Despair After Hope

He raised his head and looked up.

Under the glaring light, the moon and sun watched this land at the same time...

It seemed that Lan Yin had failed to stop Jiang You.

The instant the abyss and the ground completely merged into one, the Spirit Gathering Array and Spirit Locking Array collapsed simultaneously.

Wuhuanzi's emaciated body instantly became nothing but skin and bones. His blue-gray Daoist robe had already been soaked through by the black rain, clinging tightly to his body. Beneath the wet fabric, his protruding ribs were as grotesque as the ridges of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

The energy that had been returned to Wuhuanzi by the fruit of Jiang You's man-eating tree vanished. It was like a withered tree coming back to life in spring, only to age rapidly again.

Wu Weizi rose from the ground and staggered over to his little disciple.

That little fellow had completely disappeared. His body, bones and all, had mutated during an evolution he could not withstand. His scattered clothes hung from a twisted sapling half a person's height.

Wu Weizi gathered up Wuhuanzi's clothes and gave them a gentle shake.

"Crack..."

Half of an unfinished roasted taro rolled out of the clothes, a neat ring of teeth marks still visible on it.

He set the clothes before him ablaze, muttering, "Dust to dust, earth to earth."

The entrance to the abyss disappeared.

Because now, the Hundred Thousand Mountains were the abyss.

The two merged together, and those abrupt, primeval-forest-like trees stood out sharply amid the black mountains and black waters.

These were plants from within the abyss. They had appeared on the ground.

A cheer rose from the crowd.

"We did it! We did it!"

"These trees are from the abyss!"

Wu Weizi gasped for breath, kneeling on the