Inside the majestic palace, everything was utterly empty.
Only multicolored streams of light drifted through the air. At the center, a pearl floated silently, carrying within it the mighty power of a great thousand world.
To control it was to control the Heavenly Realm.
The authority of the Heavenly Lord.
A trace of complexity appeared on Lin Cheng's face as he looked at it in silence, seemingly lost in thought.
"..."
After a moment, he gave a light wave of his hand and put the pearl away.
Lin Cheng did not refine it, nor did he intend to give it to anyone else for the time being. He simply tossed it into the Primordial Realm.
Not long afterward.
Lin Cheng's aura suddenly began rising at a rapid pace.
In mere moments, he went from the middle stage of the Lord realm straight into the late stage... until he reached the limit of the Lord realm, vaguely touching upon a layer of shackles—a barrier.
He slowly closed his eyes and sensed the changes within the Primordial Realm.
Within the Primordial Realm floated two great thousand worlds: the Jingyun Realm, and a blood-red world.
The latter was deathly silent, like hell itself. Not a single living creature existed within it. It merely continued to expand and grow, at a rate almost no slower than the Jingyun Realm's. The only difference was that the Jingyun Realm grew ever livelier and more prosperous, while the blood-red world became ever lonelier and more dead.
One life, one death.
One god, one demon.
Although the power stripped from Lin Cheng's godhead had merged into the chaos, it seemed not to have vanished completely. Instead, it had been absorbed and contained by the two great thousand worlds.
The two great worlds emanated surging auras.
With the descent