With Zhang Hao's silence, the Prehistoric World's last resistance vanished as well.
The entire Prehistoric World inside the Chaos Bead accelerated in its collapse; all things returned to emptiness, transforming back into chaos.
And in the final instant before the world fell into utter stillness.
A faint spiritual light containing the most core wisp of the Prehistoric World's origin was swept away by a ghostlike ripple of time and sank into the gravely wounded Time Demon God's body.
The Time Demon God gave a muffled groan, and wild joy and greed flashed through his eyes.
He did not dare linger in the slightest. He did not even have time to take revenge on Hongjun and Wang Shu; his figure directly merged into the yet-unsettled turbulence of time and vanished without a trace in an instant.
"Time! How dare you!"
Goddess Wang Shu shouted in fury and tried to pursue him, but Daoist Bengtian stopped her with a streak of Gray Light of Ending.
The Dao Ancestor Hongjun's pressure greatly lessened the instant Yangmei self-destructed and Time fled.
But seeing Zhang Hao fall silent, the Prehistoric World collapse, and its origin stolen, his Dao Heart was shaken as well, and the clear light of the Jade Disc of Creation fell into disorder.
"Hongjun, Pingxin, it is time to be on your way."
Daoist Bengtian's tone was indifferent.
The power of ending was held back no longer. It transformed into two gray, murky chains, ignoring Space-Time.
They wrapped directly toward Hongjun, who had just escaped from Purple Cloud Palace and whose aura was unstable, and toward Empress Pingxin in the depths of the Underworld, who had suffered grievous wounds from the shattering of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
"Dao Ancestor!"
"Your Majesty!"
The surviving Great Powers of the Prehistoric World cried out