But peaceful days would pass in the end.
Just as all the ordinary people, Jiang Wang included, felt that the world was beautiful and peaceful, a great upheaval swept across the entire world.
It happened at the end of that year, when the first breath of autumn wind swept across the sprawling grasslands.
A crack like shattering jade thundered through the entire world, resounding in everyone's hearts.
At that moment, whether in East Asia or Western Europe, South America or North America, the Arctic or South Africa, at the equator or in the temperate zones, on land or at sea, in daylight or darkness-
People throughout the world saw a solitary, black-robed figure, his back turned, suddenly appear above the entire Solar System, high beyond the boundless heavens, as though spanning the Starsea, appearing before the eyes of all Human Civilization.
That aura of eternal solitude swept across the vast known universe, that boundless, desolate presence like stars gathered into an ocean.
His figure was as enormous as a planet. Behind him were ten immense blue rings, like the stirring River of Space-Time, suspended behind his head and giving off a soft glow.
His back was turned to all living beings, as though he stood outside the Solar System. No one could see his true face as he faced the boundless Starsea beyond the Solar System.
An instant after he appeared-
The cracking sounds of "crack, crack" grew violent, making even the entire Earth tremble faintly!
Countless people's hearts clenched, only to ease again.
In the end.
Everyone discovered that faint cracks had formed along a section of the outermost blue ring suspended behind the black-robed figure's head. Like crystal, it had become incomplete and fractured.
And they spread like a virus, one spot, two spots... one section, two sections...