"Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor... was the First Human Emperor's evil intent?!"
Those nightmare-like dying words echoed through Chu Tian's mind for a long time. Standing amid the ruins of the Anti-Heaven Gate, he gazed at the deep, icy Silent Abyss Great World ahead, a place steeped in endless strangeness, and stormy waves unlike any before surged within his heart.
If the Heavenly Emperor was the Human Emperor's evil intent, then what had the life-and-death opposition between the Heavens and Silent Abyss throughout countless epochs truly been? An absurd slaughter of oneself?
"Chu Tian, he did not lie to you."
At that moment, the Human Emperor's lingering remnant slowly drifted out of the Five Elements Imperial Seal. That golden phantom appeared incomparably weary and weathered.
"This was also the ultimate truth I came to understand only when I suppressed him in the Epoch Outer Sea." Deep helplessness seeped through the Human Emperor's remnant voice. "In an immensely ancient age, the Heavens and Myriad Worlds and the Silent Abyss Great World had originally been one whole, flawless universe, known as the 'Taiyi Realm.'"
"The Taiyi Realm possessed a perfect cycle, where creation and destruction coexisted. But later, the Taiyi Realm's origin began to wither away, and the entire universe started moving toward irreversible 'return to silence.'"
"To prevent the world's destruction, the First Human Emperor of the Primordial Era made a mad decision. With supreme power, he cleaved apart and stripped away every negative law within himself—and even throughout the entire Taiyi Realm—that represented 'destruction, decay, and return to silence'!"
"That slash did preserve the vibrant Heavens and Myriad Worlds, but it also caused the Taiyi Realm to split apart. The endless wastelands and evil intent that were stripped away eventually gathered into the Silent Abyss Great World, while that purest mass of