At the very least, let me see this through to the end.
I hope you can make it to the end.
Words were sometimes powerless and unnecessary.
Since fate had ultimately led two individuals to become entangled to this point, then they could only hope to walk together to the very end.
Boom!
Above and below the heavens, upon and beneath the earth, flames and war were everywhere.
Before the world was consumed by raging fire, it chose to set itself ablaze first.
What would it hatch? Could it succeed? Lu PingAn did not know, nor was he interested.
He was merely fulfilling his duty.
"Light up. Our lighthouses."
One Lamp Tree after another bloomed with even more dazzling radiance, like burning fireworks that consumed everything in their final brilliance.
In the east of the land, countless lords slaughtered one another. The earth became Rock Sharks and Giant Whales, hunting every mortal caught in the cracks.
Despair and wails were everywhere. Only those legendary lights might be the sole rays of hope.
Across the vast land, groups of gray-clad travelers hurriedly fled for their lives. They had no other hope, merely trying to reach the next "trap" before the "earth" devoured everything.
Yes, a trap. Whether it was their past common sense or the words of other gods, all told them that those seemingly warm lights were nothing but a deception.
Yet they still headed toward that land of light without hesitation.
"Because elsewhere, there isn't even a lie."
In hopeless desperation, mortals would willingly believe the "lies" in their minds simply because those lies claimed they could save them.
In the west of the land, where the ocean and sea of clouds met.
The sky had already been shattered, and the "clouds" poured into the ocean.
Along with the