After half a year, Li Tianming had finished preparing for battle. He had thoroughly understood the Oldgod Domain, his competitors, and the rules of the Little Realm King Ranking.
The second-to-last day was a day he had greatly looked forward to.
This trip could take as little as several months or as long as three to five years. They might even never meet again, so Li Tianming was seizing the time to cherish tender moments with the ones he loved.
It was on this day that Lin Xiao, tears in his eyes, told him that "Ku" had passed away.
"How could it be so soon?"
Li Tianming had not even met him yet.
He had thought that after going to the Oldgod Domain and winning glory for the Swordgod Lin Lineage, he would have a chance to bring him good news.
"His time had come. No one can escape it. Big Brother's lifebound beasts left before him, several years ago."
Lin Xiao sighed.
The laws of the world were this cruel.
No matter whether one was a god or a stargod, life and death ultimately had their limits.
No matter how high one stood in the prime of life, all the stellar source, divine intent, and order seized from heaven and earth in the first half of one's life would all be returned to heaven and earth in the latter half.
Having possessed them was no different from never having possessed them at all.
All power was borrowed from heaven and earth, and in the end, it all had to be repaid.
Dust returned to dust, earth returned to earth.
That was life.
And that was true cultivation.
Otherwise, if humanity only took and never gave back, the universe would have long since withered away over the endless passage of