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Chapter 575, Section 588: Interesting Collections

Chapter 587

The last three words were shouted out with almost all her strength!
"Roar--!"

A roar that was unlike any human's, filled with savagery, chaos, and madness, suddenly burst from Yao's mouth!

Her petite body was instantly enveloped by endless black energy!

Within the black mist, a pair of scarlet, malevolent eyes suddenly opened and stared intently at Xu Ran!
"So...you were...the variable she'd been waiting for all along..."

A chaotic and evil thought exploded in Xu Ran's mind.

"Very good...very good! By devouring you...I can finally break free from this damned cage and return to the world!"

boom!
Black energy surged into the sky, transforming into a demonic claw that blotted out the sun, and slashed down at Xu Ran's head!

The demonic claws were entwined with the corpses of countless shattered universes, stained with the resentment of billions of living beings. Wherever they passed, even this "nothingness" space was torn open with dark gashes!
The power of this claw strike even surpassed the combined strength of the previous thousand tomb guardians!

However, faced with this devastating blow...

Xu Ran, however, simply stood there quietly.

As he gazed at the figure of his beloved, now swallowed by the black mist, a sorrowful emotion flickered in his eyes for the first time.

"I'm late."

he said softly.

The sound wasn't loud, but it clearly penetrated the raging black mist and reached the depths of Yao's last vestiges of consciousness.

Then, he slowly raised his right hand.

There was no earth-shattering grandeur, nor any dazzling divine light.

His movements were so gentle, as if he were brushing away a speck of dust from a painting.

“I say, here, light shall forever dwell, and darkness shall be extinguished.”

Om-!
A beam of light.

A beam of pure, primordial light, indescribable in words and beyond the reach of any gaze, blossomed from Xu Ran's palm.

The light is not intense, but it carries a supreme will to purify, reshape, and define everything.

Light, wherever it passes.

That demonic claw, powerful enough to tear the universe apart, melted away like ice and snow.

The black mist that was enough to pollute the Great Dao dissipated like morning fog.

That chaotic, evil, and tyrannical will, illuminated by the light, let out an extremely shrill scream, and then vanished completely, leaving not even a trace of its existence.

It was as if it had never existed.

Light enveloped the entire shattered world.

The blood-red sky was stained a pure, holy white.

The scorched earth has been revitalized, with blades of grass sprouting from the soil and clusters of pure white flowers blooming in the wind.

The dried-up rivers were refilled with clear water, shimmering in the sunlight.

In that instant, the whole world seemed to move from "death" to "rebirth".

Only the withered ancient tree and the girl beneath it remained unchanged.

The light gently enveloped her, dispelling the last trace of misfortune within her and soothing the weariness and pain of countless ages deep within her soul.

The ferocity and madness on Yao's face slowly faded.

A glimmer of life returned to her empty eyes.

She looked quietly at Xu Ran, at the new, vibrant world behind him, and a serene smile appeared on her face.

"It's so beautiful..."

"Our...home..."

Her body began to become transparent, turning into specks of light that slowly drifted away.

"I'm sorry... I can't... stay with you anymore..."

"Live well... with my share... my share..."

"And...don't...take revenge for me..."

"It...is too strong...you...are no match for it...run away...leave this place...never...never...come back..."

Her voice grew softer and softer.

Xu Ran reached out, trying to catch the scattered specks of light, but he couldn't grasp anything.

He could only watch helplessly as her figure gradually disappeared completely before his eyes.

In the end, only that empty, yet still pristine white dress remained, gently drifting down onto the newly sprouted grass.

as well as……

A crystal-clear seed, seemingly containing a complete world, radiating a soft light...

Xu Ran slowly bent down.

He picked up the dress and gently held the seed in his palm.

He could sense that the seed contained Yao's last and purest source of life.

This was the last gift she left for him.

Xu Ran stood up, looked up, and gazed at the end of this new world that he had reshaped.

There, in the barrier of space, there still exists a tiny, slowly healing "hole".

That evil will just now invaded this world from there.

And its true form is at the other end of that hole...

"Won't I avenge you?"

Xu Ran looked down at the dress in her hand, her voice eerily calm.

"But, Yao."

"Have you ever thought about it?"

"I have traversed endless time and space, walked through countless reincarnations, from the ruins of one universe to the end of another, enduring endless loneliness and solitude, and become so strong..."

"That's all for today."

The words fell.

He carefully folded the dress and put it away in his inner world.

Then, he gripped the seed tightly, lifted his foot, and took a step forward.

His figure vanished from the spot in an instant.

The next moment, he appeared at the end of the world, before the healing "hole".

Without any hesitation, he stepped inside!

Boom!

The entire new world trembled violently.

The world that Xu Ran purified and reshaped, along with the withered ancient tree, seemed to have completed their mission at this moment. They began to collapse and shrink rapidly, eventually transforming into a stream of light that followed Xu Ran's footsteps and disappeared into the "hole."

The core of the ancient ruins, that absolutely "blank" area, has returned to its eternal, unchanging stillness.

It was as if nothing had happened.

……

On board the empty boat.

Tu Feng, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes.

He sensed something, and suddenly looked up at the "gap" that swallowed everything.

Just now, he sensed that the chaos and nothingness within that terrifying region, which could even devour immortals, seemed to have... subsided.

The terrifying power that had made his heart pound, as if it could suck him in at any moment, had been reduced by 99%!

This is……

Is the senior about to come out?!

Tu Feng stood up excitedly, staring intently at the gap.

One breath.

Two breaths.

Ten breaths later... the gap remained as calm as ever, with no one emerging.

Tu Feng's brows gradually furrowed.

Not right.

Chapter 588

Something is very wrong.

The senior's aura not only failed to appear, but instead... completely disappeared!

It was as if that "blank" area, along with everything else, had been forcibly erased from this chaos!
A great unease enveloped Tu Feng's heart.

He gritted his teeth, channeled all his divine power, and his eyes shone with brilliant light as he unleashed his trump card, the "Penetrating Eyes," attempting to see through the mist and glimpse the truth behind the gap.

However, the next second, he let out a painful groan!

Two lines of bloody tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes!

The moment his penetrating divine eye peered in that direction, it was instantly blinded by an indescribable, terrifying aura that surpassed the limits of his comprehension!
His soul was as if it had been struck by an invisible giant hammer, and he almost collapsed on the spot!
"puff--!"

Tu Feng coughed up a mouthful of blood, his body slumped down, his face filled with horror and terror.

he saw...

Just now, in that fleeting glimpse...

He saw it!

Deeper still in that "gap," at the end of that chaos, in that unobservable, incomprehensible true "nothingness" and "darkness."

he saw...

a pair of eyes.

A pair of scarlet eyes, more vast than the Milky Way and colder than the abyss!
Those eyes, merely across endless time and space, cast a cold, emotionless gaze, which almost caused this immortal being to perish on the spot!

what is that? !

What exactly is that...?!

Tu Feng's heart pounded wildly, overwhelmed by an extreme fear stemming from his very survival instincts.

He finally understood where his predecessor had gone.

He didn't come back.

He... went to where those eyes were!

He went...to fight!

An unprecedented chill rose from the deepest part of Tu Feng's Dao heart, instantly spreading throughout his limbs and bones, causing even this immortal who had traversed the Chaos Sea and witnessed the birth and death of countless eras to tremble uncontrollably.

What kind of being is it?
Just a fleeting glance across endless time and space nearly caused his Dao heart to collapse and his soul to perish!

Senior... is this the kind of enemy he's facing?

Tu Feng's face was ashen.

He suddenly remembered Xu Ran's calm yet chilling gaze before he left.

That was neither a resolute decision to die, nor a madness for revenge.

It was a kind of fatalistic calmness, as if one had already foreseen the ending but still had to walk this path to the end.

It turns out that the senior knew from the very beginning what a terrifying truth lay hidden behind that "blank" space.

He came across endless time and space, not to travel, nor to seek the Dao.

He has come to... fulfill a war that has spanned millennia!
"senior……"

Tu Feng murmured to himself, his voice tinged with a sob he himself was unaware of.

This immortal being, who had lived for countless years and had long since become indifferent to life, death, and separation, felt a deep sense of sorrow for a senior he had just met and whose real name he did not even know.

He knew there was nothing he could do.

In the face of battles at that level, immortals are no different from ants.

All he could do was stay here.

Waiting for a miracle... that may never happen.

……

Icy.

Dead silence.

nothingness.

This was Xu Ran's only feeling after stepping into the "hole".

There is no concept of time here, no direction of space, and even the concept of "existence" itself becomes vague and thin.

Countless broken laws, like rusty iron chains, were haphazardly tangled together, floating in this boundless darkness.

Some broken, ancient cosmic remnants, long since devoid of divinity, float silently like abandoned tombstones, telling tales of their former glory and ultimate tragedy.

This is the end of all worlds, the graveyard of eras.

It is the final destination of all light and heat, all life and order.

Xu Ran stood quietly in this graveyard, his white clothes the only splash of color in this eternal darkness.

He didn't release any aura; he was like a stubborn rock, blending into the deathly silence.

He held the seed Yao had left behind, and the warmth in his palm seemed to be the only comfort in this cold, empty void.

He is waiting.

Waiting for that thing that ruined his life, but also made it...

I don't know how much time has passed; it might be a moment, or it might be billions of years.

This void, where even the concept of a place is thin, has finally begun to change.

In the deepest darkness, in that ultimate place where even Xu Ran's divine sense could not reach.

Two scarlet dots slowly lit up.

That is not light.

That's... "reflection".

It is the condensation of darkness, the materialization of nothingness, and the concrete manifestation of the concept of end and destruction!
The moment they lit up, the entire Epoch Graveyard seemed to come alive.

Those broken chains of law began to groan under the weight of their burden.

Those ancient cosmic remnants began to disintegrate silently, turning into the most primitive particles, which were then swallowed up by those two crimson dots.

An indescribable, terrifying will, beyond all words, slowly awakened.

"You came……"

A vast, cold, and emotionless thought, like a tidal wave, swept across the entire void, washing over Xu Ran's soul.

This sound did not travel through any medium.

It resonates directly at the level of "Tao" and echoes at the level of "Li".

It is the master of this void.

It is... the end!
Xu Ran slowly raised his head and looked at the two crimson "blood moons" that were even larger than the Milky Way.

His eyes remained calm.

"I am coming."

He replied.

"Another...interesting...variable..."

That terrifying will seemed to emit a low, guttural laugh, like countless universes collapsing simultaneously.

"When was the last time someone dared to face me directly? Let me think... Oh, right, it was a guy who called himself 'Source.' He tried to use 'One' to fight against my 'Nothingness.' An interesting idea, but unfortunately... he failed."

"The one before that was a monster covered in eyes. It claimed to have seen through the 'end' of all things and wanted to steal the authority of 'ending' from me. In the end, it itself became part of the 'end'."

"And that one... who used his body as a seed to become countless universes... He thought that as long as there were enough 'existences,' they could resist the erosion of 'nothingness.' How naive and laughable."

Those scarlet eyes stared indifferently at Xu Ran, as if looking at an interesting collectible.

"At the end of every era, there will always be 'embers' like you, unwilling to be extinguished, and trying to ignite a new flame."

"But you don't understand."

(End of this chapter)