Chapter 250: Void Is All Dark

"Are you Heaven?"

Li Heng was not particularly surprised and asked calmly.

In this space, the voice that seemed to be everywhere sounded again. "Yes and no. According to the way you living beings put it, I am merely a part of the complete Heaven."

"Then what has become of the complete Heaven now?"

Li Heng continued to ask.

"The complete Heaven no longer exists; Heaven is no longer complete."

The voice continued to answer.

"In other words, all the various parts of Heaven have split apart?"

"That is correct, they have split."

Li Heng was thoughtful.

"Then that means the part that has undergone aberration has the upper hand? And you, who were originally normal, are at a disadvantage?"

After a long silence, the voice sounded again.

"That is just about the situation."

"Once the entire Heaven is twisted and aberrated, this World, this Heaven and Earth will completely fall, and the living beings and races that originally existed in this Heaven and Earth will embark on a path of destruction."

Li Heng frowned.

"Then what exactly is the power that caused you to be twisted and aberrated?"

"I am not sure. It appeared suddenly, and its full scope cannot be discerned. By the time we reacted, it had already invaded this Heaven and Earth, causing the Heaven-toppling anomaly you saw a hundred years ago."

This voice seemed to tell Li Heng everything it knew.

"You cannot solve it yourselves?"

Li Heng asked a redundant question.

"We cannot solve it. This power is very mysterious; none of our defenses are effective. Only by hiding can we avoid the erosion of this power, but I estimate that we cannot hide for much longer."

The voice answered.

"You really have no clues at all?"

Li Heng continued to press.

"We do; the past history is changing."

The voice answered.

Hearing this, Li Heng's pupils constricted. If that were truly the case, then it would be troublesome. Was it really, just as in his previous jest, starting to mutate from the Time Axis?

Did this Heaven and Earth possess such high-level power?

"If you are in such a bad state, then what about other worlds?"

Since this Heaven and Earth contained visitors from outside the territory and knew he was an outsider, it must have the ability to observe the outside world, right?

The voice fell into a rare, long silence.

"What, you are unwilling to tell me?"

Li Heng frowned and said, feeling somewhat displeased.

Was it afraid he would want to run away?

Hearing Li Heng's words, the voice finally appeared again.

"It is not that I am unwilling to tell you, but as a living being, you might fall into despair knowing this fact. And according to my predictions and calculations of the future, the consequences of you knowing this are very bad."

Li Heng gave a dry laugh.

"You can predict my future?"

"I cannot," the voice answered.

"Since you cannot, why should you believe your predictions and calculations? Speak quickly, do not be a riddle-maker; everything is kept hidden. Be careful, or I might really leave this Heaven and Earth."

Li Heng said, half-jokingly and half-seriously.

In his view, this voice clearly had some issues as well.

It was too anthropomorphic.

"Fine, I will speak."

"The surrounding Void has darkened, and everything is vast and indistinct."

The voice answered.

Li Heng frowned. He had originally wanted to say that he was asking about other worlds, so why talk about the Void? But upon second thought, perhaps this was the situation of other worlds: the Void Is All Dark, and everything is vast and indistinct.

This statement had multiple possibilities.

Either Heaven and Earth did not possess the means to observe other worlds.

Or other worlds had also gone dark.

At the very least, everything within the range that Heaven and Earth could interfere with had gone dark.

Li Heng sighed inwardly; this was truly terrible information.

Composing his mood, he spoke.

"I have finished asking; what important matter do you have for calling me here?"

The voice was silent for a long while, then spoke.

"I would like to ask you to preserve the Fire Seed of the World."

Li Heng's expression was subtle; this sounded like someone entrusting him with an orphan.

He had thought this voice might be asking him to save the world and become a savior, but it only wanted him to preserve the Fire Seed? Was this a lack of confidence in him, or was it because the reality was too desperate?

"If, as you say, the Void Is All Dark, then what is the point of preserving the Fire Seed?" Li Heng asked.

"There is no point," the voice answered.

"Then why did you let me preserve the Fire Seed?"

Li Heng asked in surprise.

"This is Heaven's death throes, nothing more."

"Then it seems you are truly desperate."

Li Heng replied.

The voice fell silent again upon hearing this, as if it had been struck where it was vulnerable. But just as Li Heng was about to speak again, the voice suddenly sounded, "You are right, I am too desperate."

"But this is also the truth."

"In this Calamity, even if an Ancient Immortal God were to descend and return, they would be powerless." The tone of this sentence sounded very helpless and weary.

Li Heng noticed the term Ancient Immortal God.

"Are there really Immortal Gods?"

"Or has this World of yours truly produced Immortal Gods?"

"Naturally, there are. The Great Sun Path you cultivate is the path of the Immortal Gods," the voice replied.

"Then where did the Immortal Gods go, and what exactly is that Great Sun?"

"The Immortal Gods have already gone far away, their traces are faint, and they have abandoned us. As for the Great Sun of this Heaven and Earth, it is actually a corpse, the corpse of an Immortal God."

"In a sense, Heaven and Earth were born because of the Great Sun."

The voice continued to answer.

Li Heng's expression was somewhat strange; this truth was truly unexpected. Was he actually connecting to a corpse all this time? And what kind of Calamity caused this Great Sun Immortal God to die?

Could it be related to the anomaly suffered by Heaven and Earth?

But that makes no sense.

The anomaly only appeared a hundred years ago.

Yet this Immortal God might have existed since the beginning of Heaven and Earth.

Could it be...

"Then what anomaly appeared on the Great Sun?"

He thought of the shadows and black spots on the Great Sun.

"I don't know," the voice replied.

"You are Heaven, and you don't know?" Li Heng asked back.

"Because I was only born recently. The anomaly a hundred years ago triggered the most fundamental defense mechanism of Heaven and Earth, so I was born as the Fire Seed to maintain the last trace of Heaven's purity."

The voice replied.

"So preserving the Fire Seed means preserving you?"

Li Heng asked.

"No, the process of distortion and aberration is unstoppable. Even if I hide, distortion and aberration are only a matter of time."

"Then what is this so-called Fire Seed?"

"The Fire Seed is the part of me that has not been distorted."

The voice replied.

Li Heng fell into deep thought upon hearing this.

If this voice was not lying, no wonder it was so anthropomorphic. It turned out it was born because of the anomaly a hundred years ago, and had it also been subtly affected by the distortion and aberration?

"Assuming I believe your words for now."

"But I want to ask, is it really necessary to preserve the Fire Seed?"

"Is there a possibility that this World can still be saved?"

Li Heng said with a smile.

Beijun, above the ruins of Wuhua County.

Xuan Dao saw Lie Dangkong smash a Demon General to pieces with one punch, swallowed his saliva, and hesitated to speak. He always felt he had been played; if the old man was this strong, why drag it out for so long?

But the next moment, a voice rang out, and he knew the answer.

"Killing the Demon General, not bad, human, you did your best."

This superior of the Sunset Organization stood with his hands behind his back, looking down at Lie Dangkong and Xuan Dao.

Xuan Dao's pupils shrank, and he couldn't help but feel terrified.

The spiritual perception of the Dharma Aspect Realm urged him to flee quickly; if he did not escape immediately, he would face a disaster of Life and Death. He was horrified in his heart: what kind of realm was this demon?

Could it be a legendary Heavenly Human?

Didn't his master say that Heavenly Humans could not take action?

So is this the Dharma Aspect Realm?

He was puzzled; was the gap in the Dharma Aspect Realm this large? Being in the same Dharma Aspect Realm, would it still give him a feeling of terror?

"Half-step Heavenly Human, what a grand gesture."

Lie Dangkong said coldly.

"Your Sunset Organization sent a powerhouse like you to Beijun?"

"Not bad, good eye, to actually know we are the Sunset Organization. However, I must correct a mistake of yours: this master is in the Half-step Heavenly Demon Realm, not your lowly Heavenly Human."

This superior was composed of black shadows and did not resemble a human.

"Eh? Such pure Great Sun power remaining nearby."

Suddenly, this superior looked at Lie Dangkong with some pleasant surprise.

"Could you be the target I was looking for?"

He reached out a large hand toward Lie Dangkong, and the surrounding Heaven and Earth Principles and Law Divine Chains began to riot, twisting and killing toward Lie Dangkong.

Lie Dangkong let out a cold snort, "Small tricks."

The Dharma Aspect behind him emerged once more, the Haohan Dari rose, illuminating everything, suppressing the rioting Heaven and Earth Principles and Law Divine Chains, and then bloomed with divine light, shining toward this exalted one.

This exalted one was not alarmed but delighted, laughing out loud.

"So that's how it is. No wonder you could kill a Magic General. It seems this venerable one has taken the lead and found the target! Since that is the case, I will grant you the qualification to know this venerable one's name."

"My name is Yin Long, die for this venerable one!"

His momentum surged, and the originally formless aura instantly manifested and solidified, scattering the divine light shone by Lie Dangkong in an instant, while a vast phantom vaguely emerged behind him.

First was a vast Gong Dian.

This Gong Dian was surging with Magic Qi, incomparably fierce and evil, filled with Ominous, and a Terror-inducing Demon God sat in command within, seemingly corresponding to the Dao Palace realm of the human race's Dharma Aspect.

But this was not the end; the phantom changed again in an instant.

An Immortal Terrace grew within the Dao Palace, and this Terror-inducing Demon God walked onto the Immortal Terrace, reaching the very peak of the Immortal Terrace, sitting cross-legged with eyes closed atop it, retracting the Terror-inducing aura from his entire body until he became plain and unremarkable.

Yet this plainness made Xuan Dao feel increasingly heart-palpitating, feeling that this was the gestation of Great Terror within the ordinary, and once the gestation was successful, it would be earth-shattering.

Sure enough.

The next moment, this Demon God stood up; his momentum did not erupt, but his figure was like a god or a saint, and just by standing there, he surpassed all mortal beings, his status beginning to rise.

He took the final step, crossing the Immortal Terrace, and arrived in the vast Void.

His figure merged with the Void, obscure and mysterious.

Lie Dangkong narrowed his eyes, his expression grave.

It really is Return to Void, the Half-step Heavenly Human Realm.

This phantom changed quite a lot, the process frequent, but in reality, everything happened in a flash; in just an instant, Yin Long's aura rose infinitely, incomparably Terror-inducing.

On Xuan Dao's side, an illusion even arose.

This demon named Yin Long seemed to be everywhere.

The vast Void was him, and he was the Void!

"Xuan Dao, guard your heart and mind, do not be captured by the Godly Intent."

Lie Dangkong noticed Xuan Dao's situation, his Great Sun Dharma Image shook, causing the light to shine heavily upon Xuan Dao, and he shouted sternly.

"Oh? Do you think this is Godly Intent?"

Yin Long smiled lightly upon hearing this and pointed a finger; the Void shook instantly, whipping up endless fierce might, intending to Town and kill the two directly.

Lie Dangkong shouted in anger, his Dharma Aspect behind him sublimating to the extreme.

It was like the Great Sun in the sky, blooming with Infinite light.

But unfortunately, the gap in power and realm was simply too great.

The Dharma Aspect had not bloomed for long before it was extinguished by the might of the Void, causing Lie Dangkong to suffer a severe backlash, spitting out a mouthful of blood, his aura withering, about to be Town and killed by Yin Long's will.

At this moment, laughter suddenly rang out nearby again.

"How long has it been since I returned? You have all fared so poorly?"

"Fortunately, I had her open a passage."

Li Heng's figure quietly emerged.