"Do you understand now?"
Qian Cheng's voice seemed to come from the depths of hell, carrying a bone-chilling coldness.
"As long as your parents' choice back then changed by even the slightest degree in a different location, your birth would be denied at its very root, and you would vanish from this world completely."
"This is the power of causality, a supreme power capable of reversing past and present, blurring illusion and reality."
Qian Cheng's fingertips pressed down slightly, and the black light grew ever denser. "So... dis...ap...pear!"
The instant the final three words fell, Dai Yueheng's body began turning transparent at a visible speed, as though an invisible force were erasing him bit by bit.
He let out no scream, nor was there any gruesome scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere.
He merely turned into wisps of fine ash, like melting ice and snow.
Carried away by the cold wind, he disappeared from this world completely, without leaving even the slightest trace that he had ever existed.
Witnessing this incomprehensible sight, Zhang Le Xuan and the others froze where they stood as if struck by a petrification spell.
All color drained from their faces, while their eyes filled with utter despair and bone-deep terror.
It was not fear of a powerful enemy, but complete panic before this bizarre force that they could neither comprehend nor resist.
The ability to erase a person's existence from its very root had already surpassed everything they knew about the power of soul masters!
"Run! Run now!"
"I'll hold him off! You get out of here!"
Zhang Le Xuan suddenly snapped back to her senses, her voice hoarse with extreme terror.
She knew that facing such a monster, staying behind meant certain death.
"Hold me off?"
A cold black gleam flashed through Qian