One person and one dog departed. Li Wan'er did not care how the winds and clouds of the outside world shifted. At this moment, she instead found her lifespan far too long.
She was also puzzled by a sentence—memories Di Tianfeng had obtained after refining the blood essence and divine soul of the Heavenly Emperor following their battle in the Big Dipper: "The Desolate Heavenly Emperor who stood alone across eternity, Dao Hongchen who could endure alongside the world..."
There were only those two sentences, with no further memories.
The Desolate Heavenly Emperor who stood alone across eternity—who, then, was Dao Hongchen, who could endure alongside the world?
She glanced at the Red Dust Forbidden Zone and Red Dust Ancient Star. Perhaps the future would be quite lively.
A thousand years later, heaven and earth mourned together. Within the Big Dipper, speculation ran rampant. This was the sign of an Emperor's fall.
The Red Dust Ancient Star—as it had gradually come to be called—and the Red Dust Forbidden Zone were no longer as they had once been. Killing formations now filled the area, guarded by Quasi-Emperor puppets. Even Di Qilin had returned, solely to bear witness for the Red Dust Forbidden Zone.
Li Wan'er left and underwent Nirvana rebirth. She did not use an immortal medicine. Instead, she severed her own formidable life force and condensed it into a Nirvana Rebirth Pill. After taking it, her body—aged beyond measure from the loss of lifespan and blood essence—placed the Dao Fruit of her peak Great Emperor lifetime within her divine soul and began an entirely new life.
She severed herself completely, cutting away all matters, sealing her memories, restarting her life, and cultivating the Dao anew.
As she severed everything, the ancient tower within her consciousness seemed to move. She