Crossing the Star Domain, red blade light descended upon three planets.
He did not kill anyone uninvolved. He only found those who had taken part and annihilated them.
No one dared plead for mercy. The blade that cleaved the heavens hung overhead: either hand them over, or everyone would die.
"I have already given you their location. Please leave, sir. As for the calamity that befell Cangyuan... I am deeply sorry. We had no power to restrain those Calamities. I apologize."
"Go after whoever killed your people. We knew absolutely nothing about this. As for those Calamities, deal with them however you please. We cannot find them either, and have even suffered greatly at their hands.
"But sir, you are a Calamity yourself now. What is the point of continuing to kill Calamities? Or are you merely using revenge as a pretext to bury every planet in the surrounding star systems with them?"
"Kill us, Zhu Yin. Cangyuan's destruction was fate's choice to begin with. We merely followed the natural course. What is so bad about becoming a Calamity? The strong reign supreme-that truth has never changed.
"What difference is there, really, between the Awakened and Calamities? Aren't you a Calamity yourself now? Ask yourself honestly: is this so-called resistance against Calamities truly necessary?"
Three planets, three responses.
Regretful sighs, indifference, and insistence that they had done nothing wrong.
Blood rained down again and again. Cangyuan's clothes were stained red, his aura grew increasingly dark, and his overwhelming killing intent only intensified.
In just a few days, Ye Buyu and the others had seen the beginnings of the Great Cataclysm.
Water Mirror asked softly.
"If Calamities taking over the world is fate's choice, is everything we are doing truly necessary?"
No one answered.
They arrived at a world teeming with