The silhouette grew clearer and clearer. In the end, it took the form of an old man.4

Wait. An old man?9

This wasn’t the first time Yun Che made contact with the Heretic God, Ni Xuan.3

The water seed had been imbued with a faint wisp of the Heretic God’s soul, and he had briefly spoken with the soul fragment before. However, the soul was so weak that it couldn’t even manifest a silhouette. Yun Che could only tell that it was an old voice that seemed to come from a man on his deathbed.1

It was also that time he was taught the word “mission”, though he wouldn’t learn its true meaning until Jie Yuan returned.0

Even before he came to the Abyss and made contact with the final Heretic God Seed, Yun Che had already figured out a thing or two. If Jie Yuan could sense that something was wrong with the Abyss through the unusual flow of the dark profound energy, there was no way the Heretic God wouldn’t be able to do the same, especially since the change of energies should be the greatest and most obvious after the gods and devils were all dead.3

In fact, he might have tried to descend into the Abyss but was forced to return exactly the same as Jie Yuan.0

So, the Heretic God could not...0