That beam of light was extraordinarily dazzling, like a bomb exploding in the night. In an instant, the blinding radiance outlined the silhouettes of the crowd in the darkness.
Moreover, the light had been tiny at first, but as time passed, it grew larger and larger.
It was as though it had initially been deep within the distant void, yet now it drew ever closer, until at last, it passed through the vortex.
The intense white light drove away the darkness. Yet the sky did not return to daylight. Compared to the profound darkness before, that glaring radiance was even more terrifying... Darkness might have been nothing more than hopelessness before the end, but the white light now was more like the instant of death when the apocalypse erupted.
At that moment, the minds of everyone who witnessed the scene went utterly blank.
It was as though, in the next moment, they would be completely annihilated by that "light of the apocalypse."
Yet after waiting for a while, they felt nothing at all. The apocalypse did not arrive, nor did their bodies display any abnormalities. Other than the light being somewhat blinding, everything was no different from usual, just as they had previously been unable to sense any warning of danger at all.
What was going on?
The apprentices and mortals on the streets hesitated before raising their heads. They discovered that the light rushing from the depths of the void had indeed arrived, only... it had not fallen to the ground. Instead, it swept past overhead.
On a mountaintop a hundred li away—
Angel did not pause. He opened the door three times in succession, bringing everyone to a place beyond the reach of the "darkness and light."
The sky here remained azure. Their scalps no longer tingled, and