Autumn called people home; leaves fell, and green returned.
The execution blades fell, stirring the floating lives of mortals...
The three execution blades cleaved through the void, and the three figures vanished along with the Altar, as though they had dissolved into nothingness.
Su Mo shuddered violently. The autumn wind lifted his white robes, leaving him like an orphan bereft of a home...
His support... his place of belonging... had all been severed by that Life-Severing Blade.
"Dean..."
Above the void, beneath the heavens, the Deity-Sealing Edict shone with boundless radiance, drawing upon something within that emptiness as it slowly rose.
The Divine Talisman was like a blazing sun, illuminating heaven and earth with extraordinary brightness.
The Divine Talisman slowly climbed higher and sank into the sky...
A faint tremor passed through heaven and earth, and some consciousness awakened.
In an instant, some Power of Rules seemed to merge into them.
The hole above the Snow Domain vanished in that instant...
The Ninth Realm was once again completely cut off from the outside world!
As it had always been, yet seemingly not as it had always been...
Something had been added, and something had been lost...
The thunderclouds that blotted out the sky and sun dispersed as Lei Li was struck down, revealing the red sun.
A child pointed at the revealed red sun and spoke softly to the woman beside him:
"Mother, look... the sun has come out."
The woman gazed at it from afar, raised her hand to stroke the child's head, and slowly spoke as she watched the red sun:
"Yes... the sun has come out..."
The woman looked again at the thousand-odd Upper Realm cultivators still densely packed above the void and continued:
"But not... completely..."
"But..." The child did not understand.
"Hasn't it already come