Decree!

Hundreds of millions of light-years away, in the depths of the starry sky.

A thin blood mist permeated the entire starry sky, forming an indelible crimson backdrop.

Terrifying Altars the size of planets stood one after another, their bodies piled from flesh and blood and covered in strange patterns, scattered throughout the blood mist in some mysterious formation.

Between the Altars, members of the Evil Horn Tribe, with horns growing from their foreheads and tentacles extending from beneath their arms, came and went from time to time.

With a wave of their hands, batches of living beings were cast onto the Altars, their flesh and blood drained amid agonized wails.

Suddenly,

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The starry sky split apart as an enormous horn smashed through layer upon layer of space...

Behind the horn, a terrifying giant face emerged from the void and looked down upon the many Altars.

"Where is Xie Sen!"

"Here, here, here..."

A hurried response rang out. A figure swiftly flew up, arrived beneath the giant face, and fell to his knees trembling.

"This descendant, Xie Sen, pays respects to Ancestor Xie Sha!"

The giant face stared at the descendant before it, more than one hundred and eighty generations removed. Its majestic expression softened by a rare fraction.

"Xie Sen, I remember you have returned to the Ancestral Land for over a thousand years now, correct?"

"Ancestor still remembers me?"

Xie Sen was immediately so overjoyed that tears filled his eyes. With an excited face, he said:

"Thank you for your golden words back then, Ancestor. You did not hold me accountable for losing my territory, and even allowed the Ancestral Land to take in this stray dog."

"As long as the Evil Horn Tribe's Ancestral Land still stands, how can there be any talk of a