After the Moon Goddess left with Iyeta, Wen Wen sneakily returned to the room from earlier.
There was no suspicious smell, and the bed was not creased, which left Wen Wen somewhat disappointed.
Just as he was about to study it closely, Wen Wen’s vision went black and he found himself in the Black Stone Palace.
"What were you trying to find just now?" the Man in Black Robe sat on the throne, looking at Wen Wen with an unkind expression.
Wen Wen awkwardly laughed it off: "I wasn’t looking for anything, you’re overthinking it..."
The Man in Black Robe sighed: "Having been with you for so long, do you think I wouldn’t know what’s on your mind... She’s just an avatar attached to a hairpin, and I don’t even have a physical form."
"Please don’t explain, the more you say, the more I might get the wrong idea." Wen Wen plopped down on the ground: "There must be another reason you called me here this time."
The Man in Black Robe nodded: "You need to handle the matter of the avatar quickly. The Contamination from the Nameless King within you will grow stronger as you do, and the seal I left cannot suppress it forever."
"And there’s another thing, I need a promise from you."
"What kind of promise?" Wen Wen asked curiously.
The Man in Black Robe looked at Wen Wen seriously and said: "No matter what level you reach in the future, you must not lay a hand on the Moon Goddess."
Wen Wen almost spat out his drink: "A friend’s wife is not to be... bullied, besides, she’s not interested in me anyway."
The veins on the Man in Black Robe’s forehead twitched, he flicked Wen Wen on the forehead, sending him spiraling back three times.
"What are you thinking? I’m saying you must not harm her."
Wen Wen rubbed his forehead and returned to his original spot: "What level of power does the Moon Goddess have?"
"Her true form is a heavenly god under the Heaven’s Dominator."
"Then do you think I’m even qualified to kill her? It’s already good enough if she spares my life for your sake." Wen Wen shrugged.
The Man in Black Robe shook his head: "Your future will not stop at being a heavenly god."
Upon hearing this, Wen Wen eagerly ran over to the Man in Black Robe’s seat.
"Can you tell me what kind of future plans you have for me?"
The Man in Black Robe said one of his usual phrases: "When the time comes, you’ll know."
Wen Wen irritably ruffled his hair: "Again with the ’when the time comes’. I’ve heard these words from you so many times, you grand figures all have this quirk of speaking enigmatically, even more so than those frauds from the Glory Church..."
Wen Wen had been holding these thoughts back for a long time, but today he couldn’t help but let them all out at the Man in Black Robe.
Initially, the Man in Black Robe was someone mysterious, powerful, and aloof in Wen Wen’s heart.
Wen Wen would be overjoyed if the other side even spoke a word to him.
But over time, as their interactions increased, Wen Wen suddenly realized that this guy could actually always come out; the reason he pretended to be absent was probably because he didn’t want to listen to Wen Wen’s chatter.
And during this process, Wen Wen also realized that he must be extremely important to the Man in Black Robe.
He couldn’t do without the Man in Black Robe, but it seemed the Man in Black Robe might also find it difficult to abandon him; they could be considered as two grasshoppers tied to the same rope, their relationship was intricate and inseparable.
So today, Wen Wen was ready to play dirty tricks here with the Man in Black Robe, determined to extract some information, even if it meant rolling around and making a fuss.
Seeing Wen Wen’s shameless look, the Man in Black Robe’s lips twitched.
"It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, it’s just that even if I did, it wouldn’t matter; it would only bring you unnecessary trouble and pressure."
Wen Wen blinked at the Man in Black Robe and said: "Just tell me, I’m not afraid of pressure."
The Man in Black Robe was silent for a moment, then said to Wen Wen: "I came from the Outer Starry Sky to the Inner World, aiming to master the foundational powers of judgment, punishment, devouring, imprisonment, contract, and control, thereby achieving supremacy, my name..."
He abruptly stopped at "my name", but Wen Wen didn’t mind.
Because when he heard the four words ’Outer Starry Sky’, he had already tuned out everything else, an inexplicable pressure seemed about to crush him flat, and blood oozed from his facial orifices.
If the Man in Black Robe had finished stating his name, Wen Wen, upon hearing it, would have been erased from the world without a trace.
It took half an hour for Wen Wen to return to normal, his eyes wide with horror as he looked at the Man in Black Robe.
"What... happened just now?"
"I was just about to tell you what you wanted to know, but you couldn’t handle it," the Man in Black Robe said with a smile.
Thinking about what he endured just now sent chills down Wen Wen’s spine. Why was it that merely describing his identity left Wen Wen unable to bear it?
When Wen Wen first became a superpower user, Lin Lu warned him not to look around carelessly in the Gray Mist Layer, as he might see things that could drive him mad.
But at Wen Wen’s current level, such prohibitions shouldn’t apply, because he had become one of those terrifying creatures.
If Wen Wen revealed his complete state without any warning now, even an ordinary person would go mad upon seeing him.
Yet this same Wen Wen nearly collapsed just by hearing a bit about the Man in Black Robe’s past?
"Think about it, do you know the name of any Supreme Overlord?" the Man in Black Robe asked, smiling at the shocked Wen Wen.
Wen Wen blankly answered: "Master of Dead Silence and Empty Underworld, Nameless King, creator, Heaven’s Dominator, Great Mother..."
The Man in Black Robe shook his head: "These are merely titles, not names, because certain information about the Supreme Overlords, once ’understood’, leads to destruction, not to mention their names."
"This is true even for Star Realm Gods and Spiritual Realm Gods. Only a few heavenly gods are qualified to have a certain understanding of the Supreme Overlords."
"And I... am even more special. Besides myself, a few Central Administrators, and the eight Supreme Overlords, no one knows my name, including those heavenly gods!"
Wen Wen looked at the Man in Black Robe in shock: "You’re stronger than the Supreme Overlords?"
The Man in Black Robe smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If I were really that strong, your eyes would have burned to ash the moment you saw me."
"I... had my ’existence’ erased by a Supreme Overlord."
"Neither my name, my appearance, nor any information or objects related to me exist in the Inner World."
"I have been permanently erased from the Inner World, not just physically, but also from ’memory’."
"This world is special because I used all my power to shape it into my personal Haven, but even within this Haven, without sufficient strength, you cannot comprehend my matters."
"Does this make sense to you?"
Wen Wen swallowed hard, he didn’t quite understand everything, but he at least gathered that this big shot’s past power was astonishing, resisting even a Supreme Overlord’s efforts to completely kill him, and now he was gradually reviving on Earth!