Yang Wanqing wiped her face clean. She recovered from her emotions as quickly as she fell apart. Three seconds earlier, she had still been sniffling; three seconds later, she was already asking questions.
"Master."
Chen Hao looked at her.
"Pluto... was that really your doing?"
Chen Hao didn't answer.
But his silence was an answer in itself.
Yang Wanqing opened her mouth, then closed it again. Pointless. Who else could it have been but Master? Aliens?
Chen Siyao's attention was far more focused than Yang Wanqing's. She asked only one question.
"Was it because of the Heavenly Demon?"
"Yes."
Chen Hao's answer was brief.
"The Heavenly Demon had taken over the entire Netherworld Realm. On the surface, underground, everywhere. There was no reason for it to exist anymore."
He called Pluto the Netherworld Realm. He was still used to calling it that.
Chen Siyao didn't ask for details about how he had done it. She didn't care about the process. What mattered to her was that her brother had come back safely.
But the live chat felt differently.
"Wait... did he just say 'no reason for it to exist anymore'??"
"So he just destroyed the whole planet?"
"A planet. Two thousand three hundred kilometers across."
"Destroyed."
"One person."
"Destroyed a planet."
"Can humans evolve to that level?"
"He's not an ordinary human. He's an immortal cultivator."
"Even immortal cultivators shouldn't be able to destroy planets..."
"Look at those Ancient Martial Arts practitioners from before. The strongest could only split a mountaintop. This guy just wiped out a planet."
"There are tens of thousands of levels between them..."
"Immortal cultivation and Ancient Martial Arts were never the same thing. Different levels. Different dimensions."
"Can someone calculate how much energy it takes to destroy Pluto?"
"About ten to the twenty-ninth power joules."