The angel had fallen.
Even from the surface, that magnificent process had been clearly visible.
Near the dawn-dusk line of the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, people had witnessed the entire moment when the pure-white Mother Vine, like a nova, bloomed in space. It was as if a fourth moon had appeared in the sky, its brightness second only to the sun. The flowers had blossomed at the moment day and night traded places, and for the few seconds at the peak of its bloom, people could even make out the structure of its petals and branches.
But the bloom had vanished in an instant. Before the people remaining on the surface could even comprehend what they had seen, the pure-white nova hanging in the dusk had silently disintegrated into a sky full of crystal fragments. The drifting crystal matter formed a sun-reflecting "haze" in space that could almost cover half a continent. Most of it evaporated and disappeared into the universe during the process of dispersing, while some of the larger crystals remained in this world.
The unpowered crystal remnants fell toward the Great Void Spiritual Pivot, but almost all of them were intercepted on the spot by the planetary defense forces, which had been waiting in full readiness. The few fragments that slipped through the defensive net burned into streaks of bright flame in the atmosphere, lighting up the night as they fell from west to east before being completely consumed before impact.
Deep within the Demon Suppressing Tower on Thousand Peaks Spirit Mountain.
The flow of the earth veins seemed unusually active that day.
Glowing "vein currents" of all sizes surged out from the depths underground and flowed silently through the cavern filled with Demon Suppressing Stone Pillars. The magma around the cavern shimmered with a strange