Xixi Li's heart had never been as peaceful as it was at that moment.
Floating in the void of space, she had lost her eyes the instant she witnessed chaos. Yet from that moment on, though she could no longer see with her eyes, she had seen so much more.
Too many creatures and civilizations on the Storm Continent had died in this war.
Xixi Li hadn't wanted to take such drastic measures. But when she heard that Reilo had even sacrificed his own son for this war, she—a mother, anxious about how her children would survive after she returned—couldn't help wondering where the future of the Storm Continent's Academic World lay.
Suddenly, she realized that she, too, had a question.
What was the meaning of her participation in this war? Or, for that matter, what was the meaning of her life?
Only when she stopped here and Shura Path agreed to protect her for the time it took an hourglass to empty did her heart finally grow still.
She saw many things she had never imagined.
The first thing she saw was a river, rushing toward the abyss, never to return.
After deep reflection, Xixi Li concluded that the river represented the Law Aura of the Star Curtain World.
Then—
In Xixi Li's eyes, the great river became countless creatures, each with a different form and in a different state. After a long silence, she concluded that they represented the creatures driven to extinction each time the world lost a fraction of its mass.
Then the creatures in Xixi Li's eyes gradually took on the same form. They wore cloak-like garments and seemed profoundly intelligent, solemn and resolute. After thinking for a moment, Xixi Li realized that they were the Alpha civilization, the first to discover chaos.
Then...
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