Li Chen actually didn’t see it with his eyes, but detected it with his divine sense.

According to what his divine sense discovered, Li Chen quickly found the source of that aura.

It was a very faint aura, so faint it was almost about to disappear... the aura of destruction.

"It really is that thing."

However, to Li Chen’s relief, the other party’s aura was already weak to the point of being almost non-existent, even the aura of the law was so thin it seemed like a breeze could blow it away.

Feeling slightly relieved, Li Chen then approached the area where the aura was coming from.

Of course, upon seeing the scene, even though Li Chen had roughly guessed the situation, he couldn’t help but shake his head.

Is this thing the Destroyer?

Now this Destroyer had completely lost its humanoid shape, with only a small part of its remnant body left, so weak it seemed it could die at any moment.

But Li Chen knew that even after these things die, they would turn into the law, only the rule of destruction within this guy was already so weak it seemed like it could dissipate at any moment.

What puzzled Li Chen was that, according to what he knew, if they were facing a certain death situation, they could completely abandon their physical form and use the state of the law to resist attacks, which would make them more resilient and not let their life origin, the ’law’, weaken to this extent.

But obviously, when that terrifying attack fell, he did not abandon his body, but chose to explode with the origin of the destruction law to resist.

This approach was like taking off armor and using the physical body to block sword and spear.

Were their brains also broken after being eroded?

"You..."

This guy seemed to still have consciousness, and after seeing Li Chen suddenly appear nearby, he actually quickly recognized Li Chen: "You are one of those people who escaped earlier?"

Li Chen did not answer, just quietly watched this Destroyer.

Compared to that disabled immortal caught outside the Battle Palace before, this guy obviously had higher intelligence and was much stronger, completely capable of communicating like an ordinary person.

"Why are you so determined to preserve this remnant body?" Li Chen couldn’t help but ask the question in his heart: "If you left this physical form, shouldn’t you be able to survive better?"

The Destroyer moved slightly, the lower half of his body was completely gone, with only half an arm left, and even his head was missing a part, making him look terrible, but he managed to hold on without dying due to his powerful cultivation.

After sniffing Li Chen carefully, the Destroyer spoke in a tone somewhat inexplicable: "Your body... also has that kind of aura, are you one of us too?"

"I am not." Li Chen said directly, not even interested in deceiving someone who was about to die.

"I didn’t think so." The Destroyer laughed, but that expression looked even uglier on a face where the skin was almost completely gone.

Looking at Li Chen, the Destroyer said somewhat seriously, somewhat clumsily, and somewhat persistently: "I... have a name, Zhang Shutong."

"Long, long ago, I was just a rule without knowing the meaning of existence, drifting in the starry universe for a very long time."

"I didn’t know the purpose of my existence. Although, in my consciousness, there was always a thought, as if forcibly planted by someone, urging me to destroy, to destroy everything in this starry universe. But at that time, I didn’t even know what ’destruction’ meant."

"Until one day, I inadvertently saw a cultivator amidst the starry sky. Hmm, he saw me as well."

Zhang Shutong was already so weak he could barely speak, but he was still determined to tell Li Chen this story through sound transmission.

As to why he was so persistent, even Li Chen did not know.

It was just that he vaguely perceived this guy seemed somewhat different from other Destroyers.

Li Chen had seen those Destroyers in that battlefield of tens of thousands of people, those guys seemed to have no intelligence, their minds filled only with destruction and slaughter.

But this guy in front of him seemed to have his own thoughts, just like... Zhang Lu back then.

It was a very simple story, perhaps this Destroyer’s life was also very simple.

He wanted to find the meaning of his existence, until he met that dying cultivator.

The cultivator willingly offered his body to him, asking him to promise to do something.

It was a rather vague, somewhat laughable thing, perhaps the dying cultivator was confused in his last moments.

He asked him... to protect this universe.

He agreed.

Then, he became Zhang Shutong.

It wasn’t until he fused to become a true ’life’ that Zhang Shutong gradually understood the meaning of his existence.

He was born to destroy this universe, but the condition he agreed to in order to gain this body was to protect this universe.

Very contradictory.

He was also conflicted for a long time, even until before entering the Ancient Battle Realm, he was still struggling with this question.

What exactly was he?

What should his existence be considered?

This is a very philosophical question.

He is a Destroyer, but in his subconscious, he is also a member of the cultivators, he is also Zhang Shutong.

Until not long ago, he found the answer from the mouth of another Destroyer.

He is Zhang Shutong.

Even that World-Destroying Beast still imprisoned in the unknown starry sky wouldn’t have expected that the soul of the law split from its body would develop its own will, and this will was opposed to its own.

After hearing Zhang Shutong’s story, Li Chen also felt speechless, not afraid of these guys becoming stronger, just afraid of them having culture.

As a Destroyer, he actually came up with so many messy ideas.

Originally, Li Chen was ready to kill this guy, but thinking about it, he couldn’t bring himself to do it.

"Then why did that guy insist on chasing you to death just now?" Li Chen couldn’t help but ask.

"I saw he had a good treasure, so I took advantage of him being engaged with other strong ones and ambushed him, then snatched his treasure, and he kept chasing me afterward." Zhang Shutong said quite honestly.

Li Chen: "..."

It seems this guy really is a very genuine cultivator!

"I... I’ll give you that treasure, can you save me?" Zhang Shutong looked at Li Chen, eyes sincere as he asked.

"Even if this body dies, you won’t go extinct, right? Wouldn’t finding another body be the same?" Li Chen asked curiously.

Zhang Shutong was silent for a moment, then said in a very solemn tone: "This body is Zhang Shutong’s body, and because of its existence, I am Zhang Shutong. If even the body perishes, then I... who will I be?"