Tens of thousands of years later...
Two figures fell into the Nine Heavens, and the law that stripped away life souls awakened.
When those two, one grown and one small, wandered bewildered through the world into the Ends of the Earth, the Longevity Stele sensed the person it wished to await.
In haste, it stripped away the life souls of all living beings in the world, and also kept that child's life soul.
Then, under the law, those countless life souls drifted into a little stone.
No one saw that little stone, hidden in a secluded corner of the world, turn into a piece of crystal-clear jade after taking in a strand of every living being's life soul.
It both sealed the life souls and provided passage to the Long River!
Another unknown stretch of time passed, and the world encountered a rare drought. The waterfall that had flowed unbroken for countless years actually ran dry.
The cave behind it was revealed.
A Fierce Tiger, coughing dryly among the mountain forests, searched everywhere for water. On the verge of death, he spotted that cave and walked inside...
Within the Divine Mountain, Su Mo and Yuan Yuan, having finished everything, watched the disappearing rift leading to the Long River and remained silent for a long time.
It seemed that a pair of inexplicable hands in the Unseen had been pushing all of this along...
The peach blossoms covering the Divine Mountain had all fallen, and it seemed to have returned to how it had looked tens of thousands of years ago. Yuan Yuan Remnant Soul gazed at the Divine Mountain, now devoid of peach blossoms, unable to keep desolation from showing on her face!
"Let's go get the little stone that was sent onto the Long River."
Su Mo tugged