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The enormous destructive power completely revealed the destructive capacity of the Golden City.
This was merely the initial construct form.
As a conceptual weapon, the Golden City possesses the capability to strike across dimensional boundaries, given its power is sufficient to destroy a planet.
It shatters a planet rather than merely destroying its surface—two entirely different concepts.
The Golden City's mode of attack is not singular, differing significantly from the Rainbow Bridge.
The construction of the Golden City incorporated many of Bi Xiao's creative ideas. For example, the Sacred Fire can compress and burn magical energy within the Golden City and then release a disaster attack similar to solar wind from a distance.
Its attack range covers a group.
There are also singular attack forms, like the orbital cannon or an enlarged version of the EX Curry Stick, which can also serve as a defensive system weapon. It can materialize to block attacks or imprison targets, with many functions.
Observing the power level, Bi Xiao nodded.
With the Golden City, his last shortcoming was eliminated. If he had the Golden City earlier, it would not have been impossible to capture Asmodeus and Lilith alive, let alone kill them.
The difficulty of the Hell dungeon would be significantly reduced for him.
Those demon lords not only provide vast life essence but also abundant resources, allowing him to perfect the Golden City or even create another one.
This thing must be obtained in abundance.
With a ripple of golden light, Bi Xiao's figure disappeared, along with the Golden City.
Returning to Earth, Bi Xiao was promptly confronted by the Ancient One.
In the mirror world of Forks Town.
The Ancient One looked at Bi Xiao somewhat helplessly: "Xiao, you are breaking the balance between Hell and Heaven."
Whether it was Asmodeus or Lilith, the Ancient One did not care much about the deaths of these two demon lords.
But she noticed a troubling sign: ever since Bi Xiao went to Hell, he seemed to have developed some horrifying ideas. During his trip to Hell, there was a period when she could not trace him, which made the Ancient One uneasy.
Bi Xiao's current strength was beyond her ability to track.
Thus, she could only use the Time Stone to try to peer through the river of time and see the future. Now, the timeline was broken, and the singular established Sacred Timeline was destroyed, giving rise to countless futures.
She could not determine which future was the true timeline.
However, in every future, she saw endless corpses and wails.
Amidst the sea of blood and mountains of corpses, sitting on a throne made of countless demon corpses, was Bi Xiao, resembling a demon god, exuding immense, mysterious killing intent. He even seemed to sense the Ancient One peering into the future, one glance pulling her out of the river of time.
Had she not escaped quickly, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Moreover, the futures she saw were fragmented and incomplete. Nevertheless, it was enough to let the Ancient One know that Bi Xiao had slaughtered the entire Hell.
This slaughter did not involve ordinary demons but all the demon lords.
Bi Xiao nearly killed his way through Hell; the Ancient One saw Lucifer cowering like a rat in the sewer, and Mephisto kneeling before Bi Xiao, begging, only to have his head cruelly chopped off.
Although this might not be the true future, the possibility, combined with Bi Xiao's disappearance in Hell, led the Ancient One to speculate that Bi Xiao had murderous intentions, planning to hunt down the demon lords just as he did with the gangsters on Earth.
If true, a new disaster would befall. Thus, the Ancient One urgently sought out Bi Xiao to dispel his murderous thoughts.
Confronted by the Ancient One, Bi Xiao was not surprised.
"Master Ancient One, what do you mean by breaking the balance?"
"Hell and Heaven are originally two opposing forces, Xiao, you know this well. The war between Hell and Heaven has lasted for countless years, but the main participants are always the high-ranking members of both sides, whose victories and defeats influence the overall direction."
"When Hell lost to Heaven, Heaven tried to seize Hell and even take it for itself, but they never succeeded because of those lords."
"Their opposition, combined with other reasons, led to an agreement, a tacit understanding not to focus on Earth, maintaining balance."
"But once this balance is broken, one side will devour the other, driven by ambition and desire to seek new targets."
The Ancient One explained clearly.
Heaven and Hell clashing is ideal, as long as neither side is completely destroyed. Without one side to check the other, new points of interest would be found.
Earth is such a perfect point of interest.
Due to Earth's special nature, both Hell and Heaven desire to turn it into their backyard because humanity is also special. Human souls and faith are enormous resources.
These resources are coveted by both Hell and Heaven.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have tried to develop followers on Earth. Demons being called heretics by humans and failing to gain many followers is due to the war between Hell and Heaven. Hell lost, and also lost the battle for Earth's faith.
Even in defeat, Heaven can only develop followers but cannot descend themselves because Hell is a restraining force, along with other reasons causing Heaven's caution.
In any case, balance is the best option for the Ancient One.
Bi Xiao's intention to slaughter the demon lords in Hell would disrupt this balance, making Heaven the victor, subsequently drawing their greedy gaze upon Earth.
The Ancient One did not want to face Heaven's armies as she neared retirement.
If this escalated, other entities from multiple dimensions might get involved, leading to a chaotic war centered on Earth. The thought alone made the Ancient One's scalp tingle.
"I see. What if I take the initiative to maintain balance?"
Bi Xiao smiled.