"Betrayal..."
Somewhere hidden away, Yunxi witnessed everything that had just happened above the mountain.
The fellow disciples who had once shared the same Small Courtyard had turned against one another. Ziling and Su Baiqian struggled to hold out, yet were still corrupted, while Xin Ning had even made a move, throwing Li Fan's Scroll into the deepest prison of the Darkness Dome.
Inside the deepest prison, every connection to reality would be severed. Li Fan would endure the loneliness and torment of endless spacetime.
The Silent One's voice continued, still calm and indifferent:
"The ending of the first story: the one who had once grown from a youth into the supreme being ultimately charged alone into the heart of the Darkness Tide."
"That was an endless darkness, an eternal prison. To any life-form, it was forbidden ground. Once inside, no matter how strong, proud, or resolute one was, they would be conquered by the darkness and the universe. The best outcome was complete madness, followed by death in that madness."
There seemed to be a trace of emotion in the Silent One's voice as he said:
"Next comes another story. Do you want to hear it?"
Yunxi continued gazing toward the Darkness Dome and said:
"The next story is simple. That youth, who had become supreme and had been betrayed by his closest friend, finally could not withstand eternal loneliness. He was corrupted in the endless darkness, wasn't he?"
The Silent One smiled.
"A story becomes a story because it has rises and falls, twists and turns. Those rises and falls are the very essence of a story."
"In the deepest darkness, he saw light."
The Silent One's eyes seemed to be immersed in remembrance as he murmured:
"This story will be somewhat long. I left thirty thousand years to