As Zheng Qing's first year of university was drawing to a close, the war that had erupted in the Black Prison World had a profound impact on this world, which had already sunk into darkness and silence.
The grand blood-and-flesh sacrifices of Wizards and Demons, along with the birth of an Ancient One and several Legends, brought a vibrant Magic Tide to the Black Prison World.
When the war ended, and the two suns formed from Professor Emma and the true form of the Great Bird Siz departed one after another, the Sea Demon King, who had raised his stellar position and leaped out of the River of Destiny, left a deep mark across the sky of the Black Prison World. Centered on the shadow cast when the Sea Demon King's Blue Star rose, a naturally formed "sun" slowly emerged from the void.
Although it was still only a pale-blue, illusory shadow, it could already illuminate the entire world like a moon. Moreover, in the foreseeable future, as that newly ascended Ancient One slowly recovered, the light of this "sun" would grow increasingly brilliant.
The new sun drew along the vigorous tide, improving the Black Prison World's nearly dead state from the outside inward, like spring thunder and drizzle over parched land, nourishing the dried-out world.
A new cycle began.
New life also reappeared in the world because of it.
But the Ruins of the Great Void was called the Ruins of the Great Void not merely because it had lost its sun. Nor could one or two rounds of active Magic Tide completely save it. The many monsters born deep within this long-desolate world were like vines and insects clinging to a great tree, blocking its sunlight and boring hole after hole into its body, constantly eroding the foundation