He hovered above the ruins and looked down at his newly restored hands, then at the Floating Immortal Sword in his grasp, still glowing with a gentle light.
Then he raised his head. His gaze swept across the ruins of the Cycle World, shattered into nothingness, across the Space Rifts slowly closing, and across the Dark Red scorched earth.
His voice was soft, yet it echoed clearly through the Spirit Crane Space: "I'm back!"
Fang Chen hung above the shattered ruins of the Cycle World, his blue robe stirring faintly in the remnants of the energy storm.
His gaze calmly passed over the Dark Red land below, now reduced entirely to scorched earth, over the Space Rifts slowly closing, and over the fragments of wreckage drifting in the Void.
The entire Cycle World had been all but destroyed in that self-detonation.
But Fang Chen knew the Undying God King was still alive.
The self-detonation had shaken heaven and earth and blasted the entire Cycle World into ruins, but the Undying God King's vitality was far more tenacious than it appeared.
At the final moment of the explosion, Fang Chen had clearly sensed that the Undying God King's Core Origin had not completely shattered. Instead, he had used the force of the blast to send the last trace of his origin power into an exceptionally well-hidden space.
The entrance to that space was highly unusual. If Fang Chen had not planted the Heavenly Buddha Seal's sensory link within himself beforehand, he would scarcely have caught that faint signal.
He closed his eyes and sank his consciousness into the pale golden mark within him.
The Heavenly Buddha Seal's light pulsed faintly in the depths of his soul, like a beacon flickering in the darkness, guiding his senses toward a distant place.
That