My mom is waiting for treatment, and you're summoning me to be a hero?

The black sword pierced Gao Yang's chest, and a brief silence fell over the entire twilight layer.

Ottmu was the first to jump up, shouting shrilly, "It's done! It hit! Boss, am I the one who did the most work?!"

His voice rang out sharply and brightly in the empty twilight, as if tearing a hole in the curtain of silence.

The God of War let out a long sigh of relief, lowered the Soul Battle Axe, and relaxed completely: "It's finally over. That bastard Gao Yang has finally given up his life."

The judge, however, kept his eyes fixed on the courtroom and remained silent.

Her gray eyes seemed fixed on something, showing no sign of joy.

Gao Yang slowly took two steps back.

The wound inflicted by the black sword burned with a dark golden light on his chest, like a piece of paper that had been burned through, the edges gradually spreading outwards.

The law of slaughter had already entered his body; it wasn't fast, but it was unstoppable.

That was the first time Gao Yang truly felt the taste of the end.

But he didn't go berserk or struggle. Instead, he looked up at Lin Mo and smiled.

"Do you think you can go home by killing me?"

Lin Mo frowned slightly.

His sword was still dripping with Gao Yang's blood, warm and red.

"Wouldn't it be enough to just restore the connection between the two worlds?"

Gao Yang laughed, his voice growing louder and louder, carrying a mocking tone mixed with a sense of realization.

"Haha, it's impossible now. Once the connection between the two worlds is broken, it can never be reconnected. The rift between the worlds will heal itself, and all coordinates will become invalid. There is only one way to go back: rebuild a teleportation array on Earth."

He laughed so hard that blood seeped from the wound on his chest, but he seemed oblivious to the pain and continued talking.

"From the moment you stepped onto this continent, the word 'home' ceased to belong to you."

Lin Mo's heart felt as if it had been suddenly squeezed by a hand.

He thought of his mother in the hospital, of the bank card, and of the lab report.

Then he took a deep breath, calmly looked at Gao Yang, and spoke softly.

"Then kill him and then figure out what to do."

After saying that, he raised the black sword and aimed it at Gao Yang.

Gao Yang did not dodge.

He raised his head, looking at the deep void of the twilight layer, a smile on his lips, and a bittersweet feeling of relief in his tone.

"There's no going back, there's no going back. You and I were homeless from the moment we set foot on this continent."

He paused, then looked at Lin Mo again: "Actually, I hate this continent just as much as you do. Even after being a god for three thousand years, I still hate it. Now that we can't go back, let's make this continent disappear together."

Before he finished speaking, the space-time around him suddenly collapsed inward.

A silent, almost transparent ripple spread from his body, refracting even light into a deathly gray wherever it passed.

He wanted to use the laws of time to do one last thing.

To everyone else, Gao Yang's body was losing its color.

First, his white robe, then his skin, and then the sky behind him, all seemed to be gradually stained by invisible ink.

The blackness was extremely deep, like the nothingness before the world was born, or the blank space after the world ended.

Everything that comes into contact with it—whether it be the Twilight Stone Throne, dust, or light—immediately turns black and then disappears.

Upon witnessing this scene, the judge's pupils constricted instantly, and he screamed in alarm.

"Get out of the way! He's deconstructing time!"

Her voice was so shrill it was almost ear-piercing, as if she were forcibly pulling something out of her throat.

Yin Xue had never seen a trial so chaotic before, and was so shocked that his wings froze. He hurriedly asked...

"What deconstruction time?"

The judge felt a chill run through him and murmured.

"I once saw it in the library of the gods. Besides erasing time and resurrection, the laws of time have another ability: deconstruction. They can erase all causes and effects from all timelines. Once one cause is removed, all effects are empty. This world is as if it never existed."

"Is that the move that can destroy a world?"

The God of War's voice was dry.

Gao Yang, who had been summoned by Lin Mo, also had a grim expression, his white robes fluttering even without wind.

"He's gone mad. He wants to completely deconstruct the world, to make everyone and everything disappear along with it."

Lin Mo looked at the approaching black void and swung his sword to strike.

The black sword struck the black void, but the laws of slaughter remained unmoved, as if there was nothing left in the world to kill.

Gao Yang burst into laughter upon seeing this.

"Don't waste your energy. When everything is gone, who can you kill?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his head, his eyes turning ferocious, as if the resentment of those who had once taken everything from him had finally awakened within him.

He lunged at Lin Mo, carrying with him the ever-expanding, deconstructed black hole.

He wanted to drag Lin Mo into it too, to make this homeless man, just like him, die with him.

Yin Xue's pupils suddenly contracted. Without hesitation, her body moved faster than her mind, rushing towards Lin Mo like a blood-red lightning bolt, calling out that name.

"Lin Mo!"

Subsequently, Gao Yang, Lin Mo, and Yin Xue were all swallowed up by the deconstruction of time.

……

The black light, like a rising tide, surged in all directions from where Gaoyang had disappeared.

The first piece of floating island debris to be swallowed up was the one closest to the three of them, as if it had been licked by some extremely cold flame.

First it darkened, then it shattered into tiny ash particles, and then even the ash particles disappeared, leaving only an indescribable emptiness.

Next came the war remnants suspended in the twilight layer.

The still-burning holy light, the broken weapons, and the corpses left behind by several demigods and angels were all wiped off the screen as if by the same dark hand, leaving no trace.

The advance team soldiers were still in place, some of them not even recovered from the cheers of "Gaoyang has been pierced through" when they saw the Black Sea pushing towards them.

Lai Hu was the first to react, and he grabbed Bai Rong's arm and pulled him back.

"Run! Run!"

Bai Rong's face turned bluish-black in the dark light. He opened his mouth, but his throat felt like it was full of sand.

"Retreat! All troops, retreat!"

The soldiers finally moved, panicking like ants being chased by a flood. Some didn't even bother to pick up their weapons, stepping on their fallen shields as they surged into the distance.

The angels and demigods of the divine realm also scattered and fled.

In the Twilight Realm, the God of War swallowed hard as he looked at the exponentially expanding black void before him.

"This is really the end."

The judge's expression was grim: "Lin Mo and the others should be able to hold out for a while longer, but only the laws of time themselves can stop its continued expansion."

The clone Gao Yang still protects Gao Tiantian.

He held the child close to his dwindling time barrier.

Gao Tiantian nestled against his chest, twisting her fingers around his clothes, and whispered, "Brother, will he be alright?"

The clone of Gao Yang remained silent for a long time before finally speaking: "Yes, everything will be alright. He promised to take you home."