Darkness was the universe's longest-running theme.
Yet the Central Celestial Realm, gateway to the Divine Firmament, greeted the radiance of all heavens. Countless lives withered here, exploding all they had amassed along their journey into the most dazzling fireworks in the world.
Shu Xiulang had risen in hard times and had never bowed his head to fate—indeed, [Reverse Journey] was difficult to catch, and the Phoenix-Wing Gilded Halberd was unstoppable.
Yet he seized that blank sword as well. In that fleeting flash of light, he carried the sword on his back to block the wing-blade... then his spine split, his organs shattered, and he flew away like a ragged wad of cotton.
Straight toward the Thunder Sound Pagoda.
In a battle against an opponent like Ji Shouyu, the slightest mistake could become the cause of death. One missed sword strike, reversed by [Reverse Journey], and all initiative was instantly crushed.
He had chosen to take one of Ji Shouyu's attacks head-on, sending himself before Huang Sheli and winning a fleeting instant to pass by her.
This very instant would decide life and death.
"I have few regrets in life. What I hate most is being called beautiful!"
His eyes were already bloodshot as he slammed directly into the Thunder Sound Pagoda—yet at the instant of collision, he was "forgotten" by it.
Thus he passed beyond the Thunder Sound Pagoda, which stood like an enormous spear thrust vertically downward. He also passed that Yellow Dragon formed from the bewildered Mysterious Yellow Qi, and along the forgotten path, he truly arrived before Huang Sheli.
"Ten thousand reversals of Reverse Journey through time. This, too, is the instant of your inevitable death!"
A bright white sword-light awakened from Huang Sheli's forgetting, reflected in her lively eyes. Beneath the Bodhi tree for ten million