At that moment, Cao Xin reached out...
He took the pill into his palm, feeling the immense power within it-enough to propel an ordinary person straight to the God King level.
He lowered his head and glanced at it.
Then he turned, his figure melding into the void as he headed back toward the Douluo Continent.
Soon, Cao Xin returned.
The soldiers still clearing the battlefield stopped what they were doing and looked up at him.
"The Abyss Plane is gone."
Cao Xin spoke.
"The war... is over."
The camp fell silent for a moment.
Then cheers surged from every direction like a flood released from its banks.
The soldiers raised their weapons overhead, tossed their caps into the sky, and poured out all the emotions that had been frozen for far too long and could finally be released.
Some embraced, some knelt on the ground, and some shouted something at the sky, their voices echoing across the frozen plain.
Cao Dezhi watched Cao Xin emerge from the void.
A faint smile appeared on his stern face, like sunlight shining through a sheet of ice.
Yun Ming walked over from beside him.
While Cao Xin had been inside the Abyss Plane, he and Cao Dezhi had stood guard behind the defensive line.
He gazed at the white-clad figure surrounded by soldiers in the distance.
He spoke, a faint, reflective smile coloring his voice.
"He truly is your son, Captain."
Cao Dezhi said proudly, "Of course."
Yun Ming turned to look at him.
"You certainly answered without hesitation."
"He's my son."
Cao Dezhi said, "What is there to be modest about?"
Yun Ming chuckled and said nothing more.
The two stood on the command platform, watching the soldiers lower Cao Xin back to the ground amid the crowd.
They watched