Chapter 409 - 301: Eighth Cosmos, Approaching the Truth, Ancient Ruins (Part 3)

[——The outsiders from the Void Land are also not within the cosmic balance of good and evil, such as the Abyssal Dimension, such as the Moral Immortal Sect. If utilized well, these "outsiders" might be a remedy.]

[Might be?]

[Bai Ze pondered for a moment, they no longer had the chance to fail again, she really only had one path—restart the universe!]

[After failing to stop "Northern Demon Dragon Xiao Ying," this path became the easiest... All she needed was to obtain the last Primordial Gemstone, the "Void Gemstone," from the hands of "Soul Refining Demon Venerable."]

[Or rather, "Soul Refining Demon Venerable," the most terrifying guy in this universe, was the easiest to bully...]

[Bai Ze’s suppressed mood slightly relaxed.]

[Bai Ze shared her thoughts with everyone.]

[Jiu Yue remained hopeful, believing they could have Master Yan accompany them to the "Blood Lotus Throne Star," and once they defeat the Demon Dragon Envoy and meet Xiao Ying on the throne, perhaps a dialogue could convince Xiao Ying to abandon his desire to destroy the universe.]

[Too naive.]

[The cosmic will maintaining the balance of good and evil will not allow Phoenix and Demon Dragon to continue existing, and Xiao Ying’s nature would never let go of power to become a powerless weakling.]

[Moreover, Bai Ze, upon approaching "Blood Lotus Throne Star," saw countless futures with the Eye of Bai Ze; once Phoenix goes, after a brief exchange, everyone would be instantly obliterated.]

[The Will of the Demon Dragon is not something that can be changed by "talk-no-jutsu."]

[Everyone agreed with Bai Ze’s plan, not heading to the frontlines of the North and South Cosmos to resist the Blood Lotus Demon Army.]

[Bai Ze agreed to the request of Profound Truth Demon Emperor Ling Xian and Arcane Emperor Viktor; due to the Ultimate Messenger establishing the Eight Great Parallel Cosmos, outsiders cannot take away the Primordial Gems, the Primordial Gems within the universe are but projections.]

However, Soul Refining Demon Venerable himself was unwilling to give up the Void Gemstone, as it was the source of his life.]

[Then, the Profound Nether Squad and Divine Dragon Squad began searching for the existence of "Soul Refining Demon Venerable" in the Southern Cosmos.]

[Time flies, in the blink of an eye, eight hundred years have passed, the Blood Lotus Demon Army relentlessly pressing forward, unstoppable.]

[The Radiant Flame King retreated repeatedly, now holding fort at the Black Nether Star Cluster. At this point, the Profound Nether Squad finally found the body of "Soul Refining Demon Venerable" on a secluded primordial planet within the "Black Nether Star Cluster."]

[Soul Refining Demon Venerable disguised himself on the primordial planet as a bald old man of eighty, with a public identity of a gossip-loving general store owner.]

["Soul Refining Demon Venerable! You’ve been exposed!"]

[The Profound Nether Squad descended from the sky, reading out Soul Refining Demon Venerable’s crimes under the gaze of all, preparing to arrest him on the spot.]

[After a fierce battle, the Black Nether Prison successfully detained Soul Refining Demon Venerable.]

[For the peace of the universe, at the request of the Profound Nether Squad, Soul Refining Demon Venerable had no choice but to voluntarily surrender the "Void Gemstone."]

[Counting the six Primordial Gems at the Cosmic Center, they are only one Primordial Gem short, namely the one that awakened Bai Xiao from the Yan Sect with "Phoenix Power," the Taiyi Gemstone.]

[The Profound Nether Squad dared not return to the Return Star to face Bai Xiao from the Yan Sect.]

[But it doesn’t matter, the chaotic twisted runes on the "Box of Silence" had long been copied by Bai Ze, and the Four Gods of Apocalypse had a way to create a one-time divine artifact to replace the function of the Taiyi Gemstone.]

[This matter, Xiao Ying was unaware of, as he continued to enjoy the sun on the Return Star, teaching Jiu Yue and others; these were his happiest hundreds of years.]

["Demon Dragon Armor - Tiamat" was quite puzzled by Xiao Ying’s behavior, "Heartless little guy, the Blood Lotus Demon Army will sweep through the universe sooner or later, why don’t you take the initiative to accelerate this process? This seems unlike you."]

["I am enjoying all of this..." Xiao Ying pondered, "In the future, everyone will have no further encounters."]

[He simply did not want to abandon the identity of "Phoenix Bai Xiao."]

[This identity allowed him to stand in the sunshine and embrace all beauty. Thus, he didn’t want Jiu Yue, Xuanming, Yu Long, Yu Yao, Zi You, Mu Yan, and others to know he was the Blood Lotus Demon Venerable.]

[He didn’t want Yu Long and Yu Yao to know that the "Phoenix" who had always been beside them was the enemy who killed their father.]

[Once this matter was uncovered, all of this would be irretrievable.]

[Of course, Xiao Ying knew it was unsustainable; once they gathered the eight Primordial Gems... he would let everyone die unknowingly, painlessly, and then wake up as if nothing had happened, the sun once again rising—no Demon Dragon and Phoenix war, everyone continuing their perfect lives.]

[Bai Ze did not know that because Xiao Ying enjoyed all this beauty, the ancient ruins on "Blizzard Star" gave rise to the "Phoenix" due to a momentary lapse of judgment.]

[Such a simple reason extended the destruction of the Fifth Cosmos by three thousand years.]

[On the other side.]

[The Divine Dragon Squad and the Transmigrator Alliance explored the ancient ruins at the Cosmic Center.]

[In the ancient ruins, they encountered three trapped individuals, who were returning Abyssal Mages, originally natives of this universe, but during their youth, a joke-like sacrifice unexpectedly summoned a True Demon.]

[The three gained "talents" gifted by the True Demon, and throughout this process, they helped each other, cultivating their awakened talents, and their powers grew stronger.]

[A series of misunderstandings, quarrels, and chaotic love triangles followed, causing their relationship to reach a breaking point, and during a verbal conflict, a battle erupted.]

[Approximately ten thousand years ago, the aftermath of their battle opened the "Abyssal Dimension," unleashing endless high-tier mutant beasts and True Demons that successfully destroyed their Mother Star.]

[The three deeply regretted their actions.]

[They woke up, reconciled, and left their Mother Star to embark on their individual journeys of redemption toward the various Abyssal Dimensions.]

[In one dimension personally obliterated by the Master of the Demon Abyss, they finally discovered a way to deal with the "Abyssal Dimension."]

[The enemy the Abyssal Dimension constantly avoided—World-Ending Great Demon!]

[Countless worlds invaded by the Abyssal Dimension, through the method of chanting the True Name, offered sacrifices to awaken the slumbering "World-Ending Great Demon" statue!]

[Once a World-Ending Great Demon defeats a True Demon, the Abyssal Dimension will permanently seal its passage, and the world will be saved!!]

[In a low-level world, the three learned the True Name of five World-Ending Great Demons; now they just needed to find the true body of the Great Demon to complete the sacrifice, leading them to the ancient ruins at the Cosmic Center.]

[The ruins were filled with enormous bizarre statues, some only had half of their bodies remaining, some were completely shattered, scattered on the ground. Bai Ze knew this was the special dimension created by the Ultimate Messengers and high-level civilizations at the Cosmic Center during the ancient times.]

[Bai Ze explained the imminent destruction of the universe. The Divine Dragon Squad, the Transmigrator Alliance, and the three Abyssal Mages decided to explore the ancient ruins together.]

[Thirty years later, at the center of the ruins.]

[Everyone’s gaze was drawn to a pitch-black obelisk. Beneath the obelisk stood five giant rubble remains silently, three of which were blurry and seemed eroded by time, leaving only silhouettes.]

["Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Black—"]

[The three Abyssal Mages excitedly introduced the True Names of the five World-Ending Great Demons.]

["It is said that the world of ’Black’ was once also eroded by the Abyssal Dimension; in despair, ’Black’ summoned a World-Ending Great Demon named ’Autumn.’"]

["’Black’ thus grew from an ordinary person into a World-Ending Great Demon, thereafter responding to All Heavens and Myriads of Realms."]

["And ’Autumn’ and ’Black’ are the only two World-Ending Great Demons successfully summoned in the myths of all the heavens."]

[Based on the successful experience of other worlds driving away the Abyssal Dimension, they only need to awaken the World-Ending Great Demon named "Black" to permanently repel the traces of the Abyssal Dimension!]

[Bai Ze slightly frowned.]

[The existence of World-Ending Great Demons as prophesied by the Ashen Envoy turned out to be real...]

[However.]

[Bai Ze couldn’t afford to research why "Xiao Ying" should become a World-Ending Great Demon according to the Ashen Envoy’s prophecy.]

[The message from the "Marvels: The World is But a Village" she entrusted to the Profound Nether Squad informed her that the Blood Lotus Demon Army had already breached the Black Nether Star Cluster, and the Demon Dragon Envoy arrived at the Cosmic Center.]

[The Eighth Cosmos is on the verge of destruction.]

[The Profound Nether Squad had already sent the Void Gemstone, and the Four Gods of Apocalypse, Two Kings of Radiance, and Immortal Emperor were ten thousand light years away from the Cosmic Center trying to stop the Blood Lotus Demon Army and Demon Dragon Envoy.]

[But Bai Ze’s immediate task was to use the "Apocalypse Divine Artifact" to snap her fingers—restart the Eight Great Parallel Cosmos!]

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