Endless Battle Domain.
In the dim world, yellow sand swept through the air.
Wen Qingfeng and the others sat on the ground, drinking and making merry.
Tomorrow, they would leave the Endless Battle Domain. Now that they were truly about to bid farewell to this place where they had fought year-round, the old monsters could not help feeling somewhat wistful.
But even more than that, they looked forward to returning to the God Realm!
They... had been gone for far, far too long.
In the God Realm, there were relatives and friends they worried about, clansmen they missed. After so many long years, no one knew whether those relatives, friends, and clansmen were still safe and sound.
The vast sea had surged on, the years had shifted. No one dared claim that all the familiar things in their memories had not been scattered by time.
Yet they still looked forward to it.
Because—
The God Realm was their homeland!
Su Yi wandered alone, wine jug in hand, aimless as he occasionally took a drink.
At his side floated an almost illusory figure.
Graceful and dreamlike, it was none other than Luo Yao!
"A Yao, I will definitely bring you back someday."
Su Yi spoke softly.
Back then, Luo Yao's choice to end her own life had pierced Su Yi's heart to the bone.
It was only afterward that Su Yi discovered that, at the instant Luo Yao perished, the Rotten Sword Sheath had saved a wisp of her Life Origin.
Although it was merely a wisp of Life Origin, with no possibility of reshaping her Dao body or recovering.
It was already enough to console Su Yi's spirit.
He possessed one of Luo Yao's hand bones and wielded reincarnation. As long as that wisp of Luo Yao's Life Origin remained,