The Heavenly Man Turned Back the Pages

Li Shun looked around. Everywhere he could see was shrouded in the dark red light of death.

Countless pale ashes streamed upward toward the shattered firmament.

The roar of heaven and earth collapsing battered his eardrums, wave after wave.

The Jun Family heir had vanished. Only his final words still echoed.

"Let Great Jun's creation bear true witness to these words."

"Look upon today's imperial tombs—whose shattered graves have they become..."

"Look upon tomorrow's Mystic Yellow—whose world shall it be!"

"Shentu Xin, madman of Great Jun, issues this proclamation as his final testament!"

"Shentu Xin... so that was the Jun Family heir's name?" Jiang Chongguang murmured, staring at the spot in the sky where that figure had vanished.

Though he did not agree with those heretical doctrines that defied all convention, Jiang Chongguang was still profoundly shaken by Shentu Xin's terrible resolve to prove his convictions through death and charge headlong into it.

What concerned Li Shun, however, was Shentu Xin's final declaration.

Look upon tomorrow's Mystic Yellow—whose world shall it be... Mystic Yellow? Was that this world's original name, before Great Qian unified it?

Before he could think further, a terrifying roar beyond description shattered his train of thought.

A vast sound, as though heaven and earth were splitting apart, exploded deep within him, making his entire heart tremble.

He could plainly see that, with Shentu Xin's death, the burning of this world had reached its final moment.

As though it could no longer sustain an independent world, the entire firmament let out a heart-stopping wail and collapsed a great distance downward.

The sky roared. The earth trembled.

Heaven and earth seemed about to merge into one again.

*This upheaval is far too great. Once it happens, I won't possibly escape as long as I'm inside the Imperial