After Bai He's Death, He Left Behind a Universe

Dead silence.

After Essence Reward and Punishment was used in reality, it entered a cooldown period lasting an entire year.

You stood in the void. A few kilometers away stood another person—Zuo Tianxin, who was acting as a reference point as he sprinted wildly toward the depths of the universe.

"Did it work?"

You met his gaze, the same question surfacing in both your minds.

Had the thing you just shaved away truly been Bai He?

Within the chaos, it was far from silent. Those terrifying substances that could casually crush thousands of Sixth Realm cultivators of the Thousand Heavens flowed slowly, unleashing deafening roars of several hundred decibels!

"Why isn't it a hundred thousand decibels?"

Yet you and Zuo Tianxin seemed to be standing in a silent vacuum, staring wide-eyed at each other.

Zuo Tianxin: "Did it work?"

You: "I don't know."

Zuo Tianxin only needed one second to bring you back to that laboratory.

You only needed an instant to activate Future Prediction and learn the current situation.

Yet the two of you hesitated in unspoken accord, unwilling to face the truth of whether you had succeeded.

After a brief stalemate, you still activated Future Prediction in the third second after shaving away that target's essence.

Better take a look, lest an enraged Bai He come knocking, trap you by some means and refuse to let you die, then torture you until you wished for life but could not live, wished for death but could not die.

In that future, you returned to the laboratory.

The raised platform was empty... not entirely empty. A set of clothes remained behind.

If there had been nothing on the platform, you might have suspected Bai He had left. But those clothes had been left behind... Did that prove he was dead?