The giant eye in the sky slowly closed, as if it had never opened.
Yet the upheaval that Phoenix City, Sword City, and even Goddess Palace would soon face had only just begun.
In Wang Xian's Divine Sea, the scene of the upheaval in the Divine Palace continued...
The purple-haired woman was bound by ropes of law, and the flowing radiance around her was crushed inch by inch by the power of talismans.
The hands that had once plucked stars now had veins bulging across them, her nails digging deep into her palms. Blood trickled between her fingers and bloomed into one tragic flower after another on the golden steps.
"Husband..."
Only those two words remained, broken and hoarse in the woman's voice.
The black-clad man in her arms had already dissolved into countless specks of light, yet the last few wisps of starlight still refused to fade. They brushed her cheek, as if wiping away nonexistent tears.
The golden-haired woman raised her staff once more. What gathered at its tip was no thunder, but a power more ancient and cruel: severance.
"Witch, you actually killed my son! Today, I'll strip away your demonic soul and suppress it beneath Sword Tower, where you'll never be free!"
"I killed my husband?"
The purple-haired woman suddenly laughed, her laughter shrill and crazed. "The so-called Divine Palace you speak of is nothing but a gilded cage! What crime have Canglan and I committed by loving each other? Let heaven and earth bear witness; let the stars be our proof!"
As she spoke, she jerked her head up.
Her purple hair whipped wildly, and the eyes that had once gazed tenderly at the river of stars now blazed with towering fury.
She cried out coldly, "Today, you drove my husband to his death. One