A flash of Rainbow Light, and the abyssal phantom vanished from sight.
When Yeats opened his eyes again, the majestic city shrouded in radiant brilliance rushed toward him. The moment he saw the Land of Nothingness, he let out a long breath. The nerves that had been taut all this time finally relaxed.
He was safe.
The instant he landed, he saw Mathers' astonished face. Mathers, meanwhile, stared at him as though he had seen a ghost.
"Hey, Yeats! How did you end up like this?" The Creator reached out, and an invisible force lifted the blood-vomiting Yeats from the ground. "I'll take you immediately—"
But Yeats struggled with all his might, reaching out to grab him.
A hoarse cry.
"It was Huai Shi!"
The dying "Yeats" had no time to catch his breath before vomiting blood. "It was all Huai Shi's doing!"
Mathers' expression changed drastically.
"He attacked me. He was fishing."
Imitating Yeats' tone from within the Book of Destiny, Huai Shi gave the performance of his life and weakly told him, "He disguised himself as an archangel of the Beatific Land... No, Mercy... Mercy has already...
And the Book of Destiny—"
Huai Shi gripped Mathers' wrist tightly and forced out his final words from his throat: "The Book of Destiny is in his hands!"
Boom!
In that instant, dazzling Brilliant Light descended from the heavens and enveloped him.
The Land of Nothingness resonated.
Countless event fragments that had turned into gleaming characters descended, entering his body to mend the cracks in his body and soul while examining every corner within him.
All the fragments silently circulated through Huai Shi's body before finally falling into the Book of Destiny. After becoming long-awaited nourishment, they sent back a signal that everything was normal.
Then, before the "barely breathing" Huai