"According to what you're saying, doesn't that mean we'd have to kill all living beings in existence to solve this monster?" The Immortal Demon Lord raised his head to look at Lu Yu and asked.
"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Lu Yu said, "You yourself said it originated at the end of the river of time, and has already spread throughout the entire long river of time. Unless we also erase all the living beings that existed in the past, there's simply no way to kill this monster."
"Empty out the entire river of time?" The Immortal Demon Lord lowered his head, glanced at the river of time and space beneath his feet, and a bitter smile appeared on his face.
That was fundamentally impossible.
This was no longer a question of whether one's strength was sufficient.
It was that such a possibility simply did not exist.
How could there be a present without a past?
It would be like having no cause, yet directly producing an effect.
It went against the most basic laws.
Thinking of this, even the Immortal Demon Lord couldn't help but feel that the future was pitch-black.
He inwardly acknowledged Lu Yu's definition of the supreme existence within the fog, and thus could not sense any hope for the future.
"You're giving up?" Lu Yu looked at the Immortal Demon Lord and asked.
The Immortal Demon Lord raised his head to look at Lu Yu, then turned back to glance toward the direction of the future, and a ray of hope involuntarily appeared in his eyes.
The Demon Emperor had once said that Lu Yu was the "variable," the hope to end all of this.
"No, I'm not giving up, and you can't give up either. We've all pinned our hopes on you; you cannot betray our trust." the Immortal Demon Lord said, every word firm and sonorous.
Lu Yu gave a heavy nod. "Of course I won't give up. I'm still waiting to go back!"
The original purpose of his pursuit of power was to live freely, so that his life would no longer be threatened.
Of course he would not give up.
He had already come this far; how could he possibly give up?
Having received Lu Yu's answer, a smile appeared on the Immortal Demon Lord's face.
The two of them looked at each other in silence, yet both understood what the other was thinking.
The Immortal Demon Lord's body gradually turned into motes of light and vanished upon the river of time, leaving behind a patch of golden radiance where he had been.
That was the world authority representing the "past."
Lu Yu took in the world authority left behind by the Immortal Demon Lord, inheriting his last wish.
To break the dark future and create a future world filled with infinite possibilities.
After absorbing the Immortal Demon Lord's world authority, in an instant, Lu Yu seemed to have witnessed everything that had happened in the past of the great cosmos world.
He saw the birth of the great cosmos world and the innate gods and demons, witnessed the curtain fall on the War of the Gods' Fall, and beheld the rise of the myriad races and living beings…
In the end, he saw the Demon Emperor appearing before the Immortal Demon Lord.
Lu Yu came back to himself and, raising his head, saw the Demon Emperor standing right before his eyes, overlapping with the scene he had just witnessed.
It truly felt as if the Demon Emperor had stepped out from his dream.
In a certain sense, the Demon Emperor was indeed a powerhouse who had walked out of a dream.
She existed only in the future, not in the present nor the past; only in dreams could one behold the future.
Both the Immortal Demon Lord and the Demon Emperor were peerless prodigies who stunned the world.
The former rose during the ancient era when the innate gods and demons ruled, and in that age where the acquired myriad races and living beings were but fodder, he achieved the pinnacle of an era, directly deciding the outcome of the War of the Gods' Fall.
The latter came from a dark future in which no hope could be seen, returned from utter deathly silence, reversed karma, sowed the Dao in the present world, and sought the "variable" that could shatter the dark future.
It was a pity they had both been born in the wrong era.
Never again to appear in the present world was, in the end, a kind of regret.
They both chose to entrust their final chance to the "present" Lu Yu, leaving it to him to bring all of this to an end.
Lu Yu gazed at the Demon Emperor who had appeared before him. Before she showed up, there had been many questions he wanted to ask.
But the moment he truly saw the Demon Emperor, all the doubts in his heart vanished; he understood.
Whether Little Tail, Hai Wei… and the others were reincarnations or incarnations of the Demon Emperor was not important.
What mattered was that he had met them and shared unforgettable experiences with them.
That was enough.
Having grasped the entire world authority of the "past," time no longer had any meaning in front of Lu Yu.
As long as he wished, he could go back at any time, return to the past.
The Demon Emperor gazed at Lu Yu. Her figure, like the future itself, was a mass of chaotic haze, her gender indistinguishable; one could only barely make out the outline of a human form.
"You must change the future."
The Demon Emperor spoke just this one sentence, and her figure dispersed before Lu Yu's eyes, leaving behind a hazy golden glow.
Lu Yu fell silent for a moment, then nodded lightly toward the empty air, his hand closing around the "future" world authority the Demon Emperor had left him.
Boom! The instant Lu Yu obtained the full one hundred percent of world authority, the entire river of time began to quake, and the entire great cosmos world shuddered.
With a single thought, Lu Yu's mind traveled through the entire river of time; with a single thought, he reached every corner of the great cosmos world; with a single thought, he knew all things under heaven and earth; with a single thought, there was nothing he could not do…
Just like within his own small cosmos, he now possessed the same kind of ability.
Now, he was the sovereign of this heaven and earth.
Lu Yu raised his head to look, and the black mist above the river of time also changed at the moment he obtained the full world authority and the world began to tremble.
The black mist spread apart, the fog mass expanded, and it devoured the Supreme Demon Monster Saint Ancestor who had turned into a stone statue to respectfully welcome its descent.
Perhaps that Supreme Demon Monster Saint Ancestor also understood that its identity was that of an offering.
An offering for the descent of the supreme demon monster existence.
It did not resist, nor could it resist.
Rumble~ The fog bank rolled and churned without stop, as if something within it was about to step out.
Lu Yu flew up and strode into the black mist. As he advanced, the black mist gradually dispersed, squeezed aside by his power.
