"Master, welcome home."
Li Chen said nothing. He simply strode into a secret chamber in Sky City. Wine Fox hurried after him, then sealed the place off completely.
"Master, something's wrong with you. Did something happen? Don't try to shoulder everything alone, you idiot Master."
Li Chen gently stroked her head. "Don't worry. I'm just a little tired. Go arrange for people to attack the Great Thousand World's other lower planes."
Though Wine Fox was still worried, she nodded, turned, and left to arrange the next invasions.
After she left, Li Chen sat cross-legged and closed his eyes, beginning to suppress his divinity so he would not lose his humanity completely.
He had never had much humanity to begin with, but having little and having none were entirely different things. If he lost his humanity and retained only divinity, would he still be himself?
Meanwhile, nine Three-Story Towers descended onto the Central Plains and the eight continents, continuously drawing in the energy of each continent and the surrounding matter.
On the Northwest Continent, within the Xiao Clan.
"Clan Leader, disaster has struck! Over in Chu Yun, every administrator simultaneously announced that they were leaving the Xiao Clan. They've taken control of the garrisons in three provinces.
"The same thing happened in Mulan and Luoyan. They all rebelled overnight."
Xiao Yan's expression barely changed after hearing this. "How much territory do we still actually control?"
"The area around Wutan City and three provinces in the western Jia Ma Empire. Everywhere else has rebelled."
Xiao Yan remained silent for a moment after hearing this. "You may leave."
Then he looked up at the sky. "Is this what you meant when you said everything has a price? Then what price did you pay for destroying the world?"
He thought back to those