Close of a Thousand Years! One-Below-All?

Chen Ji suddenly understood.

At this moment, he had grasped the essence of Black Winter.

He also understood why the energy entities and Entity had become part of Black Winter.

It turned out that Black Winter was a parasite.

It could parasitize everything in the Aether Universe.

Including... Aether!

That was why Black Winter had endured for so long. Everything contained a host of Black Winter, and even if one parasite died, another would survive.

Thus, it could revive endlessly with every Cosmic Cycle.

To resolve Black Winter, they had to find all its parasites and eliminate every one of them.

But that was impossible.

Black Winter had already merged into everything.

Unless they could reset everything in the universe!

"So the emergence of the Cosmic Cycle wasn't merely for restarting the universe and redistributing resources. It was also meant to guard against Black Winter and prevent it from growing stronger?"

"Everything has finally become clear."

"The only place that may be free of Black Winter is probably my Painted Realm Universe."

Chen Ji narrowed his eyes.

Black Winter had parasitized Flame Lord, turning him into Black Surtur.

It had indirectly invaded Battleworld.

However, within his Painted Realm Universe, everything submitted to him.

Even though his spiritual sense spread to every corner, it could not find any trace of Black Winter.

This should be the universe's only pure land.

Then he also understood why the Aether Universe had given him the system and helped him.

It wanted to use the Painted Realm to cover the Aether Universe.

Then eliminate Black Winter once and for all.

Completely destroy all its parasites.

Only by making the concept of Black Winter disappear from the Aether Universe could the Aether Universe escape disaster and recover its health.

Chen Ji understood.

But before that, he