"Mother... Master..."
Amid the ruins of the collapsed city walls, a survivor lay atop a corpse, wailing.
He was the only living person left in the entire city.
He had no idea what had happened. Everyone around him had died in an instant.
Two minutes ago, there had still been hundreds of survivors like him, but just now, even they had all died.
He alone remained in this world.
"Is the world about to be destroyed?"
"Even the Immortal Masters..."
He had seen cultivators fall from the sky with his own eyes, smashing into bloody pulp.
At first, he had been terrified by the devastation before him, but gradually, he had become numb, his heart turning to ashes.
The mother who had raised him suddenly collapsed in front of him. The master who had taught him carpentry had suddenly become a corpse. Uncle Wang next door, Dingxiang the maid from the Li Residence, Shopkeeper He from the furniture store...
People he knew and people he did not, countless people had died before his eyes, causing his heart to sink into the abyss.
He walked throughout the entire city, freely entering other people's residences, yet he had not the slightest interest in the scattered gold, silver, and treasures.
Because he only wanted to see other living people. However, when he climbed to a high place and gazed into the distance, he discovered that the roads outside the city were also covered with corpses as far as his eyes could see.
Clearly, this terrifying, nameless disaster had not struck only this city. It was likely a bizarre apocalypse that had spread across the Eight Wastes and Four Seas.
The boy sat dejectedly on the ground, as if his soul had left his body.
Suddenly, he stood up, loosened his belt, and looked