My Endless Life.

Chapter 638 The Demon King, and Despair
Inside the Demon King's palace, at an angle visible only to the Demon King himself, there is a clock.

That was a very special clock.

From the perspective of the Demon King, that is, from below the throne, it looks like a campfire used for lighting.

However, from the Demon King's perspective, it appears as an illusory clock.

The clock had no second hand, no minute hand, only a narrow arrow at the top and wide at the bottom, spinning above a bunch of incomprehensible text.

The Demon King remained seated on his throne, observing the arrow.

Sometimes he would close his eyes, as if he were sleeping.

But as soon as he opened his eyes, he would stare at the arrow, expressionless, as if waiting for some outcome.

Click.

On the scale that only the Demon King could understand, the hour hand moved again; it was now tilted to the left and rotating to the right.

And now, less than a minute remains to reach the mark that normally represents '12'.

Upon seeing this, the Demon King's breathing seemed to pause, and a slight fluctuation finally appeared on his usually calm expression.

That was a wave of fear and despair, an expression that shouldn't have appeared on his face.

"Have we... already arrived here...?"

The Demon King muttered to himself in words that no one could understand.

But at the same time, he paused slightly, as if sensing something, and raised his head to look into the distance.

Even across the palace, across an unknown distance, the Demon King seemed to be able to see what was happening in the extremely distant Holy City.

He raised his hand and tapped his fingers lightly, as if he were about to do something.

But in the end, he slumped down and muttered to himself:
"Betrayal... it doesn't matter anymore. If you want to betray, then betray. Do whatever you want... it doesn't matter at all."

As he spoke, he closed his eyes again, as if awaiting an impending end.

But the end did not come; what arrived even faster than the 'end' was the group of traitors.

Familiar magical fluctuations appeared within the Demon King's palace, followed by familiar figures appearing before him.

A white-haired sage, a red-haired blood demon, a succubus queen with a voluptuous and revealing figure and pink wavy hair.

And then there appeared the human boy whom the Demon King was completely unfamiliar with.

Upon seeing them appear, the Demon King slightly opened his eyes, his scarlet pupils gazing at everyone present.

He didn't speak, not uttering a single syllable, but this very action made the three people in front of the boy afraid to make any move.

Finally, the sage's trembling voice broke the silence.

"My lord, His Majesty the Demon King... I'm afraid we still need you to deal with him."

The Demon King was stronger than everyone else, conservatively estimated to be on the same level as that young god. The sages and the others dared not make a move, so they could only let the young man handle it.

The Demon King's gaze followed the sound and fell upon the boy.

His gaze remained calm, devoid of sorrow or joy, and without any anger at being betrayed; he simply watched serenely.

Under such scrutiny, Li Qi also changed his mind about taking action right away.

He asked in confusion:

"Aren't you going to take action?"

"Why?" the Demon King asked calmly.

Li Qi was even more surprised: "Your subordinates betrayed you, your army is now mine, and I may kill you now. You... have nothing to say?"

"casual."

"The Demon King said softly."

Li Qi was stunned, and he looked at the Demon King in astonishment.

casual?

What does "随便" mean?

Just as Li Qi was about to ask, he heard the Demon King say, "Everything here, my subordinates, my army, even this entire world, if you want it, take it all. You can even kill me... that's fine too, at least it's better than facing despair yourself."

"...?"

The Demon King's words startled Li Qi, and a deep unease rose in his heart.

Li Qi turned to look at the three Heavenly Kings who were equally bewildered. Seeing that they seemed to know nothing about what was going on, he asked the Demon King again:

"What do you mean? What kind of despair are you talking about?"

"You can't understand."

The Demon King said in a low voice, "The people of the small world will not understand."

A small world? He just mentioned a small world, right? He's not from this world!
Li Qi instantly realized who the other person was.

He was not surprised by the Demon King's outsider status. As mentioned before, this world was riddled with holes by soul power cultivators, and transmigrators would come here almost every now and then.

Li Qi even suspected that the heroes and demon kings of all time were actually related to the soul power transmigrators, or were the soul power transmigrators themselves!
After all, stirring up the world's affairs and gaining its favor is also part of plundering the world's essence. Therefore, he was not surprised at all that the Demon King said he was not from this world.

But just to be on the safe side, Li Qi still asked the other party to confirm:
"You...are from the Soul Realm?"

"The Soul Realm..." Upon hearing this name, the Demon King first muttered to himself subconsciously, then a second later, he looked up in astonishment.

A second later, his pupils dilated, then contracted, and then he suddenly stood up and stepped forward!
step.

With just one step, his figure appeared in front of Li Qi as if by teleportation, and he grabbed Li Qi's shoulder!

Li Qi saw his speed and movements clearly, but did not dodge.

Facing the Demon King, who was almost a head taller than him, Li Qi raised his head to meet his gaze, only to see that the previously calm Demon King's eyes were now filled with excitement:
"You know about the Soul Realm?! Which world are you from?! The Azure Profound Realm? The Myriad Star Realm? The Realm of Gods?! Or the Desolate Realm?! How did you get here?! Did you use a special method of attraction—"

"I am from the Myriad Star Realm, currently in the Azure Profound Realm, and I arrived in this world using the methods of your Soul Realm."

Li Qi spoke briefly to the Demon King.

The two communicated in the common language of the Soul Realm, which the others nearby couldn't understand at all, so there was no need to worry about the information being leaked.

The Demon King's body trembled slightly, and his expression finally became rich, a mixture of excitement, joy, and sorrow.

He gripped Li Qi's shoulders tightly and said to him:
"No matter which world you're in, as long as you're far away from the Soul Realm! Now, whatever you're doing, go back immediately! Tell them... tell everyone!! Danger is coming!!"

"Danger...? What danger? Can you be more specific?"

The Demon King's nervousness didn't seem fake. Li Qi sensed that the other party's soul power was at the same level as his own, and he didn't think that such a strong person would deliberately pretend to be in his current state to deceive him.

But... is it dangerous?
What kind of danger could make a cultivator from one of the Seven Realms so excited and fearful?

"Collapse!!!" The Demon King practically roared in Li Qi's ear, "The World Sea is collapsing!! If we don't do something, you...all of you! All the worlds! Will die!!!"

"…What?"

Li Qi didn't understand the Demon King's meaning for a moment. He looked up blankly and stared at the Demon King.

Seeing that Li Qi still didn't understand, the Demon King said directly:
"Seeing is faster than talking!"

After he finished speaking, a stream of soul power flew out from between his eyebrows and landed directly in between Li Qi's eyebrows.

The soul power that entered Li Qi's brow instantly formed an image in Li Qi's mind after entering it.

Those are the Demon King's memories.

The memory is from a third-person perspective, and the demon king's phantom also appears in the memory. He looks at himself in the memory, at the beam of light that escaped from the Soul Realm, and then raises his finger to point behind himself in the memory.

"Look over there."

This is...the World Ocean?

Li Qicai recognized the environment as the World Ocean.

A vibrant, colorful world unfolded before him, but in the direction the Demon King pointed, countless lights and countless souls were fleeing in a peculiar way.

Li Qi recognized it; it was a 'soul power array.' They were using the soul power array to travel to other worlds by descending their souls.

Logically, they should be able to quickly reach the world they want to go to simply by opening and closing their eyes.

But now they seem to have lost that ability, and are just running away, fleeing to more distant places.

The powerful quickly sink into the depths of the world's ocean, while the weaker souls can only allow themselves to enter the nearby world.

There was no way around it; the soul power array was pulling them along, and those with weak soul power couldn't run very far.

After glancing at these things, Li Qi looked in the direction the Demon King had indicated.

Then his eyes widened instantly, and he even stopped breathing.

Where the Demon King pointed, the enormous world bubble representing the Soul Realm was being rapidly 'devoured' by something at a visible speed.

What devoured it was behind the Soul Realm, a void where nothing could be seen.

It seemed to be moving slowly forward, gradually devouring all parts of the Soul Realm. The medium-sized worlds that were responsible for protecting the Soul Realm couldn't even stop it; they were swallowed up by the void as soon as they made contact.

Only the Soul Realm is still resisting due to its massive size, giving the creatures within it more time to escape.

The Soul Realm was shattering, and countless beings were fleeing. Watching the Soul Realm gradually 'fall' into nothingness, Li Qi finally understood what the Demon King meant by 'collapse'.

Visually, the Soul Realm is indeed collapsing.

Collapse into an unknown void.

But if it were just a collapse, Li Qi wouldn't be so shocked. What truly shocked Li Qi was that he saw a ninth-tier expert trying to escape from behind the Soul Realm!
Ninth rank... or tenth rank? Based solely on the Demon King's memories, Li Qi couldn't tell.

But anyway, those people are very strong, at least at the ninth level of power.

But these usually high-ranking figures are now fleeing like refugees into the deeper parts of the world's ocean.

They did not use the power of spatial teleportation; they were simply escaping at speeds that exceeded the limits of the World Sea's rules.

However, despite traveling at speeds many times greater than light, they were unable to escape the collapse behind them.

Li Qi watched helplessly as the collapse swallowed them up, along with the Soul Realm, turning it into nothingness.

This was also the last scene in the Demon King's memory.

(End of this chapter)