As the Soaring Rooftop · Central Keystone underwent Transcendence toward the Soaring Rooftop · Central Rooftop, the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer, which had somehow entered the Soaring Rooftop · Central Keystone, stood at its very center, hopping incessantly in place as though it had discovered something interesting.
As the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer kept hopping, the black light on its back began to recede again, until it revealed its true form: the Fated Black River, collapsed into a singularity.
The Fated Black River, collapsed into a singularity, was firmly locked onto the Dark Heaven and Earth Deer's back. As the deer kept hopping in place, Fated Crystals continually shook loose from the singularity.
Soon, 999 Fated Crystals lay scattered across the center of the vast Soaring Rooftop · Central Keystone.
Zhou Heng watched everything. His gaze sharpened slightly as he took the Fated Crystal he had won in his wager against the Sage Giant Brain out of his backpack, the Generalized Relativistic Infinite Backpack (Glorious).
The instant Zhou Heng took out his own Fated Crystal, it formed some kind of resonance with the 999 crystals at the center of the Soaring Rooftop · Central Keystone.
Countless faint rays of light shot out from the Soaring Rooftop · Central Keystone, enveloping Zhou Heng and drawing him into it little by little.
In Far Sky, the sole surviving Ancient Hero, the Old Man in a Straw Hat and Cape, looked at the only device that would allow entry into the Soaring Rooftop, which he had been preparing to hand over to Zhou Heng. He shook his head with a bitter smile.
"Youtier, if only you were still alive!"
"There's no need at all for the real contingency you left me."
"That lad can overcome the Soaring Rooftop's shackles of ascension