The wings behind him stirred slightly, and rings of dark energy spread outward. Lucifer watched as Shin gradually dissipated, regaining his composure as he smiled. "Your strength truly exceeded my expectations, but this is as far as you go. Heaven's Fall will trace directly back to the source of causality. It doesn't matter even if this isn't your true body—I'll find the power of origin you left behind myself. Farewell... newborn and weak Dark Gaia!"
"Is that so?" A profound smile appeared at the corner of Shin's lips, yet the rate at which his body was dissipating did not change at all. "Isn't it a little too early to make that judgment?"
"What?" Lucifer raised a brow, only to suddenly discover that Shin's figure had vanished without warning. Even he could not catch any trace of him.
"How is that possible?"
Dong!
Before his shock had faded, an ancient, distant bell rang out, spreading throughout the Endless Abyss. At that moment, not only Lucifer, but every being in the abyss, regardless of strength, heard that sound.
In that instant, even the entire abyss stopped functioning for one ten-thousandth of a second. Though it was too brief to perceive, it had truly stopped.
When the Chaos Bell rang, it suppressed the myriad worlds and primordial chaos!
At that same moment, several terrifying consciousnesses awakened simultaneously. Their gazes passed through countless layers of the abyss and fell upon the already-destroyed third layer of Burning Hell.
In truth, they had nearly awakened when Lucifer used Heaven's Fall just now. However, Lucifer had still been controlling his power to avoid causing too great a disturbance, which made those powerful beings hesitate.
"The Chaos Bell has appeared again?"
"That bell... impossible..."
"Eastern Emperor... Taiyi...?"
"Lucifer is there too?"
In an instant, these thoughts flashed through