The thousand-foot figure seemed to hold up heaven and earth. Beneath it, every energy being within the Heavenly Tomb trembled violently. That terrifying pressure was nearly enough to make their bodies explode...
In the sky, Xiao Xuan's body finally faded away completely. As it vanished, his aged eyes were filled with contentment.
After Xiao Xuan's body turned into nothingness, that enormous figure remained kneeling on one knee between heaven and earth. Only after a long while did its massive body slowly shrink, finally returning to normal size as it stood silently in the air.
"Ancestor..."
Xiao Yan gazed at the place where Xiao Xuan had vanished and murmured softly. Then he extended his palm and gently clenched it toward the empty space. As his hand closed, an invisible speck of light, something ordinary people could never see, appeared in his palm. This was Xiao Xuan's life imprint. Only experts whose souls had entered the Emperor Realm could perceive such a life imprint. Otherwise, even someone whose Dou Qi had reached the late stage of the Nine-Star Dou Saint realm would be unable to sense this mysterious existence.
From a certain perspective, Xiao Xuan had essentially been utterly destroyed, body and soul alike. The supreme expert who had once dominated the Dou Qi Continent had completely vanished from this world. Yet for Xiao Yan, whose soul had entered the Emperor Realm, this was not entirely the case. This life imprint might perhaps grant Xiao Xuan life once more. However, even Xiao Yan, with an Emperor Realm soul, could not accomplish such a feat. Perhaps only when he truly stepped into the legendary Dou God realm in the future would he be able to do so.
No matter what, though, this was still a hope. Though distant, it kept the fire in