The hall was deathly silent. Only the occasional flicker of violet-gold lightning across that battered body gave off faint crackling sounds.
"You have come, successor."
The remnant body of the Lord of Primordial Chaos, seated cross-legged in the center of the hall, slowly opened its eyes. They were utterly devoid of emotion, cold and indifferent as the void of the cosmos.
He looked at Chu Tian, and his first words fell like a basin of icy water over his head.
"You are a failure."
Chu Tian raised a brow, his gaze instantly sharpening. "A failure? Senior, that is rather hasty of you."
"I walked the Primordial Heartless Dao—severing emotion and desire, embracing absolute reason. Yet you have too many attachments in your heart, and the karmic ties upon you are too heavy." The remnant body's voice remained utterly flat. He slowly raised a hand, and six incomparably tragic scenes appeared in the air above the hall.
They were the scenes of the deaths of the previous six bearers of Hongmeng.
"All six possessed extraordinary talent and pursued absolute power. Yet in the end, during the trials of this relic, they were devoured by the obsessions, greed, or fear they could not let go of deep within their hearts, meeting the fate of body and soul alike being obliterated." The remnant body looked coldly at Chu Tian. "And you are even more worthless than they were. You actually forged All Beings Share a Name with those weak ants. Such superfluous bonds will only become your most fatal weakness when you face the Return-to-Silence Heavenly Emperor."
"Now, hand over the karma of All Beings Share a Name upon you and sever every emotional bond. Otherwise, the Taiyi Source Core deep within this relic will never be given to you." The remnant body