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Night fell, and the sky collapsed.

All living beings across the world, including but not limited to humans, witnessed the sight of the heavens boiling.

Once,

people had felt happy and refreshed by pink sunsets and macaron-colored skies, considering them rare strokes of luck.

They did not know that some similar celestial phenomena were not merely physical reactions caused by optical scattering. Some were projections of changes in the Spirit World onto reality. And now, the Spirit World that enveloped the entire Earth like a magnetic field had been stirred by Lin Xiaoxi's actions, provoking the Spirit World entity that had originally sealed away Li Yao.

Thus,

the heavens changed.

The sky was no longer the sky, and the mottled colors of the Spirit World began to twist violently.

Certain ancient entities endowed with spiritual power began to act strangely. Under the wrath of the Ten Ancestral Stars, the entire world tensed and warped.

The same sky displayed different scenes at this moment:

Some parts were burning, while others shattered like glass.

Others resembled the scenes depicted in the film Inception, where the edges of cities vanished and piled atop one another in eerie layers.

The sudden gale grew ever fiercer, snapping towering trees as it howled past.

Torrential rain brewed beneath the utterly pure crimson sky, only for people to discover upon its landing that the rainwater was pink.

The sky, twisted like a Van Gogh painting, slowly churned. Bolts of lightning fell one after another from the rotating vortexes, darting and dancing like an electric forest! The entire world

was like the end of days.

This scene was even more terrifying than when starlight had streaked across the sky and Silver Gate Chaos had descended.

People screamed, ran, and broke down,

as though the scene from The Scream