"Today, I came here to bring everyone an idea and a plan different from all the others."
Atop the central control tower of the Heavenly Prison Fortress, the screen's glow illuminated the Grandmaster's face.
The giant of steel propped up his chin and stared at the image on the screen, at the figure standing before the entire world.
He said nothing.
Only Huai Shi's voice came through the channel.
"—On how to reclaim everything we have lost."
Inside the busy tower, enormous machines rose and fell. Amid the hurried work of countless crew members and Ascenders, the silent heavenly ladder was awakened once more.
Dazzling Rainbow Light erupted from the Heavenly Prison Fortress and surged forth, piercing straight through the border on the verge of collapse. It plunged into the storm and smoke, enveloping the survivors awaiting rescue.
It cut off the flowing lava and poisonous fog.
Upon land eroded by mutated flesh and blood, viscous magma erupted like blood. The Mutated Great Beasts crawling from their sacs shrieked, yet could not break free from the Guixing Spears piercing their skulls.
Snowfall swept down like a waterfall, becoming a wall that rose behind the Valkyrie, freezing the Aberrations that kept climbing forward like a tide into statues.
Howls and roars never ceased.
But Yuan Yuan was not listening.
As though lost in thought, she raised her head and looked toward the fractured sky.
Listening to the words that came from afar through her earpiece.
"I believe this is a path that will no longer require us to endlessly pay greater sacrifices and costs..."
Canaan. Before an old television with a cracked screen, Lin Zhongxiaowu leaned against a broken sofa, raised his head, and looked through the window at the smoking ruins, then at the city farther away as a new