Gu Yuena's expression changed as well.
She abruptly looked toward Lin Yan.
The next second, terrifying spiritual radiance swept across heaven and earth.
This time, no Soul Beasts turned to ash, nor did any city vanish into thin air.
Because from the very beginning, the target had not been any living being.
It was—this era itself.
Buzz.
Invisible ripples swept over the land.
The distant forest was the first to change.
Towering ancient trees still stood there, their branches and leaves still swaying in the cold wind.
Yet their colors seemed to have been drained away, rapidly fading from their crowns downward.
Then came the mountains.
The edges of the endless snow-capped peaks began to blur.
The heavy mountain ranges were like ink marks washed with water, gradually fading away.
The rivers lost their reflections.
The earth began to turn transparent.
Even the Eternal Night overhead, which had lasted for who knew how many years, was slowly losing its color.
This was not destruction.
Nor was it collapse.
It was a change more despairing than destruction itself.
The Tenth Era—was losing its right to continue existing.
Gu Yuena took one look, and the scales all over her body nearly stood on end.
She understood.
That beast still had not woken up!
He had heard what she said just now.
No.
More precisely, his subconscious, which had been turned into a muddled paste by fungal poison, had heard it.
"Wasn't the fate of bringing this era to an end your will?"
Era. End.
Those few words had been caught by that consciousness, which was incapable of complete thought.
As for everything she said afterward about favoring humans, Soul Beasts, and questioning him—he had not understood any of it.
His subconscious had formed only one extremely simple thought.
If it was supposed