The Only Future

Time flowed quietly. Before long, it was midnight, and preparations for the ritual were gradually completed.

Beside the Lake of Life, a strange magic formation had been inscribed upon the ground. Its nodes happened to align with the positions of the stars in the sky, as though some mysterious connection had been established between them.

Many powerful soul beasts stood at their respective nodes. Starlight spilled over the ground, keeping the Star Dou Great Forest from becoming too dark at night.

Liu Xiaoxiao merely watched from afar. To those soul beasts, he seemed to be nothing more than a tool for determining the timing.

Even now, the words spoken by the Star Gazing Beast during the day kept replaying in his mind.

The soul beasts had originally been driven to the brink of extinction due to humanity. But now that the Ten Sages had intervened, the true culprit had shifted to the Netherworld creatures. Combined with the attitudes of those ferocious beasts toward him, he could be certain that the enemy those powerful soul beasts had asked him to deal with was the Netherworld.

The Star Gazing Beast had also said that the ones behind the weakening of soul beasts and divine beasts were the same. From this, three points could basically be confirmed.

First, the Netherworld had an immense connection to the Underworld. The Netherworld Space on Douluo Star had only appeared within the past ten thousand years. Before that, the Rakshasa Secret Realm had contained the aura of resentment.

The Rakshasa Secret Realm was most likely one of the entrances to the Underworld. Now that it had suddenly vanished and the Netherworld had appeared in its place, it was difficult to believe the two were unrelated. In Liu Xiaoxiao's view, the emergence of Netherworld Space was likely an