The light on the stone pillar faded, and it became a lifeless object once more.
Zhou Xuan stared at the pillar for a long while.
He thought he understood.
These images had come from the things within this hall. At the very end, they had carved the last sights they witnessed into the laws.
"Disaster struck the Immortal Court."
He murmured.
"And it was a disaster that shook the heavens."
As he ventured farther inside, similar images appeared several more times.
Once, a figure in golden robes stood with his back to him, holding up a nearly shattered barrier of light with one hand. Beyond the barrier was utter darkness, and something within that darkness was battering against it.
The figure did not hold out for long. The barrier shattered, and the figure dispersed along with it.
Another image showed countless Immortal Shadows retreating in one direction.
Their retreat was frantic and chaotic.
The stars overhead went out one after another. Each time a star died, a swath of Immortal Shadows vanished with it.
By this point, the suspicion in Zhou Xuan's heart had slowly hardened into certainty.
The Alliance Leader of Central Province had said that the envoy sent down by the Immortal Court had entered Return to Void and never returned. From then on, there had been no word from the Immortal Court either.
Those of the Purple-Gold Immortal Vein had lived for tens of thousands of years, believing all along that they had merely lost contact with the Immortal Court.
The Court Guardian Pavilion had guarded its relics for tens of thousands of years as well, following rules that assumed the Immortal Court still existed.
But the images before him told a different story.
The Immortal Court had not lost contact.
The Immortal Court truly was dead.