Li Tianluo looked down on the world. He carried lightyears away from its orbiting position.
Carving a path for himself, he created a single platform, narrow and long, made out of his Demonic Qi, exuding a purplish haze.
With every step he took, a drop of water rang.
"Ten Thousand Paths.
What can the world hear?
Can it bear the weight of my existence?"
Li Tianluo kept repeatedly making a single platform for him to step upon just for it to disappear right afterwards.
"Untethered Solace. Is it nigh but a dream not to be bestowed to the glaze?
A single touch is all that it takes for it to collapse and brittle.
... Such an inflexible existence."
Li Tianluo kept a steady pace, reaching the planet's Exosphere, Thermosphere, and Mesosphere. There he halted and asked the system.
"System, give me the latest information on this planet."
[UNDERSTOOD MASTER]
[ANALYZING. PLANET - C32]
[CIVILIZATION. MID-STAGE ADVANCE... CALCULATING PROBABILITY OF EVOLUTION... 0]
[SPIRITUAL ENERGY. NONE]
[SEARCHING FOR LIFE FORMS... 0 FOUND]
[THE SYSTEM HAVE CONCLUDED THAT DUE TO THE SUDDEN CHANGE OF PLANETARY POSITION. PLANET - C32 HAVE GONE THROUGH HIGH-SPEED CHANGES LEADING TO THE DEATH OF ALL LIFE FORMS]
Having heard of the systems report, Li Tianluo continued to walk down the planet's Mesosphere.
"Frail. Too frail. How can one live like a shard of glass made out of broken glass?
Not even a single being withstood the alteration."
As Li Tianluo reached the Stratosphere, he reached out his hand glaring down at the frost engulfing the seas and lands.
His eyes sharpened as he stared at the naked surface, resulting in the sudden change of gravity on the planet.
The seas and lands tremble along with the ruins left by the advanced civilization.
Li Tianluo lifted his palm, flicking his finger towards the core of the planet, creating a powerful burst of wind, which passed through the crust down to its inner core, leaving a titanic hole leading down to the center of the planet.
"Is this the core?"
[AFFIRMATIVE MASTER]
Creating several more paths leading down to the inner core, he trudged silently as his eyes wandered around his surroundings as he walked down the last layer of atmosphere.
Unfettered by the sight of human remains, some bones incinerated to ashes, some frozen in glaziers.
He remained calm and composed as he entered the crust.
Footsteps rang, echoing through the void. The droplets of water exchanged with the drop of bursting magma.
The sound of scorching from the overflowing molten rock kept pouring over below his path.
Momentarily averting his attention towards the scoria overflowing beneath him, he uttered one single word, cold and unmoved.
"Die."
As if the magma was alive, it died down, instantly hardening and turning itself into an obsidian.
With the core of the planet as his light, he continued down his path. Haze fills out the silent void.
Taking his time to look around at what the surrounding areas look like, Li Tianluo closes his eyes disappointed and unentertained.
"Rubbish. How can a planet like this exist?"
20 steps before reaching the core the size of a miniature planet fuming a lot less hotter than the actual sun.
It kept glowing like an ore. But to Li Tianluo's perspective, it just looks like an overly sized golden pill.
Between the 10th and 9th step, he halted, and a sudden surge of Demonic Qi releasing a dark purplish hue emerged all over his left arm.
Looking down, he extended his entire arm infused with Demonic Qi.
The sclera wrapping around his eyes turned black in that instant as if possessed; Li Tianluo left a devilish smile, all the while converting his Demonic Qi wrapping around his left arm into a blade.
Swinging his left arm, the devilish smile on his face disappeared, returning to its neutral expression, void of emotions, unfettered by the world.
He stood there silently, his eyes fixated on the core right in front of him.
Steadily, he moved his left arm, which was cast to his side. He slowly raises it, concisely without any wasted movements.
As far as the normal eye can see, the blade of dark purplish Qi looked as if it was in slow motion, but as soon as he stopped with just the slightest bit of moving, the core broke apart into tiny pieces, like a ball of glass falling like golden dust.
With the core gone, the planet started to wither; the lands started to soften, turning into mush. The seas started to freeze, turning themselves into sharp frozen particles.
All kinds of calamity fell all at once; inevitably, the world has only a minute to live without its core.
Li Tianluo released the current form of his Demonic Qi; he then opened his palm, reaching out to the void unfazed.
A small dark purplish flame lit up within his palm.
Li Tianluo walked several more steps forward before dropping the flame to where the previous core was.
"Ashes Recollection. Divine Rebirth."
As the flames dropped lower into the abyss, the flames grew bigger and brighter until it eventually expanded into the size of a sun, devouring the entire planet down to its last existence.
Like a caterpillar hibernating inside its shell, Li Tianluo turned his back, looking beyond the dark horizon.
Slightly waving his right hand, he opened a rift leading outside the planets' thermosphere.
Moments later, somewhere in the planet's atmosphere, a rift appeared, footsteps resounding inside it; it continued to echo in the emptiness.
Amidst all the echoing footsteps, a neatly carved face, with dark purplish pupils and a hair that resembles the void emerges. His hands held the boundaries of the rift.
"System."
[YES MASTER]
"I have a task for you."