On the Greenland Ice Sheet, after the last remnants of the Absolute Cold Rule within Skadi completely disintegrated, she finally lost the strength to remain standing and collapsed before the Abyssal Rift she had guarded for over a hundred years.
This scene also spread across the world through the observation methods of the various Divine Domain experts.
Deep in the Kunlun Mountains.
Xuanyuan Wudi stood above the rift. The spatial mirror formed from the Space-Time Rule before him had yet to disappear.
The images in the mirror suffered interference from the two rule powers in Greenland, occasionally distorting in large patches, but he still saw Skadi's collapse clearly.
Xuanyuan Wudi remained silent for a long time.
He had known Skadi for many years, but they had not actually met very often.
One guarded Mount Kunlun, the other Greenland. Both had stood watch near large Abyssal Rifts for over a hundred years.
For people like them, many things needed no explicit explanation.
He knew perfectly well why Skadi had not retreated at the end.
Of course she had known she was no match for the Moon Lord.
But all of Northern Europe lay behind her.
Once that rift opened completely, the first to face the onslaught of the Abyss would be the people she had protected for over a hundred years.
Xuanyuan Wudi looked at Skadi in the spatial mirror and finally let out a slow sigh.
"Rest in peace."
Just as he finished speaking, the Kunlun Rift beneath his feet suddenly shook even more violently.
The spatial nodes forcibly stabilized by the Space-Time Rule began fluctuating noticeably, and wisps of black abyssal aura seeped through gaps in the seal.
Xuanyuan Wudi immediately withdrew his gaze.
The spatial mirror before him dissipated, and more of the Space-Time Rule pressed down on