When Wang Xu's consciousness returned once again, he opened his eyes and was greeted by a magnificent nebula.

The familiar vacuum, the familiar stars, everything was so familiar...

"Ancient Luo Cosmos... I have finally returned..."

At this moment, the stirring in Wang Xu's heart was impossible to restrain, his eyes slightly reddening.

No matter what opportunities he had in the Chaos, to him, Chaos was a foreign land; only the Ancient Luo Cosmos was his true home.

This was his birthplace, and the place where he had ventured and buried everything. No matter how great his achievements in Chaos, his gratitude towards the Ancient Luo Cosmos would never waver.

"Brother Emperor Leopard once said, the time flow in the world within the sect is different from Chaos. I've experienced nearly a thousand years in Chaos; the Ancient Luo Cosmos must have gone through hundreds of thousands of years."

Returning to Ancient Luo felt like a different world, an assault of time spanning hundreds of thousands of years that had changed so much.

"Hundreds of thousands of years... Dark Holy Banquet, your good days are over!"

As Wang Xu recalled the past, everything appeared vividly before him as if it were just yesterday. His killing intent manifested, his black hair fluttered, and his gaze turned sharp as a sword.

"It's time to settle the score with them!"

The void twisted, and Wang Xu stepped into the void with an awe-inspiring gaze.

At this moment, Wang Xu was no longer the Hundred Generations Celestial God of Chaos. With the Supreme Law restriction lifted, his strength surged, reaching the level of the Eternal Generations Celestial God. Even Wang Xu himself found his true strength difficult to estimate.

...

In the boundless void, a scarred cosmic battleship quietly appeared.

"Captain, we've discovered a life star ahead!" The crew member operating the virtual computer exclaimed.

A green screen popped up.

In the image, a blue star quietly lay in the void, orbiting a blazing sun in an endless rotation.

"What a beautiful star," the captain sighed in admiration, then ordered, "Activate the life detector, and see if there's any life on this life star."

"Yes!" the crew member responded.

The blue star on the green screen turned into a three-dimensional image, undergoing a comprehensive life scan.

A moment later, the conclusion came.

"Captain, there are minute single-celled organisms in the oceans on this star."

"No developed life forms?"

"Captain, none."

Hearing this news, the captain's eyes lit up.

"That's great, head towards this life star immediately! On this expedition, we've found an unowned life star, fantastic!"

Not only the captain, but the crew were also all exuberant.

They came into the cosmos for the adventure, searching for those unowned stars floating in the vastness of space. Such stars could potentially harbor rare minerals or other precious things.

Yet, they never expected their luck to be so extraordinary, stumbling upon an unowned life star!

If this life star were sold, it could easily fetch at least hundreds of thousands of cosmic crystals!

"Captain, life detected!" Suddenly, the crew member's face changed as he yelled.

"Detailed data!" The captain's expression also changed. Was there life present on this life star? If so, capturing this star would become significantly more challenging.

A moment later...

"Captain... he... he... data is undetectable!"

The crew member's face looked ghastly.

On the green screen, all the values behind the parameters were uniformly question marks, and even the most basic metrics were not available.

"This... even the detector can't detect it. Could it be a superpower in the cosmos?" The captain's heart skipped a beat.

At that moment...

"Leave here."

Suddenly, an ancient and undisturbed voice transmitted into the minds of all crew members and the captain, rendering everyone motionless, eyes wide like brass bells. In an instant, the entire cabin was silent enough that even a pin drop could be heard clearly.

"Cap... captain..." The crew members looked toward the strongest person, the backbone of the entire cosmic battleship.

"Quick... leave... leave here... quickly!"

The captain hurriedly instructed, his demeanor barely concealing panic, his eyes filled with fear.

A powerhouse... a superpower in the cosmos!

These entities were not to be trifled with; to survive, they could only flee promptly.

Immediately, the cosmic battleship, disregarding that its teleportation system was still recovering, forcibly initiated space-time teleportation, vanishing into the void, leaving the area completely.

Not far away, a black-robed figure stood silently in the void, gazing at the familiar yet unfamiliar blue star ahead, remaining motionless for a long time. The disappearing cosmic battleship behind him was entirely beneath his notice.

"Earth... my homeland."

This blue star was precisely Wang Xu's birthplace—Earth.

After hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, Earth had once again given birth to true life. Looking around, amidst the blue was a lush green, Earth had returned to a primal era, and everything was so serene.

Wang Xu hadn't expected that his point of return to the Ancient Luo Cosmos was so close to Earth.

Wang Xu just gazed quietly, his eyes flickering as he recalled the past—happy, exciting, painful, and sorrowful memories... Earth carried too many of his memories.

It was unclear how much time had passed.

Wang Xu let out a faint, almost inaudible sigh, turned around, and vanished into the void.

...

"Move quickly!"

"Dawdling around, do you want to die?!"

"Move!"

Shouts of anger echoed, as a dense crowd of millions from various life species walked along the white jade road carved from porcelain, thunder whips occasionally slashing down, electric arcs flashing, and the cries of anguish rising alongside.

Clang clang clang...

Millions of creatures are bound by long iron chains, greatly suppressing their power. Those in lower realms cannot even gather a trace of Cosmic Energy.

The iron chains collide and clang, mixed with cries of misery and the sound of the Thunder Whip. Every one of the millions of creatures has dim eyes, expressions of despair, like walking corpses moving on this White Jade-carved road.

Thud.

At this moment, a creature falls, dragging the chain, causing those in front and behind to be unable to continue on.

"Get up!"

"Get up for me!"

"Do you want to die? Get up!"

The Thunder Whip lashes mercilessly on this creature, who curls up and cries out in pain, without any power to resist.

"For those who have fallen, don't waste your strength." A cold and unfeeling voice comes, and a figure descends from the sky, snapping fingers, and the creature's body bursts, turning into a mist of blood, dying on the spot.

Surrounding creatures see this scene with indifferent expressions, long accustomed to it.

The army of creatures continues to move forward.

Very soon, the creatures at the front reach the end of the White Jade Road.

At the end lies the magnificent golden palace gate, yet above it is a broken golden plaque.

The golden plaque has lost its past luster, and no longer has a bit of golden sheen.

On the plaque are four incomplete characters, barely recognizable—

Tai Long Palace.

This magnificent palace is precisely the Tai Long Palace of the past!

But though the building remains, its meaning and everything inside have long changed beyond recognition.

The palace door is wide open, and the creature army hangs their heads, slowly stepping inside.

Soon, millions of creatures have all entered the palace, and the palace door gradually closes. You can see, as the door closes, many creatures look back, eyes full of despair, as if bidding farewell to life, wanting only one last look at the white light.

Boom.

The palace door closes, and despair floods out.

"To all of the 'Light Holy Banquet,' welcome to this place!"

At the end of the palace, at the top of the steps, black smoke swirls and transforms into a young man with blood-red hair, wearing red armor, emitting black smoke.

The blood-haired youth overlooks the millions of creatures below, a taunting and cruel smile on his face.

"Didn't I tell you before? The Light Holy Banquet is just a group of weak and incapable people. Submitting to my Dark Holy Banquet and offering your souls is the only correct path!" The blood-haired youth let out a grim laugh, "Look at you now, a whole base uprooted by my Dark Holy Banquet, millions of creatures becoming my Dark Holy Banquet's captives. Where is the Light Holy Banquet you loyally worship? Where is it?"

"To dare oppose my Dark Holy Banquet, there is only a dead end. Soon, you will all pay for your wrong choice, hahaha..."

The blood-haired youth laughed wildly.

The millions of creatures below raised their pale heads, their eyes filled with despair, unable to see a trace of brightness.

"Before you die, let me show you this." The blood-haired youth restrained his smile, waving a hand to remove the Shield Array beside the palace.

In an instant, a dense array of iron cages appeared before them.

Within these cages are figures of the Human Race, but all are dressed in tattered clothes, on the brink of death.

"Do you see? These are your examples. The Tai Long Cosmic Country, a small nation, dares to support the Light Holy Banquet and oppose my Dark Holy Banquet. Ridiculous, it's courting death!" the blood-haired youth sneered.

He pointed distantly.

"Look, there is the Sovereign of the Tai Long Cosmic Country, Tai Long Yao. Did he think that possessing the Great Dragon Golden Scroll could evade my pursuit? In the end, wasn't he captured alive by me and tortured for tens of thousands of years?"

"And this Sovereign of the Yanyue Cosmic Country, that so-called 'Drowning Moon Divine Technique,' nothing but a clown!"

"Look at this Sovereign of the Gen Mountain Cosmic Country, a superior attitude, yet I've killed till his head and body are separated, never to return!"

"And this..."

The blood-haired youth pointed at the cages, his voice echoing throughout the palace, resonating in everyone's ears.

To these creatures, the sovereigns of various Cosmic Countries seem like divine beings, untouchable, yet now all have become prisoners under the blood-haired youth's heel, suffering immense torment.

Their hearts have turned cold, leaving only despair.

"Alright, you've admired my greatest works, now, take your despair and go to Hell!"

The blood-haired youth let out a sinister smile, turning over his long, slender, pale palm, revealing a dazzlingly radiant long whip, "Die, all of you!"

The long whip snapped down fiercely.

This strike is enough to easily bury the millions of creatures present.

Everyone closed their eyes, quietly awaiting the arrival of death.

"Uh..."

Suddenly, all power dissipated, as if it never appeared. The whip originally crashing toward the crowd was frozen mid-air, like a frame in a scene, motionless.

Looking at the blood-haired youth, somehow, before him appeared a hooded figure in black, reaching out one hand, instantly gripping his throat.

"You... who are you... who are you?"

The blood-haired youth spoke with difficulty.

"Wang Xu."

The cold voice fell, and with a "puff," the blood-haired youth had his throat severed, his life extinguished suddenly.

"Wang... Wang Xu?"

Below, a figure caged and scarred, with bloodstained wounds, slowly opened their eyes, filled with trembling excitement, "Wang Xu... Wang Xu... is it you? Is it really you?"

Bang!

The cage suddenly shattered, and the black-clad Wang Xu came before this shadowy figure.

"Sovereign... it is I!" (To be continued. If you like this work, please go to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)