109: Chapter 109 The Holy Son's Enlightenment, the Sage's Time

Eternal Sacrifice froze in mid-air, his peerlessly handsome face a complete blank for the first time.

His worldview, his faith, and that pure "Destruction Dao Heart" were undergoing a magnitude twelve earthquake.

"Why did my World-Destroying Divine Light turn into warm air?"

"Why is my Summoned Divine Beast hugging a building and sleeping?"

"Why aren't these damned ants dying properly, but instead sleeping more soundly than anyone else?!"

Countless "whys" flashed frantically through his mind, causing his heart, frozen for ten thousand years, to feel chaos for the first time.

At the very moment his faith wavered.

A deeper Spiritual Backlash arrived quietly.

[Detected that host has entered 'Deep Sleep · Do Not Disturb' mode.]

[Backlash Protocol Second Upgrade: Ultimate Philosophical Debate · Who am I, where do I come from, where am I going.]

[Effect: Forcefully lock the target's 'Destruction Dao Heart' against the 'Three Ultimate Questions of Philosophy' until a logic loop is formed or it completely crashes.]

Buzz—

Eternal Sacrifice's body shook violently.

In his mind, those grand visions of destruction, the end, and power were instantly cleared.

Replacing them were three questions that sounded like the heavenly voice of the Dao, yet were simple and unadorned, echoing repeatedly.

"Who am I?"

When this question appeared, Eternal Sacrifice instinctively answered: "I am the Guixu Saint, Eternal Sacrifice."

But another voice immediately asked: "What is Guixu? What is a Saint? Who gave you the name Eternal Sacrifice? Before you held these identities, who were you?"

"Where do I come from?"

Eternal Sacrifice: "I come from the Guixu Cult, from destruction."

The voice: "Where does the Guixu Cult come from? What was there before destruction? Before you 'came,' where were you?"

"Where am I going?"

Eternal Sacrifice: "I want to bring the world to its end, completing the loop of destruction."

The voice: "And after the end? What follows destruction? If the end of the Universe is destined to be Heat Death, then what is the fundamental difference between your current efforts and a stone rolling down a hill? Order and chaos—which is the true beauty? Does the meaning of existence only exist so that you can grant it a meaning of 'destruction'?"

A series of philosophical inquiries, like countless invisible logical scalpels, precisely dissected his seemingly indestructible Dao Heart.

Under the repeated interrogation of these ultimate questions, his rock-solid "Destruction Dao Heart" began to develop spider-web-like cracks.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound of shattering that only he could hear.

The Dao Heart had shattered.

The killing intent, madness, and desire for destruction in Eternal Sacrifice's eyes receded like the tide.

In their place was a confusion from seeing through the Mortal World, an emptiness following a great enlightenment.

He entered a mysterious and profound "Sage Time."

He slowly descended from the air, his posture no longer domineering or holy, but instead like a drifting fallen leaf.

He landed on the ruins of a collapsed floor slab, ignoring the surrounding rebar and rubble, and slowly sat down cross-legged.

He closed his eyes, entering a state of Epiphany where he forgot both himself and the world, and began to mutter unconsciously.

"The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao..."

"Existence is reasonable; is the existence of destruction also reasonable?"

"Form is emptiness, emptiness is form... Then is the end I pursue form, or is it emptiness?"

On the rooftop, the few remaining people who still maintained a sliver of consciousness were completely dumbfounded.

Xiao Fan rubbed his eyes and asked uncertainly.

"Sister Lin, am I seeing things? That... that Devil King seems to have... sat down over there to contemplate life?"

Lin Xue was also filled with disbelief. Looking at the cross-legged, solemn Saint, she felt her worldview being repeatedly ground into the dirt.

What kind of situation was this?

Mid-fight, the boss had an Epiphany?!

However, there was one person whose focus was always different from others.

Xiao Hei.

He was also hit by that wave of drowsiness, but his willpower as a top-tier assassin (cleaner) barely kept him from falling asleep.

When he saw Eternal Sacrifice's luxurious white robe about to sit on that ruin covered in dust and debris.

His OCD flared up.

An absolute loathing for stains, originating from the depths of his Soul, triumphed over his sleepiness!

Under the jaw-dropping gazes of Xiao Fan and Lin Xue.

Xiao Hei dashed out, lightning-fast, pulling a small broom and a small dustpan from his tactical backpack.

Using a movement technique like "Ghost Shadow Steps," he instantly appeared where Eternal Sacrifice was about to sit.

Just as the Saint's bottom was 0.01 centimeters from the ground.

At a speed difficult for the naked eye to capture, Xiao Hei quickly swept the dust and stones off that piece of ruin until it was spotlessly clean.

"Phew..."

Having finished all this, Xiao Hei let out a long sigh of relief, a satisfied expression on his face.

Then, he respectfully made a "please" gesture toward the meditating Eternal Sacrifice.

Eternal Sacrifice sat down without knowing anything, his white robe remaining pristine.

The world was perfect.

"Click."

Lin Xue snapped out of it, decisively pulled out her phone, and started recording this historic scene.

In the frame, a world-destroying boss was having an Epiphany about life, while beside him, a man in an apron held a small broom, looking at his work with a gratified expression.

Lin Xue had even thought of the news headline.

"Shocking! Devil Head Questioned into Autism; Mysterious Sweeping Monk Acts as Protector on the Scene!"

With the Saint's "crash," the massive Spatial Rift in the sky seemed to lose its energy source and began to slowly close.

A crisis capable of destroying Tianqiong City had been resolved in such an extremely absurd manner... or so it seemed?