Even though he already considered this possibility at the very beginning, he never delved deeply into it—perhaps because he felt it unnecessary, or perhaps because he thought now wasn’t the time to grapple with such matters.

More likely... he was avoiding the issue in his heart, unwilling to face it.

Thus, he pushed all these thoughts down, until just now...

The Blood Mother and the Bone Father, presuming to search Su Tu’s Heart and Spirit for the Power of Great Destruction, sought the so-called seed with divine power, yet ultimately, the Blood Mother did not find the ’seed’.

Instead, she saw through the essence of Su Tu’s Heart and Spirit—it was a mass of divinity, pure to the extreme.

Within that mass of divinity mingled the aura of Great Destruction, but aside from their endless pursuit of the Power of Great Destruction, several even more terrifying divine auras were gestating within.

The Blood Mother merely sensed those auras’ presence, and felt her very concept trembling, collapsing. Should she probe deeper, she might be annihilated without Su Tu even needing to act.

A brief, panicked glimpse, a frantic escape, but the divine concepts contained therein left the Blood Mother with an indelible memory.

Beyond Great Destruction, Su Tu’s divinity concealed within it causality, time, lunar essence, and natural disaster.

Each divine concept seemed to stand since ancient times, shrouding the end of the ages, far beyond their comprehension.

And in the Blood Mother’s glance, Su Tu too felt the aura of those inner powers. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The truth he refused to confront, didn’t want to face, was laid bare in this moment.

No wonder he lost all emotions after initiating the rebirth between himself and all things; no wonder his current ties with the anomalies were so close.

No wonder he could freely wield the power of the anomalies.

It was all because... his essence was a mass of divinity, pure to the extreme.

Only divinity can command divine power, only divinity itself can grasp those immense forces.

His previous conjecture was correct!

He was not Su Tu, but a mass of divinity reborn with Su Tu’s memories; all along, he didn’t want to face it, nor ponder over it.

But now, the Blood Mother has uncovered it all grimly.

This act is akin to unsealing something—a force he refused to face, kept hidden in that moment... completely blossomed...

Su Tu’s eyes resembled a dead sea, seemingly able to drown everything; he just coldly regarded the Bone Father and the Blood Mother.

"Big cat, come play."

An invisible majesty erupted instantly.

BOOM!!!

In the unfathomable realm, it was as if the Mountain Monarch roared, causing all things to disintegrate, all beings to tremble, as if numerous tribulations, countless disasters were imminent.

A towering silhouette of the White Tiger slowly emerged from behind Su Tu, atop which sat a shadow of a woman with disheveled hair.

With just one glance, that woman made the Bone Father and Blood Mother tremble uncontrollably.

In an instant, they seemed seized by countless pale hands, dragged alive into endless Hell.

Countless disasters, myriad forms of death, plague, famine, natural disaster, earth calamity, Dao collapse, fragmentation.

That was unimaginable torment and death descending.

Amidst sudden chaos, Bone Father and Blood Mother cycled through countless deaths, mind and spirit quivering, divinity wailing, even their concept undergoing breakdown.

But they had no capacity to resist, and upon coming back to their senses, still stood in this space.

Worse yet, though they had experienced something enough to collapse them, no matter how they tried, they couldn’t recall it now.

However, this was merely the beginning.

"Little Candle."

Su Tu’s voice fell indifferently.

The woman and White Tiger’s shadow vanished abruptly, replaced by an endless red dragon, its form alone piercing through time and space.

It coiled behind Su Tu, seemingly enveloping countless Star Rivers within.

And at the end of the dragon’s shadow, there was a human face, a single eye opened, like a dark red sun, with each breath seeming to evolve over time.

With the dragon shadow’s appearance, the Blood Mother and Bone Father felt everything around them begin to blur.

Time’s concept froze upon them, but their bodily activities did not cease.

This moment seemed to become eternal.

They could feel their bodies rotting, their concepts fading, yet unable to stop, unable to move.

Just watching it all unfold, they were witnessing their own death, but the process might be... eternal.

This one second was eternal death!!

In this eternity, they’d witness their own decay and dissolution.

Time was the most terrifying cage in this world, the most despairing punishment.

In this moment, the Bone Father and Blood Mother, always delivering despair and pain to all beings, for the first time in their heart birthed a thought of despair.

In the hundred years that passed by this eternal second, they marveled merely at the power.

And in the millennia past this eternal second, they began feeling their own dissolution and extinction.

Then in the billion years past this eternal second, they had already forgotten their so-called mission, forgotten their so-called ambition.

Time can take away everything and obliterate everything.