"This should be..."
Before Gu Qingshan could finish speaking, the darkness in his hand suddenly burst apart.
The commotion immediately stirred the entire underwater abyss.
Endless darkness gradually gave way to flickering images, slowly revealing the scene of a world all around them.
"An afterimage of time. It seems that being has grown so weak that it can't even appear in person, so it's showing us what it wants to say through scenes from the Past Era," Xie Daoling said calmly.
"I see," Gu Qingshan replied.
The two of them looked toward the scene. All around them, layers of mist had already appeared.
Chaos!
This was a scene from within Chaos!
A blurred figure slowly emerged from the mist, holding a heavy book in his hands.
Gu Qingshan's eyelid twitched.
"Master, that's the Book of the Seabed, the soul artifact manifested by the Water of the Four Saint Pillars," he whispered.
"In that case, this person must be the Apostle of the Water Era," Xie Daoling said.
The man quietly set the Book of the Seabed beside him, then knelt in the mist and said, "Everyone, I'm willing to throw in my lot with Doomsday and Chaos and serve you with my power."
A thousand voices rang out from the mist. "Why would we need you?"
"Because I know more secrets than anyone else in the void, and I'm the most powerful being of all the Eras!" the man declared.
The mist began to churn.
A thousand voices rang out in response, tinged with mockery. "The most powerful? No. You must have seen the Earth Era. Its Apostle was far stronger in battle than you."
The man replied firmly, "But I possess the greatest knowledge. My skills and the secrets I know are beyond even your reach. If I'm wrong,