The Fifth Layer Falls Completely (Thanks to 'Dusk-Winter Dawn' for the Alliance Leader reward)

While Zhang Yu buried himself in arduous cultivation, more than three months had already passed since heaven and earth connected and the Sixth Layer vanished.

Every night, when cultivators on the Second Layer looked up, they could see the skies of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Layers.

And at the highest reaches of those layered night skies, the night sky belonging to the Fifth Layer was always engulfed in fierce crossfire. Bolts of lightning and blazing flames erupted one after another, like glittering stars continuously blooming with light in the darkness.

But at some unknown point, the intensity of the fighting in the Fifth Layer's night sky began to decline, and the flashing stars grew fewer and fewer, until one night, people could no longer see any trace of battle within it.

A guess rose in the hearts of countless people on the Second Layer... the Fifth Layer had been breached.

As if answering their speculation, with the end of the Fifth Layer's war, a black canopy shrouded the space between the Fifth Layer's sky and the Fourth Layer's sky, completely blocking all prying eyes.

From that day onward, observers on the Second Layer could no longer monitor the situation on Kunxu Fifth Layer. No one knew what the Fifth Layer beyond the canopy had become, or what might happen there.

All anyone could see was that black canopy standing high at the very peak of the heavens, quietly remaining there, reminding the people below of the Fifth Layer resistance's defeat.

Correspondingly, warfire began to flare up in the Fourth Layer of the night sky. Specks of battle light seemed poised to illuminate the entire darkness, telling people of the brutal fighting that had erupted within.

The changes in the heavens seemed to be urging everyone to move faster.

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