The Void Altar shuddered, and a humming rang out as an invisible power of rules hauled the three Void Guillotines high...
Old Woman Lei Li and the Cloud Sect elder trembled violently in their divine souls, yet could not even cry out.
Behind them, over a thousand Upper Realm cultivators were terrified and uneasy, sensing an exceedingly strange power of rules upon the altar. It seemed that if they so much as moved, they would be executed along with them...
The Dean looked up at the ever-rising Void Guillotines, their cold gleam razor-sharp, and sighed. "So it has come..."
"It seems there are still some things... I cannot bear to leave."
"Dean..." Su Mo watched the three rising guillotines on the altar, watched the figure in green beneath them. Two tears of farewell slipped from his eyes as he knelt in the void...
He knew this was a game the Dean had spent years arranging. There was nothing he could do.
He could only watch the Dean go to his death...
No suffering in this world surpassed watching one's loved one die... unable to do anything...
Nor was there anything he could be allowed to do...
All he could do was... watch the Dean die.
The Void Beast turned to look at Su Mo beside it. Sharing his anguish, it too bent all four limbs and knelt in the void.
Su Mo's master was its master as well...
The Dean turned back, looked at the white-clad figure kneeling in the void, and broke into a smile.
"Don't cry. I sent your senior brothers and sisters Beyond the Realm, so they would not be affected by the awakening of the heaven and earth consciousness..."
"I know you are going Beyond the Realm too. Once you have settled matters in this realm,