AHWAAAA—!
The creature scread again.
But this ti, the sound was different.
It was no longer just noise ant to invade and corrupt.
It carried sothing else.
Fear.
Its strength was being drained.
Not just its strength.
But sothing far more fundantal.
Pieces of its existence were being stripped away.
Its purpose.
Its identity.
Even the fragnted mories it possessed.
Everything was being pulled into that dark vortex in Yu Xuan’s hand.
"So... you can feel fear too?" Yu Xuan said quietly.
The vortex pulsed, its dark light deepening.
Yu Xuan could feel it clearly now.
His control over this technique was improving with every second.
And along with it.
An unfamiliar energy flowed into his body, rging with his [Darkness & Light Origin Physique], strengthening it from within.
’What a terrifying ability...’ he thought.
No being would willingly allow their essence to be taken.
Their na.
Their aning.
Their very existence.
Yet this technique did not rely destroy.
It claid.
It could strip everything away.
And then.
Yu Xuan realized sothing even more unsettling.
After taking everything from his enemy...
He had a choice.
He could reconstruct the being.
Turn it into an ally under his control.
Or, he could completely absorb its power.
Without backlash.
Without corruption.
That realization sent a chill through even him.
Even now, when he had not fully mastered it, the implications were terrifying.
If he could perfectly refine this creature.
He would likely gain its spatial manipulation and shapeshifting abilities.
Yu Xuan exhaled slowly.
"Alright... let’s end this. This has gone on long enough."
He stepped forward, his aura stabilizing into sothing far more dangerous than before.
Then he lunged toward the creature.
The grey monster struggled weakly, its form flickering as more of its existence was torn away.
And even in its final monts.
The rejected creature trembled.
Because it finally understood what it ant...
To be prey.
***
Xin Juesheng appeared within the white space the mont the creature finally ceased to exist.
The lingering traces of its presence dissolved completely, leaving behind nothing, not even residue.
He looked at Yu Xuan for a mont, his expression unusually serious.
"There are many things I want to ask you," he said slowly.
"But for now... just rember this, do not use that power you showed here."
His gaze sharpened slightly.
"Unless you are inside that dark space. You will understand why when you reach it."
Yu Xuan nodded without hesitation.
’...Is that power too dangerous?’ he thought.
If even soone like Xin Juesheng was warning him, then it was not sothing to take lightly.
The last thing he wanted was to attract attention from unknown entities once everything returned to normal.
"The assembly will be called soon," Xin Juesheng continued.
"In the anti, I will personally oversee your training. You need to get used to killing these creatures."
Yu Xuan paused for a mont before asking.
"Are there... stronger ones than this?"
Xin Juesheng gave a faint, almost bitter smile.
"Of course, they are so powerful that even we cannot properly kill them, we can only seal them... and remain trapped here alongside them."
He paused briefly, then added.
"But that does not an they are truly unkillable. They have an anchor, a being that continuously resurrects them."
He looked directly at Yu Xuan.
"And your task... is to kill that being."
Yu Xuan maintained a calm expression.
But internally.
’How exactly am I supposed to kill sothing like that...?’
Xin Juesheng seed to read his thoughts.
"Don’t look at like that," he said with a sigh.
"That being is indeed responsible for resurrecting them but it is not strong. If it were possible, we would have already killed it ourselves."
He shook his head.
"But there is a condition, only a mortal can approach it. If anyone else tries... Its power increases exponentially and no one here is willing to take that risk."
Yu Xuan frowned slightly.
"But why only a mortal?"
Xin Juesheng exhaled slowly.
"...Because she is tied to the concept of Mortality."
His gaze drifted for a brief mont, as if recalling sothing unpleasant.
"None of us know what would happen if an Immortal directly faced her."
The shadow in his expression said enough.
Whatever had happened before.
It had not ended well.
He shook his head and dismissed the thought.
"Forget that."
Then he looked at Yu Xuan again.
"From now on... I will teach you how to kill that being."
***
Beyond the Tree.
Within a small, isolated hut.
A girl slept peacefully.
Her breathing was soft.
And she was dreaming.
In her dream.
The skies stretched endlessly, painted in vibrant hues.
Countless races lived together beneath that sky, coexisting without conflict, each tending to their own lives in quiet harmony.
There was no war.
Only life.
In that dream, she stood within vast golden fields.
She was not a ruler.
Not a terrifying existence.
Just a small farr.
An orange sun hung above, bathing everything in warm light. The crops swayed gently with the wind, as if dancing to a rhythm only they could hear.
She sat down among them, watching silently.
"...How beautiful..." she murmured.
Ti seed to slow.
The crops continued to grow.
Then without warning.
They began to decay.
The golden stalks darkened.
The life within them twisted.
The sa crops that danced monts ago began to coil around her, tightening like living chains.
They strangled.
Crushed.
Devoured.
Yet.
The girl did not resist.
Her expression did not change.
Only a faint, distant longing flickered within her emotionless grey eyes.
As if she had already accepted this outco.
As if she had seen it countless tis before.
Instinctively, she tried to speak, the na this place.
"Da..."
Before the word could fully leave her lips.
Her eyes opened.
The dream shattered.
She was back inside the hut.
Silence surrounded her once more.
"...Such a beautiful future I saw," she whispered softly smiling slightly.
"Today must be an auspicious day..."
A single tear rolled down one side of her face which was crying.
The other side remained still.
Then she spoke again.
This ti to herself.
"Do not cry."
Her voice was calm.
Certain.
"Because one day... this dream will beco reality and we will live to see it happen."
She paused and then continued.
Her grey eyes deepened slightly.
"Or rather... we will make it happen."
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