From the Starry Other Shore to This Shore, Qin Sheng and Ye Fan had crossed the universe. Over these past few years, they had experienced far too much.
Under the erosion of time, even the universe could not remain eternal. Could friends truly remain friends forever?
Interests, paths, beliefs...
Every change would lead people down different roads.
"Yezi, interesting. There's something behind those words of yours."
Qin Sheng smiled. "If you have something to say, just say it."
"No one can hear our conversation, right?"
"Of course. Speak freely—we have freedom of speech."
Ye Fan fell silent. After a long while, he took a deep breath, looked directly into Qin Sheng's eyes, and said:
"Over these years in Beidou, I've encountered too many things and met too many people."
"I heard that during the Archaic Era, there was an extraordinarily ruthless figure. Her legacy was called the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art. It seemed capable of devouring others' Origins to nourish one's own cultivation. It was incomparably bloody."
"That person had also ascended to the Imperial Throne atop the corpses of countless kings. Bones lay everywhere; she slaughtered the world, and her vicious reputation was boundless."
No, I said freedom of speech. You actually believed it?
Qin Sheng nodded lightly. Very good. Slandering "little sister"—another level added to his crimes in the Bitter Leaf Sect. His name would be waiting on the Reincarnation Road.
"After cultivating that Demonic Art, as long as one kept devouring, even a Mortal Body incapable of cultivation could advance triumphantly and possess heaven-shaking magical power."
"Let me correct you."
Qin Sheng interrupted Ye Fan. "Cultivating the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art isn't that simple. It's not as though anyone who practices it can become powerful."
"Most people die halfway through, and some don't even survive the earliest