As Demon God Devours the World erupted, every adventurer trapped in delusion suddenly woke. Many were drenched in cold sweat, unable to suppress the terror in their hearts.
At that moment, Zhao Cheng reached into a point in the void—and finally found the location of Paradise's core.
At the same time, Zhao Cheng's true body outside made its move. Void Kalpa appeared and pointed at a spot in the void. At once, amid the annihilation of Myriad Phenomena, a glimmer of black-gold light flickered.
That tiny point of light was where Paradise's true body now resided.
A complete Paradise was itself incomparably vast. It could even become an aggregate of countless universes, extending the tentacles that represented its power into world after world.
But Paradise, now only a seed, did not even possess a physical form. It was merely a point of light, yet within that single point seemed to lie an infinite world.
Such technology was undoubtedly extraordinary. Zhao Cheng, as he was now, was utterly incapable of creating anything similar.
Yet at that very moment, a speck of "foreign matter" appeared within Paradise—or rather, something that should not have existed there.
Faintly, Zhao Cheng saw an infinitely vast aggregate of concepts. In his perception, that entire conceptual aggregate reeked of cruelty and bloodshed. It was a powerful civilization known as the Shepherd Civilization.
They scattered seeds throughout the void, herding spaces like Paradise.
The shepherds—whom were they herding for?!
Such a thought arose in Zhao Cheng's mind.
But a fleeting glimpse was not enough for him to understand much.
At this moment, guided by karma, the Shepherd Civilization's Killing Move had already arrived.
"The Lord says: for all lambs, submission to the Lord is the only choice—the destiny ordained!"
Divine words steeped in bloodshed traveled from an immeasurably