All the golden torrents flew into the void, then vanished once more.
Gu Qingshan stood where he was as a tide of dark light suddenly surged from his entire body.
Rows of glowing runes appeared in quick succession:
"You have entropy-disintegrated an Apostle from a past Era." "That Apostle originally possessed the power of an entire Era, but you stripped it away and broke it apart, ultimately consigning it to Chaos forever." "You are an Apostle of Chaos." "Chaos will return all that power to your Sequence, solely to make you a King of Eternal Destruction unlike any before."
Gu Qingshan raised his hand and looked at it.
Substantial darkness swirled endlessly around his hand, revealing the destructive truths of its mysteries.
The World-Defining Divine Sword appeared and hovered before him. "How do you feel?"
"The mysteries of the Darkness Sequence are surrounding me," Gu Qingshan said.
He reached out and grasped the World-Defining Divine Sword. His figure suddenly vanished from where he stood.
The Dark Continent.
The ground.
A deserted city.
Gu Qingshan arrived without a sound.
As soon as he stepped inside, the empty, imposing city changed, revealing another scene.
Countless people were wandering destitute through the vast city.
Their faces were twisted with madness. They desperately tried to kill others, and if they couldn't, they killed themselves.
Invisible waves of water spread throughout the city, driving everything into a frenzy of destruction.
Gu Qingshan paused.
"The apocalypse, the Great Flood..."
He murmured the words and started toward the city center.
In the void behind him, dark light gathered into countless fine runes. All living things became oblivious to his presence. Even the Great Flood's power was repelled by the darkness, unable to come anywhere near him.
Gu Qingshan made his way through the city and