"The light of the Zenith Star!!"
Outside the Ancient Imperial Palace, countless disorderly human Eonic Gods had gathered to celebrate the awakening of the two ancestral elders.
Most of them belonged to Mu Qingqing's Mu Clan.
The imperial son had returned, and the ancestors had awakened. This should have been a joyous occasion, yet just as the people cheered fervently, black-and-white blazing light suddenly shone out from within the Ancient Imperial Palace, flashing across the skies of the Heaven-Stealing Imperial City!
Ancient and solemn chants swept forth one after another. This was the sound of the Zenith Star, passed down through the bloodline of the Heaven-Stealing Clan—deep and vast, bearing the profound inherited will of an entire clan.
"The two ancestral elders chose to become Zenith Stars, to protect the young imperial son forever!"
Beneath the radiance of the Zenith Stars, countless Mu Clan Eonic Gods suddenly realized this. In that instant, they were utterly shaken before tears streamed down their faces in grief.
Crash!
Countless Eonic Gods knelt toward the Ancient Imperial Palace, seeing off the two Heaven-Stealing ancestral elders with mournful cries.
No one could have foreseen everything that happened today!
When it all unfolded, and the Zenith Stars' light became the light of protection, people felt not only regret at parting from the two ancestral elders, but also deep emotion at their spirit.
"We respectfully send off the two ancestral elders!"
Once the news spread, billions of Eonic Gods throughout the Heaven-Stealing Imperial City emerged from their homes and wept toward the Ancient Imperial Palace. Though they were not of the Heaven-Stealing Clan, it was obvious that over these five hundred thousand years, the two ancestral elders had done far too much for this land. The people were grateful to them.
"Their departure marks the fading of