[His back rested against the wreckage's cabin wall, his head hung low, and his hands were folded over his knees.]
[Several of his ribs were broken, and there was an obvious penetrating wound in the bones of his chest—that had been the fatal blow.]
[But you noticed that his right hand was clutching something in a death grip.]
[You crouched down and gently pried open those five finger bones that had already petrified.]
[In his palm was a jade pendant.]
[The jade pendant was tiny, only the size of a thumb, its surface already badly worn.]
[But the words carved on it could still barely be made out—"Wife · Qiao'er."]
[You were silent for a very long time.]
[You tucked the jade pendant into your robes, together with that tattered flag.]
[You left the broken sword beside the bones, because you felt you had no right to take away a warrior's final weapon.]
[You stood up and bowed slightly to the skeleton.]
[Then you turned and left, continuing to fly in the direction of the Taiyuan Immortal Domain.]
[But you remembered this name.]
[Zhao Tiesheng, Vanguard Battalion.]
[If one day the Human Race rose again, you would have his name carved onto the Human Race's Monument of Heroes.]
[After nearly another two months, you finally reached the border of the Taiyuan Immortal Domain.]
[The sight before you made you stop in the void, unmoving for a long, long time.]
[The Taiyuan Immortal Domain was completely different from Tailing.]
[Tailing was a complete continent, shrouded by an abnormal barrier, where the Human Race was penned beneath the Black Tower.]
[But Taichu had nothing at all.]
[No continent, no stars.]
[Even the void itself seemed to have died here.]
[There were only ruins.]
[Boundless, endless ruins.]
[Countless pieces of wreckage floated in