What If I Refuse?

The Giant Fish stopped directly in front of Yang Yu.

Pale Hongmeng churned in silence.

In the distance, the newly formed Chaos Placenta Yang Yu had just cleaved into being with one sword stroke was still slowly turning. Rings of Chaos Qi Current wrapped around the fragile Freshman Great Universes inside it.

Yang Yu stared at the fish.

Inside the Abyss, everyone else stared at it too.

The ease had vanished from Huang Yan's face.

Gu Shan clenched his fists, Path-Severing Divine Patterns slowly lighting up beneath his skin.

Xuan Jiu drew his Black Sword half an inch.

The Blood-Colored Eyeball in Bai E's palm opened, its pupil reflecting the Giant Fish's immense outline.

Zhi Xing stood at the edge of the Boundary Wall. The Star Mark between her brows grew faintly warm, and a rare trace of unease entered her eyes.

She couldn't see the fish's Fate Line.

It wasn't too far away.

It simply didn't exist.

It was as though Hongmeng swallowed fate itself wherever the fish swam.

The next moment.

Without warning, the Giant Fish opened its enormous, Black Hole-like mouth.

Boom!

A terrifyingly powerful pull erupted, so familiar it chilled their True Spirits.

The surrounding Pale Void was forcibly twisted into a vortex. Even the Pseudo-Hongmeng Foundation Yang Yu had just laid down was torn into great folds by the force.

The pull swept straight toward Yang Yu.

There was no Killing Intent.

No declaration of attack.

Just like last time.

It simply wanted to swallow him.

Back in the real Hongmeng, the Giant Fish had swallowed Yang Yu along with the Abyss Core in exactly this way, delivering them to the Trial battlefield before the Bronze Giant Gate.

Back then, Yang Yu had had no choice but to go along with it.

But things were