"He is the clone, I am the original; you've been looking at the wrong person all along."
Laughter echoed from the World-Crossing Gate, and Xu Xiao's figure instantly became impossible to lock onto.
"How is that possible! He is clearly on the verge of condensing his own Great Dao, how could he possibly be an avatar of a weakling like you?"
The Death Essence lunges forward, wanting to understand everything.
Unfortunately, once Xu Xiao entered the World-Crossing Gate, he became someone that no one could choose.
The Death Essence lunged forward, passing directly through the World-Crossing Gate, as if it were a divine being from a different dimension.
Xu Xiao controlled the World-Crossing Gate, not immediately activating the teleportation, but quietly waited for the final decision to be made.
From the moment he partnered with the First Firmament to attack the DC Universe, this was the opportunity he was plotting: to become an Immortal Golden Immortal Golden Immortal one fell swoop, and in a unique way at that.
"You can't escape! The entire world has been sealed off by numerous beings; you absolutely cannot escape!"
Death Essence, cried out relentlessly. Unable to touch Xu Xiao, it had already anticipated this was the other party's means of escape.
"I didn't say I was going to run away. It's just that I'm not ready to face the changes that are about to happen, so I'm staying here to observe."
"As for you, instead of worrying about whether I'll escape, you should think about how to ensure that your essence isn't taken away by me after the world returns to chaos!"
Xu Xiao smiled, but his words stunned even the Death Essence.
"Chaos? What are you talking about! The universe can only move towards annihilation, how could it possibly return to chaos?"
Why is it impossible?
Did you really think I was just playing a cat-and-mouse game with you all that time?
"You think that just because DC has a higher-dimensional existence to block me, you can retaliate against me?"
"Do you think that just because you guys are scheming against me, I haven't been secretly scheming against you too?"
Xu Xiao asked the three questions, then stopped paying attention to the Death Essence and began to focus on this world that had deviated from its collapse.
In a normal universe demise scenario, the rules of death and destruction would typically erase any excess rules in the entire world. Subsequently, with insufficient fundamental rules, the universe would spontaneously enter a state of annihilation.
After entering Nirvana, the world will transform all existence, matter, and rules, including itself, into the most primordial matter, and begin a new cycle of reincarnation.
This is true both in the Sea of Worlds and in the infinite multiverse.
The difference lies in the fact that Medium Chiliocosm perish, everything within them will return to the Sea of Worlds, becoming nourishment for the Sea of Worlds to nurture other worlds.
The Great Chiliocosm with multiple universes are different. They are independent, and the collapse of one universe within them is equivalent to a leaf on the World Tree withering and falling. It will only become nutrients for the tree itself and will not flow into the Sea of Worlds.
It seems that the higher-dimensional beings in DC don't feel sorry for the destruction of Green Lantern Origin Universe, and are willing to be buried with it as Xu Xuanpin's tomb, precisely because of this.
For them, even if the meat rots, it rots inside the pot.
Although the Green Lantern Origin Universe is one of the original 52 Origin Universes, if it were to disappear, the emotional power of other universes might also vanish, but it wouldn't be completely lost.
If we simply kill this thief, the higher-dimensional beings above DC can work together to reunite the emotional power scattered throughout the DC Universe and develop it into a new universe.
Furthermore, during this process, they can even take a share, bringing a portion of the emotions and life force of the unborn controller under their control.
This is why they amplified the power of Death on the Death Black Lantern, allowing it to bring the Green Lantern Origin Universe to annihilation.
This is a sure-fire way to make money.
However, Xu Xiao had already made a thorough plan before coming, taking everything into account.
The higher-dimensional beings in DC would not allow him to seize the power of emotions, and Xu Xiao is not the kind of arrogant being who can take everything from others.
"They'll definitely target me!"
"As for the methods, aside from deus ex machina, it's nothing more than relying on the influence of higher-dimensional beings to amplify the power in the original universe, or even seal off the universe to block my escape route."
"The former is impossible. At the height of the Marvel invasion, none of them would be willing to descend in their true forms to deal with a nobody like me."
"And the latter... heh!"
"No matter how much it's strengthened, the underlying rules of the three-dimensional universe have already determined the upper limit of this power. Even below the level of the multiverse, I have nothing to fear."
"As for a blockade? That's a joke!"
"The road is right beneath my feet; if I want to walk it, no one can stop me!"
Xu Xiao murmured as he watched the changes in the universe.
The universe, which should have been heading towards annihilation, suddenly erupted with countless forces of law from those illusory entities, colliding with the unstoppable river of death energy.
Immediately, the two forces collided, causing cosmic-level disruptions in the rules of space.
"Impossible! Impossible! How can there be so much power of rules! Shouldn't all of this have been devoured by the onslaught of death long ago?"
The Death Essence cried out, for it could sense the forces of law clashing with the Long River of Death.
Those are the most fundamental rules that constitute the world, rules that should have been devoured long ago in the battle between the two.
The re-emergence of these rules signifies that the universe will no longer enter a state of annihilation, but rather will move towards a period of rule upheaval, returning to chaos.
"What's impossible? You can devour, so why can't I re-edit, or even inject new power into the rules?"
"They don't need to be large enough to support the existence of a universe; they just need to be present in this universe as part of its evolution."
"The universe, which should have been completely devoured by death, with no other rules existing, and then collapsed on its own, has been transformed by the force I meticulously arranged to counteract it."
"Death collides with life, disorder and order intertwine. How long do you think it will take for this universe to reset itself and enter a state of chaos?"
Within the universe, the power that Xu Xiao had previously injected into this universe was already surging, clashing and neutralizing with the surging Long River of Death, transforming into a strange, colorless energy.
Originally, the two should Oblivion each other and then perished along with the universe. However, the half of the universe that was previously protected by the divine power scattered by Xu Xuanpin, filled with various fundamental rules, changed the logic of the universe's collapse.
When all the rules of the universe are in place, it cannot be annihilated. At most, it will return to chaos due to the conflict of rules, resetting all power.
At that point, even the Death Essence cannot escape it; it will be reduced to chaos by this force, becoming the most fundamental force in the world.
"It's you! How could you possibly reshape the rules? You haven't even transcended the multiverse!"
"That's not something you should be concerned about. In your final moments, thank you for your sacrifice and contribution to my new life."
Xu Xiao looked up and saw that from the point where the two forces clashed, the strange colorless energy was increasing in number. It was no longer being generated by energy neutralization, but was autonomously devouring other forces to grow stronger.
As this force expanded, the entire Green Lantern Universe began to enter another realm—chaos.