Amid the simultaneous eruption of countless thunderbolts, the Nine Sun Divine King's divine source was reduced to ashes!
When a Divine King fell, under normal circumstances, heaven and earth did not merely grieve. The fall of a Divine King meant that all the powers he had cultivated through countless years would return to heaven and earth.
Most often, they returned to heaven and earth amid a rain of blood falling from the skies.
Yet when the Nine Sun Divine King fell beneath heavenly punishment, just as the Sorrow-Bearing Blood Rain began to form, a vast, inexhaustible aura arose from nowhere between heaven and earth. As it swept through, the blood rain that had only just begun gathering dispersed.
After the Nine Sun Divine King's fall, the source power returning to heaven and earth was swept up by that inexplicably vast aura and divided into three.
One portion returned to heaven and earth. It was return, it was origin, and it was manifest justice.
Another portion, containing chiefly the aura of the Nine Sun Divine King's divine soul, scattered into the Iron Blood Sword and the Heaven Punishing Bow. In an instant, it was devoured clean by the countless auras within the Iron Blood Sword and Heaven Punishing Bow.
This was justice. This was an accounting!
As for the final portion, the void paused slightly. Then two streams of chaotic aura condensed out of thin air within it—manifestations of the Heavenly Dao.
From the earth below, as though rising from the thick soil beneath, or perhaps from the wills of countless human sages buried in the land, a great mass of bright yellow radiance rose up. It was Humanity Divine Light.
This great mass of Humanity Divine Light, the chaotic aura born in the void, and that one portion of source