Gu Qingshan and Lady Fu Si instinctively held their breath.
The two silently watched the figure.
"It's him," Fu Si said.
Gu Qingshan nodded.
They saw the figure circle the several-zhang-high Dark Flame once, then speak:
"Just like the intelligence said... Such powerful Order, like an epiphyllum blooming in the wind. Though it can shine for a brief moment in the eternal night of the apocalypse, a mere ten seconds is nowhere near enough to defeat the apocalypse. It can only—"
His tone turned murderous. "At some point in the future, stop the Era of Chaos from fully arriving. I will change that future."
Outside, the sounds of fighting rose and fell without pause.
The Waiters of the two factions were fighting!
The man cocked his head to listen, then took a small gray-brown pouch from his robes.
"Time is short. Fortunately, we've done everything in our power to make these preparations."
As he spoke, he opened the gray-brown pouch and tossed a pinch of Dark Golden Sand into the Dark Flame.
Boom!
The Dark Flame suddenly surged higher, forming the blurry outline of a human figure.
In a bewildered voice, it said, "Who is granting me another kind of power?"
After the Dark Golden Sand was mixed in, the human-shaped outline formed by the flames grew increasingly unstable.
Many unusual materials and substances were hurled from within it, floating in midair and radiating dazzling, splendid light.
The man quickly chanted, "I grant you human nature. From now on, you will possess deceitful speech, a cold and timid disposition, and cruel, ungrateful thoughts. Until the moment you are sacrificed, you will embrace the Era of Chaos and become the final force behind its arrival!"
"From this moment on, you must accept your new self and your new mission!"
The flames