"Then I will continue to fight in the abyss for everyone who needs my protection!"
*(The people he wants to protect? What if even the people who need protection are already gone...)*
Hao Qi did not voice this thought aloud. After all, he was still only the Overlord's past self, not yet the Overlord himself. Although Hao Qi knew full well that the current Overlord was the future Overlord, from any perspective they were not the same person; they were as different as night and day. The Overlord's past self was just an ordinary hero, perhaps not even the peerless Shi Wushuang, whereas the Overlord was the peerless sovereign—a supreme existence who dominated heaven and earth and surpassed all antiquity. There was only one such figure since the creation of the universe, and the two were simply incomparable; the gap between them was far too vast.
Chapter 581