five new Supreme Gods had emerged.

These Supreme Gods were mostly sub-law Supreme Gods.

The primary Laws were now too powerful; the difficulty of becoming a primary-law Supreme God had increased dramatically.

After returning, Lin Yan spent several centuries with his women in his divine realm before reappearing in the Hall of Ten Thousand Gods.

Then, Lin Yan began planning the entire world's structure.

The Abyss would still be preserved.

Where there is light, there must be darkness—only darkness now resides on the world's opposite side.

Yet even in the world of light, perfect radiance is impossible; shadows and chaos still persist.

Thus, the Abyss remains necessary.

Moreover, destroying one Abyss does not guarantee another will arise.

It is like a cup of water—no matter how clear, after many years, impurities still settle at the bottom.

The Abyss is where these impurities accumulate.

It is also the place where vast amounts of negative energy reside.

Succubus Natasha will become the new Lord of the Abyss, governing it for Lin Yan, while the God of Shadows will assist her.

Their task is simple: continuously develop the Abyss, then let Lin Yan harvest it.

Other Abyss creatures might secretly resent this, even sabotage it.

But they will not.

They have already given their bodies and souls to Lin Yan; for him, even destroying the Abyss would be acceptable.

On the world's dark side, after ten thousand years, the entire Dark Abyss was finally fully relocated—it vanished from this world and appeared within the Dark Universe.

Even with the vast size of the Dark Abyss, it could not fill the Dark Universe, occupying only a small portion.

Under Xiang Xihua's orders, the Supreme Gods and Dark Law Lords within the Dark Abyss spread outward across the Dark Universe.

This strategy proved effective.

Tens of thousands of years later, the rate of the Dark Universe's destruction steadily slowed.

Hmm, even if the Dark Universe were to be destroyed, from the black shadow's temporal scale, "soon" would still mean at least hundreds of millions or even billions of years.

So Xi Hua still has plenty of time.

"Do you need my help?"

Another hundred thousand years passed, and Lin Yan arrived within the Dark Universe, gazing at her.

In the end, Lin Yan remained in the Dark Universe for a million years, though he occasionally returned to To the Heavenly Realm to reunite with his women.

After a million years, the dark creatures within the Dark Universe multiplied endlessly, and the momentum of the Dark Universe's destruction was entirely halted.

But to flourish would require vast, vast amounts of time.

And what Lin Yan now had in the greatest abundance was time.