After listening to the Lord of Glory's account, Sui Xiong remained silent for a long time before finally asking, "Then, the God of Knights... did he succeed?"
The Lord of Glory did not answer, merely shaking his head.
The answer was hardly unexpected. The God of Knights had clearly fallen back then; Sui Xiong had only asked while clinging to the faintest sliver of hope.
"But friends who witnessed that battle told me that, in his final moment, his power was unimaginably strong," he said.
"Yes, unimaginably strong—almost approaching his peak," said the Lord of Glory. "But he failed."
Sui Xiong was speechless for a while.
Yes, what did it matter how powerful one was? If one failed, if one fell, then everything was meaningless.
Among the gods, the Earth Element King of old had been powerful enough to drive the Plane of Earth Elements to devour the main plane, to the point that the Lord of Order had needed to act personally to stop him. The Wind Element King, by his own strength alone, had constructed a complete small cycle within the World Ring, thereby laying the foundation for the very concept of the "Inner Planes."
But they had all fallen. Once fallen, they were nothing. Many years later, even those who knew of them had become few, utterly submerged beneath the mist and dust of history.
Only after a long while did he recall the QQ status of an artist friend: "All who have passed by leave traces behind."
The Lord of Glory smiled. "That is very reasonable, yet utterly meaningless."
Sui Xiong smiled as well. Afterward, he asked, "Do you think I could use the method of directly breaking through the world's origin?"
The Lord of Glory studied him seriously for quite some time before saying, "I