The people around Heavenly Light Peak Summit also saw this scene.
The sparks within Hidden Peak faded one after another.
Against the pale sky, that streak of white seemed about to melt into it.
That streak of red was falling.
At that moment, Origin Turtle slowly closed his eyes, as though unable to bear watching the final scene.
The view of Hidden Peak vanished with that. No one saw True Person Taiping reach the ground, but they knew the outcome.
True Person Taiping had lost.
Even if he was not dead yet, presumably he could not hold on much longer.
An extraordinarily complicated atmosphere lingered over Heavenly Light Peak Summit.
The people of Green Mountain remained silent, unwilling even to meet one another's eyes. Their gazes scattered across heaven and earth like disordered sword light.
For their feelings were just as disordered at that moment.
Was it over, just like that?
There was some sadness.
Some emptiness.
Some bewilderment.
Patriarch Taiping was dead, peace had returned to the world, and the Green Mountain Grand Array was gone. After the Sect Master True Person ascended... what would they do?
Zhao Layue looked toward True Persons Tan and Bai above the clouds, not knowing whether they were thinking about this question too.
"I know what you fellow Daoist Friends are thinking."
True Person Tan's voice rang out with a touch of emotion. "But isn't it too early to think about that? How could True Person Taiping concede defeat so easily? Even if his opponent today is True Person Jingyang."
The mass of cloud beside him gave no response. The Water-Moon Convent Abbess's voice came through the blue curtain. "Indeed. As I see it, today's events are far from over."
The Heaven-Bearing Sword had shattered into fragments.
The Green Mountain Sword