Leina felt a chill in every breath she took. If things were truly as she had guessed, then God of Death Karl had begun setting this game in motion long ago.
Combined with the information she had obtained from Hua Zhen, as well as some clues she had uncovered after returning to Lieyang.
Ten thousand years ago, Karl had established a Great Wormhole near Pluto in the Milky Way Galaxy, at precisely the time when the Deno Star System was destroyed and the Deno survivors were heading to Earth with the help of the God of Time.
Then, due to Earth's enormous population, it was "noticed" by the Taotie and included in their millennium-long campaign of conquest. A thousand years later, the Taotie invaded, the Super Soldier Company organized a resistance, and although the Battle of Tianhe was won, Earth—a completely unremarkable pre-nuclear civilization—entered the universe's field of view.
Demons invaded, angels descended, and all manner of forces gathered on tiny Earth, turning it into a chaotic vortex.
Then the three Godly Civilizations joined forces to slay a god and destroy Holy Kesha, drawing out Hua Zhen, this great god who had hidden himself for tens of thousands of years. At that point, the entire scheme could be said to have reached its peak.
With everything beyond recovery, Karl finally revealed his true intentions:
I have researched void technology for tens of thousands of years and finally succeeded in developing the Void Engine. With it, I can defeat Hua Zhen!
For the Void Age to arrive, he had painstakingly planned every step, even calculating countless billions of living beings throughout the universe, gods included, into his scheme.
God of Death Karl! He was simply too insane, too terrifying!
For no reason at all, Hua Zhen's image suddenly surfaced in Leina's