The news swept across Big Dipper like wildfire, then spread through the rest of the universe at an even greater speed.
In just a few short days, the entire starry sky was boiling over because of it.
The factions that had once taken part in overthrowing the Heavenly Emperor's faith, burning his statues, and altering the history books collectively fell silent the moment the news arrived.
Great clans and illustrious houses across many star domains sank into unprecedented panic.
As for even more ordinary cultivators, they began secretly wiping the dust from the Heavenly Emperor's statues whose faces had been veiled by grime, lighting incense once more, and murmuring prayers begging for forgiveness.
For a time, the Heavenly Emperor's faith actually rose again from the dead ashes, more devout than it had been before it was toppled.
Beyond the Big Dipper Star Domain, Great Emperor Fuxi stood in a stretch of dark and silent starry sky, his expression complicated.
What was terrifying about that fist-light had not been the strength of its power, but the invincible will that struck straight into the mind. One punch had shattered his invincible state of heart, leaving him no time even to form the thought of resisting before he was pushed out of Divine City.
Even now, thinking back on it still sent a chill down his spine.
"The first Great Emperor in history to be defeated by a contingency left behind by the Heavenly Emperor..." Fuxi shook his head with a bitter smile. "I'm afraid I won't be able to shake off that title."
But what he cared about more was that sentence.
Come again in your later years.
That murderous intent would not have left those four words behind for no reason.
The matter of his younger sister had been interrupted before