Black flames engulfed Zhao Cheng. Every wisp and thread of them seemed to possess the power to shatter the great thousand worlds.
Energy, matter, time, space... across the ten directions of the greater universe, nothing could bear or resist this force of destruction.
Even an Immortality Dao Fruit, if engulfed by the black fire, would sink into Eternal Calamity, smashed directly into the most fundamental particles, never to reunite for all eternity.
It could be said that this power was one of the most terrifying calamity forces within the dimensions—indeed, there was no second one like it!
For this was a dimensional calamity!
It was the root cause that led dimensional universes, through Formation-Existence-Destruction-Emptiness, inevitably toward empty annihilation.
The so-called black fire was merely an outward manifestation.
The essence of the black fire was the evil karma born from the operation of dimensions!
Even the birth of the Annihilation Domain had been an instinctive measure of the dimensions themselves, meant to reduce this evil karma.
Yet even dimensional power could only lessen evil karma; it could never erase it.
Only at the instant a dimension came to an end, when the dimension collapsed and the force of destruction was born, could this evil karma be refined away, creating something even more extraordinary and becoming provisions for the dimension's rebirth.
It could be said that this was a dimensional calamity, but also a tremendous fated opportunity.
Without this calamity, the operation of dimensions would be an eternal cycle, neither increasing nor decreasing. With it, dimensions gained the possibility of continuously transforming and ascending.
Of course, not every dimension could completely refine away its evil karma amid the final great destruction.
And if it failed to do so, the dimension's operation would no longer be addition, but ceaseless subtraction.
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