The mountain wind howled, and the armor transformed from the Divine Seal of Eternity and the Throne of Creation had faded from Long Haochen's body at some point.

He stood there quietly, his face already covered in tears.

Standing before him, a young man who looked exactly like him but had purple eyes was looking at him quietly.

"This is my story, the story of Austin Griffin, the Nine-Headed Chimera, the Scourge God."

Long Haochen clenched his fists. He felt his throat was completely choked and he couldn't utter a single word.

A faint smile appeared on Austin Griffin's face: "My destructive power is innate, but my idea of ​​destruction is not innate. Do you know why I'm telling you this?"

Long Haochen didn't know how to answer.

Austin Griffin smiled and said: "It's because of you. Without you, perhaps, I would have died completely. The undead in the worlds I destroyed kept chasing after me, and I kept dying until the ninth life. But do you know what will happen after that? After I die, the universe will no longer have the power to destroy. No one can stop it. The universe will evolve irregularly and accelerate until it dies and returns to its original point. I don't know how long this will take. But without me, it will definitely happen soon."

"I understood this when I died for the first time. Do you know why I died? Do you really think those idiots on the Creation Continent can kill me? That's just their daydream. I, the great Austin Griffin, can they kill me? If I don't give them a chance, can they make such a cage with seventy-two devil pillars and confine me inside? I did it on purpose."

Long Haochen raised his head and looked at him.

Austin Griffin said: "I understand that the power of creation is much stronger than me. Although he has completely integrated his consciousness into the universe, he has never stopped creating. Even if I destroy one plane after another, he can keep up with it, with the speed of his creation. Besides, doesn't that mean I'm still helping him protect the universe? I have a thorough understanding of my own strength. In fact, my own destructive power is part of the laws of the universe. Without my part of the law, the universe will only grow and cannot be contained anymore. Therefore, I only need to commit suicide and let myself die completely, won't the universe be completely destroyed? Everything created in the world will collapse. So, where do you think the seventy-two demon pillars came from? I secretly told those gods what they should do to kill me, and I cooperated very cooperatively to help them accomplish all this. Do you know how Tang Ling died? I took him with me. After the cage made of the Demon Pillars was completed, I took him with me. When I broke the cage, I also broke him. Take her body and let the first vicious woman who made a blood contract with me die with me."

"It was I who told those who were destroyed by me that I would have nine chances to reincarnate, and all my reincarnations must be killed in order to truly kill me. So, when I died for the first time, I was still secretly cheering for them to chase after me. In this way, the universe will be completely destroyed."

Listening to his words, Long Haochen gradually became horrified. There was no doubt that Austin Griffin was truly a terrifying existence. In order to destroy the entire universe, he would even completely destroy himself.

At this time, Austin Griffin fell silent, and his purple eyes changed.

"Long Haochen, do you know why I have to tell you so much? Why am I telling you all this? Why was I originally prepared to die completely and destroy the universe with me, but now I am begging you for mercy and letting you go? Find a way to help me survive and not be destroyed again?"

Long Haochen shook his head secretly, he really did not know.

"Because of you." Austin Griffin sighed, "My plan was perfect, but you ruined it."

"According to my original plan, in the world I destroyed, those undead creatures must hate me very much. Even when I destroyed the world, I deliberately left some memories of my destruction and the undead who knew how to prevent me from being reborn, just like the undead knights, and the lich is Augustine and Ina in my story. They will definitely try to kill me completely and prevent me from being resurrected, my seventh life is about to end at an early age, I was summoned by you to the world where you are, which is the world where the Demon Pillar is after I broke through my space. Every time I die, my consciousness will fall into a deep sleep, leaving only my instincts and intelligence equivalent to a normal human. In order to keep me alive, you did not hesitate to exchange your own blood for mine, and erased the darkness with light, allowing me to survive. The head of the darkness became the light." "Remember? After my seventh and eighth heads grew, I didn't show anything about myself for a while. In fact, I had already woken up at that time. The reason why I didn't start destroying directly was because I was digesting the previous experience, my first reaction was disbelief. How could I survive again? Would those people let me go? Let me become the God of Scourge and the Nine-Headed Chimera again? It was you and your companions who protected me time and time again, allowing me to complete my evolution, grow my ninth head, and gain all my powers."

"After learning about everything you did for me, I thought about it for a long time. What should I do to destroy your world? You are the one who made me feel warm again. My original plan failed, but... My thoughts of destruction will not change. The thoughts of destruction in my heart have been deeply rooted, the moment I woke up the desire for destruction dominated everything.

"Haoyue had fought against me, but at that time, the only thing I could do was not kill you. I would have definitely destroyed everything. But, in you, I saw the beauty of humanity, as well as the sincere emotions of you and your companions. Haoyue is a part of me, and I can actually control him by force. After all, my own consciousness is the most powerful in doing so."

"I wanted to give you and your world a chance, and also give myself a chance. In the end, I let Haoyue bite me to death and fall into deep sleep again. I also wanted to see if I would wake up again. If I wake up again, will you completely destroy me and stop this threat, or will you protect me for the rest of my life?"

"This is the bet I made with you. If I never wake up again, then my original plan will be complete. The universe will lose my law of destruction and will be destroyed at an accelerated rate. If I wake up, it will be like this now. I have been protected by you for two lives, and my heart has become warmer, so now I can barely suppress the desire for destruction in my heart and tell you this. Long Haochen, thank you. You spent five hundred years and protected me for a lifetime. You tried everything to protect me, but you were still unable to do anything to me. I know that your feelings are for Haoyue, but I am also a part of Haoyue. The God of Creation gave you the divine throne of eternity and creation, which is a very wise choice."

Austin Griffin smiled faintly: "For you, I can stop begging for death. I still have one last life and one last chance. If you really want Haoyue to live, then you can't start with Haoyue, you have to find a way from me. It's not Haoyue you need to save. It's me you need to save. You have to heal the destructive thoughts in my heart from the Heavenly Punishment God back to the Heavenly Guardian God. Only in this way can I live normally and protect the entire universe."

Long Haochen took a deep breath and looked at Austin Griffin in front of him, with deep sadness in his eyes. Although Austin Griffin was calm when telling his story, Long Haochen felt a deathly silence from his words. There was nothing greater than sadness. Since the first life, his heart had died with his loved ones. Only then did the destructive thoughts in his heart grow uncontrollably, and he would eventually change from the Heavenly Guardian God to the Heavenly Punishment God.

“What should I do?” Long Haochen asked in a hoarse voice.

Austin Griffin looked at him and smiled: “What if I tell you that I actually don’t know either?”

Long Haochen was stunned: “Don’t you know either?”

Austin Griffin shook his head and said seriously: “I really don’t know. I can only tell you my story, telling you everything without reservation. I vaguely feel that your concern for me has made my reason recover a little, so I can communicate with you like this. I don’t know if you can succeed, but I am willing to work with you to give it a try.”

Long Haochen’s eyes became serious again, and his clear eyes shone with determination. “Austin, I will help you by all means to make you the Heavenly Guardian God again. No matter what the price is, I will do it.”

Austin Griffin smiled faintly: "Okay! I believe you. I hope that when I wake up later, everything will return to normal, the idea of ​​destruction is extinguished in my heart, and all that remains is the law of destruction under my control. I must leave, If I stay, my sanity will be devoured by destruction. At that time, I really can't stop it. I'm sorry, Haoyue must reincarnate with you and me. In fact, if I can really stop my thoughts from waking up, just keeping Haoyue's state is very good, isn't it?"

Tears welled up in Long Haochen's eyes. He suddenly stepped forward and hugged Austin Griffin.

Austin Griffin was stunned, feeling the temperature on Long Haochen's body, he smiled, opened his arms, and hugged him gently: "Thank you, brother. That's what Haoyue calls you. Thank you."

Purple light shone on Austin Griffin, but all the purple light collapsed inward, and Haoyue's huge body began to become illusory. He lay on the ground, looking at Austin Griffin. There was no longer any vigilance in his eyes, but he closed his eyes peacefully.

Austin Griffin's eyes began to become confused, and he seemed to see himself again, his first life.

When he first started destroying the entire Continent of Creation, he had once done something with his divine power.

...

Hepburn, who had only one arm left, hugged Austin Griffin, who could not move his limbs. Her red lips moved, with a faint smile on her face, her head lowered, and she told him.

"Austin, you know? I don't regret it. Even if there is no afterlife."

That's what she said before using the Love Stone, and Austin Griffin saw it when he returned to the past. It was at that moment that the idea of ​​destroying everything took root in her heart and flourished.

Epilogue:

The dark earth was filled with endless silence.

In the cave, six liches wearing black robes with crimson eyes shining gathered around a large altar, chanting continuously.

"Sacrifice of ten thousand years, resurrection of the dead. Great God of Death, your servants need your guidance, let the glory of death shine, let the sky no longer have sunlight, let the earth no longer be green, let death spread across the earth, let life wither forever. Resurrection, great Lord of the Dead."

A deathly gray light bloomed on the altar, and all the liches turned into a deathly gray color in an instant. On the large altar, layers of deathly gray hexagrams slowly rose, fragments of clear gray light slowly condensed in it, and a slender figure slowly emerged.

It was a skeleton, a gray skeleton, with pale white flames dancing in its pupils.

*****

Author's words:

To be honest, after writing this book, I breathed a sigh of relief. Undoubtedly, this is the hardest book I have ever written, and I dare not even look back. When I wrote about Austin's suffering, I was actually torturing myself. I have always believed in the words of my ancestors: Humans are originally good. No one is born bad, everyone is good by nature. Even the God of Scourge, Nine-Headed Chimera Austin Griffin, was not born with the purpose of destroying everything. Tragedy is really hard to write! Every time I write a short paragraph, I have to stop and slow down, otherwise I will not be able to bear it. I will repay Austin Griffin for his suffering. In the near future, perhaps after finishing "Douluo Dalu 5 Rebirth Tang San", I will start writing "The Divine Seal Throne II", especially writing the story of his last life. If you want to know the past events and the story of Long Haochen and Haoyue, please read my book "The Divine Seal Throne".