The white light of the Emperor's erasure faded.
The Emperor stood there. He was damaged. His white robes were torn. His rune mask was broken, revealing a face of pure light.
"You hurt me," The Emperor sounded confused. "For the first time in an eon... I bleed."
Mo Tian stood opposite him. He was a skeleton. He had burned everything. He had no cultivation left.
But he was laughing.
"You bleed," Mo Tian rasped. "That means you are meat."
"You have no power left," The Emperor raised his hand to finish Mo Tian. "You are empty."
"Exactly," Mo Tian smiled.
"I am empty."
"And nature abhors a vacuum."
Mo Tian activated the Prime Directive of his System—the one ability he had never used because it required 0% energy to start.
"Passive Skill: Absolute Vacuum."
Because Mo Tian was now a hole in the universe—having expelled all existence—the universe rushed to fill him.
The air rushed in. The light rushed in.
And the Emperor... who was made of pure energy... was dragged in.
"What is this suction?!" The Emperor tried to fly back. "NO! I AM THE SOVEREIGN!"
"Come here!" Mo Tian's skeletal jaws opened.
The suction was infinite. It defied physics. It was the hunger of a black hole.
The Emperor was stretched. Spaghettified.
"NOOOOO!"
The Divine Sovereign was pulled into Mo Tian's mouth.
GULP.
Silence returned to the battlefield.
Mo Tian fell backward.
His flesh began to regrow at lightspeed. His bones turned from white to diamond, then to Starlight.
His aura didn't just return. It evolved.
He wasn't a Divine Sovereign.
He was a World God.
[Devoured: Divine Sovereign (The Heavenly Dao of the Upper Realm).] [System Evolution: Final Stage.] [Host is now the Admin of Reality.]
Mo Tian stood up. He snapped his fingers.
"Order: Resume."
Time started again.
Xue Yao finished her swing, decapitating a demon that was already dead. Yan Luo blinked.
They looked around. The Emperor was gone.
Mo Tian stood in the sky, wearing robes woven from the fabric of space-time.
"The War is over," Mo Tian announced.
He looked at the sky. He saw the stars. He saw other realms beyond.
"And I own the house."