The moment Taichu finished speaking, he saw Si Chen slowly raise his right hand across from him.
With that movement, the Void beneath their feet suddenly began to twist.
Then a blazing white light lit up behind him.
Taichu frowned and likewise raised a hand. The space around him turned pitch-black.
Their palms met.
"BOOM!!!!"
One half was a blazing sun that could melt through space!
The other was nothingness that could crush even time!
Two utterly opposing powers began their contest in the Void of the Immortal Realm.
At the same time.
Forgotten River's main star vanished.
Xie Changsheng, Zhou Yan, and the others frozen in place, Jiang Ling, Kunpeng, and even the black crystal sealing Li Tiezhu...
All of them vanished.
Throughout Forgotten River, only Si Chen and Taichu remained.
"..."
At the boundary between the blazing sun and the abyss, the two faced each other silently, palm against palm.
Anger flickered in Si Chen's golden eyes-the genuine warmth he had picked up in the mortal world.
Taichu's black eyes remained as indifferent as ever.
"You're still the same."
"Even when you fight, you have to carve an inch of time out of the River of Time for a battlefield, terrified of bruising those flowers and grasses outside."
"But... a place where we can truly cut loose is indeed hard to find in this world."
He looked at Si Chen, a trace of incomprehension flashing through his eyes.
"I truly don't understand..."
"One tool in exchange for the safety of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds. This outcome was already as perfect as it could be."
"Why are you angry?"
"A tool?"
"He has a name..." Si Chen clenched his other hand in the Void!
He forcibly dragged an enormous dark-red star straight over from another distant galaxy!
"His