"Surprised, weakling of the past?" Future Chu Tian looked down on Chu Tian from above, his voice hoarse and icy. "In the end, you'll discover that you can't protect anyone. To avoid losing them, I could only... devour them all and turn them into part of my body. This is true eternal protection."
With a casual wave of his hand, Future Chu Tian unfolded a scene of despair above the Finale Arena.
Within the scene, the war between the Myriad Heavens and Silent Abyss had reached its end. More than half of both worlds' inhabitants had been killed or wounded, leaving living beings devastated. Chu Tian knelt before his family's corpses. In order to revive them, he had completely descended into madness. He opened the Great Thousand World and devoured all the remaining fortune and all the surviving beings of both worlds without holding anything back!
He became the Taiyi Realm's sole living being, becoming the true Taiyi Demon Emperor!
The moment this scene appeared, the Myriad Heavens Allied Army outside fell into deathly silence. Especially the Silent Abyss refugees and lower-level cultivators whom Chu Tian had once saved—deep, uncontrollable fear surfaced in their eyes.
They feared that the Heavenly Lord they had followed at the risk of their lives would truly become that monster that devoured everything. Were they, in the end, merely tools Chu Tian would use to become a god?
Panic began to spread through the million light spheres.
Yet as Chu Tian looked at the "himself" upon the throne, he neither hurried to deny it nor comforted all beings. He merely stared coldly at his opponent, then suddenly let out a derisive snort.
"Playing god." Chu Tian held his sword in one hand and pointed it straight at Future Chu Tian. "If you really won, if