Destiny Return to Void, Secrets of the Twin Seals

Crack—!

A sound that pierced through the ages tore open the silent void. The barrier of the Eternal Cage, previously covered in fine fissures, shattered completely under the impact of the torrential Destiny from beyond the realm, leaving behind a massive gap.

Pitch-black, frigid baleful energy from beyond the realm poured into this sealed world like a bursting sea. This power transcended the order of the Heavens, transcended the chaos of disorder, and transcended the cycle of the Chess Dao. It possessed neither the restrictive tyranny of the Myriad Chess Player's power nor the destructive violence of the Chaos torrent; it held only a sense of ultimate nothingness and return to the void.

Everything it touched saw its Great Dao fade and its origin fall into silence.

True Heaven and Lin Chen, who had been locked in a stalemate just moments before, withdrew their hands simultaneously, their gazes fixed upon the breach in the void barrier.

The Eye of True Heaven, hanging high in the firmament, had completely shed its eternal, supreme indifference. In its place was an undisguised panic and dread. It could disregard the life and death of all spirits, manipulate the cycles of the chess game at will, and even suppress the Ancient Remnant Soul or crush the Anti-Dao Heart, but it feared this Destiny from beyond the realm above all else.

Its eternal layout and calculated schemes were all built upon the foundation of "isolating the backlash of Destiny."

Now that the cage was broken and the Destiny Return to Void had manifested, its billions of years of painstaking management were on the verge of collapse.

"It has come to pass prematurely, after all..."

True Heaven's low murmur echoed across the world, carrying a trace of incredulous dejection.

It had calculated every variable through the ages, controlled the shifting of the chess games, and deduced the cycles of the Heavens, yet it had never accounted for the fact that an Ancient Remnant Soul sleeping for eons and a mortal resisting the tide would forcibly trigger this ultimate catastrophe ahead of time, shattering its perfectly balanced layout.

On the ground, Kallen, Frieza, and the others stood frozen, the power surrounding their bodies instantly suppressed by the baleful energy from beyond the realm.

The surrounding flowers, trees, mountains, rocks, spiritual energy, and drifting Dao laws all turned into the most primitive nothingness and dissipated silently the moment they touched the aura of the Destiny Return to Void. This world they relied upon and fought to protect was dissolving and collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Is this... the backlash of Destiny?" The Golden Super Saiyan's pupils trembled, an unprecedented sense of powerlessness rising in his heart.

The Chess Dao and Heavenly Dao they had fought in the past still had traces to follow and ways to break. But this power of Destiny felt like a liquidation of the very roots of heaven and earth—the end of all rules. There was no solution, no breaking it, and no way to resist.

Above the nine heavens, the Seven Supremes turned pale, their infinite divine light dimming violently. They had traversed multiple dimensions and wielded the supreme laws of the Heavens, yet at this moment, they did not even have the qualification to raise a hand in resistance. Their Supreme Dao bodies, shrouded in divine light, grew slightly translucent and precarious under the erosion of the void Destiny aura.

"Ancient records were sparse, saying only that Destiny could be defied and the catastrophe was unparalleled. Only today do I realize this is not a dimensional catastrophe... it is a zero-sum liquidation of the world's origin!" one Supreme said in a hoarse voice, expressing utter despair.

Nearby, the Chaos King's massive, pitch-black body curled up frantically, his world-destroying torrents retracting rapidly to desperately protect his own origin.

Chaos was originally the disordered silence at the end of all things, but in the face of the Destiny Return to Void, even the destructive power of Chaos seemed childish. Disorder could be born, destroyed, and cycled, but the liquidation of Destiny was a one-way trip—a total return to the void.

In the void beyond the realm, the Myriad Chess Player, who had been hiding and lurking, was now in a state of total panic.

Billions of Black and White Jade Discs trembled violently, and countless chess games beyond the realm shattered on their own, ending their cycles. As a puppet cultivated by True Heaven, he had relied on the Eternal Cage and the Destiny-dilution system to exist. Now that the balance was broken and Destiny had manifested, his Chess Dao origin was dissolving rapidly.

He had calculated for eons, hoping to transcend through the final endgame, only to realize he was nothing more than the most insignificant discarded pawn used by True Heaven to balance Destiny and consume its backlash. The day the chess game was completed would be the day his origin was annihilated.

In endless terror, the Player dared not lurk any longer. He gathered all his power of the Chess Dao, attempting to repair the damaged Eternal Cage.

A gray light screen rose once more, and countless Chess Dao chains crisscrossed, binding tightly to the cracks in the barrier in an attempt to forcibly seal the breach where Destiny was leaking.

Yet, the seemingly formidable power of the Myriad Chess Player dissolved the moment it touched the aura of the Destiny Return to Void, failing to stir even a ripple.

It was all in vain.

At the center of the formation, Lin Chen's mind was taut. The Ancestral Seal on his chest bloomed with a dim, dark light, protecting his soul and origin.

The incomplete Ancient Remnant Soul floating beside him trembled violently, its hoarse voice sounding urgently, revealing the deepest secret of the ages: "Kid, look closely! This is the truth behind True Heaven's eternal layout!"

"When True Heaven was first born, it coveted the complete origin of Destiny from beyond the realm, hoping to devour it to achieve absolute immortality. But Destiny carries a unifying backlash; once forcibly absorbed, it liquidates the origin that carries all Dao fruits. At best, the Dao collapses; at worst, the Heavens are destroyed!"

"It dared not bear the backlash alone, so it split the primitive world, forged the Eternal Cage, and divided it into the three realms of Heavens, Chaos, and Chess Dao. It used the myriad living beings and endless universes as a buffer to dilute the backlash of Destiny layer by layer!"

The Remnant Soul's light flickered violently, filled with eternal indignation and unwillingness: "The slaughter of the Heavens is to screen for Dao bodies capable of bearing the backlash; the birth and death of Chaos is to wear down the hostility of Destiny; the cycle of the Myriad Chess is to gather the dispersed backlash origin! The beings of the ages have suffered for generations, all as scapegoats for True Heaven to distribute the liquidation of Destiny!"

Every word pierced his heart, echoing throughout Lin Chen's entire sea of consciousness.

At this, all his confusion was resolved.

Why did the Heavenly Dao seem impartial, yet refuse to tolerate those who defied their fate?

Why did the chess games lock the cycle layer by layer, allowing no one to transcend?

Why, throughout the ages, could no one escape the cycle of sacrifice and destruction?

It was not to protect the world, nor to maintain balance; it was an eternal sacrificial scheme laid by True Heaven for its own immortality!

The living were not common folk; they were offerings to distribute the backlash.

The worlds were not heaven and earth; they were containers to carry Destiny.

Once True Heaven finished diluting all the backlash and refined the origin of Destiny from beyond the realm, the Eternal Cage, the Heavens, Chaos, and the billions of living beings would be abandoned without hesitation, all buried in the Destiny Return to Void.

"What a 'righteous' Heaven, what 'selfless' eternity."

Lin Chen sneered in a low voice. The last trace of awe he held for the Heavenly Dao vanished, leaving only bone-chilling coldness.

The high and mighty True Heaven, which claimed to govern all things, was in reality the most selfish plunderer in history.

At the peak of the void, True Heaven seemed to have its disguise completely stripped away. No longer hiding its selfishness, its cold will, wrapped in the pressure of the infinite Heavenly Dao, locked onto Lin Chen and the Remnant Soul.

"Having learned the forbidden secrets, you were destined to die."

"This Seat has laid this plan for eons, all for the sake of transcending into immortality. All things in heaven and earth were born for My Dao and shall perish for My Dao. To sacrifice billions of lives in exchange for the one true immortal of the ages—what wrong is there in that?"

In True Heaven's perception, all spirits were as humble as dust; their life and death were never worth mentioning. It was the supreme Heavenly Dao derived from the origin of the world. Since all beings lived by its grace, it was only natural that they should be sacrificed for its Dao fruit.

As its voice fell, the laws of the Heavenly Dao gathered frantically across the sky.

This time, True Heaven did not attempt to repair the cage, nor did it try to balance the leaking Destiny. Knowing the grand plan had collapsed and the chess game for diluting the backlash was now useless, it simply abandoned all pretense and moved with ultimate murderous intent.

Infinite golden divine light of the Heavenly Dao shrouded the entire world, no longer targeting the Destiny from beyond the realm, but instead ruthlessly suppressing every living soul within the cage!

"Since the grand scheme is shattered and the backlash is imminent, This Seat shall absorb the origin of all spirits within the cage, smelt the Dao fruits of all worlds, and forcibly bolster my foundation!"

"Using the Dao foundations of billions of living beings as a shield to withstand the reckoning of Destiny! Today, This Seat shall take the final step toward immortality!"

Violent Heavenly Dao power swept across the four directions; countless weak beings had their origins instantly ripped away, their forms and spirits annihilated. The Seven Supremes' expressions changed drastically, and they pushed their Dao bodies to the limit to resist, yet they remained suppressed by the immense force of the Heavenly Dao, their origins rapidly depleting.

The Chaos King let out a roar of grief and indignation as his Chaos origin was forcibly pulled, continuously stripped away, and smelted to become nourishment for True Heaven.

True Heaven had gone completely mad.

With the chess game broken and the cage collapsing, it began to harvest all offerings itself, using the entire world as a furnace and the Dao foundations of all spirits as fuel to forcibly temper itself and withstand the Destiny Return to Void!

"Delusional!"

Lin Chen's gaze was piercing, his Anti-Dao Heart boiling over, and the light from the Ancestral Seal on his chest surged ten thousand feet high.

The dark Cage-Breaking Power swept across the heavens and earth, forcibly resisting the Heavenly Dao power that was plundering the origins of all living beings. The golden Anti-Dao origin and the dark light of the Ancestral Seal intertwined, erecting a pure, untainted domain between heaven and earth, shielding the countless beings on the brink of extinction.

"You borrow the lives of the masses to extend your own, using the common people as a shield—such a Heavenly Dao is not fit to be Heaven!"

Lin Chen stepped into the void, facing the supreme True Heaven, alone and defying the eternal heavens!

The power of the Ancestral Seal shattered the shackles of the Heavenly Dao layer by layer, and his Anti-Dao Heart crushed the eternal heavenly laws step by step. One man and one seal, amidst the collapsing world, forcibly held up a glimmer of hope.

Seeing this, True Heaven's killing intent intensified: "A mere successor of a broken seal dares to defy This Seat time and again! Today, I shall crush your Anti-Dao Heart, devour the origin of the Ancestral Seal, and complete my missing Cage-Breaking foundation!"

The divine light of the Heavenly Dao condensed into a supreme Heavenly Blade, spanning billions of voids, carrying the momentum to destroy and suppress everything as it crashed down!

Wherever the Heavenly Blade passed, space collapsed, Dao laws were extinguished, and all things returned to the void.

Lin Chen showed no fear; the Ancestral Seal in his palm circulated a primitive, faint light, and he condensed all his power into a single punch, striking out against the trend.

The fist print and the Heavenly Blade collided with a roar that shook the eternal dimensions.

The golden Heavenly Dao power and the dark Cage-Breaking Power clashed crazily, causing the void to explode in layers as an endless storm of origins swept the world. Lin Chen's body shook violently, his blood surged, and his palms split open, yet he forcibly withstood True Heaven's vengeful strike.

However, he did not retreat a single step, and the obsession in his eyes burned ever brighter.

As long as he lived, this eternally unjust Heavenly Dao would not be allowed to slaughter the common people at will!

In the stalemate, the Destiny Return to Void in the outer void grew increasingly violent, the breach in the barrier expanding until that massive, blurry black shadow shrouding the endless outer reaches finally began to slowly reach into this world.

An aura of ultimate nothingness instantly enveloped all worlds, causing even the violent Heavenly Dao power to falter.

Just as everyone thought the black shadow of Destiny had arrived and the entire world would be reduced to zero, the Anti-Fate Ancestral Seal on Lin Chen's chest suddenly erupted with unprecedented, extreme light.

The incomplete Ancient Remnant Soul hovering to the side suddenly grew agitated, its light and shadow distorting violently as it let out a roar of extreme shock:

"No! This is not merely the Destiny Return to Void!"

"Inside that black shadow... there is the other half! The second Cage-Breaking Ancestral Seal lost for eternity!!"

Boom!

These words rang out like a thunderclap across the world.

Lin Chen's heart shook violently, his blood instantly freezing.

Since he first appeared in the world, he had always believed the Anti-Fate Ancestral Seal was the only Cage-Breaking origin, the only chance for transcendence in all of eternity. He had never imagined that a second Ancestral Seal could exist.

And True Heaven, hovering in the void with endless killing intent, felt its supreme body stiffen the moment it heard those words. For the first time, its eternally indifferent Dao heart surged with massive waves, and extreme fear completely drowned its consciousness.

It had laid out plans for eternity, suppressed the remnant soul of the Ancestral Seal, diluted the backlash of Destiny, and calculated everything—except for one thing:

Outside the eternal cage, hidden within the Destiny Return to Void, there was another Ancestral Seal capable of completely overturning everything!

The black shadow from the outer reaches slowly stretched, and two rays of light—one bright and one dark, originating from the same source yet possessing diametrically opposed auras—slowly emerged from the endless nothingness.

No one knew why the second Ancestral Seal was hidden within Destiny, nor did anyone know its purpose for sleeping through the ages.

But Lin Chen knew, and True Heaven knew even better—

The day the two seals appeared was the moment the true and false Heavenly Dao would be completely replaced, and the eternal chess game would be reset to zero!

Yet, just as the auras of the two seals resonated from afar and were about to echo across the void, a strange, ancient, and indifferent whisper—one that stood above both True Heaven and the Ancestral Seals—suddenly emanated from the deepest part of that outer black shadow:

"The two seals return to their positions, the endgame begins... but this time, the one to be reckoned with was never the common people or the Heavenly Dao."

"It is the Chess Game Player who has slept for eternity."