Deep within the Wuwang Void, in a starfield that had just endured an earth-shattering battle and now lay reduced to utter ruins, the Eternal Heavenly Palace floated silently above the wreckage of Grand Derivation headquarters. The evening breeze drifted by, stirring the lingering remnants of high-dimensional karma. Just as Chu Qing finished his warm conversation across time and space with his five wives at the Stone Ridge Mountain headquarters through the Telepathic Heart Seal and was about to withdraw his gaze, an exceedingly faint yet incomparably cold and sinister black ripple suddenly spread from deep within the ruins, which had already fallen silent as death.
It was a surviving sliver of the Grand Derivation Void Hall's chief hall master's core divine soul, barely preserved before his flesh body and the mountain-protecting grand formation had completely shattered.
That black Remnant Soul twisted and warped, barely gathering into a vague old face suspended in midair, filled with venomous resentment and terror. He stared fixedly at the white-clad figure standing atop the Eternal Heavenly Palace. Knowing he could never escape the fate of body and soul being utterly destroyed today, he stopped begging for mercy and instead let out a shrill, mad burst of laughter.
"Chu Qing... You think that just because you flattened the headquarters of my Grand Derivation Void Hall and slew the Four-Dimensional Enforcers, you have truly become the invincible supreme ruler of this Outer Void? Hahahaha! How laughable! You have no idea what kind of terrifying existence you have provoked!"
The chief hall master's Remnant Soul echoed through the void, carrying a bone-chilling frostiness. "Though the Grand Derivation Void Hall has been renowned throughout the outer starry skies for countless Epochs, before that true colossal entity, we are nothing more than a petty chess piece that can be discarded