The alien freewilled creatures had all been killed by Li Tianming himself. She had blocked a blow for him and borne the curse in his stead. Back then, she could never have imagined she would pay such a price today, yet she had hardly hesitated at all.
Wasn't that love?
Later, she had grown subdued and retreated, choosing to see things clearly. Li Tianming's brilliance had made someone like her realize the gap between them. She had kept those feelings hidden away, not daring to touch them.
When Li Tianming saw the true, sincere feelings in her heart through that regretful gaze, he could only suffer even more. The debt he owed her was too unfamiliar to him, yet too deeply etched into his bones.
The feelings between people were the greatest source of warmth in this cold universe. Whether familial love, friendship, or romantic love... without them, people were nothing but killing machines, leveling machines. That ran contrary to the meaning of Guan Zizai's existence.
Perhaps at this moment, through this elder sister, Li Tianming understood more deeply what the Real Universe was and what Guan Zizai was.
But even if he understood, it was already too late if he wished to cherish it.
And most painfully, such a fracture could not be mended. Once shattered, it would last a lifetime, a million years, ten million years...
And such a fracture would ultimately manifest in his order as well.
Only when the order that should have been charging toward destiny—especially his Imperial Order—fell into confusion, when the star clouds entered Annihilation, could it truly show that he felt an irreparable regret, deep to the very core.
Even his youthful state of mind carried a sense of destruction at this moment.
It was as if he had fallen straight from