In the valley, petals danced across the sky, carrying a faint fragrance as they drifted over the little earthen mounds, yet still could not conceal the desolation.
"I've come back again, back to the land that gave birth to me and raised me..."
Lin Fan spoke softly, filled with boundless melancholy, afraid of disturbing this place.
Translucent petals scattered down like fragments of time fluttering through the air.
His gaze shifted, as though tens of millions of years had passed, and his expression dimmed with sorrow.
"Little sister, I've come to see you." Lin Fan stood before a stone stele inscribed in blood, his eyes growing dull.
"I can pluck stars and seize the moon. I can shatter the starry sky. Yet I couldn't protect you, couldn't keep you alive."
"You were still so young... Before you could see all the splendor of the world and grow into an adult, you died so early..." Lin Fan murmured to himself.
He had swept through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and broken the curse of longevity, but what did it matter that he was invincible throughout heaven and earth?
In the end, he had lost too much. He could not even protect his own family.
At this moment, bearing the glory of invincibility and endless melancholy, Lin Fan looked upon the handfuls of yellow earth his loved ones had become, utterly forlorn.
Not far away, Yue Chan watched quietly without disturbing him, but her spirits were low as well, and her heart ached for this man.
He had won everything in the world and stood invincible beneath the heavens, yet the first half of his life left others sighing with sorrow.
Behind his halo lay grief, desolate sorrow, and loneliness. All those closest to him had passed away, leaving only him