Within the Dark Abyss, dark currents surged. Taishang swung his sword, severing his shackles, and stepped out of the Dark Abyss.
Outside the Dark Abyss, the once-prosperous human realm had long since become boundless nothingness. Every great star had vanished, shattered beyond repair.
Dark currents permeated the void. Amid the darkness filling the sky, countless threads crisscrossed one another. The Lord of Darkness stood silently within, his aura steadily rising.
Having devoured the source of heaven and earth in the human realm, the Lord of Darkness's cultivation gradually recovered, no longer inferior to its peak.
Within the Lord of Darkness's chest, powerful dark energy gathered and formed an ink-black pearl. The Origin Life Pearl reappeared, its majestic might astonishing, its icy aura enough to make one shudder.
Before the Purple Star Starfield, the last land of light in the human realm, the white-haired woman sat cross-legged atop a green lotus. Buddhist light permeated her body as she resisted the ever-strengthening dark aura.
Qing Ling, who had once undergone Dao Transformation, had surpassed everyone in the world in her comprehension of the Dao. Though darkness was powerful, it still found it difficult to overcome the light of Buddhist power.
The standoff between light and darkness had lasted for decades. Wary of the madness humans displayed when fighting for their lives, the Lord of Darkness had been unwilling to confront the human realm's last guardian head-on before gathering its full strength.
Yet as time passed, the Lord of Darkness, having devoured the human realm's origin, gradually recovered to its peak. It even faintly showed signs of breaking through its realm.
The last light of the human realm would soon be extinguished. There was little time left for humanity.
In the Moon Wheel Kingdom's capital, Northern Divine Realm, three years later, the Phoenix