Behind Xu Caiyi, the void shook violently. Light and shadow twisted and reassembled, and a Haotian Pagoda phantom, though damaged and left with only thirty levels, still emanating vast, ancient desolation and the majestic authority to suppress the heavens, materialized from illusion into reality!
Though the pagoda no longer possessed its complete seventy-three-level form from its ancient prime, its supreme powers as the core of a heaven-and-earth treasure—"Drawing Stars and Shifting the Moon" and "Moving Heaven and Earth"—still remained!
Especially now, it had sensed another part born from the same source as itself—the Azure Stone Pagoda, formed from its lost "pagoda tip"!
Chao Gai was the Azure Stone Pagoda, and the Azure Stone Pagoda was Chao Gai.
Perhaps this name had long determined Chao Gai's destiny. Chao meant morning, dawn, and the rising sun, symbolizing an initial beginning; it also shared a meaning with "court." He had single-handedly built the colossal Mount Tai Ghost Race. Yet gai meant covering, enveloping, and concealing. Everything began with him, and everything would end with him.
The cover of dawn was also but the destined cycle of the peak of Haotian!
Chao Gai and the Azure Stone Pagoda had always been an inseparable whole.
Thus, before the wide-eyed, horrified, incredulous gazes of every core leader of the Ghost Race, including Song Jiang, Lu Junyi, and Wu Yong, a scene unfolded that nearly brought their thoughts to a halt: the sun and moon seemed to reverse in an instant, while space let out a silent wail and folded in upon itself!
Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Chao Gai, whom they had guarded at the center layer upon layer with their lifelong cultivation and exquisite formations, had his figure scattered like a reflection in water struck by a stone. Without sound or warning, he vanished into thin air!