"No one asked you to judge yourself."
"You don't need to explain, either."
Expressionless, Shen Yi glanced at Lilith.
The Twilight Abyss below... no...
The hollow below.
At that moment, there was no longer any life in this entire region.
Everything that the billions of living beings in the Twilight Abyss and its surroundings had accumulated over thousands of years...
Whether population or cultivation...
All of it had turned to nothingness with a single thought from Lilith.
And the one who had started it all was right beside him, still trying to explain something in such a "heartless" manner.
Explain?
Explain how, in order to speed up her recovery, she had drained in one go the power the entire Twilight Abyss had accumulated over countless eras, and, while drawing in the net, made more than half the living beings of the Shadow World the price of this revival?
Shen Yi had no interest in that at all.
Everyone had their own code and their own choices. Lilith had chosen the most efficient, and also the coldest, method.
He would not judge her, but likewise, that did not mean he would approve of or grow close to that way of doing things.
For a moment, Shen Yi was filled with mixed emotions.
"How are your preparations?"
Lilith spoke.
Shen Yi did not answer directly. Instead, he frowned.
Because in his perception...
The Shadow World, which could still be called abundant before, even flourishing in a hundred different ways, had now withered by three-fifths.
More than half of all life auras had completely vanished.
The entire Shadow World had sunk into an unprecedented deathly silence. Not even a wail dared to sound.
"About the same."
Shen Yi spat out three words, his tone so flat it was almost perfunctory.
He truly did