In the Shen Family's back garden.
Li Yun still sat calmly. No one knew what he was comprehending.
Not even Cao Jin.
Only Li Yun could see that Killing Intent had spread throughout the Myriad Gods Realm, filling it with an air of slaughter and extinction.
As time passed,
The Life and Death Power exerted an ever-greater influence on the Myriad Gods Realm.
Time in the Myriad Gods Realm now flowed at an astonishing million times the rate it did in the Zhoutian Sword Domain!
One year in the Zhoutian Sword Domain meant a million years in the Myriad Gods Realm.
Nearly three million years had passed within the Myriad Gods Realm since the day the Life and Death Power first seeped into it.
Over those three million years, powerful life force had driven its countless living beings to unprecedented heights. Then the power of destruction had driven them from their peak into decline.
As though they had lost their minds, the living beings of the Myriad Gods Realm plunged into every kind of conflict and slaughter. Not one was spared.
Every day—even every moment—people died in swathes.
After three million years, fewer than one in a thousand remained of the population at its peak.
The scent of decay was everywhere.
Watching such prosperity reach its peak, decline, and then move step by step toward extinction shook Li Yun to his core.
At first, he had regarded himself as an outsider. But he was the master of the Myriad Gods Realm; the entire realm was his. How could its rise and fall truly leave him untouched by cause and effect?
As time passed,
his mind was drawn, silently and imperceptibly, into that cycle of rise, decline, Life and Death. An unseen force seemed to divide it into countless strands. Each