"Souls, return and scatter!" Li An shouted.
All the blood mist scattered on the wind.
The dozens of hideous demon heads fell silent. Each one turned deathly pale, its life force gone.
"Thanks for the effort," Gu Qing Shan said.
"Precisely controlling the Divine Soul is indeed difficult—but as long as it's to deal with the Heavenly Realm, we Heavenly Demons are willing to give it a try, no matter what," Li An said.
She looked worried as she continued, "They said the Six Paths can barely suppress the Apocalypse. What does that mean?"
"I suspect it's because the Six Paths just restarted and are at their most vulnerable. That's why this place exists," Gu Qing Shan said.
"What do you mean?"
"This place is the reverse side of the Human Realm, separated by the earth. It exists specifically to fight the Apocalypse and protect the peace of the Human Realm," Gu Qing Shan said.
Li An murmured, "That's strange. Even if the Six Paths just restarted, they shouldn't need to be this cautious... Could there be something especially powerful among those Apocalypses?"
Gu Qing Shan sighed and nodded.
He couldn't help recalling a peculiar Apocalypse he'd once encountered when he'd transformed into a Night Wanderer and traveled along the river of tombs in the Great Tomb.
—Countless wisps of water mist had formed a long-faced skull.
Any existence that came near it would be stripped of all time and space, trapped in endless emptiness with no way to escape, doomed to die.
It was impossible to attack it, because it no longer existed in the current space-time.
It was an almost unsolvable Apocalypse.
And beyond it, deep within the Great Tomb, lay countless other Apocalypses.
The Six Paths of Reincarnation naturally had to proceed with caution.
—Not to mention