"Come die with me!"
Wang Siyuan had long since descended into madness. None of his former gentle bearing remained. His voice now rang like a howl, shaking the Grotto-Heaven. The Luo River Diagram that had been contending against Yama suddenly trembled, its surface seeming to become stained with the invisible flames within Wang Siyuan's body.
Meng Qi frantically snarked from the side, "Not a chance!"
"If you want someone to die with you, drag along your own people! What does dragging me into it have to do with anything?" As long as life endured, so did the snark.
Meng Qi's nature grew ever purer. Under Ji Hao's deliberate guidance, he was not far from comprehending I Am Me.
Specks of light danced wildly as a black-and-white sphere seemingly condensed from layer upon layer of calculations rose from the Luo River Diagram. It seemed real, illusory, and rule-like all at once. This was the mark continuously reinforced within the Luo River Diagram by the Jiangdong Wang Clan over more than two hundred thousand years, the foundation of their control over this peerless Artifact.
At this moment, following Wang Siyuan's cry of "die with me," the mark became entirely engulfed by both invisible and golden flames. It burned fiercely and gradually cracked apart, while the Luo River Diagram was activated in turn. Its aura surged as it reflected watery light, revealing a river of Destiny overlapping and merging with the River of Time. Black-and-white motes floated within it, shaped like stars with translucent fragments scattered about. Every Divine Weapon and Artifact within the great formation ignited its own body, blooming with its most brilliant radiance and bathing the entire Grotto-Heaven in dazzling colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet became rainbow clouds that filled the sky.
The remains within the