Just as the lightning gradually faded and everything seemed to return to calm.
"Heh heh..."
A chilling laugh that struck terror into the soul suddenly rang out in the void. It had no discernible source, yet it sent a chill down everyone's spine.
"I've finally found you," the voice said slowly.
Shi Hao's hair stood on end. He could not detect where the other party was. Even the mysterious woman opposite him shuddered; a vertical eye split open between her brows, shooting divine light into the starry sky, yet she still found no trace of them.
"Your true body had not yet manifested here ten thousand ages ago, yet you had already sent down your divine awareness." The woman stared into the distance as though watching a river of history surge past, speaking softly.
Shi Hao abruptly looked up, sensing that a great calamity was upon him.
At the end of the River of Time, space was collapsing and time was dissipating as endless chaos split apart. A tall, majestic, hazy figure appeared.
He was like a supreme Emperor traveling abroad, striding with the gait of dragons and tigers as he trod upon the river of history. With both hands, he pushed the sun, moon, and stars, coming from afar and crossing time and space.
Though that person had yet to arrive, his boundlessly terrifying aura caused mountains and seas to dry up, made the sun fall with him, and destroyed all things.
"Is this really necessary? A little fellow like this can actually move you to act? Across the spacetime of ten thousand ages, you would rather suffer immense karma and risk your own destruction just to kill a sapling?" the woman demanded, despairing and furious.
The terrifying figure from ten thousand ages ago spoke in a calm voice,