Primordial Era: I am a treasure trove, full of magical treasures.

Xuanbao waited for a hundred years, but the person who gave him that comfortable feeling never appeared.

He expected a fierce battle and was even prepared to self-destruct 8000 innate spiritual treasures and make a hasty escape. But the mysterious person seemed to only glance at him from afar before losing interest and making no further move.

"Am I overthinking this?" Xuanbao muttered to himself, stroking his chin as he stood at the edge of the World Tree space.

Bai Lu shook her head: "No. At our level, a being that could give you that feeling would never release its aura for no reason. It must be plotting something, but it's just not our concern for now."

"Let's hope so." Xuanbao shrugged and continued counting his spoils.

Just then, a terrifying wave from the depths of chaos swept in like an invisible tsunami!

The fluctuation was so intense that the entire World Tree space trembled violently. Xuanbao abruptly looked up, his gaze piercing through the barriers of the World Tree space, looking into the depths of chaos. His pupils suddenly contracted—

He saw that in the deepest depths of chaos, an extremely dark light was spreading out at an unparalleled speed. Wherever that light passed, the chaotic turbulence vanished silently, the void disappeared like pencil marks erased by an eraser, and even the laws themselves—the law patterns that constitute the foundation of chaos—melted, dissipated, and returned to nothingness like thin ice before that black light.

For the first time, Xuanbao's voice trembled slightly.

He had witnessed countless powerful figures in action. The sword intent of the Three Pure Ones, the laws of the Chaos Demon God, the immense power of the Destiny Demon God manipulating the threads of fate—but this scene before him had already exceeded his understanding of "power." It was not an attack, not destruction, but—annihilation.

Eradicate everything that exists from its very source.

Nothingness descends

In the eternal desolation, the Lord of Nothingness finally took that step.

He stepped out of that forbidden zone that had slumbered for countless eons, descending upon the chaos for the first time in his complete form. His figure was not tall, even appearing somewhat ethereal, as if he might dissipate into the wind at any moment. But the instant he appeared, the entire chaos seemed to freeze for a moment—the demons who were attacking each other simultaneously felt a tremor from their very souls, involuntarily ceasing their actions.

"chaos……"

The voice of the Lord of Nothingness resounded in the consciousness of every Chaos Demon God. The voice was as calm as water, yet it carried an undeniable majesty, as if it were an ancient echo from before the birth of the universe.

"It has existed for too long; let it become the resources for me to take that step."

He raised his hand and gently pushed forward.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no deafening roar. Only a jet-black ripple, centered on his palm, spread outwards in all directions. Wherever that ripple passed, everything silently dissolved—chaotic currents, fragments of void, patterns of laws, even the concepts of "time" and "space" themselves lost their meaning before that ripple.

The closest demon god stronghold to the Eternal Ruins—a territory belonging to a seventh-level demon god, occupying three great worlds—was instantly transformed into a deathly wasteland by the sweeping black ripples of light. The tens of thousands of chaotic beings within the stronghold didn't even have time to utter a scream before they, along with their respective worlds, were reduced to ashes.

Three great worlds, a chaotic demon god of the seventh heaven—under the push of the Lord of Nothingness, he didn't even last a breath before he was instantly killed.

The entire chaos fell into a deathly silence.

Then came unprecedented panic.

Chaos Escape

"He...he's out!!"

"The Lord of Nothingness! He truly exists!!"

"Run! Run fast!!!"

Those usually arrogant and domineering Chaos Giants were now scattering like frightened birds. The War God no longer cared about hunting Rahu, the Space God no longer cared about plotting against the Primordial World, and the Devouring God no longer cared about devouring the world—all the gods were fleeing, fleeing with all their might, running desperately in the opposite direction from the Lord of Nothingness.

…………

With the Lord of Nothingness's actions, the entire Chaos seemed to boil over completely, just like water added to hot oil.

The entire chaos exploded.

Those usually arrogant and domineering Chaos Gods were now fleeing in all directions like frightened birds and beasts. The War God no longer cared about hunting Rahu, the Space God no longer cared about plotting against the Primordial World, and the Devouring God no longer cared about devouring the world—all the Gods were fleeing, fleeing with all their might, running desperately in the opposite direction from the Lord of Nothingness.

Those who aren't running fast enough are practically strangled.

However, the speed of the Lord of Nothingness, who was at the ninth level of sainthood, far exceeded their expectations.

He didn't pursue, but simply walked slowly forward. With each step, his figure appeared billions of miles away. Wherever he passed, dark ripples spread silently, turning everything in his path into nothingness. Those low-level demons who couldn't escape in time, those abandoned strongholds, those forgotten worlds—before the Lord of Nothingness, they all melted away like snow under the sun, leaving not a trace.

"No! Don't kill me! I'm willing to submit! I'm willing—"

A demon god at the seventh level of sainthood knelt in the void, repeatedly kowtowing towards the Lord of Nothingness. His voice was filled with fear and despair, tears and snot mingling together, making him look utterly wretched.

The Lord of Nothingness didn't even glance at him.

A dark ripple swept across, and the demon god's voice abruptly ceased. His body, along with the void around him, silently dissolved, as if it had never existed.

"Submit?" The voice of the Lord of Nothingness echoed in the chaos, tinged with a faint mockery. "Your very existence is a pollution of chaos. What difference does it make whether you submit or not?"

He continued forward, his pace unhurried yet carrying an unstoppable sense of oppression. The fleeing demons felt the void behind them growing ever closer and denser, like an invisible giant maw slowly closing.

"Split up! Split up!" roared the War Demon. "He's only one person! He can't possibly catch all of us at once!"

The Chaos Gods awoke as if from a dream, scattering in all directions. Some went left, some right, some up, some down—like a flock of startled birds, fleeing for their lives to every corner of the chaos.

The Lord of Nothingness stopped in his tracks.

He watched the demons scatter and flee, a faint smile appearing on his lips—a smile devoid of mockery or pity, only a profound and unfathomable tranquility.

"Innocent."

He raised his hands, spread his fingers, and then—gently closed them.

"The Realm of Nothingness - Unfolds"

An invisible boundary spread outward from him. That boundary was colorless, odorless, and silent, yet it was like a giant net, enveloping the entire chaos. The demons who were fleeing for their lives suddenly felt an extremely heavy pressure surging in from all directions, as if the entire chaos was rejecting them, squeezing them, and trying to crush them.

Their speed decreased by more than ten times in an instant.

"What...what is this?!" a demon god cried out in terror. "I feel...I feel chaos itself is rejecting me!"

"It's not just rejection..." Another demon god's face turned deathly pale. "I feel... I feel my laws dissipating! My very essence is being lost! How is this possible?!"

Panic spread among the demons like a plague.

The Lord of Nothingness stood in the void, hands clasped behind his back, his gaze calmly sweeping over the demons struggling like trapped beasts. His voice resounded in the minds of each demon:

Do you know why chaos exists?

No one answered. Or rather, no one dared to answer.

"Chaos exists to give birth to beings capable of surpassing it," the Lord of Nothingness said slowly. "Pangu accomplished the first step—he created the primordial world, a completely new world. But he failed—he couldn't transcend chaos; instead, he transformed into all things and became a part of chaos."

"And I will accomplish what even Pangu could not do, by taking that final step."

He raised his hand, pointing to the struggling demons and gods deep within the chaos: "You will become the stepping stones for me to take that step. Your origins, your laws, your very existence—all will become the resources for me to surpass Pangu."

As soon as he finished speaking, he clenched his fists tightly!

"Snap—!"

A crisp, teeth-grinding cracking sound rang out in the chaos. It was the sound of laws shattering, the lament of the origin, a mournful cry that made the entire chaos tremble.

Dozens of Chaos Demon Gods with lower cultivation levels exploded simultaneously, transforming into countless clusters of pure primordial energy that floated in the void like fireflies. These primordial energies swirled in the air for a moment, then, as if summoned, surged towards the Lord of Nothingness, where they were absorbed into his body.

The aura of the Lord of Nothingness grew even stronger after absorbing those origins.

Although it was only a trace, it was enough to make all the demons and gods feel despair.

"He...he's absorbing our essence!" a demon god cried out in terror. "He grows stronger with every demon god he kills! If this continues, we'll all die!"

"What can we do? We can't win a fight, and we can't run away!"

"Join forces! Let's join forces! Only by joining forces can we defeat him!"

This proposal was like a lifeline, rekindling a glimmer of hope for those desperate demons. The Demon God of War, the Demon God of Space, the Demon God of Devouring... those giants who usually fought each other and wished they could devour each other alive, actually put aside all their grudges and began to discuss the possibility of joining forces.

However, just as they reached a preliminary consensus and prepared to gather their forces for a counterattack—

A figure in blue appeared silently at the edge of the battlefield.

Xuanbao stood amidst the ruins swept away by the Lord of Nothingness, his eyes shining like two lanterns as he gazed at the remnants of demon gods floating in the void before him.

"I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich..." he muttered to himself as he skillfully released the roots of the World Tree, extracting every last trace of essence from the remains. "These are all demon gods at the sixth level of the Saint Realm or higher! Normally, killing just one would take a lot of effort, but now, it's like mass production!"

Bai Lu stood beside him, looking at his starving, ghost-like appearance, and shook her head helplessly: "Aren't you afraid of being discovered by the Lord of Nothingness?"

"What's there to be afraid of?" Xuanbao said without turning his head. "He's busy chasing those demon gods right now, how could he have time to care about a nobody like me? Besides—"

He paused, then pulled out the dark red, world-destroying millstone from his robes, weighing it in his hand: "With this treasure, my absorption speed of origin is much faster than his. By the time he realizes what's happening, I'll already be full and running away."

As soon as the Great Millstone of Annihilation appeared, an ancient and terrifying aura of destruction spread throughout the void.

Bai Lu's pupils contracted slightly—she could sense that the power contained within that millstone was even more terrifying than she had been in her prime. Over the past thousands of years, Xuan Bao had used this millstone to grind up countless corpses of chaotic demons and devour countless world origins; even she didn't know.

At that moment, Luo Hou, standing behind Xuan Bao, froze the instant he saw the world-destroying millstone.

His eyes were wide open like copper bells, his mouth was agape enough to fit a fist, and the expression on his face went from shock to anger, from anger to contortion, and from contortion to—a complex expression mixed with grievance, resentment, and deep helplessness.

"This...this is my world-destroying millstone!!"

Luo Hou's voice was sharp and trembling, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He pointed at the World-Destroying Millstone in Xuan Bao's hand, his fingers shaking: "So it was you! So it was you who stole my World-Destroying Millstone!!"

Xuanbao turned around, glanced at him, and then nodded matter-of-factly: "Yes, I took it. What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?! You're asking me what's wrong?!" Luo Hou nearly exploded on the spot. "That's my most precious treasure! You actually—you actually—"

"What do you mean, 'what do you mean'?" Xuanbao interrupted him, her tone as casual as if discussing the weather. "It's true that this World-Destroying Millstone used to be yours, but it's mine now. Do you have a problem with that?"

Luo Hou was choked and speechless, only able to stare wide-eyed and gasp for breath.

Xuanbao patted him on the shoulder and said earnestly, "Old Luo, you should think of it this way—this world-destroying millstone is of little use to you, isn't it? Besides, you are my prisoner now. What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine. You just need to obey me."

"I'll obey your grandpa!" Luo Hou finally couldn't help but curse, "That's mine! Mine!"

"It's mine now." Xuanbao shrugged, then turned around and continued to use the World-Destroying Millstone to absorb the essence from the remains of those demon gods. "If you want to go back, that's fine too—I'll give it back to you when you can beat me someday."

Luo Hou: "..."

He suddenly realized that the worst decision he had ever made was instigating the carnage in the primordial world. If he hadn't gone to the primordial world, he wouldn't have been defeated by Hongjun; if he hadn't been defeated by Hongjun, he wouldn't have fled to the Chaos; if he hadn't fled to the Chaos, he wouldn't have encountered Xuanbao, that plague god; if he hadn't encountered Xuanbao, that plague god, his World-Destroying Millstone wouldn't have been taken away…

But there's no going back. Luo Hou could only grit his teeth and watch as Xuan Bao happily became a corpse collector with his world-destroying millstone.

Crazy Harvesting

The Lord of Nothingness was wreaking havoc ahead, while Xuanbao was frantically picking up the scraps behind him.

If the chaotic demons who were fleeing for their lives were to see this scene, they would probably be so angry that they would vomit blood on the spot—they were running away at all costs, only to have all the benefits taken by a post-natal being.

But Xuanbao didn't care about any of that. Like a diligent little bee, he shuttled back and forth through the areas swept by the Lord of Nothingness, taking in all the remaining demonic essence, world fragments, and crystallized laws—anything usable. The roots of the World Tree, like countless greedy tentacles, stretched wildly through the void, devouring everything of value.

The Great Millstone of Annihilation spun merrily, crushing, extracting, and purifying the corpses of demon gods into the purest primal energy, which was then fed back to the Mystic Treasure. Nourished by this primal energy, the Mystic Treasure's aura began to rise at an alarming rate—

The bottleneck at the peak of the seventh level of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm began to loosen after devouring the essence of more than a dozen demon gods.

"Almost there..." Xuanbao's eyes gleamed with excitement. "After absorbing the essence of a few more demon gods, I'll be able to break through to the eighth level!"

Bai Lu stood beside him, her gaze never leaving the direction of the Lord of Nothingness. She could sense that the power of that being was growing at an alarming rate. With each demon god he devoured, his aura grew stronger. At this rate, it wouldn't be long before he reached a height that even the Demon God of Fate and the Demon God of Cause and Effect couldn't match.

"We must speed things up," Bai Lu said in a deep voice. "The Lord of Nothingness is devouring demons more and more efficiently. If we can't accumulate enough strength in a short time, it will be troublesome once he has the opportunity to deal with us."