Xuan Yi fired arrow after arrow, shattering the bronze bridge.
Seeing no hope of victory, the gods chose to self-destruct. With the combined force of the gods, Xuan Yi was completely extinguished.
Zhiyang fell into a deep sleep from grievous injuries, while Bai Jue fell into the Lower Realm, his whereabouts unknown.
Yet among the self-destructing gods, two figures recondensed their true forms after Xuan Yi's death: Shi Yongheng and the Willow Deity. Looking over the devastated God Realm, neither showed the slightest ripple of emotion. They had experienced such things far too many times.
A streak of Divine Light slipped into the sealed God Realm and entered Zhiyang's sleeping body, slowly healing his wounds.
"Zhiyang is a qualified True God, and little Shanggu is also a qualified Chief God. Let's go. It's time for us to return!"
Ten thousand years ago, the war between gods and demons caused the fall of the gods. The God Realm was sealed, and the Demon Clan was wiped out as well.
The three realms established a new rule: above the Immortal Realm lay the former God Realm, now called the Ancient Realm.
Unfortunately, the Chaos Tribulation descended ten thousand years ago. In that catastrophe, the ancient gods were nearly annihilated, while the Chaos power left behind by Chief God Shanggu transformed the Human Realm, replacing the exterminated Demon Clan and forming the new Three Realms alongside the Immortal Realm and Monster Realm.
The new Three Realms should have coexisted peacefully, but because of the World Annihilation once brought about by the Demon God, conflict between immortals and monsters continued without end, stretching on for a full ten thousand years and perhaps continuing still.
By now, no one could tell right from wrong, good from evil. The Monster Realm had only one demigod