This place was extremely far from that battlefield,
All around lay only the deathly silence of the depths of the universe, and the void that seemed capable of swallowing all light.
She suddenly clutched the jade slip and fragments in her arms tightly, burying her furry face deep within them. Her small, frail shoulders shook violently, yet no cries escaped her,
Only a few utterly suppressed sobs echoed faintly through the cold starry sky.
Grandpa was gone, and now even Big Brother Tan Lin... Why was this universe so cold?
Outer Domain,
One of the hiding places of the Chi and Xiang clans,
At the heart of a desolate star.
Chi Xuan, Chi Tianfeng and his wife, along with the surviving clansmen, had been moved here under Tan Lin's protection through a great divine ability. For now, they were "safe."
Yet when Tan Lin's figure completely vanished from the universe, the entire cramped cave fell into a silence more terrifying than death.
Chi Tianfeng's body, already aged and stooped from losing his beloved daughter Chi Yao, suddenly swayed,
Had his old wife beside him not held him tightly, he would have nearly collapsed to the ground.
He stared outside, his lips trembling, yet not a single word came out. Only two streams of murky tears rolled down his deeply lined cheeks.
The pain of losing his daughter had yet to subside, and now he had personally witnessed Tan Lin—whom he had once regarded as a nephew, and who had now shed his last drop of blood for the Human Race and the living beings of the Myriad Heavens and Ten Thousand Domains—"fall,"
The grief in this old man's heart could no longer be described with words.
His old wife beside him let out a sigh.
Chi Xuan stood at the