The Heavenly Emperor had fallen.
Mu Qing looked ahead. The Heavenly Emperor had already been completely burned into nothingness by the black flames, leaving not the slightest trace behind, as though he had never existed at all!
For a moment, his emotions were complicated. He had never expected that this enemy of his would not ultimately die by his hand, but instead be destroyed without a trace by some great figure lurking behind the scenes.
Yet some of the information the Heavenly Emperor had revealed shook Mu Qing even more.
Three words in particular left Mu Qing utterly stunned. He never could have imagined that the Heavenly Emperor would mention the Origin Realm!
This was a clue the Time Sovereign had found in the future at the cost of his life. Only by reversing spacetime and returning to the past had he been able to inform the upper echelons of the Life Royal Court about the Origin Realm.
The Origin Realm concerned some enormous calamity, and the Time Sovereign had told them to find it as quickly as possible.
Yet the Heavenly Emperor had directly revealed a clue to entering the Origin Realm: it was connected to the Tomb of the Dark Heaven Dharma King in the Dark Heaven Universe!
"It was the Starry Sky Book that freed the Heavenly Emperor from control, but it also triggered the contingency a certain great figure had left within him, destroying the evidence."
"Did the Heavenly Emperor believe there was also a great figure standing behind me, one capable of contending against the one behind him? Was that why he chose to tell me—preferring to benefit me rather than let that great figure's scheme succeed?"
Mu Qing stroked his chin and began sorting through the information he had obtained.
He still harbored some