"Empress smashed Cang Tian to death with one blow because of this?"
Because Cang Tian had defied orders and attacked the Child of Chaos while he was still an infant, directly killing the Child of Chaos. That was what had enraged the Empress, prompting her to smash Cang Tian to death with one blow.
"Judging from this, the Empress was protecting the Child of Chaos. But... was her purpose truly nothing more than simple protection?"
The Child of Chaos was connected to the opening of the Land of Origin.
Before the Child of Chaos could open the Land of Origin, the Empress could not allow any accidents to occur. That was probably the real reason she protected the Child of Chaos and forbade anyone else from interfering.
"There is no love without reason in this world, nor is there hatred without reason. The Empress's 'kindness' probably needs to be watched carefully."
Thinking of how Grandma Zhou had always cared for him at the orphanage back on Earth, Li Yu's expression became somewhat complicated again.
"No wonder when I returned to Earth and went back to the orphanage, Grandpa Liu at the gate said there had never been anyone named Grandma Zhou."
With the Empress's methods, how could Grandpa Liu, a gatekeeper, possibly resist her? An ordinary mortal could not possibly remember a Chaos-grade existence unless the Empress wished him to.
"So I was transformed from a lump of flesh and blood from the First Generation Child of Chaos? No wonder, despite being a Child of Chaos, I was such a weakling at the beginning. I was inherently deficient."
Li Yu had already figured out the whole chain of events.
Some of his previous doubts had now been answered.
It was just that... the future remained exceedingly difficult.
"Nine Pearls of