Jiang Lu woke with an aching heaviness in all four limbs, as though she had fought demonic beasts for days and nights.
She rose to her feet and saw a vast expanse of white around her: grasslands, snowy mountains, and a protective formation flickering faintly in and out of sight. Her gaze cleared.
Had she ended up in the Ling Shuo Domain? This landscape certainly looked like it.
The Endless Domain connected to the other Five Great Domains, so it was hardly unusual for her to be brought here. Jiang Lu exhaled. She had thought she might vanish along with the Endless Domain. To be safe now was already fortunate enough.
Still puzzled, she recalled Linglong's final shout and asked softly, "Linglong, what happened?"
Linglong immediately answered through a voice transmission, "Master, I'm sorry. I was careless and forgot that this was only a small world, not the greater world I came from. That figure was intimately connected to the Endless Domain. You could call it the last living presence in the Endless Domain; it sustained the domain's existence.
"When the Divine Soul Banner drew it inside, it severed its connection to the domain. Combined with the pressure and Dao resonance of a Semi-Divine Artifact, that destroyed the Endless Domain's final breath outright, causing it to collapse. From now on, the Endless Domain will no longer exist."
Jiang Lu nodded. So that was what had happened.
Hearing their conversation from its corner, the Divine Soul Banner fluttered its golden fabric, then returned to normal a moment later.
Never mind. I'll tell Master once I've absorbed it all and give her a surprise!
The position of Master's life-bound artifact will definitely be mine. Swords? Alchemy furnaces? They're all just passing clouds!
Heh heh heh!
For now, Jiang Lu knew nothing of