Cut off my way home? You'll sacrifice the entire other world in return!

Ruins of the Demon King's Castle.

This was where Li Fan lived for ten years.

Although he always complained that the place was dilapidated, gloomy, and had no Wi-Fi.

But this place truly holds the record of his daily life over the past ten years.

Now all that's left here is a pile of rubble.

The black castle collapsed, and the obsidian throne, which was uncomfortable to sit on, shattered into pieces.

The ever-cautious goblin butler and the orc chef in charge of cooking are both gone.

Li Fan absorbed it himself.

Li Fan stood on the ruins.

He is now the only true god and the only destroyer of this world.

The ground beneath his feet had turned grayish-white.

There is no gravity, and no wind.

The gravel was suspended in mid-air.

Li Fan walked up to a stone slab.

That's the entrance to the underground wine cellar.

He stretched out his hand and waved it gently.

The stone slab floated up, revealing a dark hole underneath.

"Come out."

Li Fan's voice echoed in the empty basement.

no respond.

Only faint breathing sounds could be heard.

Li Fan walked down.

A small figure was huddled in a corner of the basement.

It was a little girl.

She looks only thirteen or fourteen years old.

She was wearing a tattered linen dress, her face was dirty, and she was tightly clutching an equally tattered rag doll in her hands.

She was looking at Li Fan, trembling with fear.

Those big eyes were filled with fear, yet also with a hint of familiarity?

Li Fan looked at her.

He remembered.

That was ten years ago, when he had just transmigrated to this world.

At that time, he had not yet become the Demon King; he was just a vagrant.

I was so hungry that I felt dizzy and almost fainted on the roadside.

It was this little girl who gave him half a piece of black bread.

Although the bread was as hard as a rock and smelled musty.

But that was the first meal he ate after he came into this world.

Later, when he became the Demon King, he took the girl to a small town near the castle and had someone secretly take care of her.

did not expect.

In this catastrophe that swept the entire world.

In this apocalyptic world where everyone has died.

She actually survived.

Hiding in this magically reinforced underground wine cellar, they survived the most difficult time with a few barrels of aged fruit wine and a few bags of potatoes.

"Demon... Demon King brother?"

The little girl called out timidly.

The sound was very soft.

Li Fan's hand froze in mid-air.

A ball of black energy was gathering at his fingertips.

All you need to do is move your fingers.

Very simple.

It's very easy.

But Li Fan's fingers just wouldn't bend.

He looked into the little girl's clear eyes.

Those eyes held no greed or hatred, no hypocrisy like those of heroes and gods.

Only living purely.

"Demon King brother...you're covered in blood..."

The little girl did not run away.

Instead, she walked over and stretched out her dirty little hand, trying to wipe the bloodstains off Li Fan's clothes.

"Does it hurt?"

She asked.

Li Fan was stunned.

He killed tens of millions of people.

He swallowed the Heavenly Dao.

Everyone called him a demon, a madman, and a destroyer.

Only this child asked him if it hurt.

The red light in Li Fan's eyes slowly faded.

Those heterochromatic eyes returned to their original black color.

He dispersed the energy ball in his hand.

He knelt down and let the little girl wipe his clothes with her dirty hands.

"It doesn't hurt."

Li Fan said softly.

His voice was so gentle that even he himself couldn't believe it.

"I'm the Demon King, so I'm tough and thick-skinned."

"Oh..." The little girl nodded, seemingly understanding. "So... are you leaving?"

"Okay." Li Fan nodded. "I'm going home."

"Then... could you take me with you?"

The little girl tugged at Li Fan's clothes and looked at him expectantly.

"It's so dark and cold here, everyone's gone... I'm scared."

Li Fan fell silent.

Li Fan suddenly thought of something.

His current identity is that of a plane devourer, an existence that has merged with the origin of the Heavenly Dao.

If he leaves, the world will have no anchor point.

This little girl is a perfect anchor point for this place. If this door doesn't lead to home, we can use it to get back here later. Maybe we can even use it to travel back to a nearby anchor point.

"it is good."

Li Fan smiled.

He reached out and gently touched the little girl's messy hair.

"I'll take you away."

"system."

【exist. 】

"Put this little guy into your personal storage space."

[WARNING: This personal space is primarily for storing inanimate objects. Placing living beings in it may cause psychological harm.]

"It's okay."

Li Fan gently touched the little girl's forehead with his finger.

"A good night's sleep will do the trick."

"When you wake up, it will be a new world."

A gentle magic flowed into the little girl's body.

The little girl yawned, her eyelids growing heavier.

"Demon King brother...you...keep your word..."

She mumbled something and fell into Li Fan's arms, drifting off to sleep.

Li Fan held her and carefully placed her into the system space that was independent of time and space.

then.

He stood up.

Looking at this gray and white world that has completely died.

He opened his arms.

Behind it, two wings, one black and one white, spread out, blotting out the sky.

"The world... is collapsing!"

Rumble rumble rumble!!!

The entire plane began to collapse.

Earth, sky, ocean, ruins...

Everything is converging on Li Fan as the central point.

He devoured them.

He transformed them.

Not even the last speck of dust was spared.

This is a true cataclysmic event.

Without leaving a trace.

The channel is now open.

A dazzling portal of light slowly opened in the void.

Li Fan stepped into the portal of light.

Behind me was nothingness.

That is proof that a glorious civilization once existed.

Now he's all alone.

With all sins and one true salvation.

Come back home.

(Author's note: Leaving someone here isn't out of a misplaced sense of compassion. This person is there to serve as a world anchor. With someone present, we can trace back to the source. After all, we're afraid that if the protagonist strays too far from the original anchor, they might never be able to return.)

(Thank you again for your support.)