Cleansing Away the Old to Forge a Divine Body; the Ten Thousand Desires Edict Begins Here
The will of destruction activated on the altar.
In the blink of an eye,
the Bliss Rule imprint emerged from within him, floating before Lord of Bliss and radiating brilliant light.
Its first target was Death Space.
Following the spatial tether connected to the main hall, Lord of Bliss's will descended with a thunderous crash.
The Bliss Players immersed in their missions had been racking their brains over their tasks, celebrating their success in passing trials, or eagerly anticipating the rewards they were about to receive.
The next second, their bodies and consciousness crumbled away like pencil marks erased by a rubber.
Layer by layer, they dissolved into purple energy that flowed back along the tether to the Bliss imprint.
It was as if a grain of sand had been brushed away, or a wisp of smoke blown apart.
The Bliss Players had done nothing wrong.
They had all been forced into Death Space, where they struggled with everything they had just to survive.
But before Lord of Bliss's higher-dimensional will, the significance of any individual was too small to matter. Lord of Bliss would not care how hard they had fought to stay alive.
Before a grander narrative, they were not even worthy of becoming a "story remembered."
The entire reclamation process was cold and efficient.
What did your destruction have to do with you?
Once every Bliss Player in the trial spaces had been broken down, the next step was to forcibly recall all the Bliss Players exploring outside.
The moment they appeared at the Teleportation Point, they crumbled and dissolved, their energy flowing back as Bliss Power.
After this, Death Space fell utterly silent.
But the Purification had not ended.
Next came the core framework and energy carriers that made up Death Space.
The carefully designed trial