"In this world, there are two types of death – dying into oblivion, and dying leaving behind a shockwave."
"The Void Fate Bearer before you... chose the second way."
Ash silently fell onto Lin Mo's hand.
The three Divine Guards had vanished into nothingness, leaving no corpses, no auras – as if they had never existed.
But amidst the dissolving ash, a small jade fragment quietly fell, emitting a very faint aura – so weak it seemed like mere mortal debris.
Lin Mo picked it up.
As he touched it, a voice resonated in his mind, not from the recently deceased, but from a... soul that had once existed within the jade.
"If you are the next one who can hear me... then perhaps, Void Fate has not yet been annihilated."
The voice was deep and steady, hoarse as if from torture, but every word spoken carried a weight that shook his soul sea.
Lin Mo frowned.
"Who are you?"
"My name is... Tang Gu.
The first one to ever open Void Fate... nine tens of thousands of years ago."
Shock.
In an instant, countless memories flashed in Lin Mo's mind – but they were unclear, as if distorted by heavenly Dao.
"I once thought... I was the only one.
But I was wrong.
Heavenly Dao... never allows what transcends its rules to exist for too long."
"That year, I reached the seventh layer of the Primordial Dao of Life.
But then... I was betrayed."
"Not by enemies.
But by those very people... who also bore Void Fate like me."
Lin Mo was stunned.
"Could it be... that many Void Fate Bearers once existed?"
Tang Gu replied:
"Yes... but all of them are dead."
"Because we carried something that could not be contained –
a will that did not belong to heaven and earth."
An image flickered in the jade slip – a blurry figure in ash armor, sitting amidst a sea of fire, blood covering the ground, eyes filled with sorrow.
Tang Gu chuckled softly:
"I once thought I could establish a world without heavenly Dao."
"But when that was about to form... the Divine Palace itself intervened."
"Not only killing me. But also erasing all memory of me from history."
Lin Mo remained silent.
This was no longer a battle for Dao cultivation.
But a battle... to preserve the existence of a form of life never before recognized.
Tang Gu said:
"You are the last hope."
"But don't repeat my mistake – you don't need to lead anyone."
"Just live. And step forward.
Primordial Chaos... will naturally give birth to Dao."
The last light in the jade slip vanished.
A ray of light burrowed into Lin Mo's palm — leaving a new mark, different from Void Fate:
A line of blood-written text:
[Layer 2 – Void Body Self-Transformation]
BOOM!
At that very moment, a bolt of lightning tore through the distant sky – signaling that the Divine Palace had detected the transmitted jade slip.
Lin Mo clenched his hand.
"Tang Gu. You are dead.
But that dream... I will continue it."
"If all Void Fate Bearers have been erased from history...
Then I – will be the first to carve their names back."