Smack!
Just as Xuan thought of someone, the temporal barrier surrounding him lightly shattered. Zeno's attack suddenly erupted, and an entire layer of the Abyss burst apart like ignited fireworks.
The surroundings returned to chaos. With the disappearance of this layer of the Abyss, everything became nothingness. Yet above and beneath them, at infinite heights and infinite depths, layer upon layer of Abyssal planes still remained.
Zeno let out a breath and looked at the fireworks blooming before him, laughing happily. "Hee hee, this is what you get for offending me."
"Is that so!"
Suddenly, at the sound of that familiar voice, the smile on Zeno's face froze. A terrifying force abruptly swept outward, instantly clearing away all energy. The "fireworks" shattered, and a figure emerged.
"You... who are you?" Upon seeing this figure, Zeno instinctively took a step back, because this was not the Lu Xuan from before.
Long black hair. An ancient, desolate aura radiated from his body, like the will of Heaven gazing down upon the boundless earth—lofty and supreme, the sole one throughout eternity.
Transforming into countless bloody rains, scattering across the ages, enduring the tempering of endless space-time and the cleansing of the Long River of time, he transformed throughout eternity; He Transforms into Freedom... Only this one man, standing alone against eternity!
"My name?" With a soft chuckle, the newly appeared figure looked at his flawless palm. "Naturally, it is Lu Xuan."
He paused. "Of course, you may also call me Desolate..."
"Desolate?" Zeno repeated the word. Though he did not understand its precise meaning, a sense of foreboding had already risen within him.
"A companion deity born alongside a higher universe—can you understand... what the multiverse is?" With a calm voice, like the lofty will of Heaven, the Desolate Heavenly Emperor struck down