The Watcher turned his life into a Singularity Point, and Huang Ji became the first mover. He created a world, parted heaven and earth, began the cycle of destruction and rebirth, and shaped all things, giving the shattered dimension new life.
Aboheid rang with songs of mourning. The Ziwei Crowd gazed on in wonder, while the countless ordinary people went about their lives.
The Watcher had gone willingly to his death. He never even knew that Huang Ji had used him to restart the world and taken on Aboheid's karmic burden.
Anyone who entered a shattered dimension would become a Singularity Point. Even Huang Ji would die. He needed to carve out spacetime before he could set foot there.
That required a pioneer to step into the void and become its point of origin.
That pioneer also had to be a living being. Only living beings and things covered by their souls could ascend or descend between dimensions.
So when the Watcher said, "If you truly can revive our people, we will enter the shattered dimension," Huang Ji answered, "All right."
The Watcher had meant to atone with his death, letting the world they had destroyed kill them in turn.
Huang Ji, however, had meant to redeem him. He made the fullest use of the Watcher's life and saved the destroyed world.
That was why one was enough.
The remaining members of the Aboheid Divine Race witnessed this power of creation and understood. They were not inconsolable. After the Crimson War, death was all too familiar.
As a civilization that had endured so much, their lament held more than grief. They were moved by the Watcher's death, and by the sight of all things returning to life.
They looked up at the dimensional projection of a universe being born and