During the "brief" descent, Martin and Lu Youqi watched the entire life of that planet unfold.
At the edge of the world's barrier, they were excluded from the flow of time within that world and witnessed its destruction with their own eyes.
It was like watching a movie...
When the apocalypse arrived, nothing held any meaning anymore.
Whether it was human wisdom or the fierceness of beasts, the struggles of those lives only became embellishments to bursting fireworks, making the light flickering in the universe shine a little brighter.
They were still falling, and the planet's collapse had not reduced its mass.
Martin could only slow their descent as much as possible and avoid the dazzling flashes.
"Was that the origin of the Abyss?" Lu Youqi, who had witnessed it all, asked blankly from beside him.
The Abyss had actually been dug out by humans?
He did not know what Martin had experienced in the lake.
Martin stared at the gradually fading light, momentarily at a loss for words.
Had the Abyss been dug out by humans? Apparently not. It had appeared because he completed that trial.
Had the Abyss appeared because of him? Apparently not either. He too was a special entity created by the Abyss. Without the Abyss, where would he have come from?
The Abyss shaped me, and I brought forth the Abyss?
Martin once again felt that profound sense of destiny, as well as the helplessness of being unable to choose beneath such a fate.
It seemed that the Abyss had no true "origin."
It was simply written into fate that it was bound to arrive.
Faced with Lu Youqi's sigh, Martin did not know what to say either.
The two simply gazed at the light of that world's destruction, feeling the tranquility of annihilation as