"You're not running anymore?!" the Corpse Lord's core screamed in terror from the summit of the starry sky.
It discovered that it could no longer draw even the faintest trace of "despair" from living beings. They had accepted their own pain and come to terms with it!
"You monster who knows only how to devour will never understand." Chu Tian slowly rose into the air. He did not refine the pain gathering around him. Instead, through the laws of Taiyi Freedom, he let those emotions flow freely through the stars.
"Pain doesn't need to be erased or hidden. It only needs to be seen and acknowledged."
Chu Tian swept out his hand. The immense will born of the Twin Realms' genuine pain and compassion surged like a dazzling sea of stars, surrounding the isolated Corpse Lord's core on every side!
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
The Corpse Lord's core shrieked beneath the scouring light, so full of humanity. Layer after layer of the ashen deathly aura it used to conceal itself was stripped away.
At last, the deathly aura dispersed.
The once-arrogant core slowly took the shape of a person among the stars.
The moment everyone saw that figure clearly, the entire gathering fell silent.
It was no terrifying Demon God, nor was it some indescribable monster.
It was a child of seven or eight in ragged animal skins, filthy from head to toe... the First Human Emperor as a boy!
He curled up among the stars, hugging his knees. Raising a young face streaked with tears and bewilderment, he looked at Chu Tian and asked in a faint voice heavy with grievance:
"If... if someone had listened to me when I made the wrong choice back then... if someone had helped me bear even a little of it... would I still