Song of a collapsing world: chaotic music theory plays the heavenly notes of order (two chapters in one)
(This chapter's strongly recommended BGM: "Crossing the Border" by Kenji Kawai.)
Just as Cheng Yu was still pondering what the system's words meant.
A distant female voice reached him.
Cheng Yu heard it clearly. It was Ling Xuan's voice!
Her once-lively voice had grown murky, its lilting, melodious tones filled with chaotic music theory.
What should have been a gentle voice swept softly across everyone's brains like a carving knife.
Snow Spirit gave a muffled groan in his arms.
Cheng Yu looked down and saw countless fine cracks appearing across her skin.
As Cheng Yu rose at tremendous speed with Snow Spirit in his arms, countless discordant voices sang out alongside Ling Xuan's gentle humming.
It was as though a symphony of blasphemous instruments had officially begun.
A nearby mountain range collapsed with a tremendous crash.
It sounded like a heavy hammer striking a drum.
Like a domino effect, the earth began to tremble, and the mountains began to collapse.
When he reached the sky, Cheng Yu saw an apocalyptic scene! It was as though heaven and earth were falling apart! And the chaotic music mingling in the Void was performing... a World-Shattering Song!!
High in the sky, Wu Yuan seemed to witness the depths of the Unspeakable once again.
He saw it!
The moment that great being began to move those hands, everyone who remained in the Eternal True World revealed their essence.
They were creations he had seen before, their essence identical to that of the living beings now inhabiting the Eternal True World!
Favored Ones!!
Or rather, every surviving person was now an avatar of that being!!
And not only them! The plants! The fish and insects! Every living creation!
Apart from the Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth that formed the Eternal True World, everything "alive" was