As time flowed on, the story of how Desolate had defied the odds, fought an Immortal King, and gravely wounded Ao Sheng became legend.
People still discussed it now and then, but it was a thing of the past.
People would not forever dwell on someone who had bloomed for a moment like a night-blooming flower, even if his deeds had shaken the worlds and stunned the Eternal Ages.
After that battle, Desolate had never appeared again. He was believed to be dead.
He had created a miracle unseen in the Eternal Ages, but it had cost him his life.
Ao Sheng had indeed lost. His dignity as an Immortal King lay in tatters, and he would not recover his reputation this era.
Even the next era was doubtful.
After all, whether there would even be a next era was hard to say.
Only the long passage of time could wash it away and gradually make people forget.
The Immortal Domain had many Longevity Attainers. The trouble was that if you disgraced yourself, people would remember it for a very long time.
In recent years, the Boundary Sea had been in turmoil. So had the Immortal Domain and the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands.
Ancient powerhouses kept returning to settle old scores. Blood and fire filled the skies. No place was a Pure Land; all were swept into the reckoning, beneath the dark clouds of upheaval.
The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands had been shattered outright. The vast Ancient Continent once formed by the union of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands had broken apart, its fragments drifting through the cosmic starry sky.
Some had gathered into stars; others would wander forever.
Even the Border Wasteland Emperor Pass had fallen, and the Heavenly Abyss had long since been destroyed.
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