The dead silence of Shituo City was replaced by a completely new kind of "soundlessness." It was not the stillness of the void, but the ragged breathing from internal trauma within a massive structure, a dazed echo after the shaking of the foundations of the Laws. The bone-white ground forming the plaza still emitted tiny, crackling creaks like fracturing ice—the lingering, mournful echoes of countless skeletons following the severe damage to the altar's foundation. At the apex of the altar, the cyan-black stellar core that once commanded existence and non-existence and ruled the reincarnation now resembled a ruined crystal ball covered in massive scorch marks and cracks. Every slow, sluggish rotation was accompanied by the throbbing and erosion of deep gray Dao Marks within, emitting a muffled, agonizing sob. That crack was like a living thing, radiating cold chaos with every slight pulse, disrupting the smooth operation of Shituo City's Laws of death and causing subtle "glitches" and "static."
Lin Moyu lay with his mutilated body still half-buried in the frozen, pulverized dust of tiny finger bones, as if he had melted into this skeletal earth. Starfall Frigid Vault was stabbed upside down not far away, the cosmic scar deep within its blade as dim as eternal night, and the red glow of Jinyan had completely extinguished, leaving behind only a pure, freezing "emptiness." Only the brand on his chest—the gray-white Dao Mark piercing the chaotic Time Wasteland—flickered with co…
Chapter 184