Chapter 377: The Black Hole of Returning to Emptiness

This monster of ending was angry.

This lowly creature was actually so bold.

Originally, it had intended to let this creature off the hook. But now, this lowly creature was actually courting death by offending its majesty, finding its dwelling, and even attempting to strike at it?

Since that is the case, then I shall send you to your end!

Without the slightest hesitation, a low roar was released; this was the sound of destruction, symbolizing the final sound emitted when the World ends and perishes, carrying with it the fate of destined ending and everything returning to Emptiness.

It intended to obliterate this creature right then and there.

As the sound was emitted, Heaven and Earth decayed.

The constantly writhing flesh withered, and the monsters wandering upon the earth seemed as if they had been scorched by the sun; devoid of any moisture, their bodies fell apart into fragments and finally turned into wind-blown sand. The spiritual-energy worms that ate human brains and sucked human souls died in large swaths, and the Heaven and Earth were pitch-black, filled entirely with the corpses of spiritual-energy worms.

Even those distorted and corrupted Heaven and Earth Principles and Order Divine Chain became aged and fragile at this moment, snapping at the slightest touch, creating vast vacuum zones of rules.

This World, which was chaotic, distorted, and corrupt, yet possessed an abnormally Weird vitality, began to die gradually.

This was the ending: everything decaying, everything returning to Emptiness.

But the next moment, it suddenly discovered with astonishment.

This damned, lowly creature was actually fine?

It had ignored its sound of destruction!

Why was this?

Before it could even think carefully about what was going on, Li Heng's punch, delivered through the air, had already arrived before it. However, it did not care; how could a materialized attack possibly harm a conceptualized being like itself, a being that symbolized the ending of Heaven and Earth?

Even if there were some means, it was ultimately just a lowly creature.

Then, it was hit solidly.

Under this punch that ignored material concepts and was imbued with Terror-inducing impact, the monster of ending was instantly knocked to the ground, and a local concept of its body shattered with a boom.

Li Heng withdrew his fist and raised his eyebrows slightly.

This monster was truly durable.

He had thought he could blast it apart with one punch.

The treacherous evil kneeling to the side was stunned; what was going on?

Why would the Great Master actually be knocked to the ground by this punch, looking so disheveled? This shouldn't be! Even if the Master had not yet manifested in the Present World, it was still a Great existence that symbolized the ending of Heaven and Earth!

The monster of ending was stunned by this punch.

However, it quickly reacted, realizing that this creature was not simple and was not as lowly as it had imagined; hidden within that small body was Terror-inducing power.

But how could this Heaven and Earth give birth to a powerhouse of this level? Doubt surfaced in its mind, and then, Great as it was, it already knew the ins and outs of the matter.

So it was a creature from the modern era?

Then that was not strange.

But that was fine too.

If it solved this creature, this powerhouse, in this era, then bringing destruction and ending to the present era later would surely be much easier, right?

Its chaotic intelligence pondered carefully, and it stood up.

Of course, as a conceptualized monster, this act of standing up was not the same as a general creature standing up; rather, it was equivalent to a conversion of concepts, just like waking up from sleep or being reborn from death.

Li Heng clenched his fist.

He didn't mind throwing a few more punches.

After all, this punching bag felt quite good to hit.

However, the next moment, Li Heng discovered that this monster of ending had locked onto him. This locking was not a locking in the material sense, but in the conceptual sense.

Just as a creature has the concepts of life and death, conversely, the two concepts of life and death lock onto that creature, making it unable to escape.

Now, this monster of ending had locked the concept of ending onto him, wanting him to move toward ending and extinction of his own accord. And Li Heng also discovered that this avatar of his was rapidly decaying, yet he could not stop it, and could not even perceive the reason why.

It seemed as if a higher-level power had destined his extinction.

One could describe it like this: it is like a character in a story being killed by other characters or monsters within the story; then that character is dead.

But this character can also use their own power to resist, or run away, or conversely kill the character or monster trying to kill them, thereby avoiding the ending of death and extinction.

This is a very complete logical chain.

If you are killed, you die; if you are not killed, you do not die.

But now, the author suddenly takes a dislike to this story character and writes the character to death directly from a higher level, a higher dimension; this kind of death has no reason or logic at all.

And now, this was the situation Li Heng was facing.

This made him feel somewhat speechless.

What was this?

Summoning higher-level power to perform a dimensional-reduction strike on someone?

Is there any Reason left?

How are others supposed to live with this kind of method of yours?

Li Heng could guarantee that if it were anyone else facing this, they would absolutely be unable to escape the First Tribulation. It was like everyone playing nuclear war, and you instead pulled out a planet-destroying cannon.

How is this supposed to be played? It can't be played.

So he had to teach this monster of ending a little bit of Reason.

He sighed; there was no help for it, he didn't want to use cheats either.

And so, with a movement of his mind, he consumed Source Power!

At this moment, the monster of ending was very happy in its heart.

Because it had already perceived that under the influence of its own power of origin, this creature containing Terror-inducing power was gradually moving toward decay, ending, and extinction.

It also did not believe this creature could resist its power of origin.

Because this power originated from a higher level.

And even, to transcend above time and space!

It is his ultimate Authority as the "Ending"!

"Living being, you should rejoice; this power was originally meant to define the ending of Heaven and Earth, yet it has been used upon you."

"You are already on par with Heaven and Earth, enough to be proud."

The Ending monster transmitted its intent, expressing it thus.

Li Heng was somewhat surprised upon hearing this, because he discovered that this monster possessed more Reason than he had imagined, and its speech was coherent, not at all like the appearance of madness or Chaos.

It was just a bit too arrogant.

"You compare yourself to the ending, but have you ever witnessed the Return to Ruins?"

Li Heng smiled lightly.

At this moment, Source Power protected him at a higher level, ensuring he would not be affected by anything; the so-called destined ending or destined destruction was not even as significant as a wisp of Qingfeng blowing before him.

After all, he could at least feel Qingfeng.

But that sense of so-called ending and destruction had vanished without a trace.

"Return to Ruins?"

The Ending monster was somewhat confused.

He could feel that this term was not simple, and he could also perceive that this term had a connection to his Authority of Ending. But a vague intuition told him there was no need to worry so much.

A living being of this level could not produce the Return to Ruins.

His intuition was not wrong.

Li Heng indeed could not produce the true Return to Ruins.

After all, he had never seen what the Return to Ruins looked like, and if he were to imagine it entirely from scratch, the consumption of Source Power would be far too great.

But he knew what a black hole looked like.

Moreover, the nature of this Desperate Future was very special; it had not fully transformed into True Reality and existed in a state that was half-True Reality and half-Illusion, which could alleviate his concerns regarding the appearance of a black hole.

As long as he didn't create a black hole spirit, it would be fine.

And so.

The most terrifying celestial body from Li Heng's past life in the Physical Universe, from which even light cannot escape, and which possesses a Singularity at its deepest core that renders all laws invalid—a thing known as a black hole descended!