After Xiao Yan absorbed the World Will, whatever had been binding Liu Feng and the others crumbled as well. Lin Dong and Mu Chen had only just regained consciousness when, before they could utter a single word, they abruptly faded away.
Their destinies were intimately tied to the world Xiao Yan inhabited. Given the course this world had taken, neither of them could ever come into existence in this plane. They had appeared earlier only because of the peculiar effects of the world's power. Now that the World Will had dissipated, their existences were erased along with it.
Liu Feng and Li Luo's figures quietly faded too, but they were not vanishing. They were returning to their respective times and spaces. The World Will had forcibly detained them here in the first place, and now that everything was over, it was time for them to return. Yet just as Zhou Yuan was about to leave, Xiao Yan suddenly intervened and held him back.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Yuan looked at the world's now-strongest being in puzzlement, unsure why this fellow had specifically kept him behind.
"That Heavenly Evil God and those members of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan came from your world, didn't they?" Xiao Yan asked coolly. During their earlier clash, he had sensed certain similarities between Zhou Yuan's power and that of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan. In other words, they should have come from the same world and possessed similar cultivation systems.
"That's right. The Heavenly Evil God was the son of our world's Holy God." Zhou Yuan nodded and continued, "Tens of thousands of years ago, after I defeated the Holy God of our world, I detected that his son had led the remaining members of his clan into your plane. At the time, however, I sensed that three