The Starry Chessboard had shattered. The auras of the two Immortal Kings, Canglan and Mo Yu, had vanished completely. Only the lingering resonance of Sword Intent echoed over the Space-Time River.
Su Bai stood above the river, his white robes stirring. His gaze swept calmly over the two Immortal Kings who had succumbed to Spacetime Backlash.
He did not linger. He turned and stepped once more into the domain of that Epoch's ruler.
In the years that followed, Su Bai's footsteps carried him across every Epoch.
He had paused at the dawn of one Epoch and watched chaos divide, the pure and turbid settle, and the first wisp of innate spiritual energy turn to rain that nourished the barren earth.
Primitive beings raised their heads to catch the rain, sparks of wisdom lighting in their eyes.
Those were the first sparks of a civilization!
He had also lingered at the height of another Epoch, where Immortal Palaces stretched into the distance, divine beasts patrolled the heavens, and hundreds of millions of cultivators bowed before an Immortal King who ruled with benevolence.
That Immortal King established the order of Reincarnation and sheltered all living beings. The Epoch endured for hundreds of millions of years before it finally withered amid the flames of war.
Su Bai watched that Immortal King face calamity to protect all living beings and meet a dazzling end.
He stood there for a long time.
Su Bai had also walked through an Epoch as brief as a shooting star.
It lasted only thirty million years. Before its Golden Age could even begin, the laws of the Great Dao inexplicably decayed, spiritual energy dispersed, and all things withered. In the end, not a single Immortal King was born.
All living beings turned to ash in despair, and the Epoch