Tang San led the Heaven Dou Allied Army to end the war, destroy the Spirit Hall Empire, and bring all of Spirit City's vast territory into the Heaven Dou Empire.
After the war, the Heaven Dou Imperial Family redrew its borders and formally placed Spirit City under Shrek's jurisdiction.
Across Douluo Continent, people praised Sea God Tang San's great deeds. Worship flourished, and the Sea God's name rang throughout the continent and across the seas. All living beings hailed him as their savior.
The war ended, and the land was rebuilt.
Qian Renxue eventually led the Spirit Hall Empire's few thousand survivors away from the conflict, deep into the cold, desolate Extreme North.
In the Extreme North, snowstorms raged year-round across ten thousand miles.
Bitter winds whipped heavy snow into a frenzy. The frozen expanse lay vast and silent, with nothing between heaven and earth but gray and white.
Atop a solitary white peak, Qian Renxue had sat for half a month.
Clad in thin, plain robes, she sat quietly on the snow. Flakes settled on her hair, shoulders, and clothes, piling up until they half-buried her.
She drew on no power to ward off the cold and made no move to brush away the snow. She simply watched the endless blizzard, her eyes hollow and desolate.
A full year had passed since the battle at Jialing Pass.
In that year, factions across the continent had seized on the Spirit Hall Empire's collapse and the Angel Lineage's decline to hunt down Spirit Hall's remaining people.
Of the thousands of Soul Masters who had survived Jiayu Pass, relentless pursuit had killed almost all of them. Fewer than a thousand remained alive.
More than fifty young descendants of the Angel Clan's collateral branch had fled across ten thousand miles. In the