He looked at Li Er with disdain in his eyes.

"I also want to give you a piece of advice: you are a lackey of Heaven's justice."

"Continue to aid and abet evil on this dead end, continue to serve the collapsing Heavenly Dao..."

"In the end, you will not have a good end! When the true dawn breaks, it will be the day you are all reduced to ashes!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Emperor fell silent. He had completed a magnificent final act, leaning quietly against his throne, awaiting the final end.

Zhou Huai's consciousness coldly watched this scene from within the main hall.

The other party had already reached an agreement with that Mr. Duan. These ancient awakened ones were simply a group of fanatical believers who would stop at nothing to destroy the old world!

Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together.

Now that the enemy had said all that, Zhou Huai decided not to waste any more words.

"Then take your hopes and go to hell."

Zhou Huai's face was ashen as he unhesitatingly unleashed the immense power of merit within his body.

Li Er gently raised his withered fingers, pointing directly at the dark golden skeleton on the throne.

With his lips slightly parted, he uttered two words without a trace of emotion:

"Soul Annihilation".

The supreme law that transcends everything in the world, as the word "words" becomes law, reveals its most tyrannical and domineering side!

The light and shadow were dim, and there was no sound.

Only the irresistible power of the rules descended upon the Human Emperor!

"Click...click..."

The dark gold skeleton, which had withstood millions of years of erosion and had just withstood countless heavenly lightning bolts without completely shattering, began to emit a series of dense, crisp sounds under the crushing force of the Word of Power.

Immediately afterwards, under Zhou Huai's watchful gaze.

This once mighty king of the old era, along with the white bone throne beneath him that symbolized supreme power, has undergone weathering accelerated by time by millions of times!

It's completely falling apart, inside and out!

It's crumbling, inch by inch!

Finally, it turned into a cloud of incredibly fine gray dust in mid-air, which was swept into nothingness by a cold wind that seemed to come from nowhere in the main hall.

There was no trace of this human emperor left in the world.

【Ding! Warning! Forcibly eliminating a transcendent target will result in a backlash from the laws of nature!】

In my mind, the system's warning tone rang out sharply.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Huai clearly saw that a large portion of the merit points that had just exceeded ten million on the panel had evaporated!

A full three million merit points were deducted!

However, before he could even feel sorry for her...

【Ding! Congratulations, host! You have successfully killed the leader of the ancient race and quelled the chaos in the ruins!】

【Ding! Merit points being calculated...】

【Congratulations, host! You have gained 80,000,000 merit points!】

"Eighty...eighty million?!"

Zhou Huai's consciousness jolted, and he almost couldn't believe his eyes. The string of zeros on the panel was like the most beautiful musical notes in the world dancing.

In comparison, the three million merit points deducted from the backlash just now were nothing more than a drop in the ocean!

But that wasn't all; the most exciting notification tone followed immediately.

【Ding! World-class challenge mission: Chaos in All Directions (1/8) has been completed!】

【Congratulations, host, you have received the mission reward: Guaranteed SSS-level professional ball x1!】

Cool!

Thus, the entire series of terrifying chaos within the Abyss of Mist, from the resurgence of the undead to the Human Emperor's defiant actions, was brought to a complete end.

Crisis resolved, reward in hand!

Zhou Huai, controlling Li Er, gazed silently into the depths of the hall at the empty seat where the Human Emperor had once sat for a long time.

In the dimly lit hall, only two clones, one old and one strong, stood silently.

"In order to prevent others from breaking the rules and for their own survival, they ruthlessly plunder resources and casually eliminate villains who fight back..."

Zhou Huai made a self-deprecating remark to himself.

"If this were a traditional novel, my behavior would make me seem like a ruthless villain."

He chuckled, shook his head, and dismissed these absurd thoughts.

So what if he's a villain? As long as he can survive and protect everything he cares about, he doesn't care even if the whole world is against him.

"It's time to go back."

Zhou Huai snapped out of his thoughts, and Li Er took a step forward.

"Shrinking the earth to an inch!"

The surrounding space rippled like water, and the next second, Li Er and Xiang Yu disappeared directly into this ancient palace that buried the old era.

When they reappeared, they were already outside the ruins, on the scorched earth that had been ravaged by war and thunder.

Outside, the sunlight once again pierced through the gloom.

Zhou Huai checked his current attribute panel.

Li Er can truly say that he made an incredible fortune during this trip to the Abyss of Mist!

The money earned from clearing away the skeleton army along the way, plus the ten million reward from Heaven, and then the eighty million from finally killing the Human Emperor...

Now, the merit points he possesses have completely exceeded one hundred million!

"It feels so good to be rich and powerful."

Zhou Huai gave a satisfied sigh of praise, and then his gaze turned to Donghai City, which was dozens of kilometers away and had been paralyzed and in chaos due to the terrifying pressure.

Jasmine had already organized an emergency evacuation, but the overwhelming impact of that day still severely damaged the entire city. Countless people fainted in the streets because they could not bear the fear of the higher dimension, and large areas of buildings collapsed in the aftershocks.

"Since we've made money off God, we should at least do something decent."

Zhou Huai smiled slightly, his consciousness controlling Li Er, and used the Shrinking Earth to an Inch technique.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, Li Er's aged figure, with its otherworldly air, landed steadily on the damaged city wall of Donghai City.

The wind whipped his white beard and hair, and his wide Taoist robe fluttered in the wind.

He looked down at the city below, a scene of utter devastation and chaos.

"Words become law."

Li Er stood with his hands behind his back, his eyes filled with compassion.

That voice, carrying the power of endless laws, gently echoed across the entire East Sea City like a spring breeze and soothing rain:

"recovery."

Buzz—!

His words shook heaven and earth!

With the consumption of millions of merit points, a gentle yet irresistible magical power enveloped the entire East Sea City!

A miracle unfolded before the eyes of tens of millions of people.

Those collapsed buildings and ruins seemed to have reversed time, with pieces of broken stones and bricks automatically flying up from the ground and fitting back into place perfectly.

The broken roads quickly mended themselves, and the shattered glass automatically restored itself.

What is most shocking is that of the ordinary people who were originally unconscious in the street, pale-faced and on the verge of death due to the terrifying pressure.

Bathed in golden light, their pained expressions eased, and their pale cheeks regained their rosy hue.