He paused and looked at the Heavenly Evil God's rapidly dimming demonic eyes.
"But you forgot that the reason the Chaos Void is called the Chaos Void is because it is vast—vast enough to contain countless existences beyond your imagination."
The Heavenly Evil God did not respond.
His will was collapsing at an irreversible speed.
The demonic runes deep within the devilish aura were extinguishing in swathes, like candles snuffed out by the wind.
The light in those scarlet eyes grew dimmer and dimmer. The ancient characters deep within his pupils shattered one after another, turning into fine crimson motes that scattered into the darkness.
"Forty-nine thousand years."
Xiao Qing continued.
"You were sealed here by the Immortal Emperor. The Demon-Dissolving Array eroded you once every thousand years. You should have died beyond all doubt."
"But you survived."
"Not because you were strong enough, but because the Immortal Emperor was only a Half-Step Dominator back then. The seal he laid down with his life could trap you, but it could not destroy you."
Xiao Qing lowered his gaze slightly.
"He was an opponent worthy of respect."
"With the body of a Half-Step Dominator, he forcibly sealed a Second Sequence God and bought the Great Thousand World forty-nine thousand years of respite."
"That achievement was enough to be recorded in the annals of the Great Thousand World."
Xiao Qing raised his eyes again.
"But I am not the Immortal Emperor."
The aura around him began to change slowly.
The Chaos radiance he had previously restrained emerged once more. It started as a faint gleam, gradually brightened, then grew more and more resplendent.
The light was not dazzling. It was an exceptionally gentle Chaos hue, like the first ray of light to bloom when heaven and earth first opened.
Yet this gentle