In the underground cavern, over a thousand volunteers glimpsed countless lifetimes of reincarnation-
Everything around them seemed to vanish in that instant.
Only that dazzling radiance before his eyes remained, pulsing ceaselessly like a heart.
Li Shun's mind was utterly drawn to it, gradually merging into the light.
Unlike his previous encounters with other Outer Gods, Li Shun felt neither corruption nor beguilement.
He still retained perfect clarity of mind.
Yet the instant he glimpsed the Outer God's mighty power, an instinctive longing arose within him, urging him to pursue it.
And that radiance showed no resistance to his approach.
It simply maintained the rhythm of its pulsations.
As though it had never changed since time immemorial.
He drew ever closer to the radiance, until he felt himself completely enveloped in the Outer God's light.
Without warning, his field of vision collapsed wildly backward.
The radiance surrounding him, vast as a sea of mist, was compressed infinitely in an instant, reduced to an insignificant speck of
dust in the dark void.
And thousands upon thousands of identical points of light floated in the darkness around him!
His view continued to shrink.
It happened too quickly for thought to keep pace, and Li Shun instinctively grew dizzy.
Countless points of light, identical to the radiance from before, burst across the darkness like a torrential downpour.
The retreat of his vision seemed endless.
Countless stars streaked past Li Shun.
Only when the scene abruptly jolted to a halt did everything fall still.
A vast star chart formed from countless points of light suddenly appeared before his eyes.
Those were-the stars!
Like the radiance Li Shun had seen earlier, these stars kept flickering.
Yet a strange feeling arose in his heart.
This starry sky before him-
Was already dead.
The instant that thought