The ground all around was stained with filth, littered with bone fragments, terrifying black blood, and scattered flesh and bones. It was a scene of utter carnage.
As he stepped onto the stairs, all around him lay endless nothingness. Only this Stone Stairway stretched toward eternity and an unknown end; every step seemed to carry him across past and present, as though he were passing through one great world after another.
Light burst forth in opposing currents, seeking to reverse time, throwing heaven and earth into turmoil. Fragments of time flowed backward, densely packed and chaotically arranged.
In an instant, the River of Time fell into disorder, heaven and earth turned upside down, and day became night. Every great river on the ground flowed toward the sky, the cosmos reversed, and the fallen King retreated backward, returning once more!
It was as though an invisible hand were pulling him, forcibly hauling him back into captivity. He walked backward out of the ruptured void, rapidly approaching as his aura continued to weaken, his flesh decayed, and his Divine Soul dimmed.
Splat! Radiance blazed, and he was crushed just like that. His flesh was scoured away until only dark matter remained, while his Divine Soul proved somewhat more useful, turning a millstone within Samsara and giving off light and heat.
Suddenly, Ji Hao stopped and looked around, as though he had heard something.
"Who is calling me?!"
Ji Hao murmured. The Heavenly Eye between his brows opened involuntarily, and a Green Lotus blossomed with black-and-white radiance, illuminating time. All the Power of Karma was summoned, lighting up every karmic thread from past to present. They belonged to those destroyed worlds.
The worlds of the past and present were all calling!
Calling his name!
A surge of black vapor rose into the sky,