Songs and wine hymned the bright moon; the bright moon shone on the mortals below.
Drifting breezes brushed across the world, but in this stretch of the Long River, no human voices remained in this vast, cold world...
The Nine Heavens and Ten Earths lay silent in the bleak chill.
The Book of Life and Death hovered lightly in the void, turning its final page of white paper...
Yet only a scant few names remained on that white paper.
This was an exceedingly long stretch of history.
Within this history, only a few sparse strokes recorded... how that transcendent woman waited in the time of the Third Heaven for everyone to die, then sent them into the Long River!
It was the same for those who were unacquainted with Su Mo, as well as those who knew him.
Along the Long River in the Third Heaven, where no one remained to light the lamps, the wind from the Other Shore, bearing the power of "Annihilation," blew into the world, ceaselessly consuming everything within it.
The endless Border Pass surrounding the entire Mortal Realm collapsed amid Annihilation, then dissolved into nothingness.
After the wind of "Annihilation" broke through the Border Pass, it blew Within the Pass.
The gently swaying peach blossoms stretching endlessly Within the Pass withered in its wake, their fragrance dispersing...
The Eternal Life Statues, which no one in the world worshipped anymore, also turned to dust amid "Annihilation."
An unknown number of years passed again...
It seemed like a thousand years, yet also like tens of thousands!
Su Mo could no longer remember many things from the past...
The world of the Mortal Realm, just like that other "Desolate Realm" once Beyond the Pass, became a dead land of nothingness!
The Mortal Realm perished, but the wind from