The Nirvana of Annihilation was nearing its end. Just as Randeng had fallen into utter despair, resigned to becoming a Sage's pawn once and for all, another change occurred!
Beneath Randeng, the Spirit Coffin Lamp—his Destiny Treasure, which had accompanied him for countless kalpas—suddenly awakened. Deep within its wick, a wisp of Dao energy that had lain dormant for an unknown number of eras stirred to life!
"Pop—"
A faint sound, almost too illusory to be real, rang out as if it had echoed from the very depths of the Great Desolation World's origin. It was the sound of something breaking.
A wisp of indescribable "energy" slowly rose from the lamp's wick.
Its color was chaotic, neither black nor white, neither clear nor turbid. It seemed to contain every color, yet also to return to nothingness.
Its boundless, ancient aura reached far beyond the creation of the Great Desolation World, as though it came from the Chaos Dao Era before Heaven and Earth were divided and the primordial cosmos was opened!
This wisp of Dao energy carried a supreme Dao resonance that stood above all Daos and looked down upon the birth and destruction of eras.
The moment it appeared, the Buddha Light Giant Palm and Yuqing Shackles enveloping Randeng's true spirit paused slightly!
At the heart of the Dao energy lay the ultimate truth of annihilation: the end of all Daos, the return of all heavens to the Returning Ruins, and the withering of existence itself!
But this annihilation was not destruction. It was more like... the lingering aura of a grand, boundless funeral for a Dao that had fallen!
The instant this mysterious Dao energy appeared, "the Great Dao lamented" and "Heaven and Earth mourned"!
Above the nine heavens, Blood Rain poured down. It was no ordinary water,