Within the Heavenly Court, in a spacious hall, Di Jun and Taiyi sat facing each other, their auras continually intertwining as they drew on the power they shared to strengthen one another.
Suddenly, Di Jun's expression changed. He snapped his eyes open, horror and panic showing in them.
"Big Brother!" Taiyi cried, his face paling as he hurriedly looked toward Di Jun.
The latter spat out a mouthful of blood. His face turned deathly pale, and his whole body trembled as he said, "Quick, Tang Valley!"
"What?" Taiyi's expression shifted. He instantly understood what had happened and flew from the hall without hesitation. The Chaos Bell rang out, its toll reverberating through the Primordial Three Realms.
"Am I going to die, Big Brother, Second Brother, Third Brother..." Feeling the chill locking onto him, the Golden Crow Tenth Crown Prince let out a despairing cry. Scenes of him playing and fooling around with his nine older brothers atop the Fusang Tree, preening one another's feathers, surfaced one by one in his mind. His childish eyes sank into a deathly stillness unlike anything he had ever known.
"Let it end!" Hou Yi loosed his final arrow. Its keen light pierced the firmament and transcended time and space, bearing an unparalleled sharpness. Like a shadow, it swept over the last Golden Crow.
The darkness of death swallowed the sun's light!
O sun, I will make you fall!
Suddenly, time and space froze.
A sonorous bell tolled throughout the cosmos, filling the eternal reaches of Qiankun. A vast shockwave, carrying the will to Destroy Heaven and Earth, surged before the Golden Crow Tenth Crown Prince, and the razor-sharp arrow instantly disintegrated into dust.
Boom!
An overwhelming pressure descended from every direction. Hou Yi felt a shadow of death unlike any he had ever