The dark gray firmament shattered.
Golden sunlight poured down from the high heavens like a sea cascading over a waterfall, washing the formerly dim world clean in an instant.
The Netherworld domain shrouding all of Chenli broke apart all the way to the edge of the sky. Pillars of light spread without cease, branding ever-larger golden patches upon the land eroded by Nether Qi. Scorching heat swept away the lingering chill of the Nether Soil, shining over the desolate wasteland left behind by the great battle.
All the heavenly demons and ghost gods howled and wailed as they retreated. With Taiming Sect's mountain gate shattered and the Void God Sun-Supporting Mountain collapsing, every Nether Abyssal Hole rapidly shrank, like ice evaporating on a red-hot iron plate.
Only at the very crown of the heavens, the Soul Sun and the mirror-light of Three Lives did not dissipate at once. But that did not mean Taiming Sect could still drag out a wretched existence; they were simply too powerful, such that even death and extinction could not swiftly descend upon them.
The shell of the colossal God of Light formed from Haotian Divine Light scattered on the wind and gradually faded, revealing the Zhulong Battle Armor as it returned to its original form. The Haotian Bright Mirror at the center of its chest gleamed brilliantly, like a second sun upon the earth.
The dim, deathly silent sun stood opposed to this radiant sun born from the heart.
It was not a contest between individuals.
Upon the lands of Chenli, its two most powerful sects—Mingjing Sect and Taiming Sect—stood facing one another.
[We... have lost.]
At this moment, the body of Youdu Tubo transformed from Heavenly Monarch Yinze had taken the place of the Void God Sun-Supporting Mountain.
He held aloft the Soul