A Lone Rider Battles Three Gods

"The so-called resentment of living beings is formed bit by bit from the unwillingness of countless living beings to accept their deaths after dying miserably in unnatural ways. It can be considered a kind of great will as well, but one with a negative meaning—the opposite of life. I originally thought it was just a joke."

"A joke?" Li Su froze for a moment.

Fuxi nodded. "Yes. Celestial God lifeforms naturally possess memories concerning it. This power was named the Green of Resentment, but it never appeared during the age of the Celestial Gods. Only after seeing it did I suddenly recall what this thing was."

"Could it be that the primordial age before the Celestial God era was once destroyed? No, that can't be right. By all reason, that period should have been one where all things were indistinct, a chaos where thoughts had yet to manifest. There shouldn't have been such an enormous number of intelligent lives dying."

Fuxi stroked his chin.

"Destroyed once?"

"Yes. There is basically only one possibility for the appearance of the Green of Resentment: the destruction of the world. When the final calamity arrives, no life can escape. No matter how they struggle, in the end they can only await death's arrival. Everything they possess is bound to be destroyed; everything around them is fated to perish before their eyes. Not merely a few individuals, or even a group, but countless intelligent beings across the entire world, unwilling to accept their fate in that single most despairing second—the will born in the deepest abyss of despair.

"A power of despair born from destruction.

"Even if a Celestial God lifeform becomes tainted by this power, it will bring ominous consequences. Something will go wrong. Just as when I devoured the Sixth Celestial God. But