A brief silence.
Everything was about to come. Everything was about to change. Everything was about to die or be born anew.
Before any of it happened—
Xu Yuan looked up into the depths of Heaven and waited quietly.
Every curse tied to humanity had faded from his body.
The Overseer who had guarded the "orchard" for the Ancient God was dead too.
What would happen?
Silence.
Silence.
Silence.
—Nothing happened.
Long ago, the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Venerable had forged an eight-piece set. It could clearly break the curse, yet the Venerable had hidden four of its pieces on himself.
He simply had not dared to use them.
Because back then, the Ancient God was still alive!!!
With the Invincibility to swallow the Three Realms in a single gulp, would it not come demanding answers the moment it discovered someone had broken its curse?
But now it was dead!
Only after it died, when the Dark Crown Ritual was no longer watched and controlled, did the Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Venerable dare to hand over the remaining four pieces.
Xu Yuan closed his eyes for a moment, and the scene from just now surfaced in his mind.
If the Ancient God had not died...
The Demon-Suppressing Heavenly Venerable had been ready to sacrifice himself.
Xu Yuan could faintly sense it.
In fact, back in that bygone era, he had already learned all this as the Temple Keeper.
If the Ancient God had not died—
After obtaining the remaining pieces of the set, he would have returned to Earth to lift the curse.
"Master, are you all right?"
Xi asked cautiously.
“What could happen to me? The Ancient God is dead. Now is the hour when all under Heaven falls into chaos,” Xu Yuan said.
In Heaven,
more Monsters had appeared.
But they all